Events for August 4, 2012
Saturday, August 4
The Fremont Festival of the Arts hosts a wide variety of activities and entertainment for the entire family on August 4-5, 2012.
Over 700 top-quality artisan booths delight the most discerning shoppers, music lovers enjoy continuous music featured on three stages, children are thrilled with the …
Join the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society for a day of pruning and planting at its 15th Annual Summer Gardening Fair in Golden Gate Park on August 4, 2012.
Activities include a new & used book sale, displays of special plants and growing materials, butterfly exhibits, beehives …
Give your summer garden a boost that will guarantee vibrant colors and tasty veggies for the months to follow. Aside from encouraging beneficial soil organisms and conserving a non-renewable resource, composting makes an excellent fertilizer that releases nutrients slowly at a rate which the plants …
Thud Rumble is kicking off its digital website with a free concert and BBQ featuring appearances and performances by DJ QBert, D-Styles, DJ Happee, DJ Quest, Infamous Toadman and a special presentation of the history behind these classic records.
Free food will be served with BBQ, …
Calling all Bay Area interns: join in an epic field day full of obstacle courses, mental puzzles, free food and more.
End your summer on an awesome note by competing with over 200 interns from companies small and large throughout the area like Google, SpaceX, Zynga, …
One of the core principals of Burning Man is “Radical Self Expression.” If you haven’t been to Burning Man before, you may have heard that the playa is a space to wear whatever matches how you feel or how you really want to express yourself, whether …
The Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe continues its 53rd season with more free, lively satire performances in park settings around the Bay Area.
Founded in 1959, the San Francisco Mime Troupe creates and produces socially relevant theater; despite the name “mime,” their work is not silent, but …
Discover some hidden gems or your new favorite haunt at CrawlSF’s brand new Mission District Pub Crawl on Saturday, August 4, 2012 from 2 till 6 p.m.
Spend four hours exploring bars from the Elbo Room to Elixir, all while enjoying $2 beer, $3 drink and $3 …
Over the course of modern Olympic history there are countless connections to be made between the Olympic Games and social issues. Professor Rita Liberti will explore those intersections, looking specifically at the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s.
Where: Castro Valley Library, 3600 Norbridge Ave, Castro …
Join the Oakland-gone-New York quartet Persephone’s Bees in celebration of the release of their latest album, “New in Berlin” with an in-store performance at Amoeba SF.
Trying to confine Persephone’s Bees to a specific genre is a lost cause. Persephone’s is more like an elephant-sized …
Fatlip and Slimkid3 celebrate the 20th Anniversary of “Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde” with a guest DJ set and signing of the newly expanded triple-CD release on Delicious Vinyl.
Drawing from a laundry list of sampled jazz and soul greats to construct its musical sound …
The Alameda South Shore Center hosts their 2012 Summer Beats Concert series with free outdoor concerts in the center court of their mall.
Beginning Saturday, July 7, 2012, free performances will take place 5-7:00 pm every other Saturday through Labor Day.
Summer Beats Concert Series 2012
Every other …
Decorate free candlelight peace lanterns to commemorate the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (Aug. 6, 1945) & Nagasaki (Aug. 9, 1945) at this Japanese-style peace event on August 4, 2012.
Free materials will be provided to create lanterns, which will then be sent out into the …
A part of Symphony Silicon Valley’s 2012 free outdoor summer music festival, this evening features Broadway diva and captivating chanteuse Christine Andreas and friends performing the music of Rogers & Hart and Harold Arlen. Immortal songs like Blue Moon, Lady is a Tramp, My Funny …
Photobooth is hosting local Bay Area artist and photo documentarian, Mary Swope, in celebrating her project, “I Can’t Hold It Anymore”.
Working over a period of years, Mary, used a Polaroid camera to create an epic interpretation of every episode of “Seinfeld”. The exhibit includes over …
Join a series of free outdoor screenings in downtown Berkeley this summer, as the Pacific Film Archive projects onto the wall on Center Street.
This August, they bring you Cerebral Cinema — some brain-addled beauties from the silver screen. These smart-ass films won’t raise your IQ, …
Every summer Film Night in the Park puts on free outdoor movies in parks throughout San Francisco and Marin County. Films are shown in beautiful park settings and projected on a giant outdoor screen.
Films are free of charge in beautiful park settings and projected on a …
Ray of Light Theater, our favorite local theater troupe in SF, is tackling the demon barber of fleet street with their production of “Sweeney Todd.
The musical, which runs Thursdays through Sundays July 13-August 11, 2012 at The Eureka Theatre in the Financial District and features Music …
Are you human enough for this?
On Saturday, August 4, 2012, Frank Moore, a world-known shaman performance artist, will conduct improvised passions of musicians, actors, dancers, and audience members in a laboratory setting to create altered realities of fusion beyond taboos.
Bring your passions and musical instruments …
This week’s headliner Dave Thomason is a stand-up comedian & writer based in San Francisco. His stand-up has been featured on NPR’s “Snap Judgment”, Hulu, and Revision3. He’s performed at the SF Sketchfest and the Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival, and he’s a regular at the …
The North Bay Mobile Drive-In hits Novato with a renegade outdoor film screening in this DIY flash mob drive-in movie where you watch a flick on a 30-foot screen, tune your radio to 88.3 and drink in your car. Arrive early if you plan to park and watch. There’ll also be space for chairs and …
Join the Volunteers for Outdoor California as they partner with SF Recreation and Parks Natural Areas team and SFPA Park Partner Friends of Oak Woodlands, GGP to help improve the trails network in Golden Gate Park.
Volunteers will be building about 1800 linear feet of new …
Join REI and Save The Bay for Ring Around the Bay, a morning of volunteer stewardship activities to restore native wetland habitat around the Bay. The largest estuary on the Pacific Coast, San Francisco Bay is an ecological treasure; it supports hundreds of species of …
Celebrate the end of the 5K “Walk the Track” rally and march with a festival to raise awareness of the commercial exploitation of minors in our community and to demonstrate our community’s solidarity in support of our youth at-risk on August 4, 2012.
The walk will be followed by …
Every Saturday
Come and play outdoors, in nature. Enjoy inverting, reverting and melting into the ground. Join us on weekends for a rejuvinating morning flow
and meditation for body, mind, and spirit.
Purusha yogis teach free yoga on Saturday mornings in Alamo Square Park at 9:00am as part of the Purusha Seva …
The Golden Gate Bridge is turning 75 in 2012 and every Saturday during the summer, you can join Sports Basement for a guided run through Presidio National Park.
The route will change weekly, but will always feature breathtaking views of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. …
In celebration of the reopening of the Betty Ann Ong Chinese Recreation Center, the Movement in the Parks Program brings you a limited series of free Zumba classes on Saturdays, November 3 – December 15, 2012 from 10:30am-11:30am.
>> Please note there is no class on November 24th.
RSVP …
Come and play outdoors, in nature. Enjoy inverting, reverting and melting into the ground. Join us on weekends for a rejuvinating morning flow
and meditation for body, mind, and spirit.
Purusha yogis teach free yoga on Saturday mornings in Golden Gate Park at 11 am, as part of the …
Love art, but find the Murmur to be more like a Scream? Then the Saturday Stroll might be just what the artist ordered.
Many of the galleries that participate in Oakland’s highly popular Art Murmur gallery scene are extending their First Friday festivities to include Saturday …
Bring your family, friends, a blanket or low lawn chair, and a picnic to enjoy free professional theatre by the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. This year the festival features Henry V, the Bard’s exciting tale about the rise of a young king and the glories and costs …
Thee Parkside hosts “Free Saturday Happy Hour Shows” on most Saturday afternoons – a free concert featuring rock and punk bands from all over the Bay Area. But make sure you check Thee Parkside schedule to confirm for any given week; they sometimes skip weeks.
Free …
Sure, Lucky 13′s always loaded with free popcorn and goldfish – but, if you’re looking for something more sustainable with your rockabilly and punk on the jukebox, be sure to drop by their outdoor patio on Saturdays between 4 pm and 7 pm.
The menu each …
Join a series of free outdoor screenings in downtown Berkeley this summer, as the Pacific Film Archive projects onto the wall on Center Street.
This August, they bring you Cerebral Cinema — some brain-addled beauties from the silver screen. These smart-ass films won’t raise your IQ, …
