Fairs & Festivals
SF’s “Portola” 2023 Music Festival Returns to Pier 80 w/ Skrillex (Sept. 30-Oct. 1)
Fairs & Festivals, San Francisco San Francisco’s epic music festival. Portola returns to Pier 80 for a two-day festival on September 30-October 1, 2023. Eric Prydz presents Holo headlines Saturday with Skrillex headlining Sunday. Other acts include Polo & Pan, FKJ, Nelly Furtado, Jai Paul, Underworld, Major Lazer, Labrinth, Thundercat, Rina Sawayama, Carl Cox, Little Dragon, Hot Hip, more...
SF’s “Sundown Cinema” Outdoor Film Nights Return June 8th
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Free Movie Screenings, San Francisco Sundown Cinema returns for 2023 just in time for another summer in San Francisco. This free outdoor movie series, the only one of its kind in the Bay Area, will feature seven films in seven parks across San Francisco, beginning with 1978 classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers (filmed in San Francisco!) more...
Bay Area’s “Soul Stroll” Returns for 2023 (May 20)
Fairs & Festivals, Get Out: Events, Health & Wellness, Sponsored The Bay Area Community Health Advisory Council (BACHAC) is a grassroots community health organization focused on eliminating health disparities in underserved diverse communities across generations in San Mateo County. We are very excited about the return of Soul Stroll as an in person event and important fundraiser for BACHAC this more...
Stern Grove RSVPs Open May 18 at 2pm Sharp
Bay Area Favorites, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, San Francisco The 2023 lineup for the Stern Grove Festival for free summer concerts in the park is stellar. Now it’s time for you to RSVP so you don’t miss out. Free RSVPs open for the first concert on May 18th at 2pm – you can reserve up to 4 spots. RSVPs open more...
SF to Host Huge 65,000-Strong Golden Gate Park Concerts in 2024?
Bay Area Updates, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco San Francisco Mayor London Breed today announced that the City is planning to bring more summer concerts to Golden Gate Park beginning in 2024. If approved, the two to three days of headliner-driven events would be held on the weekend following the annual Outside Lands festival. Essentially it will be like part more...
SF’s First-Ever “I Love Tenderloin Week” 2023
Brand New, Fairs & Festivals, Get Out: Events, Sponsored I Love Tenderloin Week is the culmination of a grassroots groundswell from community partners who are producing a week-long Spring celebration of the neighborhood running April 30th – May 6, 2023 with 40+ venues and neighborhood organizations joining forces to create 18 different events – most of which are free. A more...
Stern Grove 2023 Lineup Just Dropped… And it’s Amazing
Bay Area Favorites, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, San Francisco The 2023 lineup for the Stern Grove Festival for free summer concerts in the park is stellar. Now it’s time for you to RSVP so you don’t miss out. Free RSVPs open for the first concert on May 18th at 2pm – you can reserve up to 4 spots. RSVPs open more...
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2023
Fairs & Festivals, San Francisco The 2023 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival hosts a full lineup of free outdoor music, theater, circus, dance, poetry, and children’s programs. The Festival opens on Saturday, May 6 at 1:00pm with John Santos Sextet + The Afro-Peruvian Coalition. Now in its 23rd year, the Festival will run each and every week and more...
Huge Bay Night Market Coming Memorial Day Weekend 2023
Fairs & Festivals, Get Out: Events 626 Night Market is back! Coming to the Bay on Memorial Weekend 2023, enjoy over 250 things with family & friends! Everything tastes better at night. Bring family and friends to eat all your favorite snacks at the 626 Night Market (Previously called NorCal Night Market). Inspired by the famous open-air nighttime more...
SF Gets Brand New Night Market in 2023
Brand New, Eat & Drink, Fairs & Festivals, Get Out: Events, San Francisco A brand new bi-monthly night market & block party is coming to Downtown San Francisco in the spring and summer of 2023 Enjoy 3 city blocks of Downtown full of music, dancing, delicious street food cuisine, cocktails and shopping from over 30 unique local artisans and retailers featuring Indian goods and more...
20+ Bay Area Easter Egg Hunts for 2023
Easter, Fairs & Festivals Easter is coming! There’s lots of parades, contests, activities and, of course, Easter egg hunting! If you’re in the hunt for eggs, might we suggest a unique rooftop egg hunt in San Francisco? Or a fun underwater egg hunt in Vacaville? Well, how about a hunt for 13,000 hidden eggs more...
Golden Gate Park Band’s 2023 Free Sunday Park Concerts (Apr. 30 – Oct. 1)
Artsy Fartsy, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, San Francisco The Golden Gate Park Band, presents its 141st season in Golden Gate Park’s music concourse. That’s right, this 30-piece symphony has been playing free concerts in Golden Gate Park since 1882. For 2023, there are 25 free weekly concerts that take place most Sundays at 1 pm and usually end between 2:30 more...
SF’s Free 11-Hour Bluegrass Music Festival Returns to Polk St. for 2023
Fairs & Festivals, San Francisco Like a mini Hardly Strictly Bluegrass taking over an entire neighborhood, Pickin’ on the Polk is a free districtwide bluegrass (and more) show in the Discover Polk Community Benefit District – April 22, 2023. For 2023, this special Earth Day Festival will temporarily transform Polk Street into a free, all-day bluegrass more...
SF’s Cherry Blossom Parade is Finally Back After 4 Years
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, San Francisco, What's Closed / What's Open Welcome to the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival, one of California’s most prominent celebrations of Asian traditions and the biggest on the West coast. Since 1968, the Festival serves to cultivate the continued alliance between Japan and the United States using culture as its bridge. Each year, over 220,000 people attend more...
80,000 Free Tulips Coming to SF’s Union Square
Fairs & Festivals, Freebies, San Francisco, Spring Flowers In honor of International Women’s Day, on March 4, 2023, a colorful display of more than 80,000 tulips will cover Union Square in San Francisco. Best of all, you’re invited to visit the site and pick your own bunch of tulips to take home or give to a woman who more...
