Fairs & Festivals
SF’s Nihonmachi Street Fair is Back (July 17-Aug 8)
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open Japantown’s Nihonmachi Street Fair returns in 2021. Last year the Nihonmachi Street Fair was cancelled for the very first time in its history, but this year it’s back with multiple events on a few weekends. The biggest change from previous years is that in order to support the local Japantown restaurant more...
SF’s Moss Street Block Party (July 25)
Fairs & Festivals, Only in San Francisco, Outdoorsy Join in for the Moss Street Block Party and celebrate the SoMa community on July 25. There will be food, drinks, games, music and and get a sneak peak of the community-led designs for neighborhood art and streetscape improvements. Performances include RETAS Bindlestiff Seniors, Baycoin Beats, Lakbai Diwa, Galing Bata and more. Moss more...
15+ 4th of July Fireworks Shows in SF Bay Area (2021)
4th of July, Fairs & Festivals Thankfully, 4th of July fireworks are back for many Bay Area communities in 2021. While, there’s certainly some that have been cancelled for yet another year, there’s still 15+ fireworks show around The Bay lighting up the sky, including the big San Francisco fireworks show. Want more than just fireworks? Here’s our more...
SF’s “Fleet Week” Air Show is Back for 2021 (October 8-10)
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open San Francisco Fleet Week is slated to return this year from October 3-11, 2021 with the return of the Air Show, the Parade of Ships, the humanitarian village and joint military and civilian disaster planning exercises. The air show is planned for October 8-10 headlined by the Blue Angels. San Francisco Fleet more...
SF’s Free “Yerba Buena Gardens Festival” 2021 (June 26 – Aug 28)
Bay Area Favorites, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open Yerba Buena Gardens Festival announces a special 2021 summer season that will kickoff on Saturday, June 26 at 1:00pm with a free concert from Bobi Céspedes, the Bay Area’s matriarch of Cuban Music and with 23 free outdoor events throughout the summer. In 2020, the Festival was poised to celebrate its more...
SF’s New Rules for “Mega Events” 5,000+ Capacity
COVID-19 Updates, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open Although San Francisco is getting rid of almost all COVID restrictions beginning 12:01am on June 15, 2021, there still are some narrow exceptions for what the state defines as a “Mega Event.” The San Francisco Department of Public Health will require proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test at more...
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Hints at Possible 2021 Festival?
Bay Area Favorites, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open Could Hardly Strictly Bluegrass be making a comeback for 2021? In the last line of an email sent out to its mailing list around the same time that Mayor London Breed announced that San Francisco would be fully reopening on June 15th, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass wrote a lowkey statement that got more...
Stern Grove Festival 2021 Full Lineup Announced
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Parks & Beaches, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open Stern Grove Festival announced a packed lineup for their 2021 season highlighted by a July 4th concert with the San Francisco Symphony, Thievery Corporation on July 11, Fitz & The Tantrums on August 15th and the finale “The Big Picnic” with Tower of Power and Too $hort on August 29. All shows more...
San Mateo County Fair is Back (June 5-13)
COVID Testing, COVID-19 Updates, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open By Astrid Casimire Bay City News Foundation The San Mateo County Fair kicks off on Saturday, June 5, 2021, featuring carnival rides (though a smaller amount of rides than past years), musical performances, food vendors and free entry for those who get vaccinated on site. It takes place at the San Mateo more...
Berkeley’s Chocolate & Chalk Art Festival is Back June 19
Artsy Fartsy, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates Berkeley welcomes back its popular annual Chocolate & Chalk Art Festival on Saturday, June 19, 2021. The sidewalks along Shattuck and Cedar streets in North Berkeley are the target of artists young and old, professional and greenhorn during the 22nd Chocolate & Chalk Art Festival on Saturday, June 19, 10am-4pm. In order to more...
SF’s Carnaval Returns As Community Resource Fair (May 29-30)
Bay Area Updates, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Only in San Francisco By Olivia Wynkoop, Bay City News Foundation The two-day Carnaval festival in San Francisco, over 40 years strong, is known to bring in thousands of people to a 17-block radius in the city’s Mission District, with dozens of live performers, hundreds of vendors and a mega-boost to the economy for local more...
Memorial Day 2021: Your 3-Day Weekend Guide (50+ Events)
Bay Area Updates, Celebrations, Fairs & Festivals, Get Out: Events, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open With California’s full reopening just a few weeks away, things are coming back in a big way this weekend. If you’re ready to venture out, here’s 50+ live events in SF and the Bay Area including art shows, street fairs, cultural festivals, outdoor roller discos, free museum days, secret comedy more...
SF’s First Huge Outdoor Craft Fair of 2021 is at Pier 70
Artsy Fartsy, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Get Out: Events, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open Normally the “Craneway” Craft Fair is inside The Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, but this edition will be outdoors on the grounds of the under-construction Pier 70 in Dogpatch in San Francisco. Craneway Craft Fair / Summer Edition June 26-27, 2021 (11a-5p) 555 20th St., Pier 70, San Francisco FREE – RSVP on Facebook Parking onsite, more...
Stern Grove Festival is Back for 2021 (June 20 – Aug 29)
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Parks & Beaches, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open Stern Grove Festival announced a packed lineup for their 2021 season highlighted by a July 4th concert with the San Francisco Symphony, Thievery Corporation on July 11, Fitz & The Tantrums on August 15th and the finale “The Big Picnic” with Tower of Power and Too $hort on August 29. All shows more...
2021 Gilroy Garlic Festival Returns (July 23 – Aug 1)
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open After being canceled in 2020 due to COVID, this week, the Gilroy Garlic Festival Association announced that the festival is returning (with some modifications, like a drive-thru gourmet alley) for 2021 on two weekends, July 23rd–25th and July 30th–August 1st. Back in 2019 the festival was $17.99 adv / $20 door more...
