Events for August 4, 2012
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Saturday, August 4
| 10:00 am | 28th Annual Fremont Festival of the Arts | FREE |
| 1:00 pm | Burning Man Radical Self-Expression Making Day | SF | FREE* *Free, but be sure to bring materials
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The Intern Games: Obstacle Courses, Free Food & Puzzles | SF
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, ...
SF Mime Troupe: Free Theater in the Park | Berkeley
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 ...
| 2:00 pm | The Olympics: Politics at Play | Castro Valley | FREE |
Free Concert: Persephone’s Bees | Amoeba SF
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 ...
Free Concert: Fatlip & Slimkid3 DJ Set | Amoeba Berkeley
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 ...
Strange “Seinfeld” & Polaroid Photo Art Exhibit Opening | Mission Dist.
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 ...
Summer Cinema: Outdoors & Off-the-wall | Berkeley
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, ...
| 8:00 pm | A Ritual Audience Participation Experience Experiment | Oakland | FREE* *Free, but donations accepted
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2 For 1 Tix: “Sweeney Todd” The Musical | SF
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 ...
Film Night in the Park: Sixteen Candles | Dolores 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 giant outdoor screen.
Films are free of charge in beautiful park settings and projected on a ...
Renegade Drive-In Movie Night: “Haywire” | North Bay
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 ...
Volunteer and Camp Overnight in Golden Gate Park | Aug 4-5
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 ...
Anti-Human Trafficking Awareness Festival | Oakland
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 ...
“Save the Bay” Waterfront Volunteer Day + Free Chipotle & Swag | 2012
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 ...
Every Saturday
Free Community Yoga Class | Berkeley
Grab your yoga mat and come to Sports Basement Berkeley for some relaxing weekend yoga. Community classes take place every Saturday.
Free Community Yoga Class
Every Saturday | 10 am
Sports Basement, 2727 Milvia St, Berkeley, CA
FREE
Please BYOM (Bring Your Own Mat) and water bottle. All levels are welcome.
Updated 1/28/2020 ...
Historic Ferry Building Tour | SF
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 foot of the stairs at the front ...
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 understanding ...
“The Setup” Underground Comedy Show | SF
The Setup is an underground stand-up comedy show in the heart of San Francisco. This venue used to be the green room for the legendary Blackhawk jazz venue where Miles Davis used to play. Now, it’s a comedy show that features established comedians from around the ...
“Critical Hit” Comedy Show | Oakland
Critical Hit is hosted by Erik Krasner, Hayden Greif-Neill and Jim McVeigh at It’s Your Move Games & Hobbies in Temescal for over 4 years and still going strong.
Every week, some of our favorite comedians are invited to perform. Along with the producers, you can ...
