7th Annual FOG Design & Art Fair

Preview Gala: Wednesday, Jan. 15, 4–10 p.m. Fair: Thu.–Sun., Jan. 16–19, 11 a.m. Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center This fair celebrates today’s most significant creative... Read More

Major Events

S.F. Ballet 2020 Opening Night Gala: Spellbound

Thursday, Jan. 16, 5 p.m. City Hall & War Memorial Opera House The program highlights an array of magical, innovative, and unexpected ballets, featuring the lyricism of A Mids... Read More

Museums & Galleries

SFMOMA Artists Gallery: Fresh Focus: Small Works Exhibition of Recent Bay Area MFA Artists

Daily through Feb. 23 (call for hours) Meet & Greet: Saturday, Jan. 15, 4–9 p.m. Bldg. C, Suite 260, Fort Mason Center This all-star artistic lineup features painter Cate Nel... Read More

Museums & Galleries

Lost at Sea: Art Recovered from Shipwrecks

Tue.–Sun. through March 22 Asian Art Museum (200 Larkin St.) From 12th-century stone reliefs discovered in the Arabian Sea to bowls and jars discovered in the South China Sea, th... Read More

Community Corner

Omochitsuki! Mochi-Pounding Ceremony

Saturday, Jan. 11, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. Loggia & Samsung Hall, Asian Art Museum Celebrate the Japanese New Year with Kagami Kai, an acclaimed mochi group, as it presents the colorf... Read More

Community Corner

MLK 2020: The Time for Justice

Daily, Jan. 13–20 Various S.F. locations Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with volunteer events, lectures, film screenings, a community breakfast, free museum admission, a co... Read More

Community Corner

Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service

Monday, Jan. 20 Various Golden Gate National Park locations Commemorate MLK Day with family-friendly events to help grow and restore cherished natural parklands. Registration requi... Read More

Dance

11th Annual Fresh Festival 2020

Fri.–Sat. Jan. 6–26 Joe Goode Annex (401 Alabama St.) Brava Dance Center (2781 24th St.) ODC Dance Commons (351 Shotwell St.) Focused on the theme of “tender,” performance... Read More

Galas & Benefits

Japanese New Year Celebration with Osechi Ryori

Thursday, Jan. 9, 6–9 p.m. Hotel Kabuki (1625 Post St.) Experience traditional Japanese New Year’s cuisine, osechi ryori, an elaborate preparation of dishes with special signif... Read More

Dance

6th Annual S.F. Movement Arts Festival

Friday, Jan. 24, 6–8:30 p.m. Grace Cathedral Featuring over 300 performers (95 percent women), all areas of the cathedral will be transformed into a stage with multiple performan... Read More

Major Events

30th Anniversary of the Sea Lions’ Arrival

Fri.–Mon., Jan.17–20 10:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. K-Dock, Pier 39, and Sea Lion Center Thirty local artists will paint six-foot-tall sea lion statues in their own unique styles, eac... Read More

Major Events

Ali Wong

Sunday, Jan. 19, 9:30 p.m. (doors 9 p.m.) S.F. Masonic (1111 California St.) The wildly popular S.F-born comic (who defected to L.A.), won’t disappoint in her nationwide, continu... Read More

Major Events

S.F. Restaurant Week

Daily, Jan. 22–31 Various S.F. restaurants Dine at nearly 130 of your favorite restaurants offering two-course lunches for $15 and $25 and three-course dinners for $40 and $65. V... Read More

Theater

S.F. Playhouse: Groundhog Day, The Musical

Tue.–Sun. through Jan. 18 Kensington Park Hotel (450 Post St.) Enjoy the story of Phil Connors, a frustrated big-city weatherman, reporting on the small-town Groundhog Day Ceremo... Read More

Theater

ACT: Wakey, Wakey

Thu.–Sun., Jan. 23–26 Tue.–Sun., Jan. 23–Feb. 16 405 Geary St. This intimate comedy about love, life, and what it means to be human is a remarkable combination of the extra... Read More

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