Everyone knows the Bay Area needs more festivals, right? So check out the Summerland Festival this weekend at the new Mint Plaza in San Francisco — a daylong festival with 70 Bay Area designers, art, live painting, live music, food, and cocktails. DEAL: Summerland Festival is a Free Public Event for all ages. WHEN: Saturday, [...]
Not to be left out, another Bay Area Labor Day festival is the 39th Annual Millbrae Arts and Wine Festival will turn downtown Millbrae into the “Big Easy” with a Mardi Gras-style feast. Food booths, kids playland activities, live music, microbrews, margaritas and, of course, plenty of arts and premium wines. DEAL: Millbrae Arts and [...]
This Golden Gate Park concert/festival, put on annually by Radio Alice 97.3, the widely popular musicians Colbie Caillat, Train, Howie Day, and Dashboard Confessional. Alice’s Now & Zen Fest is also full of good vibes and positive ZENergy, like cool Karmic activities from body art to psychic readings. Or just sit around and do nothing [...]
Oakland’s Rockridge Out & About Street Festival is happening on Sunday, September 27th, on College Avenue in North Oakland’s famed Rockridge neighborhood. The stage is set for musicians, street performers, fashion shows, lifestyle expos, wellness activities, and picnicking. Sponsored by the Rockridge District Association, Rockridge Out & About is billed as a culinary and shopping [...]
The South Bay’s 2009 Santa Clara Art & Wine Festival, in Central Park, will feature the talents of local and regional artists with nearly 175 booths to visit, 25 community groups serving international foods, food vintners pouring fine wines, micro-brewed beer, live entertainment on three stages, and the ever-popular Kids Kingdom. More than 50,000 people [...]
The 14th Annual Lafayette Art & Wine Festival promises two full days of the finest in continuous live music, arts, crafts, premium wines & beer on September 19-20 in downtown Lafayette. The festival features more than 250 arts and crafts booths, a Local Artist Gallery, Mechanics Bank Premium Wine Pavilion, and epicurean delights provided by [...]
Flying a kite at the Family Day Kite Festival (September 19 and 20, 2009) is no simple activity. The event will host thousands of professional and amateur kite fliers, renewable energy advocates and sustainability enthusiasts from all over the world for this American Kitefliers Association (AKA) sanctioned festival that will feature kite-flying, kite-boarding, kite-boating and [...]
If you haven’t been to the Half Moon Bay Citywide Garage Sale, go this year (September 26, 2009) and get some great deals on just about everything you can imagine. More than 100 Coastsiders sell stuff at this 10-year-old event. With that kind of trash treasure as a lure, it’s worth heading over the hill [...]
The Pacifica Fog Fest and Parade is a celebration of sun, sand, and surf that defines life on the coast. The parade theme for 2009 is “Don’t Worry, Be Happy at the Fog Fest.” Dress in costume, carry signs, and supply your own interpretation of the theme. (Request entry forms from parade@pacificcoastfogfest.com.) The Fest was [...]
At the upcoming Burlingame Pet Parade animals in wild and crazy costumes will take to the streets with their owners and parade down Broadway in Burlingame. Three bands will play, along with performing groups and entertainers, and clowns. DEAL: The Burlingame Pet Parade is Free to watch. WHEN: Saturday, 26 September, 2009, 10 am – [...]
The annual Fall Napa Valley Aloha Festivals in September, hosted by The Manaleo Hawaiian Cultural Foundation, will be the Second year in the North Bay, Northern California Bay Area. This free festival will include live entertainment and Hawaiian/Polynesian music, dance, authentic foods arts, crafts, clothing and wares from vendors all over the West Coast. Bring [...]
If you’ve never been to the Fringe Festival in San Francisco, it’s worth going just for the fun alliteration. According to their website: “The unjuried format of the Fringe Festival allows the artists to have total creative freedom when producing their work and provides for a unique theatre going experience. As a result of this [...]
This years “Film in the Fog” event is on Saturday, September 26, 2009, on the lawn of the Main Post Theatre in the Presidio. This free event, presented by The Film Society and the Presidio Trust, will feature Grease (1978) Sing-Along, a classic cartoon and a short film. You’ll also enjoy entertainment from PI: The Physical [...]
Saint Helena’s Twenty-Third Annual Hometown Harvest Festival (October 17, 2009), sponsored by the City of St. Helena Recreation Department, is a great way to celebrate the end of the harvest season in the Napa Valley and experience the beautiful fall foliage. The festival starts with the legendary pet parade through downtown St Helena. The festival [...]
Ghirardelli Chocolate is teaming up with BART to sponsor another Rider Thank You Day on Friday, September 4, 2009. Ghirardelli will pass out 65,000 free individually wrapped chocolate squares along with discount coupons at six BART stations to thank riders for taking BART and to kick off BART’s overnight service from September 4 – 7, [...]
The 2009 Wine Country Cajun Food & Music Festival is a celebration of Bayou life that will feature music by nationally known Zydeco bands, informal New Orleans-style street parades, Zydeco dancing and New Orleans-inspired food and wines. The family-fun event will also include face painting, palm reading, dance lessons and contests, and roving musicians. There [...]
