Fairs & Festivals
Two Bay Area Cities Celebrating Pride for the First Time in 2022
Brand New, Fairs & Festivals, LGBTQ+, Pride Two Bay Area cities are hosting their very first official Pride events. In 2022, the North Bay town of Windsor hosts its first-ever Windsor Pride Festival on Saturday, June 25 from 2 to 9 pm. Held on the Town Green, join us for a day of live music, from Wonderbread Five more...
SF Hosting its Biggest Juneteenth Celebration Ever
Causes, Community, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Only in San Francisco, San Francisco, Sponsored Once deemed the “Harlem of the West,” the historic Fillmore District was an epicenter of black music and culture for years. Now that Juneteenth is a federal holiday, San Francisco is looking to celebrate. The city has put on Juneteenth events before, but nothing of this scale. Eight blocks of more...
This “U-Pick” Lavender Festival is Just 1 Hour from SF
Fairs & Festivals, Outdoorsy, Travel Hierbas y Flores is a joint venture between Morningsun Herb Farm and Soul Food Farm – two women farmers partnering up on all things lavender. Growing lavender and creating products from our lavender fields has been a way for us to share the beauty of our farms with customers and our more...
SF’s Biggest AIDS Quilt Display Ever is Coming (June 11-12)
Brand New, Causes, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, LGBTQ+, Only in San Francisco, Reopening, San Francisco, Uplifting The National AIDS Memorial will mark the 35th anniversary of the AIDS Memorial Quilt with an historic outdoor display in Golden Gate Park that will feature nearly 3,000 hand-stitched panels of the Quilt. The display will be the largest display of the Quilt in the U.S. in over a decade and more...
SF Hosts NBA Summer Classic at Chase Center (July 2022)
Fairs & Festivals, San Francisco, Sponsored Chase Center is hosting the 4th Annual California Classic featuring Golden State Warriors, Sacramento Kings, Los Angeles Lakers, and Miami Heat. This two-day, four-game basketball celebration will feature 2022 NBA Draft picks, second-year pros and more players competing to land their spot on an NBA roster for the 2022-23 season. This family-friendly more...
San Mateo County Fair $10 Tickets (2022)
Fairs & Festivals For today only (June 8, 2022) the San Mateo County Fair is offering $10 tickets at the the gate. Please note these discount tickets cannot be purchased in advance. The fair is opening 11am to 10pm with last entry at 9:30pm View this post on Instagram A post shared by San Mateo more...
SF’s Summerfest Kick-Off is Back (June 4th)
Community, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, San Francisco, Sponsored Grillin’ in the ‘Mo” is Back in Person! Free Blues Concert & Family Bar-B-Q Niecey, Living Single and Yolandra Rhodes will headline this year’s in person “Grillin’ in the ‘Mo” at Hamilton Recreation Center on June 4th. After 2 years of COVID, The Village Project is back in person with our more...
SF’s Massive Carnaval Festival & Parade Returns (May 28-29)
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Only in San Francisco, San Francisco Carnaval is back in San Francisco for 2022! The annual, free, two-day festival and grand parade drawing thousands of attendees and featuring international music, dance, arts & crafts and cuisine — is making a celebratory return in 2022 after a two-year pandemic related hiatus. Although expected to be smaller than more...
SF’s “Sundown Cinema” Outdoor Film Nights Return May 27th
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Free Movie Screenings Sundown Cinema returns for 2022 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 eight films in eight parks across San Francisco, beginning with Sister Act II at Dolores Park on May 27, more...
One of SF’s Giant Windmills is Turning Back on Today
Fairs & Festivals, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco Normally the Murphy Windmill (the largest in the world when it was built in 1908) sits majestically, but silently watching over the southwest corner of Golden Gate Park which no longer needs it to pump the 40,000 gallons of water a day it used to before electric pumps took all more...
World Famous Gilroy Garlic Festival Cancelled Indefinitely
Bay Area Updates, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Goodbye The world-famous Gilroy Garlic Festival, a much-loved annual event that has been a mainstay since the late 1970s, is not moving ahead with a festival this summer nor for the foreseeable future, according to festival organizers. Citing lingering uncertainties from the pandemic, along with “prohibitive insurance requirements” by the city of more...
SF’s Filipino Ube Crawl & Festival Takes Over SoMa (2022)
Eat & Drink, Fairs & Festivals, San Francisco Ube, baby, baby! Kapwa Gardens is excited to announce that Yum Yams: A Celebration of All Things Ube is back for its second year as a full-on Ube Crawl with 18+ different vendors selling both ube treats, plus Filipino-inspired art vendors. What is Ube? Ube is one of those distinct Filipino more...
SF’s “DogFest” Returns to Duboce Park on April 23rd
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco DogFest 2022 is a mutt-tastic festival at one of the most dog-friendly parks in the city and the biggest dog event in San Francisco. After two years in the virtual world, DogFest is back for 2022 15th Annual DogFest Saturday, April 23, 2022 | 11 am to 4 pm Duboce Park, Duboce and Steiner, more...
Stern Grove 2022 Lineup Leaks… And it’s Awesome
Bay Area Favorites, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, San Francisco The 2022 lineup for the Stern Grove Festival wasn’t supposed to get revealed until May 3rd, but thanks to Muni apparently getting ahead of itself and putting up ads up more than a week in advance, we can see who’s coming to the Grove. We’ve got a glimpse at (what appears more...
For the 1st Time Ever, You Can Buy Weed Legally at SF’s 420 Fest at Hippie Hill
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Only in San Francisco, San Francisco By Eli Walsh, Bay City News Foundation San Francisco will allow on-site cannabis sales at Wednesday’s 4/20 celebration in Golden Gate Park for the first time in the annual event’s history, city officials said Monday. The celebration, returning for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, is scheduled from noon to more...
