Curated Events.
Enjoy the City like you live here.
Yes, the Golden Gate Bridge is spectacular, and you should experience it!
But we also recommend spending a little time between the landmarks, too, where the locals make San Francisco the trend-setting, sophisticated, utterly quirky and wonderful place that it is famous for.
With so much to do, you’ll never experience the same San Francisco twice!
The Low Season
This time between the new year and spring brings you a less crowded San Francisco. It’s great time to go to Alcatraz or Muir Woods (as long as you wear those layers everyone tells you about!)
Check schedules for major sports and events, like the Warriors
About this calendar:
Typically, shows and events are listed once, but may be long running. Scroll through the whole month and check dates!
Renegade Craft Fair
Shop from over 250 artists at Renegade San Francisco ~ featuring the best craft designers, artists, and creatives from SF and beyond!
Bayside in Fort Mason
Saturday and Sunday, March 29 & 30
The Warriors Celebrate Filipino Heritage
It’s Filipino Heritage Night in the Golden State!
SIX: The Musical
SIX is the winner of 23 awards, including the 2022 Tony Award® for Best Original Score (Music and Lyrics) and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical.
April 8 - 20 Some matinees
International Ocean Film Festival
The 22nd Annual IOFF receives submissions representing more than 38 countries. See the amazing skills and talent, the depths of compassionate storytelling, and the thoughtful consideration of subject matter expressed by filmmakers from around the world. Experience the beauty of the ocean through their lens and your stories. April 11-13
Unity through Skateboarding
Meet the pioneers who broke barriers, from the first women and queer skaters to go pro, to the underground movements that encouraged inclusivity and change in skateboarding.
Through May 4 - Open late on Thursday nights!
Dear San Francisco
Powered by mind-blowing circus acts, live original music, and more, the historic Club Fugazi—former home of Beach Blanket Babylon—is delighting audiences ages 5 to 105. Come with a date, family, friends, co-workers, and enjoy a curated menu of cicchetti (small bites) and beverages to imbibe during this new resident production, right in the heart of North Beach. Perfect for your next big night out!
Long running; Shows Wednesday - Sunday
Three Days of Bottlerock
Three days of rock n roll in the beautiful Wine country featuring like 27 bands a day— Green Day, Sublime, Justin Timberlake, Benson Boone, E40 — too many to mention here.
Buy your tickets soon — they are already selling out!
May 3 - 5
Unity through Skateboarding
Meet the pioneers who broke barriers, from the first women and queer skaters to go pro, to the underground movements that encouraged inclusivity and change in skateboarding.
Through May 4 - Open late on Thursday nights!
Mill Valley Music Festival
Enjoy Mill Valley’s Annual Music Festival at Friends Field In Mill Valley, CA. May 10 & 11
Bay to Breakers!
t’s a race made for everyone, so dress up, bring your friends, and be cheered on every step of the way by SF’s finest crowds. Pushing boundaries and breaking records since 1912 — it’s your turn to join the party.
Juliet: The Musical
Schitt’s Creek meets Romeo and Juliet in this hilarious musical.
Runs July 1 - 27; 7:30 shows, with some matinees
Kim Deal at the Fillmore
Kim Deal of Breeders and Pixies fame — finally releasing an album of her own. At the Fillmore.
Christian McBride's Ursa Major
Christian McBride, Jazz Bassist, in the flesh at SFJazz.
March 22 and March 23
Warriors Celebrate Latino Heritage
Celebrate Latino Heritage with the Golden State Warriors!
Unity through Skateboarding
Meet the pioneers who broke barriers, from the first women and queer skaters to go pro, to the underground movements that encouraged inclusivity and change in skateboarding.
Through May 4 - Open late on Thursday nights!
Amy Sherald American Sublime
“The artist known for her portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor is showing how much else she can do.”
— The New York Times
Open through March 9
Exploratorium: Kidless!
Meet up at Pier 15. No kids allowed—but you can still act like one. Unplug and play with 650+ interactive exhibits exploring science, art, and perception. Get inquisitive and grab a drink. With 75,000 square feet of conversation starters, you'll never run out of things to talk about.
Different theme every Thursday night!
Dear San Francisco
Powered by mind-blowing circus acts, live original music, and more, the historic Club Fugazi—former home of Beach Blanket Babylon—is delighting audiences ages 5 to 105. Come with a date, family, friends, co-workers, and enjoy a curated menu of cicchetti (small bites) and beverages to imbibe during this new resident production, right in the heart of North Beach. Perfect for your next big night out!
Long running; Shows Wednesday - Sunday
August Lee Stevens
August Lee Stevens — a Rising Star and Local Noise Pop Favorite.
Two shows Saturday, March 1.
High Standards
A Jazz-Funk Firestorm
Through a confluence of fortuitous circumstances and fate itself, Oakland natives Ryan Schaeffer, Isaac Schwartz and Ian McArdle banded together, combining their musical wizardry and devilish good looks, to form High Standards. Their unique sound – a nonstop jazz-driven, funk-fueled party, tinged with R&B, and mixed with notes of Hip-Hop, Blues and Pop – is a clear reflection of their diverse influences, which include but are not limited to taco trucks, Soul Live, and baseball, as well as the rich culture of the area in which they were raised.
High Standards draws from a constellation of different songs and genres, seamlessly blending the new with the old, the classics with the club bangers. They play, for example, the rich, timeless sounds of an old jazz standard, only to be followed by something fun with the Jell-O-booty-jiggling vibes of a modern hit from someone like Nelly or Outkast. This wild, unorthodox, and ostensibly reckless combination of genres is what makes High Standards so fresh, devastating, like a flamingo savagely consumed by lava from an exploding volcano.
Stookeys Blue Room is a super intimate art deco lounge, and you’ll need reservations in advance.
Get tickets on Stookeys site.
Unity through Skateboarding
Meet the pioneers who broke barriers, from the first women and queer skaters to go pro, to the underground movements that encouraged inclusivity and change in skateboarding.
Through May 4 - Open late on Thursday nights!
Brewer's Dinner
Come join us for a night of delicious food and craft beer at our Brewer's Dinner event! This in-person gathering will feature a curated menu paired with a selection of our finest brews. Indulge in a unique dining experience while learning about the art of brewing from our expert team. Don't miss out on this opportunity to savor great food, great beer, and great company!
Amy Sherald American Sublime
“The artist known for her portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor is showing how much else she can do.”
— The New York Times
Open through March 9
Candlelight Tour of Fort Point
This evening tour will maze through the shadows of the historic structure by candlelight and visitors will see the glimmering lights of the Golden Gate Bridge towering up above them. Saturday nights through February
SF Beer Week Kick-off
Hosted by the Bay Area Brewers Guild with our friends at Barebottle Brewing Co., the first-ever SF Beer Week Fest is here! In the spirit of the epic Galas and Kick Offs preceding it, SFBW Fest is the place to be for sampling the many collaborations and special releases SF Beer Week has to offer, all while supporting the local craft brewing community!
Noise Pop & Nightlife at the Academy of Science
Creatures + cocktails. Music + movements. Science + spectacle. Culture grows in the dark—Thursday nights at the CA Academy of Sciences. And this Thursday is part of the NoisePop music festival with DJ DāM-FunK.
Every Thursday
Sports at the MOMA?
GET IN THE GAME before it closes! This is the intersection between art and sports — a great way to get everyone in your family to the MOMA!
Open Friday-Tuesday from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. and Thursday from 12-8 p.m. Closed Wednesdays. Exhibit closes February 18.
Magnolias In Boom
The SF Botanical Garden is abloom with the luscious magnolia blooms. Non-residents can visit free between 7:30 and 9 am each day or the 2nd Tuesday of the month.
Chinese New Year Street Fair
Lunar New Year Community Festival
Immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of San Francisco’s exhilarating Chinatown during one of the community’s most exciting times of the year. You will find over 120 booths and concessions making this a shopper’s paradise. The SF Chinese Chamber of Commerce has activities and entertainment for all ages. Enjoy Chinese folk dancing, opera, drumming and much more at the entertainment stage on Pacific St. below Grant Ave. Make sure to get a family photo with the giant puppets, dragon and other memorable artifacts from the Parade!
For more information, visit the Chinese New Year site.
Lunar New Year Parade
Named one of the top ten Parades in the world by International Festivals & Events Association, the Alaska Airlines Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco is one of the few remaining night illuminated Parades in North America and the biggest parade celebrating the Lunar New Year outside of Asia.
A New Orleans Valentines
Preservation Hall Jazz Band with special guest Mino Cinelu
Mardi Gras Party & Celebration of the City of New Orleans plus pre-concert Food, Cocktails & Festivities with Jazz Mafia
February 14 and two shows February 15
Dear San Francisco
Powered by mind-blowing circus acts, live original music, and more, the historic Club Fugazi—former home of Beach Blanket Babylon—is delighting audiences ages 5 to 105. Come with a date, family, friends, co-workers, and enjoy a curated menu of cicchetti (small bites) and beverages to imbibe during this new resident production, right in the heart of North Beach. Perfect for your next big night out!
Special Valentine’s “Bubbles & Cake” package Feb 12 - 16
Presents for your Lovey
San Francisco is a shopper’s mecca for both major names and independent designers and boutique experiences. Available any time, but especially spicy during Valentine’s Day.
Twyla Tharp Dance - Diamond Jubilee
Featuring Third Coast Percussion and Vladimir Rumyantsev, piano
February 7 & 8 at 8pm; February 9 at 3
Lunar New Year at the SF Symphony
Lunar New Year Banquet, celebrating the year of the Serpent!
Music of Duke Ellington
Pianist Jason Moran is joined by the New Orchestra of Bay Area jazz great Marcus Shelby & rising vocal star Darynn Dean for concerts dedicated to the big band compositions of the iconic Duke Ellington.
Four shows Feb 6 - Feb 9
Wondrous Fungus
Explore the fungi kingdom and get to know mushrooms, yeasts, and other incredible organisms at the Exploratorium - After Hours. 18+
New themes every Thursday night
Warriors Celebrate Black History Month
Celebrate Black History Month with the Warriors vs. Orlando Magic.
The Queen's Cartoonists
Music from Animation’s Golden Age - at our City’s world-class venue: SFJazz.
Feb 1 and Feb 2
Hello Kitty Bobblehead Night
The first 10,000 fans in the building get an exclusive Golden State Warriors Bobblehead!
Sports at the MOMA?
GET IN THE GAME before it closes! This is the intersection between art and sports — a great way to get everyone in your family to the MOMA!
Open Friday-Tuesday from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. and Thursday from 12-8 p.m. Closed Wednesdays. Exhibit closes February 18.