RSSFestivals | San Francisco Travel Blog - Part 14
Egyptian King Tut Festival
This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (August 26th, 27th, and 28th), the St. Antonius Coptic Church in Hayward will be hosting their extravagant and astonishing Egyptian King Tut Festival. Over the course of the three days, the parish of St. Antonius Coptic Church will take visitors back in time to Ancient Egypt, giving them a chance to enter a reconstructed Egyptian village and watch the inhabitants living their lives, cooking food, playing games, and selling their unique items in a bazaar like no other.
29th Annual Chinatown Streetfest
Chinatown is a name synonymous with mystery, adventure, excitement, and exuberance. We go there for the food, we stay there for everything else. What then could be better than an entire festival dedicated to the atmosphere and pleasures of Chinatown? This weekend, from August 27th and 28th, visitors and residents of Oakland will experience just such an event because, between Harrison Street and 11th Street, the 29th Annual Chinatown Streetfest will be in full and uncontrollable swing.
Festival of the Sea
This Saturday, the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park will put on a fun-filled festival in order to applaud the National Historical Park’s centennial as well as the recent restoration of the C.A. Thayer, a Schooner first launched in 1895. The day kicks off at 9:30am and runs until 5:00pm, and at 11:30am Brianna Thayer Mullins, an ancestor of the individual for whom the ship was named, and several relatives of J.E. Shields, the C.A. Thayer’s last captain, will re-dedicate the vessel during a special ceremony during which the sails will be raised and the ship renamed.
98th Annual Festa Coloniale Italiana
The Bay Area’s celebrations of cultures around the globe continues this weekend with the 98th Festa Coloniale Italiana in North Beach. Whether or not you possess any Italian heritage, this event will give you plenty to experience (and eat) throughout the entire day of August 20th (from 11:00am to 7:00pm).
Dragon Boat Festival in Oakland
This Sunday, August 14th, from 9:00 in the morning until 3:00 in the afternoon, Lake Merritt in Oakland will be the location of the 4th annual Dragon Boat Festival.
Filipino Cultural Festival & Parade
The Bay Area is the classic example of the melting pot that is the American city. Nothing proves this more than the summertime, when many of the numerous cultures present in San Francisco and the surrounding area come passionately forward to celebrate their heritage and share their history with thousands and thousands of others. This weekend, two linked events are coming to San Francisco that will give people a chance to experience Filipino culture in a way that we rarely can.
Laurel Street Fair
Everyone in San Francisco knows that Oakland is one of the hottest and most up-and-coming places for the arts (and affordable housing). Bay Area locals looking for memorable and genuine cultural experiences will often cross over to Oakland to soak up the electric atmosphere, delicious foods, and explosive artistic scene that bubbles up from every street corner of this city. On Saturday, August 13th, visitors to Oakland will have the added bonus of experiencing the 2016 Laurel Street Fair, one of the largest and most popular events in the East Bay area, and a party that draws upwards of 8,000 people into its loving embrace.
Fremont Festival of the Arts
The Fremont Festival of the Arts is one of the hottest and most heavily attended arts festivals in the country. Known colloquially as the biggest free outdoor festival west of the Mississippi, the Fremont Festival of the Arts covers over four miles of Downtown Fremont with art, music, food, drink, activities for kids, and fun for everyone from the smallest in your family to the biggest.
43rd Annual Nihonmachi Street Fair
Street Fairs are to San Francisco as cafes are to Paris, and this weekend we have one of the best fairs of them all to look forward to.
Market Street Prototyping Festival
In the market for something a little more constructive to do during the next week? Interested in helping to exchange ideas about community building and art? Then you will be a little more than excited about the upcoming Market Street Prototyping Festival.
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