Fairs & Festivals
Free Outdoor Events at Thrive City (Sept-Oct. 2022)
Fairs & Festivals, Outdoorsy, San Francisco, Sponsored Don’t miss your last chance to check out the final weeks of Thrive City’s 2022 schedule of 25+ free festival-style events all summer long with free concerts, outdoor comedy spectaculars, fitness classes, giveaways and epic movie nights on the Bay Area’s biggest outdoor screen at Thrive City, the plaza right in more...
SF is Getting a Mother F*cking Cat Festival (Sept. 23-25)
Fairs & Festivals Friends of felines get your kittens ready…. the San Francisco Cat Extravaganza, a three-day festival of all things cats is coming to the Cow Palace on September 23-25, 2022. (Will we have to call it the “Cat Palace?”). The festival, which also has stops in England, Peru, Dallas, Colombia, Florida, Portugal, more...
Chase Center’s New Free Outdoor Comedy Night (Aug. 12)
Fairs & Festivals, San Francisco, Sponsored Get ready for 2022’s second outdoor comedy takeover of Chase Center’s Thrive City w/ SF’s top comics, DJs and giveaways. Friday night laughs are coming (again)! as the team behind the Bay Area’s popular HellaSecret comedy shows comes to Thrive City, the plaza surrounding Chase Center, to continue 2022 “Live at Thrive more...
SF Giving Away Free Fashion Photo Shoots (If You’re Eco-Friendly)
Fairs & Festivals, Freebies, Green, Sponsored Hey San Francisco! Want your own FREE high-fashion photo and chic reusable mug or reusable bag? Don’t miss the most glamorous (and environmentally friendly) fashion event of the year. You’ve probably seen the local advertising campaign for REUSE all over the city. Now you can get your own professional quality REUSE more...
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Drops New Lineup Updates
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates Hardly Strictly Bluegrass just announced a second round of artists to their highly anticipated live return to San Francisco, CA’s Golden Gate Park on September 30-October 2. The three-day, multi-stage free music festival, who last month announced an initial list of participants, announced their next list of performers including Emmylou Harris, more...
SF’s 2022 “Jerry Day” Free Music Festival + Excelsior Art Walk
Fairs & Festivals 20th Annual “Jerry Day” Concert Festival + Excelsior After Parties The Grateful Dead’s iconic bearded lead singer Jerry Garcia had deep roots in San Francisco, having spent his childhood in the Excelsior. After his death, the first “Jerry Day” was held in 2002 to raise money to fix a rundown playground, more...
Berkeley Kite Festival Canceled Due to Event Fee Hike
East Bay, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates Thanks to Berkeleyside for sharing the unfortunate news that the long-running Berkeley Kite Festival has been canceled indefinitely. Sadly, Tom McAllister, who has organized the festival as a labor love for over 30 years, has stated that Berkeley has raised its special event fees exponentially, to the tune of $45,000, which more...
San Francisco’s Biggest Music Festivals in 2022 & ’23
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates The San Francisco Bay Area boasts a stellar array of annual music festivals and concert series, and the list keeps getting longer with new festivals joining the lineup. New on the scene this fall are the Portola Music Festival in San Francisco and Breakaway California in Oakland. These join heavyweights such more...
Oakland’s First Ever “Festival of Immersive Arts” (July 15-24)
Artsy Fartsy, Fairs & Festivals, Oakland Join us at a multi-weekend Festival featuring artists from the Bay Area & beyond. With four world premieres, art, music and exhibitions taking place throughout downtown Oakland’s Broadway corridor, OFIA highlights the potential of immersive art to build community and spark conversations about vital issues. Join us for the Festival’s inaugural more...
“Bastille Day” French Block Party Back in SF for First Time in 8 Years
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Only in San Francisco, San Francisco, What's Closed / What's Open “Bastille on Belden” Returns for First Time in 8 Years After a long break, San Francisco seems to be trying to claim back the title of “The Paris of the West.” Back in the 90s and 00s, French restaurant Cafe Bastille hosted a rollicking Bastille Day celebration crammed into downtown’s narrow more...
SF’s Massive “Pistahan” Filipino Parade & Festival Back for 2022
Bay Area Updates, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates The Filipino American Arts Exposition host the return of their in-person celebration for the 29th annual Pistahan Parade and Festival for 2022. With the theme of “Homecoming: Reconnect with Our Roots and Community,” this year’s festivities will take place on Saturday, Aug. 13 and Sunday, Aug. 14, from 11 a.m. to more...
Golden Gate Park Voted “Best Festival Site” in the World
Fairs & Festivals, Only in San Francisco, Outdoorsy San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park was just voted the Best Festival Site in the world in Billboard’s Top 50 Festivals of 2022, Ranked. Its superb location, just blocks from the Pacific Ocean, paired its founders’ top notch credentials, gives “Outside Lands a level of instant credibility within the live-music space” says more...
New California Garlic Festival Launches in Stockton (Aug. 13-14)
Brand New, Eat & Drink, Fairs & Festivals Sadly, the world-renown Gilroy Garlic Festival, that been a mainstay since the late 1970s, announced in April that it’s hung up its garlic for the last time. However, a brand new garlic festival has emerged dedicated to all things garlic. Hosted by the same organizers as the Annual Asparagus Festival, the more...
Check Out SF’s 75+ Free Outdoor Concerts (Summer 2022)
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Only in San Francisco, Outdoorsy “People in Plazas” is a free annual outdoor summer music festival that puts on over 75 free lunchtime concerts featuring an array of different styles from July to September in over 12 different public plazas near Market Street. “People in Plazas” 2022 Market Street Music Festival July, August, September, 2022 – Weekdays (Tuesdays more...
“Mr. Happy Face” Declared World’s Ugliest Dog at Bay Area Fair
Celebrations, Fairs & Festivals With a lolling tongue, googly eyes and a head of spectacularly stringy grey-white hair, Jeneda Benally’s Chihuahua-mix pooch would probably strike anyone as an excellent contender for the world’s ugliest dog. On a hot day in Petaluma Friday, it became official. The inaptly named “Mr. Happy Face” triumphed over nine other more...
