The 7th Annual African Arts Festival celebrates the glorious diversity and extraordinary creativity of the continent’s peoples.
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.
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.
Since launching in 2023 Follow the Music has been at the forefront of a rising movement promoting arts education around the Bay Area.
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.
Join us in celebration of San Francisco Indigenous Peoples Day with a magnificent profusion of Native American art, music and vendors.
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.
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.
Few artists have appeared at the Festival more frequently than flutist, percussionist and arranger John Calloway.
The 25th annual Halloween Hoopla is back with family-friendly frights and delights for kids under 10 and their adults!
Movie Night returns to Yerba Buena Gardens! Enjoy San Francisco summer in September, and cozy up with family and friends on a cinematic journey.
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.
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.
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.
Sharing works that delight, provoke, inspire and rouse, the Poetic Tuesdays series turns lunchtime into a sumptuous literary repast.
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.
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.
Born in Côte d’Ivoire and long based in the Bay Area, Fely Tchaco seamlessly blends traditional Ivorian sounds with Afro-pop, jazz and world music, delivering mesmerizing performances that combine cultural celebration, storytelling and visions of social change.
Curated by visionary East Bay percussionist Sameer Gupta of Rootstock Arts, Color Your Mind is a gathering of musicians dedicated to expanding the boundaries of classical Indian music and related traditions into exciting new territory.
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.
In trying times, poetry and music bring people together. Join Nia Pearl for one-of-a-kind outdoor poetry workshops inspired by the physical environs of Yerba Buena Gardens.
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.
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and Women’s Audio Mission bring Local Sirens to the Gardens for an afternoon of dynamic music.
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.
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.
The Sacramento-based taiko collective Iwa Daiko builds community through the thunderous power of percussion.
In Chinese culture, the lion symbolizes power, wisdom and superiority, and when the lion arrives you know it’s a special occasion.
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.
Sharing works that delight, provoke, inspire and rouse, the Poetic Tuesdays series turns lunchtime into a sumptuous literary repast.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fasten your seatbelts for another wild yet thought-provoking ride with the world-renowned San Francisco Mime Troupe.
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.
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.
Circus Bella, the region’s premiere circus company, returns to Yerba Buena Gardens with the brand-new outdoor show, AH HA!, commissioned by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.
A beloved Father’s Day weekend tradition celebrating the creativity of America’s indigenous peoples, the 27th annual Native Contemporary Arts Festival showcases a diverse program of Native music, dance, spoken word, visual artists, vendors and crafts.
Co-founded by Oakland stand-up comic Jackie Keliiaa, the smash hit, all-Native comedy revue Good Medicine has sold-out venues around the country, including A.C.T’s Strand Theater.
Led by New Orleans-native Michelle Jacques, a soul-steeped vocalist with a big, bold voice, Chelle! & Friends bring to the Gardens a family-friendly taste of the Crescent City, the cradle of so much essential American music.
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