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The Great San Francisco Scavenger Hunt
By - posted 7/24/2013
Only in San Francisco

Join in a fun chase through San Francisco during the third annual Great Scavenger Hunt hosted by the Burning Man Project from noon to 4 pm on Saturday, July 27, 2013. Chase down and photo document all of the items on your list in teams of 3-6 for the chance to earn prizes and see more...

Freespace Mini Festival
By - posted 7/23/2013
Get Out: Events

Freespace is two month-long pop-up community center focused on hacking the civic experience. It is hosted in a 14,000 sqft warehouse in SoMa, San Francisco. On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 they host a mini festival of sorts – an odd and eclectic combination of four fun events that don’t really have anything to more...

“Game of Thrones” Pop Up Art Show
By - posted 7/23/2013
Artsy Fartsy

“Winter is Coming: Pop Up Art Show,” is a tribute art show to the amazing George RR Martin books and television series Game of Thrones. The opening reception will be held on Friday, July 26, 2013. What makes this show exciting is everything sold the night of the premier will be taken more...

New BART Train Sneak Preview
By - posted 7/23/2013
Only in San Francisco

Check out BART’s “Fleet of the Future” when a full scale plywood mock up of two-thirds of a train car interior will be set up for free public viewing at MacArthur Station in Oakland from 2-7 pm on July 23-26, 2013. You can kick the tires (metaphorically… this thing is made of more...

Ask a Scientist
By - posted 7/21/2013
Geeks

Get ready for a fun night of creepy crawlies, disturbing stories, and props-a-plenty to go around at the July 23, 2013 edition of Ask a Scientistwith UC Berkeley’s Dr. Vernard Lewis and Wonderfest. Have you heard the news? San Francisco took top honors as our country’s most bedbug-infested city in 2012′s national list. We are so good at being superlative. Home-dwelling more...

Free Yoga in the Park
By - posted 7/21/2013
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Come and play outdoors, in nature. Enjoy inverting, reverting, and melting into the ground. Join every Saturday for a rejuvenating morning flow and meditation for body, mind, and spirit. Purusha yogis teach free yoga on Saturday mornings in Golden Gate Park at 11 am,  as part of the Purusha Seva Project. Free Outdoor Yoga more...

Bad Ass Beatbox Night
By - posted 7/20/2013
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Get rewarded for heading out on a Sunday night with an evening of bad ass beatbox that blasts the brain and will bump your booty. This is a full live show with Emcee Infinite and producer Nezbeat and is packed with guest performers including singers, a belly dancer, a special performance more...

Symphony in the Park
By - posted 7/17/2013
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The San Francisco Symphony’s 2013 edition of their annual free concert in Dolores Park takes place Sunday, July 21, 2013. Pack a picnic and bring your family for this annual tradition. The 2013 program includes Beethoven, Tchaikovsky‘s Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty, John Williams‘ Overture The Cowboys and more. San Francisco Symphony in the Park 2013 – Sunday, more...

75th Japanese Street Dance Festival
By - posted 7/17/2013
Fairs & Festivals

The Ginza Bazaar is a 75 year old San Francisco Japantown tradition offering two days of games, entertainment, Japanese food, bingo, shopping, camaraderie, and more at the Buddhist Church of San Francisco from July 20-21, 2013 . The highlight of the weekend will be the traditional Japanese Bon Dancing on Sunday, July more...

2013 Graffiti Arts Festival
By - posted 7/17/2013
Artsy Fartsy

The 17th Annual Urban Youth Arts Festival on July 20, 2013 is bringing back their 1,000 square feet of portable wall space to Precita Park  for artists of all ages to express themselves with free paint, brushes, even aerosol paint cans. The Urban Youth Arts Festival is in its 17th year of bringing more...

Race the 22 Fillmore
By - posted 7/14/2013
Only in San Francisco

Why go all the way to Spain to run with the bulls when you can stay right here in San Francisco and run with the bus? The 22 Fillmore, that is. Join Motion Starved and Athleta on Fillmore Street as they race the 22 Fillmore Muni Bus over the Fillmore Street hill more...

San Francisco Library Free Film Festival
By - posted 7/14/2013
Free Movie Screenings

Watch 20 Films at 20 Branches throughout the month of July 2013. Come out and enjoy a movie at your neighborhood branch and explore other branches during the Second Annual SF Library Film Festival.  Free popcorn is supposed to be provided at all of the screenings (just don’t whine if it’s not more...

Funcheap’s $4,000 SF Charity Giveaway
By - posted 7/14/2013
Only in San Francisco

What’s your favorite local charity and why? Funcheap is always giving away free concert tickets, we thought we’d do something meaningful this time. Funcheap is going to give away $4,000 to one local charity this fall, and we wanted you to help us determine which charity should get the money. The only more...

Underground Cartoon Carnival
By - posted 7/14/2013
Geeks

Join the Berkeley Underground Film Society for another look at early silent and sound era cartoons at the second annual Cartoon Carnival & Stop Motion Sideshow from 7-11 pm on Sunday, July 14, 2013. Enjoy a side show of colorful stop motion curiosities in an all new culmination of 16mm prints more...

Bastille Day Party Guide
By - posted 7/14/2013
Fairs & Festivals

Although San Francisco may not be known specifically  for its French culture (Italian, Irish and Chinese, maybe…), don’t tell that the francophiles that pack the streets of downtown for block parties each Bastille Day. And for 2013, the city sports four french-themed block/alley parties (and one patio party) over the more...