Yerba Buena Gardens Festival This July

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FREE programs this June and July: Summer Break in Yerba Buena

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents FREE music, theater, dance, cultural events in downtown SF.

🍸Tuesdays: Tipsy Tuesdays with silent disco, to-go trivia and more. 3-6pm
🎨Wednesdays: Crafting in Color workshops with a different quick craft every week. 11am-1pm
🎯Thursdays: So You Think You Can Soccer? We’ll be getting you World Cup ready leading up to our SF Pride block party and Pride House watch party on June 25! Soccer darts and more. 11am-2pm
🥁Fridays: Get ready for Bhangra and Beats on July 24 with Bhangra dance classes. 5:30-6:30pm

JULY PERFORMANCES

Featured
Destiny Muhammad Trio
Jul 2
Destiny Muhammad Trio

A jazz harp player and soul-powered vocalist, Destiny Muhammad champions the legacy of the women who came before her while taking the instrument into enthralling new terrain.

SF Uke Jam's Summer Uke-Splosion: Peace, Love and Ukulele
Jul 4
SF Uke Jam's Summer Uke-Splosion: Peace, Love and Ukulele

The ukulele is truly the people’s instrument, and the popular SF Uke Jam is the Bay Area’s leading force bringing fans of the diminutive 4-string uke together. 

San Francisco Mime Troupe
Jul 5
San Francisco Mime Troupe

Fasten your seatbelts for another wild yet thought-provoking ride with the world-renowned San Francisco Mime Troupe.

Mae Powell
Jul 9
Mae Powell

Over the past decade Mae Powell has earned a sterling reputation as a winsome singer-songwriter who can also put a personal, jazz-inflected stamp on American Songbook standards.

Children’s Program: Mariachi San Francisco
Jul 10
Children’s Program: Mariachi San Francisco

A third-generation musician from Jalisco, Aurelio Aceves didn’t wait long after moving to the Bay Area in 1990 before launching Mariachi San Francisco.

Lady Wray
Jul 11
Lady Wray

Nurtured in church, selected by Missy Elliott to launch her new label and now soaring into new musical realms, Lady Wray is a soul powerhouse making music on her own terms.

Honoring Our Relatives: A Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Gathering
Jul 12
Honoring Our Relatives: A Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Gathering

More than a celebration of indigeneity, Honoring Our Relatives seeks to bridge shared struggles across communities while centering the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous people here on Turtle Island.

Poetic Tuesday
Jul 14
Poetic Tuesday

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

LA GENTE SF
Jul 16
LA GENTE SF

As his band’s name suggests, Rafael Bustamante Sarria created LA GENTE SF as a vehicle to bring a cosmopolitan array of grooves to the people.

Children’s Program: Toishan Lions Dance Troupe
Jul 17
Children’s Program: Toishan Lions Dance Troupe

In Chinese culture, the lion symbolizes power, wisdom and superiority, and when the lion arrives you know it’s a special occasion.

Iwa Daiko
Jul 23
Iwa Daiko

The Sacramento-based taiko collective Iwa Daiko builds community through the thunderous power of percussion.

Children’s Program: René y Familia
Jul 24
Children’s Program: René y Familia

Spanning three generations and an array of celebratory Latin American musical traditions, René y Familia is the latest gift from an iconic San Francisco musical clan.

Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest
Jul 25
Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest

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.

WAM’s Local Sirens
Jul 30
WAM’s Local Sirens

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and Women’s Audio Mission bring Local Sirens to the Gardens for an afternoon of dynamic music.

Children’s Program: Unique Derique
Jul 31
Children’s Program: Unique Derique

A beloved Bay Area institution, Unique Derique is a prince among clowns, an internationally esteemed performer who has honed a singular blend of physical comedy and hambone body percussion.