San Francisco - Arts & Culture

The Falun Gong dance and propaganda spectacle returns for one-week engagement in early 2022, so you might see a billboard or two.

The drummer for the Roots will be in the house for his hit concert documentary “Summer of Soul” as SFFILM resumes in-person screenings for its films.

'Dear San Francisco: A High-Flying Love Story,' opened Tuesday night at Club Fugazi (678 Green Street), marking a new life for the venue that for 45 years was home to 'Beach Blanket Babylon.' 

Flyaway Productions will perform a free aerial dance performance on the outside of buildings in the heart of the Tenderloin this weekend, in an effort to spotlight the impacts of mass incarceration.

Artist Charles Gadeken’s fake trees with real pretty lights will be back in Peacock Meadow in December, and will remain glowing through January 2022.

Five months out may seem a little early to declare a major event in these unpredictable times, but the SF Lunar New Year Parade will start selling its coveted bleacher seats for the 2022 event in just over a month from now.

A celebration of the life of San Francisco’s fourth poet laureate will wind through North Beach on Saturday, hitting several of his favorite haunts.

The popular al fresco piano concert series returns as a shorter five-day affair, but still with many key figures from the local jazz, classical, and pop music scenes.

San Francisco artist Optimist Williams says he grew up decorating his Trapper Keepers with paper Muni transfers, and using the now defunct tickets to record little memories, like scraps in a diary.

The San Francisco Lowrider Council celebrates its 40th anniversary with a three-week art show at the Mission Cultural Center, and a Mission Street lowrider rally scheduled for Saturday, September 18.

After a 19-month hiatus, the non-profit venture UNDSCVRD SF will host its first in-person event on October 16, which will feature a culture crawl through the SoMa Pilipinas Culture District.

The Sunset Mercantile and its community partners will host the first in a new series of monthly live music events on Saturday, August 28, outdoors at 37th Avenue and Pacheco Street.

The free, one-day Mission District music and food bash is back, but with a Stern Grove-style reservation system that behooves you to reserve a spot fast.

Roughly $180,000 in saved Cliff House memorabilia is coming home, as auctioned historical items will return in a pop-up museum at the former Cliff House gift shop.

The Tenderloin and Lower Polk First Thursday Art Walk returns this week for the first time since March 2020, featuring local art at small businesses throughout the neighborhood.

Art House SF gallery is now open at 2324 Market St., in the space formerly occupied by Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices.

Anne Hathaway’s silver screen debut premiered 20 years ago today, and these San Francisco film locations made sure nothing came down on the princess’ crown.

The Landmark Clay Theatre took a big step toward historical landmark status on Monday, but oddly, the owner does not want the theater saved or given historical designation.

Assemblyperson Phil Ting found nearly $30 million in state funding to build and open a new “once-in-a-generation project” called Edge of the Square, dedicated to arts and media highlighting the AAPI community.

Club Fugazi’s upcoming show ‘Dear San Francisco: A High-Flying Love Story’ has big shoes (and hats) to fill, but this highly anticipated “acrobatic love letter” to the city now has tickets on sale and an opening date.

Open bar has been a long-forgotten indulgence amidst the pandemic, but leave it to the Sisters to bring it back for their Pride prom.

The ladies will be scantily clad, but men must adhere to a highly non-sexual dress code, when the old Slim’s reopens as YOLO Nightclub next Friday, June 18.

Artist Rik Lee Leipold is celebrating their first museum show, and will host an artist talk and live resin casting of a pothole outside of the Tenderloin Museum on Saturday, June 12, 2021.

On Tuesday the Gilbert Baker Foundation in partnership with the GLBT Historical Society unveiled a new Pride Flag pop-up art exhibit "In Their Own Eyes" at Harvey Milk's former camera shop at 575 Castro Street.

The Exploratorium won’t be reopen in time for Pride, but they are throwing three Pride events in their weekly Thursday night After Dark series.