Fairs & Festivals
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...
Outside Lands 2022 Lineup Drops: Green Day, Post Malone & SZA
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, San Francisco Outside Lands returned to Golden Gate park last October for a special Halloween edition of the festival. It was a momentous occasion with the community coming together with a newfound appreciation of what it means to celebrate music, food, drink, art and cannabis together in one beautiful location. This year more...
“Pickin’ On The Polk” SF’s Free Bluegrass Music Festival (April 15-16)
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, San Francisco, Sponsored Like a mini Hardly Strictly Bluegrass taking over an entire neighborhood, Pickin’ on the Polk is a brand new free Districtwide Bluegrass Show in the Discover Polk Community Benefit District – April 15-16, 2022. The festival will temporarily transform Polk Street into a free, two-day bluegrass festival featuring renowned artists playing more...
The 65th SFFILM Festival is Back for 2022
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, San Francisco, Sponsored Welcome back to the movies! Founded in 1957, the 65th San Francisco International Film Festival (the longest-running film festival in the Americas) is back in person kicking off on April 21 with the North American Premiere of Stay Awake starring Chrissy Metz. Enjoy over 130 films and events from 56 counties and 16 world premieres more...
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Says “Save the Date” for 2022 (Sept. 30 – Oct. 2)
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Only in San Francisco Could Hardly Strictly Bluegrass be making a comeback for 2022? It looks very likely. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass has posted a lowkey update on the homepage of its website stating to “Save The Date Sep 30, Oct 1, & Oct 2, 2022.” The free music festival is traditionally held on the first weekend more...
