List of San Francisco Bay Area festivals and fairs
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This is an alphabetical list of festival
s and fairs in the San Francisco Bay Area
Festival
A festival or gala is an event, usually and ordinarily staged by a local community, which centers on and celebrates some unique aspect of that community and the Festival....
s and fairs in the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...
- Bay Area African Dance and Drum Festival
- Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair
- Bay Area Black Comedy Festival
- Bay Area Environmental Education Fair
- Bay Area Fungus Fair
- Bay Area Hawaiian Film Festival
- Bay Area Indie Music FestivalBay Area Indie Music FestivalThe Bay Area Indie Music Festival is an American Music Festival produced by 3 Udders Productions that happens every year in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 2007, it was first held in Martinez, California at Waterfront Park. Relatively small in size it has moved to AT&T Park .-History:The...
— Martinez, CaliforniaMartinez, CaliforniaMartinez is a city and the county seat of Contra Costa County, California, United States. The population was 35,824 at the 2010 census. The downtown is notable for its large number of preserved old buildings... - Bay Area International Children's Film Festival — East BayEast Bay-Places:In Canada:*East Bay, Nova Scotia, a small town in Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia*East Bay , the east arm of the Bras d'Or Lake located in Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia on Cape Breton IslandIn the United States:...
- Bay Area Maker FaireMaker FaireMaker Faire is an event created by Make magazine to "celebrate arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself mindset".-Past events:The first was held April 22 – 23, 2006, at the San Mateo Fairgrounds...
- Bay Area Pet Fair
- Bay Area Playwrights Festival
- Bay Area Rock FestBay Area Rock FestBay Area Rock Fest is an annual progressive rock and metal festival that was held for the first time in 2007 at The Independent in San Francisco, California.The 2009 edition was cancelled.-2007:...
- Bay Area Science & Engineering Fair
- Bay Area Storytelling Festival — El Sobrante, CaliforniaEl Sobrante, CaliforniaEl Sobrante is a census-designated place in Contra Costa County, California, United States. The population was 12,669 at the 2010 census...
- Bay Area Tap Festival
- Bay One-Acts Festival — "BOA"
- Bay to BreakersBay to BreakersThe Bay to Breakers is an annual footrace which takes place in San Francisco, California on the third Sunday of May. The name reflects the fact that the race starts at the northeast end of the downtown area a few blocks from The Embarcadero and runs west through the city to finish at the Great...
- Berkeley Juggling & Unicycling FestivalBerkeley Juggling & Unicycling FestivalThe Berkeley Juggling & Unicycling Festival is an annual event in Berkeley, California, in July or August, held by the Berkeley Juggling Club. It features workshops, casual instruction, and mini-competitions in various types of circus arts, including unicycling, hat-tossing, whip cracking, tumbling...
- Berkeley Jazz Festival
- Berlin & Beyond Film FestivalBerlin & Beyond Film FestivalBerlin & Beyond is an annual film festival based in San Francisco, California featuring new cinema from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.Founded in 1996, the festival is a program of San Francisco's branch of the Goethe-Institut and has become one of the largest and most significant...
- Brentwood Family Fun Day (http://brentwooddun.com)
- Carnaval San FranciscoCarnaval San FranciscoCarnaval San Francisco is an annual street parade and festival in San Francisco, California on the last weekend in May.The San Francisco Bay Area Carnaval season begins in February as the great Western hemisphere Carnaval celebrations are concluding...
- Castro Street FairCastro Street FairThe Castro Street Fair is a San Francisco LGBT street festival and fair usually held on the first Sunday in October in the Castro neighborhood, the main gay neighborhood and social center in the city. The fair features multiples stages with live entertainment, DJs, food vendors, community-group...
- Castro Valley Fall Festival
- Celebrate Mama, Walnut Creek (http://celebratemamawc.com)
- Cinequest Film FestivalCinequest Film FestivalThe Cinequest Film Festival is an annual independent film festival held in San Jose, California. The festival highlights the work of new film makers....
— San Jose, CaliforniaSan Jose, CaliforniaSan Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay... - Cole Valley Street Fair
- Concord Super Holiday Boutique (http://concordholidayexpo.com)
- Cotati Accordion Festival — Cotati, CaliforniaCotati, CaliforniaCotati is an incorporated city in Sonoma County, California, U.S.A., located about north of San Francisco in the 101 corridor between Rohnert Park and Petaluma....
- Cotati Jazz, Blues & Arts Festival — Cotati, CaliforniaCotati, CaliforniaCotati is an incorporated city in Sonoma County, California, U.S.A., located about north of San Francisco in the 101 corridor between Rohnert Park and Petaluma....
- Dublin St. Patrick's Day Festival — Dublin, CaliforniaDublin, CaliforniaDublin is a suburban city of the East Bay region of Alameda County, California, United States. Located along the north side of Interstate 580 at the intersection with Interstate 680, roughly east of Hayward, west of Livermore and north of San Jose, it was named after the city of Dublin in...
- Fillmore Street Jazz Festival
- Folsom Street FairFolsom Street FairThe Folsom Street Fair is an annual BDSM and leather subculture street fair held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's "Leather Pride Week"...
- Fremont Festival of the Arts — Fremont, CaliforniaFremont, CaliforniaFremont is a city in Alameda County, California. It was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communities: Centerville, Niles, Irvington, Mission San Jose, and Warm Springs...
- Gay Pride Parade and FestivalSan Francisco PrideThe San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Celebration, usually known as San Francisco Pride, is a parade and festival held in June each year in San Francisco to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their allies...
- Ghirardelli SquareGhirardelli SquareGhirardelli Square is a landmark with shops and restaurants in the Fisherman's Wharf area of San Francisco, California, USA. A portion of the area is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Pioneer Woolen Mills and D. Ghirardelli Company....
Chocolate Festival - Gilroy Garlic FestivalGilroy Garlic FestivalThe Gilroy Garlic Festival is one of the largest food festivals in the United States, held annually in Gilroy, California on the last full weekend in July at Christmas Hill Park. The 2010 Garlic Festival was held from July 24-26, 2010.-Past festivals:...
— Gilroy, CaliforniaGilroy, CaliforniaGilroy is the southernmost city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The population was 48,821 at the 2010 census. Gilroy is well-known for its garlic crop and for the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival, featuring various garlicky foods, including garlic ice cream. Gilroy also produces... - Glen Park Festival
- Green FestivalGreen FestivalsThe Green Festivals are festivals that happen annually in four cities to promote environmentally friendly ideas and products. There are featured speakers as well. Past speakers include: Medea Benjamin, Alice Walker, Amy Goodman, Ralph Nader, Dr...
- Healthy Living Festival
- Haight-Ashbury Street Fair
- Hardly Strictly BluegrassHardly Strictly BluegrassHardly Strictly Bluegrass, or HSB for short is an annual free music festival held the first weekend of October in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. From its outset, the festival has been subsidized by San Francisco venture capitalist Warren Hellman. The first festival was held in 2001, originally...
- Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella FestivalHarmony Sweepstakes A Cappella FestivalThe Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival is an annual showcase and competition for a cappella groups of all vocal styles. The competition is organized into eight regional events across the United States, with each winning group advancing to the National Finals in San Rafael, California.-Festival...
- Hayward Zucchini Festival
- How Weird Street FaireHow Weird Street FaireThe How Weird Street Faire is an outdoor street fair held every May in San Francisco. Held on several blocks of Howard Street and the surrounding area, in the SoMa neighborhood...
- Inner Sunset Street Fair
- International Latino Film Festival San Francisco Bay Area
- KFOG KaBoomKFOG KaBoomKFOG KaBoom is an annual outdoor concert established in 1994 held by KFOG in San Francisco during May. It is followed by a fireworks show synchronized to a soundtrack broadcasted by the station. The extravagant fireworks display draws over 350,000 people...
- King of the County BBQ Challenge & Music Festival — Martinez, CaliforniaMartinez, CaliforniaMartinez is a city and the county seat of Contra Costa County, California, United States. The population was 35,824 at the 2010 census. The downtown is notable for its large number of preserved old buildings...
http://www.CountyBBQ.com - LastSundaysFest — Berkeley, CA http://www.LastSundaysFest.com
- LitquakeLitquakeLitquake is San Francisco's annual literary festival. Originally starting out as Litstock for a single day on July 16, 1999, it ran for two years under the same name before going dark in 2001 after 9/11...
- LOVEFEST
- Loveparade
- MadCat Film Festival
- Metro Fountain Blues Festival — San Jose
- Mission Creek Music and Arts FestivalMission Creek Music and Arts FestivalMission Creek Music & Arts Festival is a week long volunteer-driven music festival in the San Francisco Bay Area. It features local, experimental and contemporary artists who have made an impact on the scene....
- Mushroom Mardi Gras — Morgan HillMorgan Hill, CaliforniaMorgan Hill is a city located in the southern part of Santa Clara County, California, United States. Founded on November 10, 1906, the city was named after Hiram Morgan Hill, a San Franciscan who built a country retreat home there in 1884...
- New Italian Cinema
- North Beach Festival
- North Beach Jazz Fest
- Oktoberfest by the Bay
- Opera in the ParkOpera in the ParkOpera in the Park is an annual large-scale open-air concert in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is held in the grounds of the Jacobean mansion Temple Newsam, and is followed the next day by Party in the Park, a pop concert, thus making double use of the work and expense involved in setting up...
hosted by San Francisco OperaSan Francisco OperaSan Francisco Opera is an American opera company, based in San Francisco, California.It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola and is the second largest opera company in North America... - Other MindsOther MindsOther Minds is a San Francisco based private 501 not-for-profit organization, founded in 1992 by Charles Amirkhanian and Jim Newman...
Music Festival sponsored by Other MindsOther MindsOther Minds is a San Francisco based private 501 not-for-profit organization, founded in 1992 by Charles Amirkhanian and Jim Newman... - Outside Lands Music Festival
- Palo Alto International Film Festival
- PeaceOUT World Homo Hop FestivalPeaceOUT World Homo Hop FestivalThe PeaceOUT Homo Hop Festival, was an annual festival of hip hop music and culture created by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people and held in Oakland, California from 2001 to 2007.-History:...
— Oakland, CaliforniaOakland, CaliforniaOakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724... - Power to the Peaceful in Golden Gate Park
- The Renegade Craft FairThe Renegade Craft FairThe Renegade Craft Fair is a free-to-attend event showcasing the handmade work and wares of independent craftspeople, artists, and designers. Vendors appearing in the fair come from an ‘indie-craft’ background or Do It Yourself culture. The Renegade Craft Fair was founded in 2003, and held its...
in San Francisco - SF SketchfestSF SketchfestSF Sketchfest, or The San Francisco Sketch Comedy Festival, is a comedy festival founded in 2002 by Bay Area actor-comedians David Owen, Janet Varney and Cole Stratton...
— San Francisco Comedy Sketch Festival - Salsa Festival in Redwood City
- San Carlos Art & Wine Faire
- San Carlos Hometown Days
- San Francisco Balboa Festival
- San Francisco Bay Area International Flamenco Festival
- San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival
- San Francisco Black Film Festival
- San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival
- San Francisco Blues FestivalSan Francisco Blues FestivalDebuting in 1973, the San Francisco Blues Festival is the longest running blues festival in the United States. Tom Mazzolini, the event's producer, founded the blues festival to educate the public about the history and evolution of the blues...
- San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and ParadeSan Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and ParadeThe San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade is an annual event held in San Francisco. Held approximately two weeks following the first day of the Chinese New Year, it combines elements of the Chinese Lantern Festival with a typical American parade...
- San Francisco Earth Day Festival
- San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
- San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival
- San Francisco Festival of the Mandolins
- San Francisco Free Folk Festival
- San Francisco Fringe Festival
- San Francisco Frozen Film Festival
- San Francisco Green Film FestivalSan Francisco Green Film FestivalSan Francisco Green Film Festival is a film festival which was held 3-6 March 2011 at the Embarcadero Center Cinema in San Francisco.The festival featured the Brazilian documentary film Hauling directed by Sean Walsh, and the film Happy People: A Year in the Taiga by Werner Herzog...
- San Francisco Harvest Festival
- San Francisco Improv Festival hosted by The San Francisco Improv AllianceThe San Francisco Improv Alliance- History :Started in 2005 by Shaun Landry, artistic director of Oui Be Negroes, The San Francisco Improv Alliance is a group of actors dedicated to Improvisational Theater...
- San Francisco Independent Film Festival
- San Francisco International Animation Showcase
- San Francisco International Arts Festival
- San Francisco International Asian American Film FestivalSan Francisco International Asian American Film FestivalThe San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival presented every March is the nation’s largest showcase for new Asian American and Asian films, annually presenting approximately 130 works in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose, USA...
- San Francisco International Beer Festival
- San Francisco International Children's Film Festival
- San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival
- San Francisco International Film FestivalSan Francisco International Film FestivalSan Francisco International Film Festival is the oldest continuously running film festival in the Americas. Organized by the San Francisco Film Society, the International is held each spring for two weeks, presenting an average of 150 films from over 50 countries...
- San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
- San Francisco International Poetry Festival
- San Francisco Jazz FestivalSan Francisco Jazz FestivalDebuting in 1983, the San Francisco Jazz Festival is an annual three-week celebration of today's best music, with over 30 concerts. Produced by SFJAZZ, a non-profit organization dedicated to jazz and jazz education...
- San Francisco Jewish Film FestivalSan Francisco Jewish Film FestivalSan Francisco Jewish Film Festival is the oldest and largest Jewish film festival in the world. The three-week summer festival is held in San Francisco, California, usually at the Castro Theater in San Francisco and other cinemas in San Francisco, Berkeley, San Rafael, and Palo Alto, and features...
- San Francisco MarathonSan Francisco MarathonThe San Francisco Marathon is a series of USATF certified road running events held each July or August in San Francisco, California that include a full marathon, two half marathons, and a 5K. Except for in 1988, the marathon has been held annually since 1977. The current marathon course forms a...
- San Francisco Ocean Film FestivalSan Francisco Ocean Film FestivalThe San Francisco Ocean Film Festival is a San Francisco film festival that features films about marine life, the ocean, costal cultures, and conservation...
- San Francisco Shakespeare Festival
- San Francisco Silent Film FestivalSan Francisco Silent Film FestivalThe San Francisco Silent Film Festival is a film festival first held in 1996 and presented annually every July at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, California, USA...
- San Francisco Song Festival
- San Francisco Theater Festival
- San Francisco Waterfront Festival
- San Jose Blues Week
- San Jose Jazz FestivalSan Jose Jazz FestivalThe San José Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival organized by the San Jose Jazz Society and held in downtown San Jose, California, USA. The festival was established in 1990, and is mainly outdoors....
- San Jose Mariachi & Mexican Heritage Festival
- San Lorenzo Fourth of July Celebration
- Slow Food NationSlow Food NationSlow Food Nation was an event organized by Slow Food USA, which celebrates slow and sustainable foods. One of the largest food events in U.S. history, Slow Food Nation attracted an estimated audience of more than 50,000 people...
- Solano Stroll
- Sonoma Mountain Art and Wine Festival (link)
- Soundwave Festival (San Francisco)Soundwave Festival (San Francisco)Soundwave Festival is a sound, art, and music festival that happens every two years for two months in San Francisco.-Overview:Soundwave is produced by ME'DI.ATE Art Group...
- Stanford Jazz WorkshopStanford Jazz WorkshopStanford Jazz Workshop was founded in 1972 by saxophonist and educator Jim Nadel to create an environment conducive to learning, experiencing and appreciating jazz...
- Stern Grove FestivalStern Grove FestivalEstablished in 1938, the Stern Grove Festival is an admission-free series of performing arts events held during the summer months at the Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove, a eucalyptus-wooded natural amphitheater on a site at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard, about two miles south of Golden Gate Park...
- Tapestry Arts
- Temescal Street Fair
- Treasure Island Music Festival
- Tiburon International Film Festival
- Union Street Festival
- WonderfestWonderfestWonderfest is a nonprofit California corporation dedicated to informal science education. Wonderfest seeks to inspire and nurture a deep sense of wonder about the world. Through provocative public discourse about science, Wonderfest aspires to stimulate curiosity, promote careful reasoning,...
— San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science - Youth in Arts Italian Street Painting Festival