The Bay Area BIG LIST

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🆓 = costs $0, 🎨 = art, 🎼 = music, 🎬 = film, 📚= books, 🦩 = party vibe, 🌳 = nature, 🎭 = stage

Jul 1 (Sat)

• Summer of Music continues across 9 neighborhoods, 2-5p 🆓 🎼

• Art Walk SF featuring Friend of the List Ben on tarot, on Divisadero btwn McAllister and Fell (Alamo Square), 12-5p 🆓 🎨

• Everett Noel exhibition opening at Blunk Space (Point Reyes), 3-5p 🆓 🎨

• Sex and the City LIVE (it’s drag) at Oasis (SOMA), show 7-9p and again from 10-midnight 🎭

• Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor) with Julia Bullock (soprano) and the symphony perform some Gershwin and other tunes the SF Symphony (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎼

• Audium V: Rewind at Audium Theatre of Sound (Cathedral Hill), 7:30p 🎼 🎨

• Screening of Blue Velvet at the Roxie (Mission), 9:10p 🎬

Jul 2 (Sun)

• Yerba Buena Art & Makers Market at Yerba Buena Gardens (SOMA), 11-4p 🆓 🌳 🎨 🎼

• Weekly service and A Love Supreme meditation at Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church in their new location at Fort Mason’s Magic Theater (Marina), 11a 🆓 (but make a donation) 🎼

• Good Mother Studio presents FLEA, a big huge vendor market at 1421 Franklin Street (Downtown Oakland), 12-5p 🆓 🎨

Jul 3 (Mon)

• Supporting LGBTQ Incarcerated Folks: Letter Writing at Manny's (Mission), 5:30-7:30p 🆓 (what’s great about altruism is that it feels so good)

• Screening of Blue Velvet at the Roxie (Mission), 8:45p 🎬

• 2 year anniversary party at Snail Bar (Temescal, Oakland), 5p - end of night 🦩

Jul 4 (Tues)

• Fireworks at Fisherman’s Wharf at 9:30p

Jul 5 (Wed)

• Opening night of The Royal Opera of Madrid’s Authentic Flamenco with Amador Rojas performance at the Taube Atrium Theater (Civic Center), multiple performances 🎭

• Wavves and Cloud Nothings at the Independent (Alamo Square), 7:30p doors 8p show 🎼

• Stud Country tonight and every Wednesday at the Verdi Club (Mission), 8p-midnight, first lesson at 8:30p 🦩

Jul 6 (Thurs)

• Night 2 of The Royal Opera of Madrid’s Authentic Flamenco with Amador Rojas performance at the Taube Atrium Theater (Civic Center), multiple performances 🎭

• Summer Nights at Filoli Estate (Woodside), 5-8p 🌳

• Small Works 2 Group Show opens at Soft Times Gallery (Tenderloin), 6-9p 🆓 🎨

• Jane Smiley on The Questions that Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom presented by City Lights Books in the Kerouac Alley (North Beach), 6p 🆓 📚

• The Biggest Little Bay Area Collage Show opening reception featuring Friends of the List Andrea Bergen, Brent Hayden, and more at Moth Belly Gallery (Tenderloin), 6-10p 🆓 🎨

• SF Symphony performs Dvořák’s New World Symphony, Sibelius’ Violin Concerto, and more at Davies Symphony Hall (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎼

• Audium V: Rewind at Audium Theatre of Sound (Cathedral Hill), 7:30p 🎼 🎨

Jul 7 (Fri)

• Night 3 of The Royal Opera of Madrid’s Authentic Flamenco with Amador Rojas performance at the Taube Atrium Theater (Civic Center), multiple performances 🎭

• YOLANDA LÓPEZ: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST opening reception at the San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose), 6-9p 🎨

• Archana Horsting, On the Fringe of the Field, A Survey of Works 1972–2022 closing reception at Kala Art Institute (Berkeley), 4-6p 🆓 🎨

• SF Symphony performs Dvořák’s New World Symphony, Sibelius’ Violin Concerto, and more al fresco at the Frost Amphitheater (Stanford), 7:30p 🎼

• Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art opening reception at Gray Area (Mission), 6-9p 🎨🦩🎭

• Sex and the City LIVE (it’s drag) at Oasis (SOMA), doors 6p show 7-9p 🎭

• Luis Buñuel’s Magnificent Weapon kicks off at BAMPFA (Berkeley), 7p 🎬

• Audium V: Rewind at Audium Theatre of Sound (Cathedral Hill), 7:30p 🎼 🎨

Jul 8 (Sat)

• Free weekend admission at the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park this weekend

• Summer of Music continues across 9 neighborhoods, 2-5p 🆓 🎼

• Day 1 of Sausalito Summer Sale at Heath Ceramics (Sausalito), 9-5p 🆓 🎨

• Last day to see Broken Spectre, Richard Mosse's large-scale immersive video installation at 1201 Minnesota Street (Dogpatch), 11-6p 🆓 🎨

• Rock Garden and Container Plants Sale at the San Francisco Botanical Garden (Golden Gate Park), 10a-4p (also on Sunday) 🆓 🌳

• Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art curator tour and artists’ talks at Gray Area (Mission), 1-4p 🎨🦩🎭

• Last day to see Figuratively Speaking, curated by Hilton Als at Creativity Explored (Mission), 12-5p 🆓 🎨

• Last day to see Emilio Villalba’s Everything is Something at Dolby Chadwick (Union Square), 11-5p 🆓 🎨

• City Lights 70th Anniversary Historic Talk in Kerouac Alley between the bookshop and Vesuvio Cafe (North Beach), 1p 🆓 📚

• Lordy Rodriguez’s The Shape of Us opening reception at Hosfelt Gallery (Design District), 3-5p 🆓 🎨

• Russell Crotty’s An Astronomy of Dreams opening reception at Hosfelt Gallery (Design District), 3-5p 🆓 🎨

• Light Jacket Reading Series #4 featuring stevie redwood, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, Scout Faller, and Felix Dina. Meet at the redwoods in Heroes Grove in Golden Gate Park (closest park entrance is 10th and Fulton), 3p 🆓 📚

• Cécilia Andrews’ Invisible Language opening reception at Municipal Bonds (Dogpatch, in the Minnesota Street Projects), 4-7p 🆓 🎨

• A. Frick Vernon: Narratives opening reception at Anglim Trimble (Dogpatch, in Minnesota Street Projects), 4-6p 🆓 🎨

• Good Love is Hard to Find, a solo exhibition by Oakland-based artist Marbie opening reception at Hashimoto Contemporary (Dogpatch, in Minnesota Street Projects), 5-7p 🆓 🎨

• Sex and the City LIVE (it’s drag) at Oasis (SOMA), doors 6p show 7-9p 🎭

• Opening reception for Devotional Cache, a group exhibition featuring work by Guendalina Cerutti, Racheal Crowther, Steve Kahn, Mareiwa Miller, Mel Paget, curated by Alexander Goodwin at House of Seiko (Mission), 7-10p 🆓 🎨 🦩

• ME in a(ME)rica opening reception at Root Division (SOMA), 7-9p 🆓 🎨

• Audium V: Rewind at Audium Theatre of Sound (Cathedral Hill), 7:30p 🎼 🎨

• Parasite screening at The Cut Outdoor Cinema (Financial District), 7:30p doors 8p show 🎬

• Luis Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel screening at BAMPFA (Berkeley), 7p 🎬

Jul 9 (Sun)

• Day 2 of Sausalito Summer Sale at Heath Ceramics (Sausalito), 9-4p 🆓 🎨

• Art + Wine with Carrie Ann Plan and Sasi Kladpletch at the Watershed (Petaluma), 1-5p 🆓 🎨

• Tina Turner Tribute Concert and Drag Show at Oasis (SOMA), 6p doors, 7p show 🎭

Jul 10 (Mon)

• Jenny Xie with Shruti Swamy talk Holding Pattern at The Ruby (Mission), 7p 🆓 📚

Jul 11 (Tues)

• SF Historical Society presents From Whip to Grip: The Evolution of Andrew Smith Hallidie's Cable Car, details/location provided with a ticket purchase here, 6:30-8p 🎭

• Kara Swisher & Chris Larsen: Betting on San Francisco at Manny’s (Mission), 6-7:30p 🎭

• Long Now Ignite Talks at Club Fugazi (North Beach), 7p 🎭

Jul 12 (Wed)

• The San Francisco Silent Film Fest kicks off at the Castro Theater (Castro), runs through July 16 🎬

• Beginner salsa and bachata classes at Dance Mission Theater (Mission), 6:30p 🦩

• The Future of Retail in San Francisco conversation live at Manny’s (Mission), 6-7p 🎭

• Ilana DeBare presents Shaken Loose at Green Apple Books on the Park (Inner Sunset), 7p 🆓 📚

• Stud Country tonight and every Wednesday at the Verdi Club (Mission), 8p-midnight, first lesson at 8:30p 🦩

Jul 13 (Thurs)

• Summer Nights at Filoli Estate (Woodside), 5-8p 🌳

• Jazz Thursdays at Muriel Leff Mini Park (Richmond), 5-7p 🆓 🎼 🌳

• Bill Armstrong’s Unspoken, Buddhas, Mandalas opening reception at Dolby Chadwick Gallery (Union Square), 5:30 - 7:30p 🆓 🎨

• Opening preview of the San Francisco Art Book Fair at Minnesota Street Projects (Dogpatch), 6-10p 🆓 🎨 📚

• Laeh Glenn’s The End Again opening reception at Altman Siegel (Dogpatch), 6-8p 🆓 🎨

• In-Between: a solo exhibition of works by Kenneth Wilkes opens at Bass & Reiner (Dogpatch, in the Minnesota Street Projects), 6-10p 🆓 🎨

• Audium V: Rewind at Audium Theatre of Sound (Cathedral Hill), 7:30p 🎼 🎨

Jul 14 (Fri)

• San Francisco Art Book Fair at Minnesota Street Projects (Dogpatch), 11am-6p 🆓 🎨 📚🦩

• Flowers book signing by Park Life Gallery at the SF Art Book Fair at Minnesota Street Projects (Dogpatch), 1p 🆓 🎨📚

• Taylor Galloway’s I Can Feel You Dreaming opening reception at Book and Job Gallery (Lower Nob Hill), 6-9p 🆓 🎨

• Liz Steketee’s Remnants artist talk at Chung 24 Gallery (Noe Valley), 5:30p doors, 6p talk 🆓 🎨

• Isabella Manfredi’s sew your echo opening reception at Staircase Gallery (Inner Richmond), 7-10p 🆓 🎨

• Audium V: Rewind at Audium Theatre of Sound (Cathedral Hill), 7:30p 🎼 🎨

Jul 15 (Sat)

• Yoga on the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 9-10a 🎼

• Mount Sutro trail and habitat restoration with the Sutro Stewards (Mount Sutro), 8:30a-12:30p 🌳 🆓

• San Francisco Art Book Fair at Minnesota Street Projects (Dogpatch), 11am-6p 🆓 🎨 📚🦩

• Summer of Music continues across 9 neighborhoods, 2-5p 🆓 🎼

• Danielle Rante’s Elusive Terrains opening reception at K. Imperial Fine Art (Union Square), 3-5p 🆓 🎨

• National Caviar Day celebration at Saint Joseph’s Arts Society (SOMA), 4-7p 🦩

• …Tomorrow another dream will start (curated by Wild Life Archive) opening reception at Et Al Etc (Mission), 5-9p 🆓 🎨

• DRIP opening reception with DJs and more (a week-long market of metal jewelry and objects from independent designers) at Dog (Duboce Triangle), 5-7p 🆓 🎨 🎼

• Aída Cuevas the Queen of Mariachi with the SF Symphony (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎼

• Audium V: Rewind at Audium Theatre of Sound (Cathedral Hill), 7:30p 🎼 🎨

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

• …Tomorrow another dream will start after party at Bar Part Time (Mission), 9p-late 🆓 🦩

Jul 16 (Sun)

• San Francisco Art Book Fair at Minnesota Street Projects (Dogpatch), 11am-5p 🆓 🎨 📚🦩

• Wattis Institute’s Is now the time for joyous rage? book launch at the SF Book Fair in The Lounge at Minnesota Street Projects (Dogpatch), 12p 🆓 📚 🎨

• Transforming Ephemera Into Evidence: A Conversation between Catalina Cariaga and Catherine Ceniza Choy presented by Slash Art at the SF Book Fair in The Lounge at Minnesota Street Projects (Dogpatch), 2-3p 🆓 📚 🎨

• Friend of the List Jasmine Zhang presents Some Historical Whisper at The Lab (Mission), 7p doors, 7:30p show 🎨

Jul 17 (Mon)

• Christina Gerhardt on Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean at Green Apple Books on the Park (Inner Sunset), 7p 🆓 📚

• Sound Bath at Envelop SF (Bayview-ish), 7:30p and 9:30p 🎼

• Moody Mondays with DJ Chatoyance at Thee Stork Club (Oakland), 9p 🎼🦩

Jul 18 (Tues)

• Yoga on the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 6:15-7:30p 🎼

• Summer Salt at August Hall (Union Square), 7p doors, 8p show 🎼

• Jazz at the Make Out Room (Mission), 6p doors, 7p show 🆓 🎼

Jul 19 (Wed)

• Manny’s presents The Future of the Castro conversation at Queer Arts Featured (Castro), 6-7p 🎭

• Summer Members Dinner at the Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito/Mill Valley), 6-9p 🎨 🦩 🌳

• Rick Prelinger presents STROLLING IN NORTH BEACH AND SAN FRANCISCO at Savoy Tivolo (North Beach), 7:30p 🎬

Jul 20 (Thurs)

• Jazz Thursdays at Muriel Leff Mini Park (Richmond), 5-7p 🆓 🎼 🌳

• Clement Street Third Thursday Art Walk — start at the Drawing Room (Richmond), 5-8p 🆓 🎨

• Eneight Vase group show opening reception at Creativity Explored (Mission), 6-8p 🆓 🎨

• Naama Tsabar: Work On Felt (Variation 2) and (Variation 11) presented with the SFMOMA at Kadist (Mission), 6p 🆓 🎨

• Dancing at Sundance Saloon (Bernal Heights-ish), first dance lesson at 6:45p 🦩

• Audium V: Rewind at Audium Theatre of Sound (Cathedral Hill), 7:30p 🎼 🎨

• Sun Ra Arkestra: An Adventure Into Outer Space at SF Jazz (Hayes Valley), 7:30p 🎼

• Inland Empire screening at The Roxie (Mission), 8:15p 🎬

Jul 21 (Fri)

• St. John Coltrane Church: Sonic Ascension Service at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 6:30p doors, 7-9p service 🆓 🎭 🎼

• Audium V: Rewind at Audium Theatre of Sound (Cathedral Hill), 7:30p 🎼 🎨

• Sun Ra Arkestra: An Adventure Into Outer Space at SF Jazz (Hayes Valley), 7:30p 🎼

• Inland Empire screening at The Little Roxie (Mission), 8:30p 🎬

Jul 22 (Sat)

• Bouke de Vries: Memories in Porcelain opens in the Bowles Porcelain Gallery at the Legion of Honor (Lincoln Park), 9:30a-5:15p 🎨

• Yoga on the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 9-10a 🎼

• What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms opens on the 4th floor at SFMOMA (SOMA), 10a-5p 🎨

• Artist reception with Rachel Kalman on the occasion of the Black Swans exhibition at Transmission Gallery (Oakland), 1-4p 🆓 🎨

• Opening reception for Yes, it's an original: an exhibit of recent publications by Mullowney Printing in the South Gallery at Catharine Clark Gallery (Design District), 1-3p 🆓 🎨

• Opening reception for Revival, a presentation by Trina Michelle Robinson in the Media Room at Catharine Clark Gallery (Design District), 1-3p 🆓 🎨
  An exhibit of recent publications by Mullowney Printing

• Last day to catch The Telephone Call by Janet Cardiff at SFMOMA (SOMA), 10a-5p

• Closing celebration for TARAVAT at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SOMA), 2-5p 🆓 🎨

• Pottery and Baskets from Japan, selected by Makiko McDonald opens at Blunk Space (Point Reyes), 3-5p 🆓 🎨

• (Last night!) Audium V: Rewind at Audium Theatre of Sound (Cathedral Hill), 7:30p 🎼 🎨

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

• Sun Ra Arkestra: Swinging with Sonny at SF Jazz (Hayes Valley), 7:30p 🎼

Jul 23 (Sun)

• City Lights 70th Anniversary Poetry Reading in Kerouac Alley (North Beach), 1p 🆓 📚

• Cannabis Sound Bath at New Mission Yoga (Mission), 6p 🎼

• Sun Ra Arkestra: Swinging with Sonny at SF Jazz (Hayes Valley), 7:30p 🎼

Jul 24 (Mon)

• Mountain Misery wine tasting at Snail Bar (Temescal, Oakland), 4-9p 🦩

Jul 25 (Tues)

• Jeff Jarvis on The Age of Print and the Internet at the Commonwealth Club (Financial District), 6p 📚

• Mexican Rótulos: An Endangered Species? with Romina Hernández, a lecture that’s a signage journey across central Mexico City at Letterform Archive (Dogpatch), 12-1:30p 🆓 🎨

• Yoga on the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 6:15-7:30p 🎼

Jul 26 (Wed)

• SF Chronicle Live at Manny’s: An Evening with Heather Knight at Manny’s (Mission), 6p 🎭

• Stud Country tonight and every Wednesday at the Verdi Club (Mission), 8p-midnight, first lesson at 8:30p 🦩

Jul 27 (Thurs)

• Summer Nights at Filoli Estate (Woodside), 5-8p 🌳

• Jazz Thursdays at Muriel Leff Mini Park (Richmond), 5-7p 🆓 🎼 🌳

• Kei Imazu's Sowed Them to the Earth opening reception at Jessica Silverman Gallery (Chinatown), 5-7p 🆓 🎨

• Margaux Ogden’s Out of Time opening reception at Berggruen Gallery (SOMA), 5-7p 🆓 🎨

• Elsa Hansen Oldham’s Entitled to Love opening reception at Berggruen Gallery (SOMA), 5-7p 🆓 🎨

• Do The Right Thing screenings at the 4-Star Theater (Richmond), 5p and 7:30p 🎬

• The first ever Rooftop Radio event on the SFMOMA rooftop: SMARTBOMB featuring KeiyaA, Low Leaf, and Three6Sashia at SFMOMA (SOMA), 5-8p 🎼 🦩

• Tim Thompson presents Casual Instruments at the Center for New Music (Tenderloin), 6p reception, 7p talk and demonstration 🆓 🎨 🎼

• Light Jacket Reading Series #5 featuring Elliott Sky Case, Soledad Con Carne, N. Cuzzi, and Steve Orth in Golden Gate Park, 6:30p 🆓 🌳 📚

• The Racket Presents: BIRDS! with guest host Lauren C. Johnson featuring Spencer Tierney, Danielle Truppi, Shirley Chan, Ryan Sloan, Janay Thomas, Jennifer Ng, Peggy Lee, and Kathleen J. Woods at the Sycamore (Mission), 7p 🆓 📚

Jul 28 (Fri)

• Summer Friday Craft Club at Crisis Club (Oakland), 4-6p 🆓 🎨🦩

• Still, The Meandering Path: Jim Melchert’s Final Works show opening reception at Gallery 16 (SOMA), 6-9p 🆓 🎨

• Explorations: Bach Beyond Baroque (part of the San Francisco Bach Festival) at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Barbro Osher Recital Hall (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎼

Jul 29 (Sat)

• Free weekend admission at the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park this weekend 🆓 🎨

• Art Walk Day 1 of 2 at Filoli Estate (Woodside), 10a-5p 🎨 🌳

• Summer of Music continues across 9 neighborhoods, 2-5p 🆓 🎼

• Last day to see Muzae Sesay & Alicia McCarthy at Pt. 2 (Oakland), 12-5p 🆓 🎨

• Last day to catch Devotional Cache at House of Seiko (Mission), 11a-5p 🆓 🎨

• Due South presents: Shannon and the Clams at the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater (McLaren Park), 3-6p 🆓 🎼 🌳

• The Biggest Little Bay Area Collage Show closing reception at Mothbelly Gallery (Tenderloin), 5-8p 🆓 🎨🦩

• Leslie Live: Nico B. Young Plus Five at In Concert (Mission), 6p doors, 7p music 🆓 🎨🎼

• Golden Hour Drag Show presents Plantasia at Lobos Creek (Baker Beach), 7:15p 🎨 🎼 🌳 🦩

• Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons performed at The Green Room (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎼

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

Jul 30 (Sun)

• Art Walk Day 2 of 2 at Filoli Estate (Woodside), 10a-5p 🎨 🌳

• Aisha Harris discusses Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture that Shapes Me in conversation with Virgie Tovar at Black Bird (Outer Sunset), 1p 🆓 📚

• Andrew Catanese's Artist Reception at Little Saint (Healdsburg), 3-5p 🆓 🎨

• RetCon closing party at Liminal Space (SOMA), 6-9p 🎨🦩

• Bach’s Mass in B Minor at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church (Cathedral Hill), 7:30p 🎼

Jul 31 (Mon)

• Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen present Your Brain on Art at the Commonwealth Club (Financial District), 5:30p doors, 6p programming 📚

• Frank Ocean’s Blonde listening party at Envelop SF (Bayview-ish), 7:30p and 9:30p 🎼

Aug 1 (Tues)

• Yoga on the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 6:15-7:30p 🎼

Aug 3 (Thurs)

• In Conversation: Russell Crotty (artist) and Sarah Mackay (curator) plus cocktails at Hosfelt Gallery (Design District), 5p cocktails, 5:30p talk 🆓 (but rsvp here to secure entry) 🎨 🦩

• Art Dealers Association of America's Bay Area Gallery Weekend Day 1 at Catharine Clark and Hosfelt Gallery (Design District), 5:30p 🆓 🎨

• Tenderloin First Thursdays at various locations (Tenderloin), 6-10p 🆓 🎨🦩

  • Fresh Slice group show opening at Mini Mart (Tenderloin), 5-8p 🆓 🎨 🦩

  • TIDY, a show by Messy Beck opening reception at Moth Belly Gallery (Tenderloin), 6-10p 🆓 🎨🦩

  • Jun Yang solo show opening reception at Public Works Salon (Tenderloin), 6-10p 🆓 🎨

Aug 4 (Fri)

• Oakland First Fridays at Telegraph Ave between 22nd and 27th (Oakland), 5-9p 🆓 🎨🦩

• Sarah Smith’s Familiar Spaces opening reception at Glass Rice (Lower Nob Hill), 4-7p 🆓 🎨

• Changed Intentions group show opening reception at Mag Galleries (Castro), 5-9p 🆓 🎨

• Art Dealers Association of America's Bay Area Gallery Weekend Day 2 across Minnesota Street Project galleries (Dogpatch), 5:30p 🆓 🎨

• The last day of being in business for Slug bar (Oakland), 5p-1a 🎼🦩

• Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie screening at BAMPFA (Berkeley), 7p 🎬

• Gathering of our Tribe (it’s an ayahuasca ceremony) at New Mission Yoga (Mission), 8:30p

Aug 5 (Sat)

• Yoga on the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 9-10a 🎼

• Art Dealers Association of America's Bay Area Gallery Weekend Day 3 across various galleries (Downtown, SOMA, Berkeley, Chinatown), 11a-4p 🆓 🎨

• In Conversation: Vanesa Gingold and Jenni Sorkin presented by Slash (virtual), 11a-noon 🆓 🎨

• Art Walk SF on Irving Street (Outer Sunset), 12-5p 🆓 🎨

• Last day to see Debths group show featuring Imogen Cunningham, Gary Katiya, K.R.M. Mooney, and Bruce freakin’ Nauman at Cushion Works (Mission), 2-5p or by appointment 🆓 🎨

• Open Source by Harry Clewans & Maria Porges artist talk at GearBox Gallery (Oakland), 2p 🆓 🎨

• Summer of Music continues across 9 neighborhoods, 2-5p 🆓 🎼

• Malicious Mischief by Muzzy opening at Hit SF (Mission), 4-8p 🆓 🎨🦩

• Ain’t No Dogs in Heaven solo exhibition with new paintings and sculptures by artist Esteban Raheem Abdul Raheem Samayoa opens at Pt. 2 Gallery (Downtown Oakland), 6-9p 🆓 🎨

• Morphologies group show curated by Selby Sohn opening reception at Your Mood Gallery (Dogpatch), 6-8p 🆓 🎨 🦩

• Luis Buñuel’s The Phantom of Liberty screening at BAMPFA (Berkeley), 7:30p 🎬

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

• Gathering of our Tribe (it’s an ayahuasca ceremony) at New Mission Yoga (Mission), 8p

• Group Shoe 3 show curated by Mario Ayala opening reception at House of Seiko (Mission), 7-10p 🆓 🎨 🦩

• Bill Orcutt appears at Cushion Works (Mission), 8p doors, 8:30p show 🎼

• Quit Your Day Job disco night at Wave Collective (Lower Haight), 9p-12a 🎼🦩

Aug 6 (Sun)

• Art Dealers Association of America's Bay Area Gallery Weekend Day 4 in various galleries (Mill Valley and Fort Mason), ~11a-4p 🆓 🎨

• Yerba Buena Art & Makers Market at Yerba Buena Gardens (SOMA), 11-4p 🆓 🌳 🎨 🎼

• The Park Market presents Summer Mercantile market at Crane Cove (Dogpatch), 11a-5p 🆓

• The 27th Annual SF Drag King Contest at Oasis (SOMA), 7p 🦩

Aug 8 (Tues)

• Yoga on the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 6:15-7:30p 🎼

Aug 10 (Thurs)

• Summer Nights at Filoli Estate (Woodside), 5-8p 🌳

• Paint at Sip with Clare Eva at Arcana (Mission), 6-8p 🎨🦩

• Joyce Mansour Tribute and Book Launch featuring Garrett Caples in conversation with Emilie Moorhouse at City Lights Books (North Beach), 6p 🆓 (but rsvp) 📚

• Alexandra Chang presents her new short story collection, Tomb Sweeping at Green Apple Books on the Park (Inner Sunset), 7p 🆓 📚

Aug 11 (Fri)

• Summer Smash at SFMOMA (SOMA), 6-9p 🎨 🎼 🦩

• Andrew Leland presents his new memoir, The Country of the Blind at Green Apple Books on the Park (Inner Sunset), 7p 🆓 📚

Aug 12 (Sat)

• Yoga on the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 9-10a 🎼

• Epiphytes Plants Sale at the San Francisco Botanical Garden (Golden Gate Park), 10a-4p (also on Sunday) 🆓 🌳

• Friends of the Morcom Rose Garden volunteer opportunity at Morcom Rose Garden (Oakland), 10a - 2p 🆓 🌳

• Cut It Out: In-Person Workshop with Dorothy Yuki (create handmade letters by cutting, bending, and folding paper to transform the alphabet from 2D to 3D) at the Letterform Archive (Dogpatch), 10a-2p 🎨

• City Lights 70th Anniversary Historic Talk in Kerouac Alley between the bookshop and Vesuvio Cafe (North Beach), 1p 🆓 📚

• Summer of Music continues across 9 neighborhoods, 2-5p 🆓 🎼

• Gallery Sessions: Writer Dodie Bellamy in conversation on the What are Words Worth? show at McEvoy Foundation of the Arts (Dogpatch), 3-3:30p 🆓 🎨

• Claire Ptak book tour finale at Blunk Space (Point Reyes), 3-6p 🆓 📚

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

Aug 13 (Sun)

• Jo Ann Biagini continues her poetic exploration of the natural world in Botanical Imaginary.Her

Aug 14 (Mon)

• Sound Bath at Envelop SF (Bayview-ish), 7:30p and 9:30p 🎼

Aug 15 (Tues)

• Monthly silent book club at Adobe Books (Mission), 5:30-7p 🆓📚

• Yoga on the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 6:15-7:30p 🎼

• Miles Davis Kind of Blue listening event at Envelop SF (Bayview-ish), 7:30p and 9:30p 🎼

Aug 16 (Wed)

• Listening event: Mort Garson’s Plantasia + Selected Works at Envelop SF (Bayview-ish), 7:30p and 9:30p 🎼

Aug 19 (Sat)

• Free weekend admission at the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park this weekend 🆓 🎨

• Yoga on the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 9-10a 🎼

• Day 1 of the Annual Dahlia show and competition at the Hall of Flowers in the County Fair Building at 9th and Lincoln (Golden Gate Park) 🆓 🌳

• Small Matters Exhibition Design: In-person Workshop with Tammie Knight

  (Unleash your creativity by designing your own pop-up micro gallery!) at Letterform Archive (Dogpatch), 10a-2p 🎨

• Last day to see Weep to Water the Trees at Slash Art (Dogpatch), 11a-6p 🆓 🎨

• Summer of Music continues across 9 neighborhoods, 2-5p 🆓 🎼

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

Aug 20 (Sun)

• Summer Open House at the Headlands Center for the Arts (Marin/Sausalito, near Rodeo Beach), 12-5p 🆓 🎨 🌳

• Day 2 of the Annual Dahlia show and competition at the Hall of Flowers in the County Fair Building at 9th and Lincoln (Golden Gate Park) 🆓 🌳

Aug 22 (Tues)

• Yoga on the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 6:15-7:30p 🎼

• Long Now Talks presents Bette Adriaanse on Radical Sharing with Brian Eno (!), Chelsea T. Hicks, and Aqui Thami at The Interval (Fort Mason), 7p 🎭

Aug 24 (Thurs)

• Summer Nights at Filoli Estate (Woodside), 5-8p 🌳

• Olivia Allen-Price reads from Bay Curious at Black Bird Books (Outer Sunset), 7p 🆓 📚

• KQED Live presents Alice Waters in Conversation at Herbst Theater (Civic Center), 7p 🎭

Aug 25 (Fri)

• Choplife Soundsystem and Afrobeats Oakland present Mr Eazi and DJ EDU zg 1015 Folsom (SOMA), 10p 🎼 🦩

Aug 26 (Sat)

• Yoga on the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 9-10a 🎼

• MindShift: What Happens to Your Brain When You Make a Mistake? at KQED HQ (Mission), 1p 🎭

• Summer of Music continues across 9 neighborhoods, 2-5p 🆓 🎼

• Gallery Sessions: artist Connie Zheng in conversation on the What are Words Worth? show at McEvoy Foundation of the Arts (Dogpatch), 3-3:30p 🆓 🎨

• Old Friends, a solo exhibition of work by Lorien Stern opening reception at Hashimoto Contemporary (Dogpatch, in the Minnesota Street Projects building) 5-7p 🆓 🎨

• Luis Buñuel’s The Milky Way screening at BAMPFA (Berkeley), 7p 🎬

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

Aug 28 (Mon)

• Joanna Moorhead discussing the life and work of visionary surrealist Leonora Carrington at City Lights Books (North Beach), 12p 🆓 (but be sure to RSVP) 📚

Aug 29 (Tues)

• Yoga on the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 6:15-7:30p 🎼

• Beth Winegarner presents San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History at Green Apple Books on the Park (Inner Sunset), 7p 🆓 📚

Aug 31 (Thurs)

• Summer Nights at Filoli Estate (Woodside), 5-8p 🌳

• Making Music from Visual Art workshop at the San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose), 5-7p 🎨

• The Racket Presents: Singing in the Dark with Preeti Vangani at The Sycamore (Mission), 7p 🆓 📚

• Bay Area Comics: Drawing from Life (a crash course in Bay Area comics history) at KQED HQ (Mission), 7p 🎨 🎭

• Cone Shape Top presents the second edition of EGG at Thee Stork Club (Oakland), 8:30p 🆓 🎨🦩🎼

Sep 1 (Fri)

• Miguel Arzabe solo exhibition at Johansson Projects (Downtown Oakland), timing TBD 🆓 🎨

• Oakland First Fridays at various locations 🆓 🎨🦩

Sep 2 (Sat)

• Yoga on the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 9-10a 🎼

• Secondhand Saturday at the Park Market at Crane Cove (Dogpatch), 11a-5p 🆓

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

Sep 3 (Sun)

• Yerba Buena Art & Makers Market at Yerba Buena Gardens (SOMA), 11-4p 🆓 🌳 🎨 🎼

• Alabaster Deplume at Kuumbwa Jazz Center (Santa Cruz), 6:45p doors, 7:30p show 🎼

Sep 5 (Tues)

• Yoga on the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 6:15-7:30p 🎼

Sep 7 (Thurs)

• Last of the season! Summer Nights at Filoli Estate (Woodside), 5-8p 🌳

• Matt Kleberg solo show opening reception at Berggruen Gallery (SOMA), 5-7p 🆓 🎨

• KQED Live presents: Reclaiming Curanderismo (pre-colonial system of healing practices) featuring Ingrid Rojas Contreras at KQED HQ (Mission), 7p 🎭 (livestream is free btw)

• La Casita Amarilla solo exhibition by Humberto Maldona opening reception at Soft Times Gallery (Tenderloin), timing TBD 🆓 🎨🦩

• First Thursdays Art Walk at various locations (Tenderloin), 6-10p 🆓 🎨🦩

Sep 8 (Fri)

• Flower Piano kicks off across Golden Gate Park 🆓 🌳 🎼

• City Arts & Lectures presents Ann Patchett at the Sydney Goldstein Theater (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎭 📚

Sep 9 (Sat)

• Yoga on the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 9-10a 🎼

• California Native Plants Sale at the San Francisco Botanical Garden (Golden Gate Park), 10a-4p (also on Sunday) 🆓 🌳

• Friends of the Morcom Rose Garden volunteer opportunity at Morcom Rose Garden (Oakland), 10a - 2p 🆓 🌳

• Bruce Conner & Jess’ Found Poetry opening reception at Hosfelt Gallery (Design District), time TBD 🆓 🎨

• Liliana Porter’s Unfinished Tales opening reception at Hosfelt Gallery (Design District), time TBD 🆓 🎨

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

Sep 11 (Mon)

• Candlelight Labyrinth Walk at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 6-8p 🎼

Sep 12 (Tues)

• Yoga on the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 6:15-7:30p 🎼

Sep 14 (Thurs)

• ICASF Homecoming Benefit at ICASF (Dogpatch), 6-10p 🦩 🎨

Sep 16 (Sat)

• Free weekend admission at the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park this weekend

• Comedian Roy Wood Jr. at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater (Marina), doors 6p show 7p 🎭

• Anton Funck show opens at Pt. 2 Gallery (Downtown Oakland), 6-8p 🆓 🎨

• Meryl Pataky show opens at Pt. 2 Gallery (Downtown Oakland), 6-8p 🆓 🎨

• Tyler Cross show opens at Pt. 2 Gallery (Downtown Oakland), 6-8p 🆓 🎨

• City Arts & Lectures presents Bobby Berk at the Sydney Goldstein Theater (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎭 📚

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

Sep 17 (Mon)

• Sun Ra Arkestra at the Rio Theater (Santa Cruz), 7p doors, 8p show 🎼

Sep 19 (Tues)

• City Arts & Lectures and The Museum of the African Diaspora present Dr. Bettina L. Love and W. Kamau Bell at the Sydney Goldstein Theater (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎭 📚

Sep 21 (Thurs)

• LBFE Cocktail Party & Annual Fundraiser at 620 Jones (Lower Nob Hill), 5:30-9p 🦩

Sep 22 (Fri)

• City Arts & Lectures presents Zadie Smith at Sydney Goldstein Theater (Hayes Valley), 7:30p 📚 🎭

Sep 23 (Sat)

• Heaven on the Half Shell: The Story of the Oyster in the Pacific Northwest book event at Omnivore Books (Noe Valley), 3p 🆓 📚

• Party for the Parks fundraiser at The Conservatory at One Sansome (Financial District), 6-11p 🦩

• King Krule at Fox Theater (Oakland), 8p 🎼

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

Sep 25 (Mon)

• Sound Bath at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 7-8:30p 🎼

Sep 27 (Wed)

• City Arts & Lectures presents Leslie Jones at the Sydney Goldstein Theater (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎭 📚

Sep 28 (Thurs)

• The Racket Presents: TBD with Tomas Moniz at The Sycamore (Mission), 7p 🆓 📚

• Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Leonidas Kavakos on violin and the symphony performing Alpine Symphony at SF Symphony (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎼

Sep 29 (Fri)

• Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Leonidas Kavakos on violin and the symphony performing Alpine Symphony at SF Symphony (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎼

Sep 30 (Sat)

• Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Leonidas Kavakos on violin and the symphony performing Alpine Symphony at SF Symphony (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎼

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

Oct 1 (Sun)

• Yerba Buena Art & Makers Market at Yerba Buena Gardens (SOMA), 11-4p 🆓 🌳 🎨 🎼

Oct 5 (Thurs)

• First Thursdays Art Walk at various locations (Tenderloin), 6-10p 🆓 🎨🦩

Oct 6 (Fri)

• Oakland First Fridays at various locations 🆓 🎨🦩

Oct 7 (Sat)

• RAW Dance Concept Series 30 at the Green Room (Civic Center), 8p 🎭

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

Oct 8 (Sun)

• RAW Dance Concept Series 30 at the Green Room (Civic Center), 3p and 8p 🎭

• City Arts & Lectures presents Sir Patrick Stewart at the Sydney Goldstein Theater (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎭 📚

Oct 11 (Wed)

• City Arts & Lectures presents George Saunders at the Sydney Goldstein Theater (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎭 📚

Oct 12 (Thurs)

• RAW Dance: Loving Still / 836M Residency opening reception at 836M Gallery (North Beach) 6:30p 🎨 🎭

Oct 13 (Fri)

• City Arts & Lectures presents Jhumpa Lahiri at the Sydney Goldstein Theater (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎭 📚

Oct 14 (Sat)

• Dry Garden Plants Sale at the San Francisco Botanical Garden (Golden Gate Park), 10a-4p (also on Sunday) 🆓 🌳

• City Arts & Lectures presents Maria Bamford in conversation with Anna Sale at the Sydney Goldstein Theater (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎭 📚

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

Oct 18 (Wed)

• Cold Cave plays the Great American Music Hall (Tenderloin), 8p 🎼

Oct 19 (Thurs)

• Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Beethoven’s 9th at the SF Symphony (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎼

• Jonathan Bree with Marion Raw at the New Parish (Uptown, Oakland), 7:30p doors, 8:30p show 🎼

Oct 21 (Sat)

• City Arts & Lectures and the Telluride Film Festival present Werner Herzog in conversation with Caterina Fake at the Sydney Goldstein Theater (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎭

• Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Beethoven’s 9th at the SF Symphony (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎼

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

Oct 22 (Sun)

• Fall Open House at the Headlands Center for the Arts (Marin/Sausalito, near Rodeo Beach), 12-5p 🆓 🎨 🌳

• Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Beethoven’s 9th at the SF Symphony (Civic Center), 2p 🎼

Oct 23 (Mon)

• Sound Bath at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 7-8:30p 🎼

Oct 26 (Thurs)

• The Racket Presents: Underworld with Matt Carney at The Sycamore (Mission), 7p 🆓 📚

• Daniel Harding conducts The Planets at the SF Symphony (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎼

Oct 27 (Fri)

• Daniel Harding conducts The Planets at the SF Symphony (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎼

Oct 28 (Sat)

• Trick or Treat Market at The Park Market at Crane Cove (Dogpatch), 11a-5p 🆓

• Lenworth McIntosh show opens at Pt. 2 Gallery (Downtown Oakland), 6-8p 🆓 🎨

• Daniel Harding conducts The Planets at the SF Symphony (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎼

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

Nov 2 (Thurs)

• First Thursdays Art Walk at various locations (Tenderloin), 6-10p 🆓 🎨🦩

• City Arts & Lectures presents Roz Chast at the Sydney Goldstein Theater (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎭 📚

Nov 3 (Fri)

• Oakland First Fridays at various locations 🆓 🎨🦩

Nov 4 (Sat)

• City Arts & Lectures presents Thurston Moore on Sonic Life at the Sydney Goldstein Theater (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎭 📚

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

Nov 5 (Sun)

• Yerba Buena Art & Makers Market at Yerba Buena Gardens (SOMA), 11-4p 🆓 🌳 🎨 🎼

Nov 6 (Mon)

• Candlelight Labyrinth Walk at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 6-8p 🎼

Nov 9 (Thurs)

• City Arts & Lectures presents Viet Thanh Nguyen at the Sydney Goldstein Theater (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎭 📚

Nov 10 (Fri)

• City Arts & Lectures presents Tracy K. Smith at the Sydney Goldstein Theater (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎭 📚

Nov 11 (Sat)

• Ferns Plant Sale at the San Francisco Botanical Garden (Golden Gate Park), 10a-4p (also on Sunday) 🆓 🌳

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

Nov 13 (Mon)

• City Arts & Lectures presents Michael Lewis on Going Infinite at the Sydney Goldstein Theater (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎭📚

Nov 14 (Tues)

• The Long Now Talks presents Jared Farmer on Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees at The Interval (Fort Mason), 7p 🎭 📚

• Ditto group show opens at Wave Collective (Lower Haight), details coming soon 🎨

Nov 18 (Sat)

• City Arts & Lectures presents David Brooks at the Sydney Goldstein Theater (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎭 📚

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

Nov 19 (Sun)

• Holiday Mercantile at The Park Market at Crane Cove (Dogpatch), 11a-5p 🆓

Nov 20 (Mon)

• Sound Bath at Grace Cathedral (Cathedral Hill), 7-8:30p 🎼

Nov 30 (Thurs)

• A John Waters Christmas: Let’s Blow It Up at the Great American Music Hall (Tenderloin), 7p doors, 8p show 🎭

• The Racket Presents: TBD with Lauren Parker at The Sycamore (Mission), 7p 🆓 📚

Dec 1 (Fri)

• Oakland First Fridays at various locations 🆓 🎨🦩

Dec 2 (Sat)

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

Dec 3 (Sun)

• Yerba Buena Art & Makers Market at Yerba Buena Gardens (SOMA), 11-4p 🆓 🌳 🎨 🎼

Dec 7 (Thurs)

• First Thursdays Art Walk at various locations (Tenderloin), 6-10p 🆓 🎨🦩

Dec 8 (Fri)

• RAW Dance: Loving Still / 836M Residency Performances (night 1) at 836M Gallery (North Beach) timing TBD 🎨 🎭

Dec 9 (Sat)

• End of Season Plant Sale at the San Francisco Botanical Garden (Golden Gate Park), 10a-4p (also on Sunday) 🆓 🌳

• Devendra Banhart at the Fillmore (Fillmore District), 7p doors 8p show 🎼

• RAW Dance: Loving Still / 836M Residency Performances (night 2) at 836M Gallery (North Beach) timing TBD 🎨 🎭

• Jazz Club live music at Bird and Beckett (Glen Park), 7:30-9:30p 🎼

Dec 10 (Sun)

• RAW Dance: Loving Still / 836M Residency Performances (night 3) at 836M Gallery (North Beach) timing TBD 🎨 🎭

Dec 14 (Thurs)

• The Racket Presents: TBD with Michael Foulk at The Sycamore (Mission), 7p 🆓 📚

Dec 19 (Tues)

• City Arts & Lectures presents Melissa Broder at the Sydney Goldstein Theater (Civic Center), 7:30p 🎭 📚