2017 Big Book Sale at Fort Mason | Thursday

The Big Book Sale celebrates its 53rd year of the Friends of the SF Library featuring over 500,000 books, DVDs, CDs, books on tape, vinyl, and other forms of media in 70 different categories, all for $1-3, at the Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion. The Big Book Sale is free ...

Camilo y los Robot Ninjas: Post-Latin Salsa-Core Performance | Yerba Buena Gardens Oakland guitarist Camilo Landau belongs to an illustrious family of musicians, poets, activists and journalists. He came by his love of music via his uncle, guitarist and eight-time Grammy Award-nominated producer Greg Landau, who started teaching his 12-year-old nephew guitar and tres upon returning from ...

Oktoberfest 2017 Block Party | Financial Dist. Embrace your inner German in celebration of Oktoberfest and a love of all things Bavarian. as Cafe Prague hosts its annual Oktoberfest Block Party in the Financial District (one block away from the Transamerica Pyramid). 2017 Oktoberfest Block Party Thursday, September 21, 2017 | 5-10 pm Cafe Prague, 424 Merchant Alley, ...

Oktoberfest 2017 Block Party | Financial Dist. Embrace your inner German in celebration of Oktoberfest and a love of all things Bavarian as Cafe Prague hosts its annual Oktoberfest Block Party in the Financial District (one block away from the Transamerica Pyramid). 2017 Oktoberfest Block Party Thursday, September 21, 2017 | 6-11 pm Cafe Prague, 424 Merchant Alley, ...

Afro-Salsa Sound with Ricardo Lemvo | Yerba Buena Gardens Raised by Angolan parents in Congo’s capital Kinshasa (when the country was known as Zaire), charismatic Los Angeles vocalist Ricardo Lemvo has honed an irresistibly grooving Afro-salsa sound, blending Congolese rumba and soukous with Cuban charanga and son. Belting out his original songs in Spanish, Portuguese, ...

Exploratorium After Dark “Field of View” | Pier 15 Join us for artist and filmmaker Lynette Wallworth’s poetic virtual reality journey to the homeland of indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe in the remote Western Australian Pilbara desert. And learn how currently emerging technologies are contributing to the evolution of storytelling at ...

“Altered Barbie” Art Show: Poetry Night | Mission

The annual Altered Barbie Exhibition is a creative re-use art show where people transform these icons into not-so-everyday art reflecting our current society. This quirky art show is back after a two year absence. The 2017 theme is Super Heroine & Hero so that the artistic people of San ...

2017 Big Book Sale at Fort Mason | Friday

The Big Book Sale celebrates its 53rd year of the Friends of the SF Library featuring over 500,000 books, DVDs, CDs, books on tape, vinyl, and other forms of media in 70 different categories, all for $1-3, at the Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion. The Big Book Sale is free ...

2017 San Francisco Greek Festival | SF

Whether you dream of visiting the Acropolis in Athens, or swimming off the shores of sunny Mykonos, you can get a taste of Greece at Annunciation Cathedral’s own A Taste of Greece, the only Greek festival in San Francisco. Souvlaki, Gyros, Moussaka, Spanokopita – all of your ...

$15 Tickets: Oktoberfest by the Bay 2017 | SF

The 18th Annual Oktoberfest by the Bay brings the spirit of Munich, Germany to the city by the bay with tasty German fare, lots of great German beer, Bavarian dancing, and an authentic German “oompah” music from 21-piece Chico Bavarian Band and more. Oktoberfest by the ...

“Off the Grid” Friday Night Food Truck Party | Fort Mason

Nearly 30 food vendors in a huge circle with a full bar and bands in the middle? Now that’s a party; it’s also California’s largest weekly street food market.  Off the Grid is a weekly outdoor food truck bonanza staged every Friday from 5-10 pm at the historic waterfront campus of ...

300+ USC Marching Band Concert & Cheerleaders | Union Square So the USC football team, which takes on Cal Bears this weekend, is regarded as the “evil empire” by most of us in NorCal, but their marching band and Song Girls are practically an NCAA institution. The entire 300+ USC marching band will put on a ...

Art Explosion Fall Open Studios 2017: Opening Gala | Mission Dist.

Art Explosion Studios, San Francisco’s largest artist’s collective, opens up its doors to the public during the annual Fall Open Studios. Painters, sculptors, photographers, fashion designers and jewelers will all be showing, so there will be something for every type of art connoisseur. Come see over ...

2017 Proxy Fall Outdoor Film Fest Opening Night | Hayes Valley

The Proxy Fall Film Festival is a five-week series of free Friday night screenings at the Proxy Walk-in Movie Theater in Hayes Valley. The festival will feature recently released, best-of-show selections from festivals focusing on independent and emerging voices in film—a line up more likely ...

Proxy Fall 2017 Outdoor Film Series: “I Am Not Your Negro” | Hayes Valley “An astonishing, often challenging and sharp examination of race in the United States” —Globe & Mail In 1979, James Baldwin wrote to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House, a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, ...

2017 Open Gardens Day & Garden Tours | SF On September 23, 2017, 13 community gardens will be open to the public for enjoyment, education and to celebrate these unique green spaces. Listed are the community gardens that will be open that day with each featuring various educational, recreational and social activities They will also be a Garden ...

Smithsonian’s 13th Annual Free Museum Day | 2017

Participating museums and cultural institutions nationwide will open their doors free of charge to all visitors during Smithsonian Magazine’s 13th annual Museum Day. 2017 Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Saturday, September 23, 2017 Participating Bay Area Museums FREE, but a ticket is required (available to download August 25, ...

2017 Big Book Sale at Fort Mason | Saturday

The Big Book Sale celebrates its 53rd year of the Friends of the SF Library featuring over 500,000 books, DVDs, CDs, books on tape, vinyl, and other forms of media in 70 different categories, all for $1-3, at the Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion. The Big Book Sale is free ...

Exploratorium Free Community Day | SF

The Exploratorium is a twenty-first-century learning laboratory, an eye-opening, always-changing, playful place to explore and tinker featuring hundreds of science, art, and human perception exhibits. While they don’t have monthly free days, they do host several special events throughout the year offering free admission for all. ...

Treasure Island Flea TI Flea celebrates the start of Fall with seasonal cocktails and brews, 30+ food trucks, live DIY painting workshops, a collection of vintage trailers and of course our 400+ curated vendors to shop. RSVP on Facebook (Click “Going”) to enter to win a $100 spree. Winner ...

23rd Annual Sunset District Community Festival | SF The annual Sunset Community Festival celebrates 23 years of bringing together hundreds of residents from the Sunset District to celebrate the community from 11 am to 4 pm on Saturday, September 23, 2017. They are partnering with Sunset Mercantile, which will be “popping-up” at the Sunset Community ...

SF Open Studios Preview Pop-Up | Castro Join ArtSpan Artists once again at Jane Warner Plaza in the Castro for art, music, and live painting performance as we create excitement for the SF Open Studios event coming this fall. Live Painters: Sophia Lee Claudio Talavera-Ballon Marius Starkey Pop-Up Art Sales Johnny Botts Heather Robinson Denise Tarantino Mark Harris Rob Cox Live Music: 11am- 11:45am ...

Free Outdoor Yoga Day | Golden Gate Park

Take yourself outside and into the beauty of this city’s heart and soul. Practice yoga under the trees and let the ocean air sooth and invigorate you. This class expertly blends breathing and movement, strength and grace, imagination and form. You will gain a personal ...

Art Explosion Fall Open Studios 2017: Saturday | Mission Dist.

Art Explosion Studios, San Francisco’s largest artist’s collective, opens up its doors to the public during the annual Fall Open Studios. Painters, sculptors, photographers, fashion designers and jewelers will all be showing, so there will be something for every type of art connoisseur. Come see over ...

2017 Greek Food Festival: Saturday | SF

Whether you dream of visiting the Acropolis in Athens, or swimming off the shores of sunny Mykonos, you can get a taste of Greece at Annunciation Cathedral’s own A Taste of Greece, the only Greek festival in San Francisco. Souvlaki, Gyros, Moussaka, Spanokopita – all of your ...

2017 Lord of the Ringer: Horseshoe Tourney & Skate Jam | Golden Gate Park The SF Horseshoe Pitching Club is back with the 7th “Lord of the Ringer” horseshoe tournament and skate jam in Golden Gate Park. Please note this event is on Saturday, September 23, 2017, not Sunday, as was originally listed. That’s right, Golden Gate Park has a ...

Magic Meadow Fall Equinox Pagan Ritual | GG Park Celebrate the time of balance, the time of harvest, and thanks at the Fall Equinox ritual with the local pagan group, Reclaiming Bay Area, at 1 pm on Saturday, September 23, 2017. Please bring food and/or non-alcohol drinks to share at the post-ritual feast. Flowers and ...

Marcus Shelby Orchestra | Yerba Buena Gardens Internationally acclaimed bassist/composer Marcus Shelby occupies his own niche in the Bay Area’s jazz eco-system. As the leader of a powerfully swinging 15-piece big band and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival resident composer, he’s used the ensemble as a vehicle for developing epic works exploring ...

Schroeder’s 124th Oktoberfest Block Party | SF

San Francisco’s historic German restaurant, Schroeder’s, celebrates the 124th Oktoberfest – the largest beer festival in the world – with a grand Oktoberfest celebration. The celebration kicks off with an over-the-top block party on September 15, 2017. The party moves indoors for the next five consecutive ...

Brave New Jokes: Comedy Showcase | Mission Dist. 9/23 Lineup: Richard Sarvate Francesa Fiorentini Frankie Marcos Eric Krasner