Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Announces 25th Season Programming

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Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest Day 2
Aug 1
Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest Day 2

Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest, a mini-festival of site-specific work, turns the Gardens’ various open spaces into a showcase for the extravagant creativity, diversity and vibrancy of the Bay Area dance scene.

Children’s Program: Eddie Madril
Aug 7
Children’s Program: Eddie Madril

A dancer, singer, teacher, playwright and filmmaker, Eddie Madril specializes in the dance and culture of the United States Plains Indian tribes from southern Canada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma.

PISTAHAN
Aug 8
PISTAHAN

Celebrating Filipino and Filipino-American arts and culture, the annual Pistahan features 2 days of art pavilions and stages highlighting contemporary and traditional music, dance, art, crafts, cuisine and artifacts.

Poetic Tuesday
Aug 11
Poetic Tuesday

Sharing works that delight, provoke, inspire and rouse, the Poetic Tuesdays series turns lunchtime into a sumptuous literary repast.

Brazil in the Gardens: Alexandre Ribeiro and Alessandro Penezzi
Aug 13
Brazil in the Gardens: Alexandre Ribeiro and Alessandro Penezzi

Every summer some of Brazil’s greatest musicians gather in the redwoods of Cazadero for California Brazil Camp, and every season several faculty members venture down to the Gardens to share their mesmerizing music.

Children’s Program: Caterpillar Puppets
Aug 14
Children’s Program: Caterpillar Puppets

Joe Leon’s Caterpillar Puppets don’t just entertain kids and parents. His eccentric menagerie draws audiences of all ages into seemingly familiar stories that take unexpected turns.

Helado Negro + Reyna Tropical
Aug 15
Helado Negro + Reyna Tropical

The son of Ecuadoran immigrants, Roberto Carlos Lange is a producer and singer-songwriter who has created an expansive, intoxicating body of music as Helado Negro. Known for crafting compassionate, atmospheric, and experimental pop music, he joins forces with Reyna Tropical, a decade-long project led by Fabi Reyna, the Mexican-born, Texas-raised activist, and guitarist who also founded She Shreds Magazine – the world’s first and only print publication dedicated to women guitarists and bassists.

Annual African Arts Festival
Oct 3
Annual African Arts Festival

The 7th Annual African Arts Festival celebrates the glorious diversity and extraordinary creativity of the continent’s peoples.

SEPTEMBER

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Yerba Buena Movie Night
Sep 5
Yerba Buena Movie Night

Movie Night returns to Yerba Buena Gardens! Enjoy San Francisco summer in September, and cozy up with family and friends on a cinematic journey.

OCTOBER

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Litquake Out Loud + Book Fair
Oct 4
Litquake Out Loud + Book Fair

In a city built on tall tales, hard-boiled prose, revelatory memoirs, and penetrating reportage, Litquake is the soul of San Francisco’s cultural life.

Quinteto Latino
Oct 8
Quinteto Latino

A wind quintet with an imperative mission, Quinteto Latino is a singular Bay Area-based chamber ensemble devoted to breaking down the racial and social barriers that have long plagued the classical music world.

Follow the Music
Oct 10
Follow the Music

Since launching in 2023 Follow the Music has been at the forefront of a rising movement promoting arts education around the Bay Area.

YBG Dance Day
Oct 11
YBG Dance Day

A party, a workout, a meditation and a communal celebration, Yerba Buena Gardens Dance Day is a portal to a joyous dance-filled world! Presented by YBG Festival and Rhythm & Motion, YBG Dance Day transforms the Gardens into an outdoor dance heaven where participants can sample dance in a variety of forms and flavors with some of the Bay Area’s most talented teachers.

San Francisco Indigenous Peoples Day
Oct 12
San Francisco Indigenous Peoples Day

Join us in celebration of San Francisco Indigenous Peoples Day with a magnificent profusion of Native American art, music and vendors. 

Richard Howell's John Coltrane Tribute
Oct 15
Richard Howell's John Coltrane Tribute

The 100th anniversary of John Coltrane’s birthday has inspired dozens of performances across the Bay Area this year, but no artist is better equipped to evoke the legacy of the saxophone titan and spiritual seeker than Richard Howell.

Joe Bataan
Oct 17
Joe Bataan

Festival favorite Joe Bataan, a Latin music legend since the mid-1960s, returns to the Gardens for his third performance in the past four years.

Afro-Filipino Jazz Project
Oct 24
Afro-Filipino Jazz Project

Few artists have appeared at the Festival more frequently than flutist, percussionist and arranger John Calloway.

Halloween Hoopla
Oct 31
Halloween Hoopla

The 25th annual Halloween Hoopla is back with family-friendly frights and delights for kids under 10 and their adults!