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List Of San Francisco Bay Area Festivals And Fairs
This is a list of festivals and fairs in the San Francisco Bay Area, both ongoing and defunct. By type Film * American Indian Film Festival * Arab Film Festival * Berlin & Beyond Film Festival * Cinequest Film Festival * Disposable Film Festival * Frameline Film Festival * Hi/Lo Film Festival * International Black Women's Film Festival * Mill Valley Film Festival * Palo Alto International Film Festival * S.F. Frozen Film Festival, San Francisco Frozen Film Festival * San Francisco Green Film Festival * San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival * San Francisco International Film Festival * San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival * San Francisco Jewish Film Festival * San Francisco Ocean Film Festival * San Francisco Silent Film Festival * Sonoma International Film Festival (AKA Sonoma Valley Film Festival) * Superfest International Disability Film Festival * Temescal Street Cinema * Third World Independent Film Festival Cultural and folk *Asian ...
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San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Governments to include the nine counties that border the aforementioned estuaries: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, and San Francisco. Other definitions may be either smaller or larger, and may include neighboring counties that do not border the bay such as Santa Cruz and San Benito (more often included in the Central Coast regions); or San Joaquin, Merced, and Stanislaus (more often included in the Central Valley). The core cities of the Bay Area are San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland. Home to approximately 7.76 million people, Northern California's nine-county Bay Area contains many cities, towns, airports, and associated regional, state, and national parks, connected by a comp ...
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San Francisco Silent Film Festival
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival is a film festival first held in 1996 and presented annually at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, California, United States. It is the largest silent film festival in the United States, although the largest silent film festival in the world remains the Giornate del cinema muto in Pordenone, northern Italy. The 25th annual festival was held May 5 to May 11, 2021 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. History The 16th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival was held at the Castro Theatre July 14–17, 2011, featuring 18 programs of films and presentations, all with live accompaniment by the foremost silent film musicians in the world. The festival opened with the new restoration of '' Upstream'' (1927) directed by John Ford and brought back last year to the U.S. from the New Zealand Film Archive, where it was discovered. As part of a collaboration between the Silent Film Festival and the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Matti Bye Ensemb ...
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Day On The Green
Day on the Green was a recurring concert in Oakland, California, presented by promoter Bill Graham and his company Bill Graham Presents. Held at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, these events began in 1973 and continued into the early 1990s. The last Day on the Green overseen by Graham took place the same month as his death in a helicopter crash in 1991. There was a series of Day on the Green shows the following year in the wake of Graham's death and there were other shows in 1994-97 at the Oakland Coliseum Stadium - namely U2, Pink Floyd, and the Rolling Stones. Revival 2015-16 In July 2015, Bay Area concert promoter and owner of the Day On The Green Federal Trademark, Got Live Entertainment was forced to shutter its planned Day On The Green event due to a scheduling issue with the Alameda County Fairgrounds. The show was postponed and ultimately rescheduled for September 10, 2016 with a change in venue to Pioneer Amphitheatre on the campus of California State University Eas ...
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Cotati, California
Cotati (; Miwok: ''Kota’ti'') is an incorporated city in Sonoma County, California, United States, located approximately north of San Francisco in the 101 corridor between Rohnert Park and Petaluma. Cotati's population as of the 2020 Census was 7,584, making it the smallest incorporated community in Sonoma County. Like all of Sonoma County, Cotati is included in both the San Francisco Bay Area and North Coast. Located in the Sonoma Coast AVA, Cotati can also be considered part of Wine Country. E & J Gallo Winery operates a vineyard called Two Rock Vineyard in the hills west of town. Cotati's hexagonal downtown plaza, one of only two hexagonal town layouts in the United States, is California Historical Landmark number 879. The other U.S. city with a hexagonal layout is Detroit, Michigan. History The Coast Miwok civilization thrived in the Cotati area since at least 2000 BC, with principal villages built near major streams. Documented villages in the area included ''Lume ...
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Cotati Jazz Festival
The Cotati Jazz Festival is an annual music festival held in Cotati, California, United States, since 1981. It typically takes place mid-June. Since 2006, admission has been free. This festival went virtual in 2020. 31st annual Cotati Jazz Festival (2011) Held on Saturday, June 18, 2011 from noon to 7 p.m. The lineup included the following artists and bands: * The Gomez Counter Band * Keith Andrew Band * Gumbo West * Tracy Rose Trio & Pamela Hamilton * Tumbao * One World Band * Jazz Roots * Chris Miano * Dick Conte Jazz Quartet 30th annual Cotati Jazz & Antiques Festival (2010) Held on Saturday, June 19, 2010 from noon to 7 p.m. The lineup included the following artists and bands: * The Susan Comstock Quintet * Rotten Tomatoes * Soul Shine Band * Keith Andrew Band * Strange Brew * Still Smooth * Simply Amazing * Sunday at Ed’s * Chris Miano Band * Jazz Roots * Dan Castro Group (bass clarinet) 28th annual Cotati Jazz Blues & Arts Festival (2008) Held on Saturday, June 14, 20 ...
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Bear Valley Music Festival
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Bay Area Rock Fest
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Martinez, California
Martinez (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Martínez'') is a city and the county seat of Contra Costa County, California, United States, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Located on the southern shore of the Carquinez Strait, the city's population was 38,290 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city is named after Californio ranchero Ygnacio Martínez, having been founded on his Rancho El Pinole. Martinez is known for its historic center and its waterfront. History In 1824, the western side of Martinez, Alhambra Creek, Alhambra Valley was included in the Rancho El Pinole Mexican land grant to Ygnacio Martínez. East of these lands was the Rancho Las Juntas, a grant made to Irish born William Welch in 1844; his land lay between the lands of Martinez and Pacheco. In 1847, Robert B. Semple, Dr. Robert Semple contracted to provide ferry service from Martinez to Benicia, California, Benicia, which for many years was the only crossing on the Carqui ...
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Bay Area Indie Music Festival
The Bay Area Indie Music Festival is an American music festival produced by 3 Udders Productions that happens every year in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 2007, it was first held in Martinez, California at Waterfront Park. Relatively small in size it has moved to AT&T Park (parking lot A). History The first Bay Area Indie Music Festival was held in Martinez, California. Their lineup included Sugarcult, Scissors For Lefty, Audrye Sessions, Push To Talk, Minipop, Immigrant, Overview, National Product, Elephone, The Frail, Cold Hot Crash, Goodbye Gadget, Panda, Bel Air Academy, Eskimo Joe, The Logan ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ..., and Project Greenfield. Poor Bailey and Stepsonday were scheduled to perform but both dropped off a few days before t ...
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Bay Area Circus Arts Festival
The Bay Area Circus Arts Festival (formerly the Berkeley Juggling and Unicycling Festival) was an annual 3-day event in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, held by the ''Berkeley Juggling Collective''. It featured workshops, casual instruction, and mini-competitions in various types of circus arts, including unicycling, hat-tossing, whip cracking, tumbling and multiple styles of juggling (contact, pin, diabolo, endurance, etc.). The event was free for everyone and many people learned to juggle or unicycle at the festival. A highlight of the multi-day festival was its vaudeville-style variety show, featuring local, national and international artists performing in live stage performances. Past performances included acrobatics, hoop dancing, aerial/silk dance, puppeteering, as well as the arts featured in the festival. Past festival dates: * 2014-10-03-2014-10-05festival webpage 2014* 2013-10-04-2013-10-06festival webpage 2013* 2012-08-17–2012-08-19festival webpage 201 ...
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Asian Heritage Street Celebration
The Asian Heritage Street Celebration is an Asian American event held in San Francisco, California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori .... The Street Celebration is organized by the non-profit AsianWeek Foundation in cooperation with over 51 organizations in the Asian American community and is supported by community groups representing over 225,000 members. All proceeds from the celebration are donated to local and national charities. The location of the street fair rotates each year to showcase the different Asian enclaves in San Francisco. The first celebration highlighted the Japanese community and took place in Japantown drawing 50,000 people, last year the event showcased the Chinese Community on Irving. St. and in 2007, celebrated the Filipino community in the dow ...
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Third World Independent Film Festival
The Third World Independent Film Festival celebrates filmmakers worldwide whose topics deal with issues of the third world. The festival promotes awareness of social issues, helps gain a deeper understanding and greater respect for different cultures, and provides a platform for filmmakers to introduce their films to the broadest possible audience. The first annual Third World Independent Film Festival took place on September 20–25, 2011. Mission The festival's mission is to bring light to issues, such as poverty, unemployment, human trafficking Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extrac ..., war, and water crisis, that were generally only associated with developing nations. Those who implement the festival believe that with today's global economic collapse, the gap used t ...
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