Free Union Square Ice Skating Lessons: Every Weekend | 2019-2020

Don’t know how to skate? Kaiser Permanente is inviting beginner skaters to the Safeway Holiday Ice Rink in Union Square presented by Alaska Airlines to come learn from professional skate instructors every weekend. Lessons are free (including skate rental) to those who sign up in ...Every Saturday

2019 Holiday Cable Car Races & The Santa Triathlon | SF At Brave the Bay, you might see an elf in striped tights jump into the Bay, or Santa Claus hauling a cable car instead of presents at the Santa Triathlon, co-presented with Make-a-Wish and the SF Police Department. Teams of six pull cable cars by rope in a head-to-head ...

2019 Presidio Planting Day | SF Kick-off planting season with us at this big, annual volunteer event. We have thousands of local plants to plant in the newly restored natural areas of Fort Winfield Scott. Help us make this big, audacious goal a reality!

Free Legion of Honor Museum Day for Bay Area Residents | Every Saturday

, the Legion of Honor offers free general admission to the permanent galleries to Bay Area residents. Please note that admission to any special exhibits is not included nor discounted and will require the full admission price. Saturdays feature engaging art experiences for the entire ...Every Saturday

Free de Young Museum Day for Bay Area Residents | Every Saturday

, the de Young offers free general admission to the permanent galleries to Bay Area residents. Please note that admission to any special exhibits is not included nor discounted and will require the full admission price. Saturdays feature engaging art experiences for the entire family, ...Every Saturday

2019 Bazaar Stock Music Fest: 12 Hours & 36 Artists | SF Support your independent artists at a locally-owned business at a 12 hour acoustic music-a-thon, put together by local music mini-impresario KC Turner. It’s his 12th year organizing the free all day music festival. 36 local musicians will play sets from 10 am to 10 pm from a variety of genres. Did we ...

The Crucible’s Holiday Gifty Market & Art Demos: Saturday | Oakland

It’s The Crucible’s craft show. Join GIFTY, the best place in the Bay to find your holiday gifts made right here by local artists, craftspeople, and Crucible faculty. With jewelers, metalworkers, artisan bath suppliers, button makers, bottle cap fashionistas, candle extraordinaires, and so much more, ...

2019 Holiday Crafts Day | Randall Museum On December 7, 2019 at 10 am, Holiday Crafts Day is back. Get crafty and make presents and decorations for the winter holidays. Learn to roll your own beeswax candles, make handmade scented gift soaps, build a wooden train, create a candy house, and more.

2019 Winter Spectacular: Snow Day, Light Show & Parade | Redwood City The annual Children’s Festival and Light Show in downtown Redwood City features a parade, musical performances, entertainment, real snow to play in, carnival rides, Santa Claus and more. 2019 Winter Festival | Redwood City Saturday, December 7, 2019 | 10 am to 8 pm Downtown Redwood City FREE (There is a charge ...

Opening Day: Holiday Train Display | SF Main Libary

The San Francisco Public Library Main Children’s Center invites you to celebrate the return of a beloved annual tradition, when the holiday model train exhibit comes chugging around the bend on the second floor mezzanine. The exhibit will be here for you to enjoy beginning ...

2019 Dogpatch Holiday Block Party | SF Spend the Day in Dogpatch on Saturday, December 7th. Holiday deals, food and drink specials, live music and pop ups at businesses throughout the neighborhood. Dogpatch Holiday Sale Saturday, December 7, 2019 | 10 am-2:30 pm Dogpatch, San Francisco FREE Don’t miss the Makers Market at Magnolia Hall, featuring over ...

$5 Off: “Holidaybreaker” Epic Daytime Dance Party | The Chapel Update: The Venue was previously listed as Winter Park at Civic Center but was moved to The Chapel due to bad weather. Sad to say, there will not longer be Ice Skating. Ahhh, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. The twinkle of holiday lights, ...

Bank of America Free Museum Weekend

Holders of Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, or U. S. Trust cardholders (credit cards and debit cards) get free admission to seven Bay Area museums and two Sacramento museums for the first full weekend each month. This includes the de Young, Legion of Honor and Oakland ...Monthly

Palestinian Holiday Crafts Bazaar: Embroidery, Olive Oil & Arabic Food | Berkeley

A unique display of items from Palestine: award-winning Olive Oil, Pottery, Olive Wood Products, Embroidery, Shawls & Scarves, Olive Oil Soap & Palestinian Dead Sea Products, Keffiyehs, Children’s Toys & Clothing, Jewelry, Kitchenware & Cookbooks, Rugs and Books – plus delicious Arabic food. Palestinian Holiday ...

Free Parks Admission Day: Every 1st Saturday | Marin County

Come to the “Measure A Days” which offers free access to all parks on the first Saturday of the month. The name is because of the loss in fee revenues will be offset by the Measure A funds approved by voters in 2012. Measure A ...Monthly

2019 Italian Christmas Market at Fort Mason | Dec. 7-8

Inspired by the famous Christmas markets in Northern Italy and throughout most of Europe, the 7th Annual Italian Christmas Market (Mercato di Natale) will exude the warm atmosphere of Christmas in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center Museo Italo Americano. The Mercatino will also feature Il ...

2019 Russian Christmas Festival: Traditional Food & Live Russian Music | Menlo Park On December 7th form 10 am to 3 pm, join for a traditional Russian food, Rummage Sale with great bargains, Lucky Barrel prizes/stocking stuffers, live music, all day church tours, puppet show, petting zoo, and more.

14th Annual Supermarket Street Sweep | SF Supermarket Street Sweep is an annual bike race that benefits the San Francisco Food Bank. For the past several years, hundreds of participants have zipped around the city to local supermarkets and brought back thousands of pounds of food to donate to this wonderful charity. The San ...

2019 San Francisco Center for Book Holiday Fair | Potrero Hill Come to the fair to find unique hand crafted gifts for yourself and for the special people in your life. San Francisco Center for the Book Holiday Fair Saturday, December 7, 2019 | 11 am to 5 pm SF Center for the Book, 375 Rhode Island St, ...

2019 Home for the Holidays: Children’s Festival | East Bay Kick off the holiday season at downtown Livermore’s Home for the Holidays festival and the Holiday Sights & Sounds Parade. A Celebration of the Traditions of the Holidays. Lizzie fountain will be transformed into a winter fun zone for children 5th Grade and under. 2019 Home for the ...

2019 Annual Christmas Parade | Los Gatos The 63rd Annual Los Gatos Children’s Christmas/Holidays Parade is like most other parades – they’ve got marching bands and Santa. The Parade is held in downtown Los Gatos. The Parade starts on Almendra Ave. at North Santa Cruz Ave., proceeds south on North Santa Cruz Ave. ...

2019 East Bay Alternative Book & Zine Fest | Oakland The Annual EBABZ (East Bay Alternative Book & Zine Fest) is a chill hang zone for buying, trading and collaborating with zine, comics, DIY, and publishing comrades in the East Bay. 2019 East Bay Alternative Book & Zine Fest Saturday, December 7, 2019 | 11 am to 5 ...

2019 Vagabond Indie Bazaar w/ 75+ Local Artists | Saturday

Wrap up your holiday shopping and have fun discovering new favorites at the Annual Vagabond Craft Fair. Find gifts for yourself and others with over 14 vendors to explore each day. Vagabond is an annual holiday market showcasing some of the amazing local talent of ...

SantaCon 2019: City-Wide Santa Pub Crawl | SF “SantaCon” is San Francisco’s annual city-wide Santas-only pub crawl happening on Saturday, December 7, 2019. This flash mob-type event brings together hundreds of slightly sober people dressed in Santa costumes parading around the city, visiting landmarks drinking at bars, and causing general mayhem. And just so you know, ...

2019 Mission Holiday Block Party & Cookie Crawl | SF You all are cordially invited to join the 5th Annual Valencia Corridor Cookie Crawl. Get in the holiday spirit by adventuring through the neighborhood hunting for cookies and discovering other holiday surprises as you go. Valencia Corridor Holiday Cookie Crawl Saturday, December 7, 2019 | Noon-8 pm Mission ...

2019 Rockridge Holiday Fair: Music, Santa & Dancing Xmas Trees | Oakland On Saturday, December 7, 2019, the Rockridge District Association kicks off the season with the Rockridge Market Hall holiday fair, plus a visit from Santa, live music and entertainment, and festivities up and down the Avenue. 2019 Activity Lineup Rockridge BART Station: Noon-4 pm: Visit from Santa 12:30 pm-1 pm: ...

SantaCon Day Party with $4 Ho Ho Ho Shots | SF This year for Santacon Bar Fluxus is bringing DJ Subcraze to Bar Fluxus in the heart of San Francisco. The Christmas tree isn’t the only thing getting lit this year… Indie House – Nu Disco Ho-Ho-Ho shots $4 Ms. Claus cocktail $8 Free shots for the best Ms. or ...

Toys for Tots Returns to Hillsdale Shopping Center | San Mateo The San Mateo Firefighters’ Toys for Tots is back at Hillsdale Shopping Center for another season of giving. The program aims to bring joy to as many children as possible in the San Francisco Bay Area by distributing gifts during the holiday season to families ...

32nd Annual Christmas Creche Exhibit | Palo Alto The Menlo Park California and Los Altos California Stakes are pleased to host the 32nd Annual Christmas Crèche Exhibit of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is a gift to the community and a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. This ...

SF Etsy’s Winter Pop Up Shop | 2019

Join for three Weekends of Handmade Holiday Shopping beginning December 6, 2019. Come get all your holiday shopping done at this amazing pop-up shop featuring goods from the SF Etsy Team and tenants of Makers Workspace. SHOP products from 50+ local artists including jewelry, home ...