Friday, April 17
Collective Unconscious: Comedy at The Faight Collective
Collective Unconscious is the comedy showcase where San Francisco’s sharpest, funniest, most deranged comedic minds descend upon The Faight Collective to excavate your soul with a pickaxe made of punchlines.
We’ve assembled a lineup of top-tier comedic talent for a deeply unhinged comedy showcase at the coolest ...
Improv Your Dating Life: Fun Class for Singles (Oakland)
Friday, April 17 – 6:30 pm - Ends at 8:00 pm |
Cost: $30 | All Out Comedy Theater
Explore your dating tendencies, expand your dating pool, and live in the moment in this improv-based dating course.
Dates:
Third Friday of the Month, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Requirements: 18 Years +
Registration: $30
Location: All Out Comedy Theater, 2550 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612
*Check your maps says Oakland. There’s a ...
Free Earth Day Movie Screening (Walnut Creek)
Join us for our 2026 Earth Day Celebration as the Green Movie Night series presents a screening of the impactful documentary The Story of Plastic.
In collaboration with Sustainable Walnut Creek, this thought-provoking film explores the global plastic pollution challenge, how recycling systems evolved, and the ...
SF’s Unique “Startup Art Fair” Takeover of an Entire 1950s Motor Lodge (April 17-19)
Friday, April 17 – 7:00 pm - Ends at 10:00 pm |
Cost: $22 | Hotel Del Sol
Startup Art Fair Turns a Boutique Hotel into a Pop-Up Gallery Weekend (April 17–19) For one weekend only, about 150 independent artists will take over the rooms of the colorful boutique 1950s Hotel Del Sol, transforming each space into a mini gallery where visitors can ...
Stand-Up Comedy Show: “Low Acidity Laughs” at Alpha Acid Brewing Co
Welcome to the Newest Comedy Night in the Peninsula! Stand-Up Comedy returns to Alpha Acid Brewing Co on Friday, April 17th. Low Acidity Laughs features a mix of levels of performers auditioning for a spot on a professional show.
This comedy show is produced by Peninsula ...
RuPaul Season 18 Finale + RnB Karaoke Night (Oakland)
Friday, April 17 – 7:00 pm |
Cost: $7 | Fluid510
Oakland’s favorite winner is back to close down another season of RuPaul’s Drag Race! Angeria Paris VanMicheals returns alongside Bonita Rose & Amoura Teese to give you all the tea and see who is crowned the next Drag Race SuperStar! Then Stick Around for performances ...
Flight Lessons: A Folk Opera by Deborah Crooks
Based on a true story about the Peregrine Falcons and humans living at the convergence of wild and urban habitats on Oakland’s Fruitvale Bridge, Flight Lessons explores themes of home, migration, adaptation and the limits of the man-made environment.
The narrative follows an urban wildlife biologist who monitors ...
“Sing Sing” Film Screening + Exclusive Live Panel (Larkspur)
Join UnCommon Law on April 17 at 7 pm at the Lark Theater in Larkspur for an evening that brings people closer to the realities of incarceration and the perspectives of those most directly impacted.
The evening will feature a screening of the critically acclaimed film ...
Urinetown: The Musical
Moreau Catholic High School presents the hit musical, Urinetown! In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits ...
Women Crossing/ Liminality
E4TT explores women’s immigration and identity in a multimedia chamber music concert featuring new works by:
Juhi Bansal (setting translations of landays–women’s poetry from Afghanistan);
Vivian Fung (for found-object percussion and bass flute);
Pamela Z (for violin, cello, found-object percussion, and tape),
and the winner of the E4TT/TAC multimedia ...
Transcendence Surrounds
Join us for a one-of-a-kind PWC concert experience at Meets the Eye Studios (in-person and livestream), featuring a multimedia performance of Freida Abtan’s new opera for chorus and video, The sound of grief. This PWC commission reimagines the Orpheus myth and his overwhelming grief that ...
Fauxnique: How Do I Look? (SF)
How Do I Look? – the most vain, mundane and loaded question. Fauxnique, the drag queen guise of multi-faceted artist Monique Jenkinson, wields her unique combination of precise physicality, irreverent humor and gutsy vulnerability, to dig past glossy platitudes and flattering exaggerations into the hot ...
Free ‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain’ Outdoor Movie Night (Proxy SF)
Friday, April 17 – 7:30 pm - Ends at 9:30 pm |
Cost: FREE | Proxy SF
The popular spring film series returns to the outdoor theater at PROXY Outdoor Theater with five weeks of free Friday night movies under the stars. Screenings begin at 7:30 pm, and seating is first-come, first-served, so arriving early is recommended. 2026 Film Schedule March 27 ...
Josie & the Pussycats 25th Anniversary Screening w/ Live Music & Drag (SF)
Friday, April 17 – 7:30 pm - Ends at 10:00 pm |
Cost: $18 | 4 Star Theatre
MEDIA MELTDOWN presents:
Josie and the Pussycats
(25th Anniversary Screening with LIVE MUSIC and DRAG)
Josie, Melody and Val are three small-town girl musicians determined to take their rock band out of their garage and straight to the top, while remaining true to their look, style and sound. ...
Free Multimedia Concert: Women Crossing/Liminality (SF)
Ensemble for These Times explores women’s immigration and identity in a multimedia concert of contemporary chamber music, featuring:
*”Field of Sorrow,” a new work for soprano, cello, and piano by Indian-Honkongese composer Juhi Bansal, setting translations of landays (women’s poetry from Afghanistan);
*a new commission for found-object ...
The Highwayman Show: Tribute to Cash, Nelson, Jennings & Kristofferson
Friday, April 17 – 8:00 pm |
Cost: $30 | Historic BAL Theatre
The Highwayman Show brings together the music of country’s most iconic outlaws — Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson. This electrifying tribute captures the spirit and sound of The Highwaymen supergroup in one unforgettable night. Live at the Historic BAL Theatre in ...
Saturday, April 18
SF’s Free Creativity Festival at Yerba Buena Gardens (2026)
Creativity Festival 2026 at Yerba Buena Gardens! Get ready for a day full of fun, inspiration, and all things creative at the Creativity Festival.
Enjoy family-friendly activities at the Children’s Creativity Museum’s FREE Creativity Festival on April 18, from 10am-2pm at Yerba Buena Gardens. The event features ...
SF’s “Secondhand Saturday” 2026 w/ Sunset Mercantile (Season Launch)
Launching April 18th, one of San Francisco’s favorite vintage and makers market is returning for it’s fifth season! Come celebrate Earth Day at the 2026 season launch of Secondhand Saturday! A curated, stylish, and modern take on the traditional flea market, featuring over 60 vintage ...Monthly
San Francisco Waldorf Art Show & Celebration 2026 (Fort Mason)
Please join us for our upcoming Art Show on Saturday, April 18th at the Store House in Fort Mason. It will be a heartfelt celebration of creativity from across the SF Waldorf community.
The gallery will offer for sale one-of-a-kind, original works handcrafted by our students, ...
North Shattuck Swap n’ Shop + Earth Day Pre-Party (Berkeley)
Join the earth-loving fun across multiple locations in the Shattuck & Vine area of North Berkeley at the Swap ’n Shop!
Show your commitment to sustainability and join a lively Earth Day pre-party in North Berkeley featuring community swaps, sidewalk sales, and a festive after-party celebrating ...
2026 San Francisco Boba Festival (Ocean Avenue)
Due to popular demand, the Ocean Avenue Boba Festival is back!
Join us for a fun, walkable tasting experience through the Ingleside neighborhood, where you’ll sip your way through some of Ocean Avenue’s best boba and drink spots—each offering a signature drink just for this event.
2026 ...
50% Off Tix: SF’s Hit New Play “Flex” by Candrice Jones (Mar. 26-May 2)
Written by acclaimed playwright Candrice Jones, one of the most exciting new voices in American theatre, this raw, electric new play explores resilience, identity, and the power of a team to rise together. In a forgotten town in rural Arkansas, a high school girls basketball ...
“HellaSecret” Speakeasy Comedy Show & Cocktail Night (Oakland)
Get ready for our “HellaSecret” speakeasy comedy show in Oakland. A series of pop-up live comedy shows at unique spots all across the bay. We’ll take over a venue and you’ll get an email with the secret location. This HellaSecret comedy show takes place in a ...
“Crazy Funny Asians” Free Comedy Showcase (SF)
Inspired by the blockbuster movie, see some of the Bay Area’s top comedians at San Francisco’s Crazy Funny Asians comedy showcase, presented by Funcheap and HellaFunny. Let’s celebrate the Bay’s Asian-American culture and heritage with laughs at SF’s brand new comedy club on Market St – ...Every Saturday
$5 Off: “The Confessional” SF’s Wild “Sins & Secrets” Improv Comedy Show
From the mild to the wild, all of us have guilty pleasures, moments of being bad, and the down right awful. Audiences submit written sins and secrets, and we weave a fully improvised comedy show. Don’t worry, it’s anonymous. No one will know about the ...
“Puff Puff Laugh” SF’s Cannabis Lounge Comedy Show (Moe Greens)
Puff Puff Laugh is Back! And now we’re on Saturdays! HellaFunny is taking over one of SF’s premier cannabis lounges, Moe Greens, for a night of “Puff Puff Laugh.” That’s right… it’s the only comedy show in San Francisco where you can (legally in California) get high ...Every Saturday
SF Neo-Futurists “The Infinite Wrench” (30 Plays in 60 Minutes, every Fri & Sat)
See the show the SF Chronicle calls one of 22 San Francisco things everyone must do! 50 weekends a year, the critically-acclaimed San Francisco Neo-Futurists present The Infinite Wrench, an attempt to perform 30 bite-sized plays in a frantic race against the clock, in an ...
Free Tix: HellaSecret “Desi Comedy Night” Live in SF (7p + 9p)
It’s the return of San Francisco’s only weekly HellaDesi Comedy Night with HellaFunny and Funcheap at a HellaSecret comedy venue with easy access to BART. See a showcase of some of the Bay Area’s top comedians of Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi, Afghan, and South Asian descent ...Every Saturday
$5 Off: “Your Fucked Up Relationship” Live in SF (Every Friday & Saturday)
Since 2011, San Francisco’s hottest improv show remains “Your Fucked Up Relationship.” — Improvised scenes inspired by your ridiculous, fucked up relationships. Everyone has had at least one. You tell us your story, we show you ours. You laugh, we laugh, and we all hook ...
SF’s Late Night Stand-Up Comedy Olympics (SF vs. Oakland)
Welcome to The HellaFunny Olympics where the best San Francisco comedians go head-to-head against the best Oakland comedians in a classic Battle of the Bay. Who will win? You decide! Teams of comedians representing their city will engage in an epic joke off, trading jokes back and forth until ...Every Saturday
