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Rotunda Dance Series: Los Lupeños de San José | SF City Hall
Friday, August 7 – 12:00 pm - Ends at 1:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | San Francisco City Hall
On Friday, August 7, the Rotunda Dance Series continues its 5th season with a performance of traditional Mexican Folklórico by Los Lupeños de San José featuring dances from the Mexican states of Jalisco and Yucatán.
Throughout 2015, the monthly Rotunda Dance Series celebrates the 100th anniversary ...
The Official “Outside Lands Bike Party” | Aug 7-9
Friday, August 7 – All Day |
Cost: FREE | The Theater at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
The best way to get to and from Outside Lands is on your bike – and the best way to ride your bike to the festival is with the official Outside Lands Bike Party.
The group ride will be departing from the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium ...
Free Harbor Tours: USS Potomac & Giant Cranes | Port of Oakland
Friday, August 7 – 4:00 pm - Ends at 8:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | USS Potomac
Take a free 90-minute narrated harbor tour (May to October). Visitors will learn about the Port, its operations and economic impact on the region. Harbor tours provide a unique vantage point because marine terminals are closed to the public. The excursions are a great way to ...
First Friday Cannabis Industry Social & Potluck | Lake Merritt
Friday, August 7 – 4:00 pm - Ends at 7:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Pine Knoll Park (Lake Merritt)
Please Note: We weren’t able to confirm if this social is still taking place monthly. Come out to the First Friday Cannabis Industry Social at Lake Merritt. Oakland’s burgeoning cannabis community has more than plenty industry professionals and they’ve decided to start gathering on the monthly. They’ll ...Monthly
Project Runway Designer Jake Wall Q&A & Fashion Showcase | SF
Friday, August 7 – 4:30 pm - Ends at 6:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Bespoke
Come to Bespoke at Westfield San Francisco Centre each Friday throughout the month of August to meet Project Runway Season 14 designer Jake Wall of JAKE beginning Aug. 7 through Sept 4, for an exclusive Q&A interview following the airing of each new Project Runway episode. ...
Latin Jazz Concert, Free Beer, Wine & Prizes | Menlo College
Friday, August 7 – 5:00 pm - Ends at 8:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Menlo College
The 2016 Entrepreneurial Summer Concert series showcases four nights of live music and closes with an a cappella concert featuring groups from Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Pinterest, Twitter, and a group of IP attorneys. Each concert includes food trucks, fun giveaways, free beer, water, wine and more. Parking ...
“Oakland First Fridays” Block Party
Friday, August 7 – 5:00 pm - Ends at 9:30 pm |
Cost: FREE | Telegraph & 27th
Oakland First Fridays is an immersive art and community experience on the first Friday of each month from 5-9:30pm for five huge blocks on Telegraph Avenue between 27th Street & 22nd Street. Photography from @skyhighoakland via Oakland First Fridays Oakland’s KONO district (Koreatown/Northgate) springs to life ...Monthly
“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 ...
First Friday Block Party & Hip Hop Jazz Show | Oakland
Friday, August 7 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 10:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Calavera
Drake’s Brewery, Calavera Mexican Kitchen and People’s Barber invite you to their very first Hive Block Party featuring live music by Alphabet Soup, a Bay Area hip-hop jazz band.
Alphabet Soup were formed in 1991 and are influenced by Miles Davis, P-Funk, Ohio Players, Prince, Weather Report.
The ...
North Beach First Fridays Art Crawl | SF
Friday, August 7 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 9:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | North Beach
On the first Friday of every month, over a dozen North Beach galleries, museums, bars, and restaurants stay open late for a self-guided First Fridays Art Crawl with special events to showcase the ever-growing collections of art and entertainment that diversify North Beach. First Fridays Art Crawl ...Monthly
Oakland Art Murmur | First Fridays Art Walk
Friday, August 7 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 10:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Broadway/Telegraph
Over 30 Oakland Art Murmur affiliate venues have coordinated openings on the first Friday of every month. Oakland Art Murmur presents a free monthly evening art walk, known as the ‘Art Murmur.” Every first Friday of the month, affiliate venues are open to the public from 6-9 ...Monthly
Friday Nights at the de Young: Glorious Artworks | 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 ...Every Friday
First Friday Shorts: “Ancient Future: Queer and Trans People of Color” | The New Parkway
Friday, August 7 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 8:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | The New Parkway
August 7, 2015 features Ancient Future: Queer and Trans People of Color Experimental Short Films curated by Queer Rebels.
“Ancient Future is irreverent, rejecting exotification – and paying homage to the wisdom of our ancestors and homelands. Ancient Future – we claim it queer with these ...Monthly
Human Kaleidoscope: Participatory Performance Art | San Jose
Friday, August 7 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 10:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
On Friday, August 7, ICA Live! will feature Los Angeles-based artist Mary Younakof in a lively performance titled RGB. The artist will choreograph a series of movements with 49 volunteer participants wearing various colored dresses made by the artist, to create what will appear to ...
The Sketchbook Project 2015 Tour | Oakland Art Murmur
Friday, August 7 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 10:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Broadway/Telegraph
The Sketchbook Project is taking to the road this summer for their final cross-country adventure in 2015. The Sketchbook Project is a global, crowd-sourced art project where participants from all walks of life are sent a sketchbook and return it for inclusion in a traveling exhibition. This is ...
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 ...
