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18 San Francisco Events You Absolutely Can’t Miss This September 🎭💻

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🪩😂🎭Comedy

1. 🎉SF’s 2025 “Comedy Day”


San Francisco’s original, longest-running, free, outdoor comedy concert in the world, Comedy Day in the Park is back to celebrate its 44th anniversary.

📅 Date: Sunday, September 14, 2025 - 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm

📍 Location: Robin Williams Meadow (Sharon Meadow) | 320 Bowling Green Dr. San Francisco, CA

2. 🎉 World-Touring Comic Maz Jobrani Live at Cobb’s

As an actor, he was most recently seen playing the loveable “Fawz” on the CBS comedy Superior Donuts. He has made many appearances on television’s most popular shows including Grey’S Anatomy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Better Off Ted, Last Man Standing, and Shameless. He has also been a regular guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colber and The Late Late Show With James Corden.

📅 Date:  Saturday, September 20, 2025 - 7:00 pm to 11:15 pm

📍 Location: Cobb’s Comedy Club | 915 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133

3. 🎉 “Crazy Funny Asians”

Inspired by the blockbuster movie, see some of the Bay Area’s top comedians at San Francisco’s Crazy Funny Asians comedy showcase, presented by Funcheap and HellaFunny. Let’s celebrate the Bay’s Asian-American culture and heritage with laughs at SF’s brand new comedy club on Market St – The Function.

📅 Date:  Saturday, September 20, 2025 - 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

📍 Location: The Function | 1414 Market Street, San Francisco, CA

💻 TECH

1. 🌍 The AI Conference

Hosted by AI veterans including Ben Lorica, The AI Conference draws top-tier researchers, practitioners, and investors into a vendor-neutral environment.

The content splits into strategic and technical tracks, covering responsible AI, enterprise adoption, large models, and applied machine learning.

📅 Date: September 17 -18 2025

📍 Location: Pier 48 | Mission Rock, San Francisco, CA 94158

2. 🌍 Design Beyond Screens: Crafting UX and Interaction for the AR Era

How AR reshapes product design and UX — exploring 3D interactions, immersion, and accessibility in next-gen products.

📅 Date: Thursday, September 18, 2025 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM CLST

📍 Location: Online event

3. 🌍 Architecture + the City Festival

At the heart of San Francisco’s design community is the Architecture + the City Festival, an annual, citywide celebration now in its 22nd year. Showcasing the city’s vibrant built environment, the festival features an inspiring lineup of tours, talks, film screenings, youth festival, and special programs including the DIALOGUES Conversation Series. Audiences are invited to explore architecture and design from multiple perspectives, fostering connection, curiosity, and creative exchange across the city.

📅 Date: September 4-25, 2025

📍 Location: 140 Sutter Street, SF, CA 94104

👨‍👩‍👦 Family

1. 🎠 SFMOMA’s “Free Family Day” Free Museum Day (2025)

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) welcomes families and inter-generational audiences to the museum for its Free Family Day on September 14, 2025.

📅 Date: Sunday, September 14, 2025 - 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

📍 Location: SFMOMA | 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA

2. 🐉 SF’s Final “Glen Park Night Market” of 2025

Browse booths from local artists and makers, enjoy live music and DJ sets, grab bites from neighborhood favorites, visit with your neighbors and make new friends, all in the heart of Glen Park.

📅 Date: Saturday, September 20, 2025 - 4:00 pm to 8:30 pm

📍 Location: Kern Street & Diamond Street | Kern Street & Diamond Street, San Francisco, CA

3. 🐉 Outdoor Movie Night: Big Hero 6

Enjoy a free open-air cinema experience in the heart of downtown with a screening of Disney’s Big Hero 6. As part of the new “Cinema on the Square” series, Union Square will transform into a movie theater under the stars

📅 Date: Saturday, Sept 20, 5:30–9:30 PM

📍 Location: Union Square Plaza

🎯 Outdoor & Adventure! 

1. 🎯 SF’s Snowboard & Ski Trick Workshop w/ Pro Coaches & Trampolines

Beginners and seasoned free skiers and boarders alike will make rapid improvement with our expert instruction and guidance. In this workshop, students will work with Olympic trampolines, an airbag, and a custom launchpad to practice aerial tricks, spins, and flips, and grab techniques

📅 Date: Saturday, September 20, 2025 - 10:00 am to 1:00 pm

📍 Location: House of Air | 926 Old Mason Street, San Francisco, CA

🎼 Music & Dance

1. 🎼 World-renowned Pianist & Composer: Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes

Samora Pinderhughes believes that music can and must change the world, and he crafts his songs to reach the tender spots we all share. The Berkeley-raised composer, pianist, vocalist, filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist is known for both his consummate, conservatory-trained musicianship and the striking intimacy and radical honesty of his lyrics.

📅 Date: Saturday, September 20, 2025 - 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm

📍 Location: Yerba Buena Gardens (Esplanade) | 773 Mission St., San Francisco, CA

2. 🎼  “Lindy in the Park” Swing Dance Party (Golden Gate Park)

Get ready to swing in Golden Gate Park every sunny Sunday at “Lindy in the Park,” a weekly free event near the de Young Museum, when the streets of Golden Gate Park are closed to traffic and the dancers take over.

📅 Date: Sunday, September 14, 2025 - 11:00 am to 2:00 pm

📍 Location: JFK Drive Lindy Hop Spot | JFK Dr. & Music Concourse Dr, San Francisco, CA

3. 🎼 Noah Cyrus

Pop singer Noah Cyrus (yes, Miley’s younger sister, now a breakout artist in her own right) brings her “I Want My Loved Ones To Go With Me” Tour to San Francisco for one night only.

📅 Date: Monday, September 15, 2025 - 8:00 pm

📍 Location: The Regency Ballroom | 1300 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA

🍧 Food & Beverages

1. 🌍2-for-1 Distillery Tour & Whiskey Tasting at Tripp Distillery

Dive into the spirited world of Tripp Distillery with this exclusive Groupon deal that’s bound to elevate your weekends!

📅 Date: Saturday, September 20, 2025 - 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm

📍 Location: Tripp Distillery | 1121 Palmetto Ave., Pacifica, CA

2. 🎼 1st Annual San Francisco Chocolate Week: 25+ Spots w/ Sweet Deals

Celebrate the 1st Annual San Francisco Chocolate Week for 9 days of chocolate-inspired bliss! Explore special treats, gifts, and perks at over 25 top chocolate shops, bakeries, restaurants and parlors across the Bay Area. Get your Chocolate Passport to unlock exclusive offers at participating locations. Sweeten your week with a chocolate-tasting excursion!

📅 Date: Saturday, September 20, 2025 - All Day

📍 Location: San Francisco Bay Area

🪩 Rave & Nightlife

1. 🎼 Dabeull Live Band - Portola Week

Dabeull is internationally recognized as the standard-bearer of funk. He has successfully revitalized an authentic, warm sound produced entirely with vintage synthesizers. His original vision and offbeat humor enable him to connect with an ever-expanding audience.

📅 Date:  Fri September 19, 2025 (8pm)

📍 Location: The Regency Ballroom

2. 🎼 Leather & Lace Ball / Countdown to Folsom!

Join DANCING GHOSTS, San Francisco's Darkwave Dance Party, for our second annual LEATHER & LACE BALL!

📅 Date:  Fri September 19, 2025 (9:30 pm - 2:30 am)

📍 Location: at Cat Club 

3. 🎼 The Prodigy + Portola Pre-Party (2 Room tribute party of 90's + 2000's Rave and Pop Anthems)

Are you excited to see The Prodigy at one of their upcoming SF shows? Maybe you wish you could go? Well then we have the perfect party for you!
📅 Date:  Fri September 19, 2025

📍 Location: DNA Lounge

Your week is now officially stacked!

Pick, plan, and make some memories before everything’s gone.

Talk to you soon!

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