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“The Great San Francisco Sock Hop” is a happy hour event to collect socks for the homeless. Bring a pack of new socks (or a minimum $5 donation for Glide) and you’ll get a beer float with Tiger Beer and Humphry Slocombe, and you’ll get down to some great Motown music courtesy more...
Now in its 16th year, the annual Day of the Dead exhibition at SOMArts Cultural Center, October 9–November 7, 2015, merges traditional Mexican altars with contemporary art installations to present a visually stimulating array of perspectives remembering, honoring, and celebrating the dead. Inspired by cherished relationships, current events, and personal and more...
Converting a liquor store into a community-based learning and tutoring center. Providing millions of dollars of 0% interest loans to small businesses. Breaking the poverty-to-prison cycle by building a residential alternative to prison for young adults…. That’s just a sample of the innovative ideas from local Bay Area nonprofits you can more...
Building on the success of the Market Street Prototyping Festival held last spring, the Central Market Showcase will bring back a collection of projects for one month that tests ideas for improving San Francisco’s main thoroughfare. Believing that artists and designers can be provocative agents in helping us to reimagine our more...
When Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim tours the country, you can bet it will be with a large, inflatable object in tow. They’re back on the road in 2015 with a six-week, 15-city national tour of their pop-up drive-in theater. Adult Swim will screen unaired episodes of its shows which change throughout the tour more...
Sunday Streets (March – October 2015) is San Francisco’s official block party – a sorta-monthly roving neighborhood celebration and five hour street party where the streets are closed to vehicles, so pedestrians, roller skaters, bicyclists, yoga classes, and everyone except for cars can take over the streets for an afternoon. Funcheap is proud more...
The BBoy Connection Jam is back with free dance classes, lock and pop showcases, DJs, graffiti art, dance and cypher battles and more during Sunday Streets with the highlight being the Kids Dance Battle. The BBoy Connection Jam Sunday, October 18, 2015 | 11 am to 4 pm Valencia and 23rd, The Mission, SF FREE Think of more...
Each year, Epiphany Productions transforms the city’s streets into stages through San Francisco Trolley Dances, a series of free contemporary dance performances along a Muni line. For the price of a Muni ticket, you’ll get a “hop-on, hop-off” Muni tour to experience an extraordinary lineup of Bay Area dance luminaries performing 8- more...
Long before Hollywood movies, the Bard of Avon knew that when it comes to entertaining the masses, sex sells. At this special Litquake event, we delve into the work of Will and find all the naughty bits with three rounds of trivia (with prizes!) and some improvised Shakespeare to set more...
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of their remodeled home in Golden Gate Park, the entire museum (not just the permanent galleries) will be free from 10am to 10pm. The de Young hosts 12 hours of live music, performances, art-making and free admission – including our special exhibitions ‘Jewel City: Art from San Francisco’s more...
Come on down to Clarion Alley Mural Project, nestled between Mission and Valencia and 17th and 18th, and check out the murals while listening to some great tunes as well. In the spirit of Clarion, it’s free for everyone. They are taking donations to help buy paint for the next year more...
Created by the Bay Area’s scientific, cultural, and educational institutions, the Bay Area Science Festival returns to San Francisco for 10 days of science and technology lectures, games, art exhibits, workshops, hand-on activities and more at a locations throughout the Bay Area. 2015 Bay Area Science Festival October 22 – November 7, 2015 All over San more...
Photo credit Kevin Cole Celebrate the Centennial of Palace Preservation Day on Friday, October 16, 2015 with a day of music and lectures at the Palace of Fine Arts. The California Historical Society, in partnership with the Maybeck Foundation, presents the Centennial of Fine Arts Preservation Day. On this day in 1915 more...
Wharf Fest celebrates the legacy of SF’s historic waterfront and invites you to come after the tourist season hoard has departed, but before San Francisco’s fab fall climate fades away. 2015 Wharf Fest Saturday, October 24, 2015 | Noon to 4 pm Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco FREE festival, but tickets required for annual chowder tasting 2015 Clam Chowder Competition & more...
See a display of gigantic heavyweight champion pumpkins, two stages of entertainment, and the Great Pumpkin Parade at the annual Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival. 2015 Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival October 17–18, 2015 | 9 am to 5 pm Historic Main Street, Downtown Half Moon Bay FREE Dave Dravecky, former Giants more...
