Saturday, July 14, 2012

Film Night in the Park: The Artist | Union Square
Saturday, July 14 – 8:00 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Suggested donation
| Union Square

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 more...


Sunday, July 15, 2012

Free Concert: Indian-British DJ & Multi-Instrumentalist | Stern Grove Festival
Sunday, July 15 – 2:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Stern Grove

The Festival presents cross-cultural cool with internationally renowned Indian-British producer, DJ, and multi-instrumentalist, Nitin Sawhney. Singer-songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello brings her eclectic blend of folk, jazz, hip-hop, funk, and rock sensibilities. Stern Grove more...


Saturday, July 21, 2012

Free Flick: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Presidio
Saturday, July 21 – 6:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Walt Disney Family Museum Theater

The Presidio Trust and the Walt Disney Family Museum present a Golden Gate Bridge 75th anniversary commemorative film festival featuring seven films starring the Bay Area’s iconic superstar. The final four films more...


Sunday, July 22, 2012

Sunday Streets 2012 | Bayview
Sunday, July 22 – 11:00 am | Cost: FREE | Bayview

Sunday Streets is San Francisco’s official block party – a sorta-monthly roving neighborhood celebration where the streets are closed to vehicles so pedestrians, roller skaters, bicyclists, yoga classes… whoever can take over more...

2:00 pmFree Concert: The E Family | Stern Grove Festival   FREE

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Free Performance by the San Francisco Ballet | Stern Grove Festival
Sunday, July 29 – 2:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Stern Grove

Experience the grace and beauty of one of the world’s premiere ballet companies in the incomparable setting of Stern Grove…don’t miss San Francisco Ballet’s only summer performance in the Bay Area. more...


Saturday, August 4, 2012

2012 Nihonmachi Street Fair | Japantown
Saturday, August 4 – 11:00 am | Cost: FREE | Japantown Peace Plaza

The 39th Nihonmachi Street Fair is a huge two-day celebration of the Asian / Pacific communities in the Bay Area. San Francisco’s Japantown, the fair will take to the streets again for more...

8:00 pmFilm Night in the Park: Sixteen Candles | Dolores Park   FREE*
*Suggested donation

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Jerry Day 2012: Jerry Garcia Tribute Concert | McLaren Park
Sunday, August 5 – 11:00 am | Cost: FREE | Jerry Garcia Amphitheater

The 10th Annual Jerry Day is an annual civic and cultural event that celebrates one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time and San Francisco native son – Jerry Garcia more...

11:00 amSunday Streets 2012 | Mission Dist.   FREE
2:00 pmFree Concert: Ozomatli | Stern Grove Festival   FREE

Friday, August 10, 2012

Outside Lands 2012: 3 Day Pass | Golden Gate Park
Friday, August 10 – 11:00 am | Cost: WIN*
*$225 + $29.50 service fee
| Golden Gate Park

Outside Lands once again rocks Golden Gate Park for three days of music, food, beer and art on August 10 – 12, 2012. The 2012 lineup represents a palpable expansion on the more...


Sunday, August 12, 2012

Free Jazz Classics Concert | Stern Grove Festival
Sunday, August 12 – 2:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Stern Grove

Re-creating a legendary San Francisco recording session, Al Jarreau and The George Duke Trio reunite for an afternoon of jazz classics. Oakland’s neo-soul songstress Mara Hruby opens the day with her mesmerizing, more...


Saturday, August 18, 2012

Art Beat Summer Festival: Indie Craft Pop-Up Show & Concert | SF
Saturday, August 18 – 10:00 am | Cost: FREE | McLaren Park

The Art Beat Foundation presents “Feel the Art Beat: A Summer Festival of Music, Art, Word & Thought.” This free event will take place in McLaren Park Saturday, August 18, 2012 from more...

6:00 pmGolden Gate Bridge Film Festival: A View to a Kill (1985) | Presidio   FREE

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Film Night in the Park: After The Thin Man | Union Square
Saturday, August 25 – 8:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Union Square

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 more...


Sunday, August 26, 2012

Free Concert: OK Go | Stern Grove Festival
Sunday, August 26 – 2:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Stern Grove

Known for their viral videos and quirky sound, alternative rockers OK Go close the 75th Season in celebratory style. Local band The Family Crest opens with an eclectic blend of indie rock more...


Saturday, September 1, 2012

San Francisco Zine Fest 2012 | Golden Gate Park
Saturday, September 1 – All Day | Cost: FREE | San Francisco County Fair Building

Join SF’s most interesting writers, cartoonists and illustrators Saturday and Sunday, September 1st and 2nd 2012, for the 11th Annual San Francisco Zine Fest. Over the two-day festival at the San Francisco more...


Monday, September 3, 2012

AAA Tipsy Tow: Free Car Tow Home | Labor Day 2012
Monday, September 3 – 6:00 pm | Cost: FREE

AAA’s Tipsy Tow Program offers a free tow for drinking drivers in Northern California from 6pm on Labor Day 2012 until 6am the next morning, in Northern California, Nevada and Utah. And more...


Friday, September 7, 2012

Free Bhangra Dance Performance | SF City Hall
Friday, September 7 – 12:00 pm | Cost: FREE | San Francisco City Hall

Each month come for a free dance performance at San Francisco City Hall. The 2012 season includes Hip Hop, Ballet, Folklorico, Filipino, Irish and many other forms of dance (see the more...


Sunday, September 9, 2012

KUSF's Rock'n'Swap Record Fair | USF
Sunday, September 9 – 10:00 am | Cost: $3*
*$3 admission, USF students get in for free
| McLaren Hall at USF

KUSF’s Rock-n-Swap is a Giant Music Lover’s Fair where vendors come from all over to sell music related items in various formats & genres – many offer hard-to-find & rarities. Vinyl more...

11:00 amSunday Streets 2012 | Western Addition   FREE

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Free Flick: Monsters vs. Aliens | Presidio
Saturday, September 15 – 6:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Walt Disney Family Museum Theater

The Presidio Trust and the Walt Disney Family Museum present a Golden Gate Bridge 75th anniversary commemorative film festival featuring seven films starring the Bay Area’s iconic superstar. The final four films more...

8:00 pmFilm Night in the Park: The Graduate | Dolores Park   FREE*
*Suggested donation

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Film Night in the Park: Midnight in Paris | North Beach
Saturday, September 29 – 8:00 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Suggested donation
| Washington Square Park

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 more...


Sunday, September 30, 2012

Grand Prix de la Mayonnaise: Hybrid Electric Race | Mission Dist.
Sunday, September 30 – 10:00 am | Cost: FREE*
*Spectator suggested donation, $5 in advance, $10 on race day
| Brightworks

In the Grand Prix de la Mayonnaise, teams, sponsored by top companies from around the Bay Area, will build their own hybrid electric/human-power vehicles and race them on a huge downhill more...


Friday, October 5, 2012

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2012 | Golden Gate Park
Friday, October 5 – All Day | Cost: FREE | Golden Gate Park

October 5th through the 7th marks the 2012 rendition of one of the largest (and free-est) music festivals in the country: San Francisco’s own Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. This flurry of banjos more...

12:00 pmFree Hip Hop Dance Performance | SF City Hall   FREE

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Yerba Buena Night 2012: SoMa Gallery Walk
Saturday, October 13 – 4:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Yerba Buena Neighborhood

Yerba Buena Night, a free outdoor evening of art, music, dance, and performance, is Saturday, October 13, 2012, throughout downtown San Francisco’s Yerba Buena neighborhood. Other than the date being confirmed for more...

6:00 pmLit Crawl 2012 | Mission District   FREE*
*Free and open to the public, though some venues may be 21+.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Sunday Streets 2012 | Outer Mission
Sunday, October 21 – 11:00 am | Cost: FREE | Outer Mission/Excelsior

Sunday Streets is San Francisco’s official block party – a sorta-monthly roving neighborhood celebration where the streets are closed to vehicles so pedestrians, roller skaters, bicyclists, yoga classes… whoever can take over more...


Wednesday, October 31, 2012

AAA Tipsy Tow: Free Car Tow Home | Halloween 2012
Wednesday, October 31 – 6:00 pm | Cost: FREE

AAA’s Tipsy Tow Program offers a free tow for drinking drivers in Northern California from 6pm on Halloween 2012 until 6am the next morning, in Northern California, Nevada and Utah. And you don’t more...


Friday, November 2, 2012

Free Mexican Dance Performance | SF City Hall
Friday, November 2 – 12:00 pm | Cost: FREE | San Francisco City Hall

Each month come for a free dance performance at San Francisco City Hall. The 2012 season includes Hip Hop, Ballet, Folklorico, Filipino, Irish and many other forms of dance (see the more...


Sunday, November 11, 2012

KUSF's Rock'n'Swap Record Fair | USF
Sunday, November 11 – 10:00 am | Cost: $3*
*$3 admission, USF students get in for free
| McLaren Hall at USF

KUSF’s Rock-n-Swap is a Giant Music Lover’s Fair where vendors come from all over to sell music related items in various formats & genres – many offer hard-to-find & rarities. Vinyl more...


Thursday, November 22, 2012

AAA Tipsy Tow: Free Car Tow Home | Thanksgiving 2012
Thursday, November 22 – 6:00 pm | Cost: FREE

AAA’s Tipsy Tow Program offers a free tow for drinking drivers in Northern California from 6pm on Thanksgiving 2012 until 6am the next morning, in Northern California, Nevada and Utah. And you don’t more...


Friday, December 7, 2012

Free Modern Dance Performance | SF City Hall
Friday, December 7 – 12:00 pm | Cost: FREE | San Francisco City Hall

Each month come for a free dance performance at San Francisco City Hall. The 2012 season includes Hip Hop, Ballet, Folklorico, Filipino, Irish and many other forms of dance (see the more...


Monday, December 24, 2012

AAA Tipsy Tow: Free Car Tow Home | Christmas Eve 2012
Monday, December 24 – 6:00 pm | Cost: FREE

AAA’s Tipsy Tow Program offers a free tow for drinking drivers in Northern California from 6pm on Christmas Eve 2012 until 6am the next morning, in Northern California, Nevada and Utah. And you more...


Monday, December 31, 2012

AAA Tipsy Tow: Free Car Tow Home | New Years Eve 2012
Monday, December 31 – 6:00 pm | Cost: FREE

AAA’s Tipsy Tow Program offers a free tow for drinking drivers in Northern California from 6pm on New Years Eve 2012 until 6am the next morning, in Northern California, Nevada and Utah. And more...