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Free Maker Faire Tix: Swap-O-Rama-Rama Call For Volunteers | San Mateo
Swap-O-Rama-Rama, possibly the world’s largest clothing swap and DIY workshop meetup, needs your help at Maker Faire 2016 as they teach over 1,000 people to swap, sew, paint, weave, silk screen, stud, dye, tye dye, slash, embroider, embellish and otherwise alter clothes to create unique upcycled ...
San Francisco Native Tour: Local Perspective | SF
The original San Francisco Native Tour is an on-foot adventure that winds you through the heart of San Francisco. From the city’s early history to the vibrant neighborhoods we have today, see the city through a local’s perspective. Free, but an RSVP is required. With in ...
Win Tix: 10th Annual Maker Faire | San Mateo
Friday, May 15 – 1:00 pm - Ends at 7:00 pm |
Cost: WIN | San Mateo County Event Center
Looking for wearable glowing fiberoptic formal wear? A bike that’s also a swing? Fire sculpture robots?
Then come one, come all to the Maker Faire, basically, an arts and crafts showcase times a billion. For the first time on a Friday, enjoy the works of ...
Cool Cars, Music & Farmers Market | Downtown Martinez
Friday, May 15 – 4:00 pm - Ends at 8:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Downtown Martinez
from May 15 through September 11, 2015 is Fridays on the Main & Market in Downtown Martinez featuring: Farmers Market on the 800 block of Main St. 4-8 pm Cool Cars & Music on the 600 & 700 blocks of Main St. 6-8 ...Every Friday
Carnaval Procession, Afro-Brazilian Dancers & Mural Painting | Bayview
Latin Explosion takes over the Bayview during 3rd on Third with a Carnaval procession, Afro-Brazilian dancers, live mural painting and more on May 15, 2015.
Free, but an RSVP is recommended.
The Bayview Community Pop Up Market returns to 3rd on Third with $5 food specials from local ...
“Off the Grid” Friday Night Food Truck Party | Fort Mason
🎉 Off the Grid Returns to Fort Mason for 2025 – With a Massive Monthly Night Market + 110+ Vendors! After taking most of 2024 off, Off the Grid is making a huge comeback in 2025 — The beloved Friday night tradition at Fort Mason ...
Dance Battle & Performance: Social Dancing App Launch Party | SF
Jounce is coming to an App Store near you – in your pocket in fact. Your social dance application is launching on both iOS and Android letting you dance anywhere, with the people you want to.
Free party, but an RSVP is required.
Here is how it ...
Friday Nights at the de Young: B-bop, Prints & Quilts | SF
Friday Nights at the de Young are after-hours art happenings that include a mix of live music, dance and theater performances, film screenings, panel discussions, lectures, artist demonstrations, hands-on art activities, and exhibition tours.
Local artists conduct drop-in workshops, debut new commissions, display their art in ...Every Friday
The Dept. of Cautionary Warning: Parody Street Sign Art Opening | SF
Friday, May 15 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 9:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | StoreFrontLab
StoreFrontLab welcomes the absurd and uncanny world of The Department of Cautionary Warning, a playful parody where public works meets provocateur. On May 16, 17 and 23, the Bureau of Signifiers and Poetics will accept applications for poetic markers for public space. If approved, the ...
“Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Art” Quote-Along Costume Movie Night | Menlo Park
Know every cheesy line in Raiders of the Lost Ark? Well, lucky you because the City of Menlo Park is hosting a fun Quote-Along costume night.
Free, but an RSVP is required. They have special “Fun Packs” for advance ticket buyers.
Come dressed in character as you act-along ...
Traveling Bike Theatre Performance | SF
Agile Rascal Traveling Bike Theatre is a collection of Bay Area artists at the intersection of performing arts and bike culture. They have created a highly physical, comedic and compelling play, “Sunlight on the Brink,” which explores the intersection of capitalism, technology and spirituality. They ...
2015 “Flor y Canto” Literary Festival: International Poetry Reading | Mission Dist.
Friday, May 15 – 7:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
International Flor y Canto Literary Festival comes to the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts with a historic reading of Latino poets on Friday, May 15, 2015.
The Poet Laureates reading brings together some of the important Latino poets of our time, including:
Luis J. Rodriguez, author of the ...
Movie in the Park: “Wreck It Ralph” | Emeryville
Friday, May 15 – 8:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Anna Yates Elementary
Come and join the City of Emeryville for the 2015 Spring Movie Series showing family-friendly movies at Anna Yates School at 8 pm. Bring your friends and family, and willingness to have a good time. Feel free to bring your own snacks, a picnic blanket, folding ...
Seduction Feroce: Burlesque & Drag Variety Show | Oakland
Please note, Séduction Féroce is no longer taking place. Séduction Féroce is bringing its sexy, diverse, boundary-pushing and inclusive monthly variety show to Club BnB in Oakland, taking over the stage every third Friday of the month. Get in for $7 when you mention Funcheap at the ...Monthly
Star Wars Ride | San Jose Bike Party
Friday, May 15 – 8:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Secret San Jose Location
May the Force be with you at the Star Wars themed San Jose Bike Party on May 15, 2015.
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Win Tix: “The Smiths” ’80s Sing-a-Long Night | Roxie Theater
Friday, May 15 – 9:30 pm - Ends at 12:30 am |
Cost: WIN | Roxie Theater
If you’re a fan of The Smiths, or just a fan of singing along really loud to music videos with a bunch of people also singing along really loud to music videos, go see Is It Really So Strange? The Smiths Music Video Sing A ...
Win Tix: Heather McDonald (Chelsea Lately) Comedy Night | Cobb’s
Friday, May 15 – 10:15 pm - Ends at 11:45 pm |
Cost: WIN | Cobb's Comedy Club
You know her form the round table at Chelsea Lately, After Lately, the books; You’ll Never Blue Ball in this Town Again and My Inappropriate Life, and countless other television and stand-up appearances, now see Heather McDonald live at Cobb’s Comedy Club.
Every Friday
Free Bad-Ass Morning Workout: Conquer SF’s Hills | Every Friday
Every Friday – 6:30 am |
Cost: FREE | All Over San Francisco
Every Friday morning at 6:30 am, gather at a different San Francisco hill for a free badass workout and a chance to meet fellow fitness enthusiasts in your city.
The hills change each week (it might be Alamo Square, Moraga Steps, Twin Peaks, Lombard…), but expect ...
CANCELLED: Friday Farmers Market & Bazaar | UN Plaza
Every Friday – All Day |
Cost: FREE | UN Plaza
UPDATE: Due to Coronavirus concerns, this event has been cancelled temporarily.
Every Friday from 7am to 4pm, UN Plaza will feature the best of San Francisco. Grab fresh fruits and veggies, buy gifts from local vendors, and grab lunch at delicious food stalls representing cuisine from ...
Free “Oysters on the Half Shell” Fridays | El Rio
El Rio, a neighborhood dive in the deep Mission, gives away free Oysters on the half shell from local folks in Tomales Bay, every Friday at 5:30 pm. Arrive on time, they go fast.
And get your drink on with happy hour on Friday from 5-8 pm ...
Big Mood Comedy: Free Stand-Up Comedy Show | Oakland
Every Friday – 7:00 pm - Ends at 9:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Legionnaire Saloon
Big Mood Comedy is an intimate standup comedy show featuring the best local and touring comics every Friday upstairs at Oakland’s very own Legionnaire Saloon.
Hosted by Hayley Beacon, Jordan Thewlis, and Jeff Dean. Free cookies.
Please note that from February 7th, the shows happens every Friday ...
“HellaFunny Fridays” Stand-Up Comedy Showcase | SoMa
San Francisco has one of the best underground comedy scenes in America. Come check out some of the Bay’s best rising comics at HellaFunny’s weekly stand-up comedy show “HellaFunny Fridays.”
HellaFunny Fridays
Every Friday at 7:30pm & 9:30pm
Trademark and Copyright, 1123 Folsom Stree (and 7th St.), SF
FREE ...
Free Burlesque: Hunny Bunny & Her Hot Toddies | Skylark Bar
Every Friday – 8:00 pm - Ends at 9:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Skylark Bar
Join Hunny Bunny and Her Hot Toddies for Mischief at the Skylark Bar every Friday at 8 pm.
Free Burlesque: Hunny Bunny & Her Hot Toddies Every Friday | 8 pm Skylark Bar, 3089 16th St, SF, CA FREE
Enjoy drinks, dancing, DJs and more at this free ...
Pamtastic’s Comedy Clubhouse | Mutiny Radio
Every Friday – 8:00 pm - Ends at 10:00 am |
Cost: $10 | Mutiny Radio
Pamtastic’s Comedy Clubhouse on Mutiny Radio is a free comedy show every Friday from 8-11 pm at Mutiny Radio on the corner of 21st and Florida in the deep Mission District.
Pamtastic’s Comedy Clubhouse
Every Friday | 8-10 pm
Mutiny Radio, 2781 21st Street, SF, CA
$10
Over 25 of San ...
“Best of SF” Stand-Up Comedy Night | SF
Check out a fresh line-up of SF’s comics every Friday at 8 pm at the beautiful Variety Preview Theater in downtown SF’s iconic Hobart Building.
Funcheap Deal: Get tickets for $5 with promo code FUNCHEAP. Otherwise, tickets are $15.
Located in the iconic Hobart Building, right next ...
Jazz at The Atlas Cafe | SF
Jazz at The Atlas is a weekly jazz residency with five rotating jazz bands. Music is always free, though tipping is encouraged.
Closed for Thanksgiving holiday.
Updated 1/20/2020 – Event info last checked via website.
“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 ...
Friday Night Outdoor Roller Skate DJ Party: “Midnight Rollers” | SF
Every Friday – 8:45 pm - Ends at 12:00 am |
Cost: FREE | Ferry Building
Strap on your skates and roller disco around the city at the Midnight Rollers Friday Night Skate party.
This weekly skate (as long as it’s not raining or during Burning Man) hits up San Francisco’s main attractions, all while blasting their own beats from two jogging strollers ...
SF Beer Olympics: Beer Pong, Flip Cup & $2 Beers | North Beach
Meet and compete against locals, travelers, couch surfers, au pairs, and hostelers. Games are free to play (including flip cup, beer pong and relays) and many weeks they have themed events for holidays, or just because.
Get 6 drink coupons for $1 each. Use coupons before ...
“Comedy Soup”: Music, Comedy, Free Wine & Popcorn | Oakland
Comedy Soup is Oakland’s very own little Stand-Up house show that features top local and touring comics, complimentary Wine and popcorn and musical guests from a variety of styles.
Past guests have appeared on Comedy Central, Netflix, Viceland, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Conan, Colbert & Corden.
In November ...
“The Function” SF’s Newest Hip-Hop Dance Party | Milk Bar
Come party at Milk Bar located in the heart of the Haight for a early 2000s hip-hop and R&B club bangers.
DJ Beats Me plays everything from Missy Elliot, Aaliyah, Lil Jon, Mac Dre, Black Eyed Peas, Outkast, Notorious B.I.G., Rihanna, SOB X RBE, Usher, Robin ...
F!#&ing Free Fridays: Improv Comedy | SF
EndGames Improv is bringing something new to the genre, what could turn out to be a very hot affair (in that release of tension, funny kind of way) with “Your F!#&ed Up Relationship.”
“YFUR” is an entirely improvised comedy show inspired by stories of your own ...
