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Thursday, September 2

Walking tour of Ferry Building
Thursday, September 2 – 12:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Ferry Building
Walking tour of Ferry Building

Enjoy an hour-long walk on the rise, tragic fall, and modern rebirth of one of San Francisco’s most renowned historic landmarks. Visit a contemporary swirl of shops and learn the history of ferries, freeways and quakes.
Meet at the main entrance, near the stairs to the …

The San Francisco Arts Market | UN Plaza
Thursday, September 2 – 12:00 pm | Cost: FREE | UN Plaza
The San Francisco Arts Market | UN Plaza

Presenting the new, open-air marketplace for local arts and culture. The San Francisco Arts Market debuts on Thursday, August 19, in UN Plaza, and will run every Thursday thereafter from noon to 8:00 p.m. throughout this summer & fall.
Visit 1182 Market St between Grove and …

Craft Bar with Etsy Labs: T-Shirt Recycling Workshop | SOMA
Thursday, September 2 – 5:00 pm | Cost: $5 | Museum of Craft and Folk Art

Fall is coming – time to put away that tee shirt you’ve been living in all summer. Why not revamp it? This September, Craft Bar goes green with a night of tee shirt recycling! Bring an old tee shirt (or use one of ours which …

September 2010 Divisadero Corridor Art Walk | NoPa
Thursday, September 2 – 5:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Divisadero Corridor- Haight to Geary
September 2010 Divisadero Corridor Art Walk | NoPa

Experience a night out on Divisadero for the monthly Divisadero Corridor Art Walk through lower haight, NoPa and Western Addition on Thursday September 2nd, 2010. From Haight to Geary, enjoy a night of art openings, live music, drinking and dining specials all along the corridor.
Art …

First Thursday Art Gallery Walk | Union Square
Thursday, September 2 – 5:30 pm | Cost: FREE | A440 Gallery

A downtown tradition since 1993, on the first Thursday of every month many of our member galleries are open late for a casual open house and many serve wine beer and snacks. If you are making a special trip to visit a specific gallery, we …

$5 Guided Single Malt Scotch Whisky Tasting | Omnivore Books
Thursday, September 2 – 6:00 pm | Cost: $5 | Omnivore Books on Food

Whisky specialist Mark Cassidy is in demand throughout the year for his private Scotch whisky tastings. Mark will introduce a few of his favorite bottles; discuss the six distilling regions in Scotland and the growing trend towards Organic Scotch (which you’ll taste)!
Thurs. Sept. 2 • …

7th Annual Bernal Heights Oudoor Cinema Festival | Opening Night
Thursday, September 2 – 6:30 pm | Cost: FREE | Kingmond Young Photography

The traditional Opening Night and Preview Party of the Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema Festival comes to Cortland Avenue. The studios of Kingmond Young Photography will open its doors for the Opening of the 7th annual Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema screenings. It’s a party, a performance, …

SPIN: A New Twist on Vintage Board Games | Duboce Triangle
Thursday, September 2 – 7:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Rare Device

San Francisco design store and gallery Rare Device is proud to present: Spin – A New Twist on Vintage Board Games: Work by Jennifer Judd-McGee and Mati McDonough. The work will occupy the Rare Device gallery through September 28, 2010. A reception for the show …

epicsauce $6 Concert with Reporter | Haight
Thursday, September 2 – 8:00 pm | Cost: $6 | Milk Bar

epicsauce.com presents Reporter, Wampire Summer Blondes Party Effects (closing set).The Milk Bar is located at 1840 Haight Street in San Francisco across from Amoeba Records and at the entrance to Golden Gate Park. The …

Friday, September 3

“Shownuff” Happy Hour Concert with Soulful “London Street | 111 Minna
Friday, September 3 – 5:00 pm | Cost: FREE | 111 Minna Gallery

Bringing you free live music during Happy Hour (5-9), Shownuff is happy to present London Street, laying down a smooth mix of neosoul, R&B and funk for your boogie-get-down enjoyment.
Mostly influenced by old school R&B and influenced by groups like Earth, Wind and Fire, Prince …

Off The Grid: An Evening of 25+ Gourmet Street Carts | Fort Mason
Friday, September 3 – 5:00 pm | Cost: FREE* | Fort Mason Center (Parking lot)

Off the Grid (OtG) is roaming mobile food extravaganza that travels to different locations daily to serve delicious food, with a free side of amazing music, craft and soul. September 3rd has 25 of the usual suspects including Venga Paella, Happy Dumplings and Curry Up …

“Friday Nights at the de Young” celebrates San Francisco Street Art
Friday, September 3 – 6:00 pm | Cost: FREE* | De Young Museum

The de Young Museum hosts a yearlong series celebrating Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo, a 2009 book celebrating street art in the Mission District. Tonight features a Mission Muralismo Film Series with rare and cutting edge, old-school and new-school Mission filmmaking shadowing and illuminating …

Film Crawl on Cortland | Bernal Heights
Friday, September 3 – 6:30 pm | Cost: FREE | Cortland Avenue

Start the Bernal Heights Film Crawl from one end of Cortland Avenue to the other for a roving cinema experience. Evening begins at Inclusions Gallery for Meet-the-Filmmakers reception and music at 6:30p. Films will be shown at multiple venues: Succulence/Four Star Video, the Bernal Branch …

Artist Xchange Printmaking Show | Mission Dist.
Friday, September 3 – 7:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Artist-Xchange Gallery

Join us for the month of September as we display work based on Printmaking. The gallery will display artwork representative or symbolic of the following techniques of printmaking including (Woodcut, Engraving, Etching, Mezzotint, Aquatint, Drypoint, Lithography, Screen-printing, Digital prints, “Giclée” prints, Foil imaging).
Free admission, hors …

Learn to Screen Print with Artist Hillary Williams | Mission District
Friday, September 3 – 7:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Artist X-Change Gallery

At September’s Artist-Xchange monthly art exhibit reception, Hilary Williams will be performing a demonstration in the printmaking technique of screen printing. The demonstrations will be taking place at 7:45pm and 8:45pm during the opening reception. She will be creating a small neighborhood …

Art & Wine: “Magnetic Fields” Artists Reception | Lower Haight
Friday, September 3 – 8:00 pm | Cost: FREE | D-Structure

Come join D-Structure this Friday for the opening night of Magnetic Fields, the works and installations of Sean Chapman. First 100 people get a free glass of wine
The show revolves around the artist’s romantic fascination with space. Ideas developed include weightlessness, beauty, solitude and unfamiliar …

Saturday, September 4

Walking tour of the Castro
Saturday, September 4 – 11:00 am | Cost: FREE | Harvey Milk Plaza
Walking tour of the Castro

Come and explore a neighborhood that you only thought you knew. You will walk through the area taking in the sights and sounds of the lively and ever-changing Castro/Eureka Valley neighborhood. What was once dairy farms and dirt roads is now one of the city’s …

Urban Beekeeping & Honey Workshop | Oakland Farmer’s Market
Saturday, September 4 – 12:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Oakland Farmer's Maret

Want to learn about beekeeping and making honey in Oakland? Khaled Almaghafi, 4th generation bee keeper, and owner of Queen Sheba Farms is a successful urban bay area bee keeper. He will be bringing a small colony for a live demo.
Source: SFBG

The Nice Guy Trio + Strings | Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Saturday, September 4 – 1:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Yerba Buena Gardens

Come see the World Premiere of two YBGF-commissioned pieces from The Nice Guy Trio + Strings on Saturday, September 4 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm, free, at Yerba Buena Gardens in downtown San Francisco. The YBGF commissioned pieces are trumpeter Darren Johnston’s “Waking Music” and …

SF Mime Troupe “Posibilidad” Closing Weekend | Dolores Park
Saturday, September 4 – 2:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Dolores Park
SF Mime Troupe “Posibilidad” Closing Weekend | Dolores Park

The Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe closes its 51st season with Posibilidad, or Death of the Worker. A small U.S. factory is shutting down. All of the workers are losing their jobs and the bosses mistakenly think that the workers have staged a sit-in …

Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema Fest | Top of the Hill Screening
Saturday, September 4 – 6:30 pm | Cost: FREE | Bernal Heights Park

Enjoy film and the stunning view from the top of the Hill in Bernal Heights Park. The gates will be open to pedestrians, joggers and our impromptu audience as Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema returns to set up on the northwest corner of Bernal Hill where …

Free Shakespeare in the Park: Gentlemen of Verona | Presidio
Saturday, September 4 – 7:30 pm | Cost: FREE | Presidio Main Post Parade Ground Lawn

Think of this like those outdoor movies in Dolores Park but in daytime and with a classic play. Bring your friends, dates, a blanket and a picnic (don’t forget a bottle of wine) to enjoy free professional theater in the Presidio’s beautiful Main Post Lawn.
Returning …

Sunday, September 5

Asian Art Museum Free Admission Day: Target Sundays | Civic Center
Sunday, September 5 – 10:00 am | Cost: FREE | Asian Art Museum

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian Art, with a collection of over 17,000 artworks spanning 6,000 years of history. The museum is a public institution whose mission is to lead …

San Francisco Zine Fest 2010 | Golden Gate Park
Sunday, September 5 – 11:00 am | Cost: FREE | SF County Fair Building

SF Zine Fest is a free annual two-day conference for independent and underground publishing. Exhibitors come from all over the West Coast, and while the focus is on zines, all walks of DIY life are represented — comics, arts and crafts, literary presses, and more.
San …

8th Annual “Doin’ It In the Park” DJ Festival & Free BBQ | SF
Sunday, September 5 – 12:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Jerry Garcia Amphitheater

Tiis weekend brings the 8th annual “Doin’ It In the Park” Free Labor Day Weekend BBQ with a full day of DJs from noon to sunset.  This family-friendly all day festival features free hotdogs burgers and veggie burgers (while supplies last), games, kids activities and …