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Berkeley Festival and Exhibition of Early Music
No matter what type of music you love, there is a good chance that a music festival exists devoted solely to its celebration. From Pitchfork to Electric Forest to everything in between, almost every nook and cranny in the country seems to lay claim to its own massive gathering of musicians and fans.
Celebrate Filipino Culture at KalayaanSF 2018
San Francisco’s historic Union Square is the location of many of the city’s eclectic and unpredictable events. This summer will see no shift in that paradigm as numerous festivals, bazaars, and markets will take over this impressive space, each promising to share a unique vision to those who visit during their specific event. One of the most exciting upcoming offerings at Union Square is KalayaanSF.
EXIT Theatre’s Talk Story Festival 2018
For lovers of live theater, San Francisco is one of the best places on earth to land. Especially if you are interested in the unique, the otherworldly, the genre-busting, the weird, and the unexpected, San Francisco’s abundance of theater troupes and stages makes it a veritable mecca of memorable theater. One of the most well known theaters in the entire city is EXIT Theatre, and this June will see EXIT Theatre transform itself into a sort of cabaret of storytelling.
CROSSROADS 2018
It is a well known fact that artistic trends most often begin along the fringes of artist activity. Remember when punk music was only for dirty people with shaved heads? And now, if you aren’t well versed in Blondie’s catalogue, you are something of a square. It is a fact universally acknowledged that a hip trend of today most often finds its antecedents in the underground trend of yesteryear. That being said, the avant-garde can still be an off-putting experience. What better way to overcome one’s aversion to the current cutting edge than by diving into an entire film festival devoted to it?
34th Annual Fillmore Jazz Festival 2018
Jazz and it’s cousin, hip-hop are two of the only genres of music that can be said to be primarily American. With its pastiche of musical styles, its roots in African-American history, and its comfort in both carnage hall and the bar down the street, jazz exists as a mirror to our own country’s mashup of identity. Partially for this reason, because it so closely resembles us and the ways our differing identities mix and match, jazz acts as a tie that can help bind even the most disparate seeming elements of our society together.
Juneteenth Parade and Festival
On June 19th, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger led the Union army into Galveston Texas. He carried with him the news that the Civil War was over, that the North had won, and that all of the slaves still being held were now completely free. In honor of this landmark event, Dr. Wesley Johnson Sr. held, in 1950, a celebration in San Francisco at the Texas Playhouse, located on Fillmore Street.
Trio of Fantastic Summer Events 2018
On our little blog we like to take time to highlight all of best things happening around the Bay Area so that you, dear traveler, can make sure to experience the best that this beautiful and vibrant area offers. But there are problems. As we move closer and closer to summer, the number of “must-see” events like festivals, concerts, marathons, art fairs, film festivals, and parades becomes staggeringly high. It seems that each month there are more and more things to take part in, and not a single one of them is dismissible.
42nd Annual Union Street Music Festival 2018
I can hear you now. “When,” you are asking, in a sincere and slightly pleading voice, “when will the 42nd Annual Union Street Music Festival return to San Francisco so that I can both save money and enjoy some of the best in bluegrass, jazz, and country that the Bay Area has to offer?” This question is one of the hallmarks of Summer, and every year those in the know look for details to start emerging around the Union Street Music Festival so that they can plan accordingly.
San Francisco Documentary Film Festival
Documentary films occupy a unique place in the social/political/artistic landscape of this country. They hold many disparate threads together and become, more often than not, fascinating mixtures of art and activism. An essential component to film history, documentaries also refuse simple categorization.
Comedy Central Presents Clusterfest
For the second year in a row, Comedy Central is partnering with Superfly and Another Planet Entertainment to bring you a one of a kind comedy event. Comedy Central Presents Clusterfest is comedy and music festival that brings some of the biggest and best names of comedy, with musical acts that complement the funny. This festival is a 3 day event that will be held from June 1st through 3rd, at Civic Center Plaza and Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. Tickets are on sale now at clusterfest.com.
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