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Friday, November 4

All DayFirst Friday Free Coworking | Impact Hub Oakland  FREE*
*Free, but there is a $5 suggested donation for the optional potluck lunch.
All DayHistory Museum: Free First Fridays | Redwood City  FREE
11:00 amTimbuk2 First Fridays Free Factory Tour | San Francisco  FREE*
*November 4 Tour is SOLD OUT. Free tours take place on the First Friday of the month, and tickets are required. Tours are limited to 20 people.
Rotunda Dance Series: Mussel Rock Cloggers | SF City Hall
Friday, November 4 – 12:00 pm | Cost: FREE | San Francisco City Hall
Mussel Rock is a performance group developed by the Barbary Coast Cloggers and students from the Sunday afternoon classes at Rhythm & Motion.
Free Flower Friday | The Panhandle
Friday, November 4 – 1:00 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Most events are free unless otherwise noted; some ask for donations or nominal charges.
| William McKinley Statue (The Panhandle)
The Now Festival gets free flowers from the great vendors down at the wholesale flower market and pass them out to people on the street to make their day a little brighter! Come help us prepare the flowers and take a basket out onto the streets to ...

“Oakland First Fridays” Block Party
Friday, November 4 – 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

Fitbit Local Workout: Bodyweight Bootcamp For All Levels | SF
Friday, November 4 – 5:00 pm - Ends at 6:00 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Free, but an RSVP is required.
| Barry Bonds Jr. Giants Field
Sweat it out with Fitbit Local, a series of free monthly workouts in your city led by fitness leaders from your community. Happy hour can wait—get your body moving first. Fitbit Local Ambassador Caroline Jordan will raise your heart rate with a fun and challenging bodyweight ...
Friday Nights at the de Young: Live Bepop Jazz | SF

The Vijay Anderson Quartet plays music from great American composers coming out of the jazz tradition. The group has been playing in the Bay Area for over a decade and interprets compositions by Thelonious Monk, Mal Waldron, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Roscoe Mitchell, and many other ...Every Friday

5:30 pmParol-Marking Workshop: Beautiful Filipino Lanterns | SoMa  FREE*
*One free parol per person. Additional parol materials are $6-8 each.
5:30 pmFree Family Movie Night | The Presidio  FREE*
*Free but an RSVP is required.
6:00 pmWin Tix: Marine Conservation Institute’s 20th Anniv. Celebration | Fort Mason  WIN
6:00 pm$5 First Friday Hands-on Family Activities | Oakland  $5*
*Pay online or at the door.
6:00 pmFirst Friday Follies Burlesque | Oakland  FREE*
*Free, but donations for the artists are awesome.
Oakland Art Murmur | First Fridays Art Walk
Friday, November 4 – 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

6:00 pmTemescal First Fridays | Oakland  FREE*
*Free admission, but bring cash for shopping, food, and drinks.
6:00 pmVeteran Chamber Music with the Strobe | The Presidio  FREE*
*Free but an RSVP is required.
Punk Rock Mini Concert: He Who Cannot Be Named | Amoeba SF
Friday, November 4 – 6:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Amoeba Music (SF)
He Who Cannot Be Named has been playing punk rock for over 25 years, most of that time with the legendary Dwarves. He was voted guitarist of the year by Flipside Magazine in 1991, but is mostly known for his unusual stage wear, or lack thereof. ...
“Around & Around” Artist Reception | SF
Friday, November 4 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 9:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Mule Gallery
They are thrilled to have Brooklyn-based designer Kelli Anderson presenting Around & Around, the final show of 2016 at Mule Gallery. Around & Around is a exhibition of mostly-handheld objects that have been “programmed” to be rotated, spun, or perambulated. The show features kaleidoscopic volvellves, a paper prognostication ...
Emojicon 2016: Opening Night Party & Food Festival | SF
Friday, November 4 – 6:30 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Normally $10, Free with exclusive Funcheap link to Eventbrite
| Covo
Celebrate with fans from around the world to celebrate the opening of the first-ever festival on emoji at Covo on Mission Street. Come dressed in your favorite emoji-themed costume. Get your emoji caricature done, or decorate yourself with emoji tattoos or get your picture taken ...
“Folked!” Hardly Strictly a Mini Folk Festival | The Haight Stop by for the NOW! Festival’s free folk music showcase (using the word “folk” very loosely) with Jesse Rosemoore (actually a punker), Vivian Cook and more
7:00 pmSouth First Fridays Art Walk | San Jose  FREE
100 Foot Tall Film Night: Writ Large | The Great Wall of Oakland
Friday, November 4 – 7:00 pm - Ends at 9:00 pm | Cost: FREE | The Great Wall of Oakland
Writ Large is proud to present the Bay Area premeire of Stan VanDerBeek’s “Poem Fields” series (new transfers of these late-60s computer-generated works), as well as a curated selection of highlights from the Motionpoems series pairing poets with filmmakers, followed by a “Too Hot for ...
“Another Hole in the Head” Indie Horror Film Festival | SF

This annual festival of horror, sci-fi, dark fantasy and exploitation cinema defies convention to bring you the most outrageous genre films from both emerging and established filmmakers. This is two weeks days of celluloid mayhem not usually found in your local cineplex. 15th Annual “Hole in ...

2016 Proxy Fall Film Festival Finale: “Captain Fantastic” | Hayes Valley
Friday, November 4 – 7:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Proxy

> EVENT UPDATE: This event is no longer taking place. The Proxy Fall Film Festival is a five-week series of free Friday night screenings at the Proxy Walk-in Movie Theater in Hayes Valley.  This year’s series highlights a few of the best independent films of ...

7:00 pmAbout Last Night: Sexcapade Storytelling Stories | SF  $5
Tweed After Dark: San Francisco Bike Party | First Friday
Friday, November 4 – 7:30 pm | Cost: FREE | Secret Location (SF)

This month SFBP and SF Tweed Ride are happening within days of each other, with one during the daylight hours and one at night. What better way to test out your outfit for SF Tweed or get inspiration than coming to our ride Tweed After ...Monthly

TourMega Startup Launch Party | Mountain View
Friday, November 4 – 7:30 pm - Ends at 9:30 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Free but an RSVP is required.
| Opal Nightclub
Join them for TourMega’s launch party. They are an exciting new startup giving you thousands of choices to experience the world in just a few clicks. They’ll have: Vietnamese food & Mexican food to feed you Alcohol to be purchased from the bar Great games for you to play and win ...
8:00 pmFree Comedy: Senseless Bureau Improv | Oakland  FREE*
*Free, but you should probably buy food or drinks
8:00 pmFirst Friday Fiesta: Free, Educational & Engaging Performances | San Jose  FREE
8:00 pmWin Tix: “Le Grand Spectacle” Funsch Dance Experience | ODC Theater  WIN
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