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Friday, September 3

“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 …

Sunday, September 5

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 …

Golden Gate Park Band Concert: Tribute to Spain
Sunday, September 5 – 1:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Spreckels Temple

Sunday, September 5th – the Golden Gate Park Band will pay tribute to Spanish music and dance with El Grupo de España.
Celebrating its 128th season, the Golden Gate Park Band has been gracing SF with free public concerts in the Park since 1882.  Concerts …

Monday, September 6

Labor Day Concert in the Park: Golden Gate Park Band
Monday, September 6 – 1:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Spreckels Temple
Labor Day Concert in the Park: Golden Gate Park Band

This week the Golden Gate Park Band, which normally plays Sundays in the park, perform a very special Labor Day concert on Monday, September 6th, saluting the American worker in music.
Celebrating its 128th season, the Golden Gate Park Band has been gracing SF with free …

Tuesday, September 7

Free Admission Day: de Young Museum
Tuesday, September 7 – 9:30 am | Cost: FREE | De Young Museum

Founded in 1895 in Golden Gate Park, the de Young Museum is a landmark art museum to showcase the museum’s priceless collections of American art from the 17th through the 20th centuries, and art of the native Americas, Africa, and the Pacific. The museum was …

Conservatory of Flowers: Free Admission Day
Tuesday, September 7 – 10:00 am | Cost: FREE | Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park

Whether you’re a native San Franciscan, a visitor from the other side of the world, or a classroom of budding botanists, the Conservatory of Flowers offers an intimate up-close experience with over 1,700 species of rare, exotic and endangered plants from more than 50 different …

Wednesday, September 15

Free Admission Day: California Academy of Sciences | GG Park
Wednesday, September 15 – 9:30 am | Cost: FREE | California Academy of Sciences

The California Academy of Sciences is a world-class scientific and cultural institution in Golden Gate Park, a 400,000 square foot structure that houses an aquarium, a planetarium a natural history museum and a 4-story rainforest all under one roof.
Normally $24.95 for adults, visit the Academy …

Sunday, September 19

Sunday Streets VIII: Car-Free Street Festival | Western Addition
Sunday, September 19 – 10:00 am | Cost: FREE | Golden Gate Park
Sunday Streets VIII: Car-Free Street Festival | Western Addition

Sunday Streets is a city-wide event that takes place in different neighborhoods on Sundays throughout the Spring and Summer and shuts down city streets to traffic so that residents can take over for a day with all sorts of healthy and family friendly activities.

Sunday …

Comedy Day in the Park | Golden Gate Park
Sunday, September 19 – 12:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Sharon Meadow - Golden Gate Park

If you like lounging in the park, laughing your ass off and the distant smell of pot wafting through the air, then the 30th Annual Comedy Day in the Park might be the best way for you top spend a Sunday afternoon.
San Francisco’s professional …

Saturday, September 25

“Tour de Fat” Bike & Beer Festival | Golden Gate Park
Saturday, September 25 – 11:00 am | Cost: FREE | Lindley Meadow

Beer! Music! Insane bicycle contraptions! Who could ask for more?
Follow your biking folly to Lindley Meadow on Sat., Sept. 25th to find a field of tasty New Belgium beer and a full day of cycling fun. The day begins with a Bike Parade …

Sunday, September 26

Irish Music, Costumes, Singing & Dancing with the Golden Gate Park Band
Sunday, September 26 – 1:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Spreckels Temple
Irish Music, Costumes, Singing & Dancing with the Golden Gate Park Band

The Golden Gate Park Band plays a sunday tribute to Robert Emmet Day with an afternoon of Irish music, costumes, dancing and singing in the the Music Concourse of Golden Gate Park
Celebrating its 128th season, the Golden Gate Park Band has been gracing SF with …

Friday, October 1

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass | Golden Gate Park
Friday, October 1 – All Day | Cost: FREE | Golden Gate Park

October 1st through the 3rd marks the 2010 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 (and many other instruments) will take place in Golden Gate Park and no tickets …