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🪩😂🎭Comedy

1. 🎉STAMPTOWN Comedy Show

After a wildly successful sold-out run at SF Sketchfest earlier this year, the world-renowned comedy fever-dream

📅 Date: September 12-13 at 7pm & 10pm

📍 Location: Club Fugazi

2. 🎉 Des Bishop at Punch Line

Internationally acclaimed Irish-American comic Des Bishop headlines Punch Line Comedy Club for a long weekend. Known for his incisive wit and storytelling, Bishop delivers sharp stand-up sets nightly at SF’s iconic club (2 drink minimum).

📅 Date:  Thursday, 11-13 september

📍 Location: Punch Line Comedy Club

3. 🎉 Sunday “Hayes Valley Comedy Night”

Welcome to the heart of laughter right on the edge of SF’s vibrant Hayes Valley district! Step into a world of hilarity and at the newest addition to the city’s comedy scene – a chic, upscale comedy club boasting avant-garde decor, an upstairs lounge and a roster of top-notch comedians. The Function promises an evening of non-stop laughs and premium entertainment.

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

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

💻 TECH

1. 🌍 BoxWorks 2025

New AI models and capabilities are constantly emerging, which means organizations can add structure to unstructured data for the very first time — uncovering valuable insights and driving unparalleled efficiency.

📅 Date: September 11 – 12, 2025

📍 Location: San Francisco Marriott Marquis

2. 🌍 Ai Developer Camp

New AI models and capabilities are constantly emerging, which means organizations can add structure to unstructured data for the very first time — uncovering valuable insights and driving unparalleled efficiency.

📅 Date: September 12 · 5pm - September 14 · 6pm PDT

📍 Location: 995 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94103 United States

3. 🌍 ConnectFest: Free Family Science & Music Day (SF)

Ten of the top science and technology centers will inspire families to learn about science. Meet Sequoia, a 37-year-old Bald Eagle, and learn about conservation; design and test a home to protect it against sea level rise; fly balsa gliders and paper helicopters; and explore the explosive power of solar flares, and more. Enjoy live music by the Grammy-winning Alphabet Rockers and DJ Lex.

📅 Date: Sunday, September 7, 2025 | 10am – 2pm

📍 Location: Outside the Children’s Creativity Museum, 221 4th St. at Howard St. SF

👨‍👩‍👦 Family

1. 🎠 Chinatown Car Show 2025

Join us at the Chinatown Car Show for a day filled with fun activities! Located at 1138 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA, this in-person event offers something for everyone. Explore unique cars on display, shop for souvenirs, dine on delicious local cuisine, enjoy entertainment, and most importantly, support local businesses. Don't miss out on this exciting event!

📅 Date: Sunday, September 7 · 10am - 4pm PDT

📍 Location: 1138 Grant Avenue San Francisco, CA 94133 United States

2. 🐉 Free Shakespeare in the Park: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Our 43rd season of Free Shakespeare in the Park brings you Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, directed by Ely Sonny Orquiza. Since 1983, as part of SF Shakes’ mission to make Shakespeare accessible to all, we’ve brought our Free Shakes production to audiences around the SF Bay Area; no tickets or Shakespeare experience required!

📅 Date: July 19 - September 21

📍 Location: Cupertino - Redwood City - San Francisco

3. 🐉 “Lindy in the Park” Swing Dance Party (Golden Gate Park)

Lindy in the Park offers a free weekly beginning swing dance lesson, taught by Hep Jen. The lessons are short, easy and fun and then you can practice your new steps with the whole group until 2 pm. No partner is required, as they rotate leaders and followers throughout the lesson.

📅 Date: Sunday, September 7, 2025 - 11:00 am to 2:00 pm

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

🎯 Outdoor & Adventure! 

1. 🎯 Peak2Peak Urban Hike

The ultimate 10-mile city trek across 10 hilltops, organized by Walk. This guided hike traces a top-secret route through hidden stairways, micro-neighborhoods and jaw-dropping vistas most locals never. Ticket includes a small-group guide, snacks, lunch and a celebratory finish on the Golden Gate Park.

📅 Date: Saturday, Sep 13, 9 AM–5 PM

📍 Location: Golden Gate Park

2. 🎯 Golden Gate Park Sunday Roller Disco Party (SF)

There is a place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park that is heaven for Bay Area inline skaters and roller skaters who like to boogie to the funky beat on wheels.

📅 Date: Sunday, September 7, 2025 - 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm

📍 Location: Skatin’ Place | 6th Ave. and Kennedy Drive, San Francisco, CA

🎼 Music & Dance

1. 🎼 Golden Gate Park Band’s Free Symphony in the Park: “Viva Mexico” (2025)

All concerts take place between the de Young and the California Academy of Sciences and feature music of specific nationalities or cultures, including costumed guest performances from dancers, singers, and speakers, who will enlighten and entertain.

📅 Date: Sunday, September 7, 2025 - 1:00 pm to 2:45 pm

📍 Location: Spreckels Temple of Music (Golden Gate Park Bandshell) | Music Concourse Dr, San Francisco, CA

2. 🎼  Lyle Lovett with SF Symphony

Presented in partnership with Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the San Francisco Symphony comes together with Lyle Lovett and his Acoustic Group for a celebration of the iconic San Francisco music festival’s 25th anniversary. Coupled with his gift for storytelling, the Texas-based musician fuses elements of country, swing, jazz, folk, gospel and blues in a convention-defying manner that breaks down barriers.

📅 Date:  September 13, 2025

📍 Location: San Francisco Symphony

3. 🎼 Flower Piano 2025: 12 Hidden Pianos in Golden Gate Park

Back again this year during Flower Piano is the Flower Piano Lounge. The Celebration Garden in the Botanical Garden will be transformed into an upgraded musical landscape where guests will enjoy priority entry to the festival, special performances from local headliners, access to premium bars, food from local makers, lounge seating, dedicated restrooms, and flexibility to relax and enjoy all areas of the festival at will.

📅 Date: September 12-21, 2025. 

📍 Location: Golden Gate Park

4. 🎼 Opera in the Park

Join us to celebrate the 50th anniversary of this beloved Bay Area tradition.
Music Director Eun Sun Kim leads the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and stars from San Francisco Opera’s 2025–26 Season in an afternoon of glorious music.

📅 Date: September 7, 2025 at 1:30pm

📍 Location: San Francisco Opera

🍧 Food & Beverages

1. 🌍SF Cheese Fest

California's artisan cheesemakers are crafting some of the most exciting and delicious cheeses in the country, utilizing milk from cows, goats, sheep, and even water buffalo.

📅 Date: September 13

📍 Location: San Francisco Ferry Building, Grand Hall ,One Ferry Building

2. 🎼 Outer Sunset Farmers Market & Mercantile

Join us at El Mercadito – 1712 Ocean Avenue – on the last Saturday of each month this summer for the Mercadito Saturdays – Summer Block Party Series!

📅 Date: Sunday, September 7, 2025 - 9:00 am to 2:00 pm

📍 Location: Sunset Mercantile (Outer Sunset) | 37th Avenue between Ortega & Pacheco St., San Francisco, CA

🪩 Rave & Nightlife

1. 🎼 DJ Dials & 1015 Folsom Present

London-based electronic producer SBTRKT (known for hits like “Wildfire”) teams up with UK bass/house DJ Taiki Nulight for a late-night show.

📅 Date:  Friday Sep 12, 10:00PM

📍 Location: 1015 Folsom, SF, CA

2. 🎼 Sultan + Shepard

Sultan and Ned Shepard from the get go with this set, have the audience in the palm of their hands straight away, with this dance music hit song building and building to the point of erupting this festival atmosphere with the largest drop imaginable.

📅 Date:  Saturday 13 September 2025

📍 Location: 316 11th St., 94103, San Francisco, CA, US

3. 🎼 Death Guild

Death Guild is the oldest weekly goth/industrial dance night in the world! Every Monday, six DJs in two rooms play a mix of gothic, industrial, synthpop, noise, ambient, and weird stuff for those who love the darker side of things.

📅 Date:  Monday, September 8, 9:30pm - 2:30am.

📍 Location: Take 101 North to the 9th Street / Civic Center exit. Take 9th Street, and turn left onto Harrison, then right onto 11th.

Your week is now officially stacked!

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

Talk to you soon!

-Next In SF