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Airport Day: BBQ, Hot Rods & Air Craft Display | San Jose
Saturday, July 8 – All Day | Cost: FREE*
*Please bring canned goods to donate to the Second Harvest Food Bank.
| Reid Hillview Airport
Hot San Jose Nights Airport Day and STEAM Festival combines airplanes, military equipment, cars and robotics along with an emphasis on STEAM related education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Aviation, Arts and Mathematics.) There will be vendors and several community agencies, educational and governmental offices along with BBQ and ...
10:00 amFreedom from Fractures: Risk Screening Day | SF Main Library  FREE
10:00 amNeighborhood Empowerment Day & Cultural Health Fair | Oakland  FREE
10:00 amArtists Draw Birds in the Park | The Presidio  FREE
10:00 amSF Public Library’s $1 Book & Media Sale | Mission Dist.  FREE*
*Free to look around and you can buy a book or media for only $1.
“Salvias, Shrubs & Fuchsias” Plant Sale | SF Botanical Garden
Saturday, July 8 – 10:00 am - Ends at 1:00 pm | Cost: FREE | San Francisco Botanical Garden

Bring the Garden home! San Francisco Botanical Garden propagates and sells a multitude of different kinds of plants, many exclusive to the Garden’s Nursery. For more than 50 years, we’ve held popular plant sales and are now pleased to offer plants for sale every day ...

Massive 25¢ Comic Book Sale: Over 35,000 Comics | SF
Saturday, July 8 – 10:00 am - Ends at 2:00 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Admission free, All comics 25 cents, all proceeds go to the SF Public Library
| Friends' of the SF Library Donation Center
The Friends of the SF Public library are selling over 35,000 comic books for only 25¢ a piece. This summer, don’t miss out on one of the biggest comic book sales in the city. Come on by Donation Center in the Potrero neighborhood on Saturday, and check out ...
Free “The Benchmark” Seasonal Cooking Demo & Tasting | Ferry Plaza Farmers Market
Saturday, July 8 – 10:30 am - Ends at 11:15 am | Cost: FREE | Ferry Building

Stop by the CUESA Classroom for a cooking demo featuring the seasonal bounty of the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. This demo will highlight a farmer-chef relationship forged and sustained at the farmers market, featuring Allstar Organics. Omri Aflalo and John Cahill met on a bench at ...Every Saturday

French Fry Fest 2017 | SoMa StrEat Food Park
Saturday, July 8 – 11:00 am - Ends at 5:00 pm | Cost: $5*
*$5 General Admission; $35 admission ticket includes all-you-can-drink beer from 11am-4pm
| Monarch Gardens
Come boogie on down to the most fry-no-mite festival to slide its way into San Francisco. SoMa StrEat Food Park and Broke Ass Stuart are teaming up to bring you the Bay’s most slammin’ food trucks and pop-up shops, cooking up funkalicious fry specials to ...
2017 Fiestas Fridas: Calle 24 Paseo FRIDArtistico | Mission Dist.
Saturday, July 8 – 11:00 am - Ends at 5:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Mission and 24th Street

Celebrate the 111th birthday of Frida Kahlo and her love affair with San Francisco during Fiestas Fridas, an annual festival taking place at locations throughout the Mission District, and new for 2018, additional venues are participating around the Bay Area. Be sure to wear flowers in your hair. All ...

Oakland Summer Waterfront Market | Jack London Square
Saturday, July 8 – All Day | Cost: FREE | Jack London Square
Summer is here. Join in for a special summer market on the boardwalk at historic Jack London Square. At this free event there’s live music from Elima 5 and Mindy Knight, nearly 100 vendors, local eats, DIY workshops and a chance to win a $1,500 Hawaii vacation. ...
11:00 amCommunity Engagement Match Up | Oakland  FREE
11:30 amThe Latino Culture & Immigration Matters at the Library | South SF  FREE
11:30 amFree Outdoor Yoga Day | Golden Gate Park  FREE
12:00 pmSummer Pop Up: Spring Collection Dresses, Flowers & Mimosas | SF  FREE
12:00 pmEco SF School Farm Volunteer Work Day | SF  FREE
America’s Largest Muslim/Halal Food Festival | Fremont
Saturday, July 8 – 12:00 pm - Ends at 11:00 pm | Cost: $5*
*Children 10 and under are free.
| Halal Fest

Head to the 5th Annual Halal Food & Eid Festival in California featuring a wide variety of different cuisine from around the world including Indian, Pakistani, Middle Eastern, Arab, Mediterranean, African as well as American. There will also be a large bazaar featuring vendors selling a wide variety ...

12:00 pmCreating a Naturalist Notebook & Printing with Plants | SF  FREE
12:00 pmGarden Party: Live Music, Food, Refreshments & Plant Sale | SF  FREE
12:00 pmFree Beginner Parkour “Urban Ninja” Class  FREE
“Cheap Thrills” Zine & Art Fest Rooftop Party | SF
Saturday, July 8 – 1:00 pm - Ends at 5:00 pm | Cost: FREE*
*$1-10 sliding scale donation, no one will be turned away for lack of funds
| The Convent Arts Collective
Join The Convent Art Collective, in collaboration with Amateur Hour SF for a rooftop day fest filled with zines, prints, small art objects for sale and/or trade as well as live poetry and music for one day only. Music Kyle and Her Bitches Gray Tolhurst and the Early ...
“Shakespeare or Space Wars” Free Outdoor Theatre Mash-Up: 2017 Kick-off | Oakland
Saturday, July 8 – 1:00 pm - Ends at 2:30 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Donations appreciated
| Mosswood Park

Each year the Samuel Peaches Peripatetic Players travel the Bay Area with FluxWagon, their folding mobile stage. In 2017’s adventure, the Players can’t decide whether to tackle the high art tragedy of “Romeo and Juliet” or that other popular tale of star-crossed destiny, “Star Wars: ...

Light Impressions: Glowing Artwork Workshop | Berkeley
Saturday, July 8 – 1:00 pm - Ends at 3:00 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Free with $5 suggested donation.
| Berkeley Art Center
Depict your dreams of the season through light, shadow, color, and shape. Transform a milk carton, mason jar, cereal box, and other discarded objects into a glowing tabletop sculpture or hanging artwork on Saturday, July 8, 2017. Green Art Workshop is a hands-on, eco-conscious program that ...
1:11 pmWin Tix: UFO x Fest 2017 | East Bay  WIN
2:00 pmAsian Art Museum: Flower Power Exhibit & Multimedia Talk | South SF  FREE
“Wish Upon” Virtual Reality Experience | AMC Bay Street
Saturday, July 8 – 2:00 pm - Ends at 10:00 pm | Cost: FREE | AMC Bay Street 16 (Emeryville)

Broad Green Pictures has created an interactive Virtual Reality experience which immerses users in the cinematic world of Wish Upon by recreating the horrors of making a wish and having that wish twisted by the ill-fated music box. It is a stereoscopic live action VR ...

2:30 pmBells & Bands: Free Workout Classes In An Amazing Space | SF  FREE*
*Free but an RSVP is encouraged.
August’s All-American Eclipse: Free Talk & Book Signing | Cupertino
Saturday, July 8 – 3:00 pm - Ends at 4:30 pm | Cost: FREE | Cupertino Community Hall
An eclipse is coming to the U.S. on Monday August 21, 2017. Astronomer Andrew Fraknoi will give a free, non-technical, family-oriented talk on “Getting Ready for the All-American Eclipse of the Sun in August.” Fraknoi, the author of a new children’s book on eclipses, When the ...
Frida’s 110th Birthday Tianguis: Live Music & Theatrical Performance | Berkeley
Saturday, July 8 – 4:00 pm - Ends at 10:00 pm | Cost: FREE | La Peña Cultural Center
Come celebrate Frida Kahlo’s 110th birthday by supporting strong womxn artists & artisans at Frida’s Birthday Tianguis. A “tianguis” is a traditional open air market and comes from the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs, which means “market”. This is a free event. Bring cash for vendors. In ...
The Chalk Circle: Not-quite-Shakespeare in the Park | Berkeley
Saturday, July 8 – 4:00 pm - Ends at 6:30 pm | Cost: FREE | John Hinkel Park

Actors Ensemble continues it’s 60th year and 5th consecutive season of performances in Berkeley’s acclaimed John Hinkel Park Amphitheatre with Bertolt Brecht’s most heartfelt (and funny) play “The Caucasian Chalk Circle,” written by Brecht in California while in exile from Germany during World War II. It ...

Every Saturday

Free Community Yoga Class | Berkeley
Every Saturday – 10:00 am - Ends at 11:00 am | Cost: FREE | Sports Basement (Berkeley)
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
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
Every Saturday – 11:30 am | Cost: FREE | Golden Gate Park
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
Every Saturday – 8:00 pm - Ends at 9:30 pm | Cost: $5*
*$5 online with discount code FUNCHEAP; otherwise, it's $10.
| The Basement
"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
Every Saturday – 8:00 pm - Ends at 10:00 pm | Cost: $10 | It's Your Move Game Store
"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 ...
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