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 The American Indian Film Festival is an annual non-profit film festival in San Francisco, California, United States. It is the world's oldest venue dedicated solely to Native American/First Nations films and prepared the way for the 1979 formati ...

* Arab Film Festival *

Berlin & Beyond Film Festival Berlin & Beyond Film Festival is an annual film festival based in San Francisco, California featuring new cinema from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Founded in 1996, the festival is a program of San Francisco's branch of the Goethe-Institut and ...

* Cinequest Film Festival *

Disposable Film Festival The Disposable Film Festival (DFF) is an annual juried international festival of short films made using casual, lo-fi video capture devices like cell phones, point and shoot cameras, webcams, and inexpensive handycams. It also features artist pr ...

* Frameline Film Festival * Hi/Lo Film Festival * International Black Women's Film Festival * Mill Valley Film Festival *

Palo Alto International Film Festival The Palo Alto International Film Festival (abbreviated as PAIFF) was a four-day festival that ran at the end of September. The Festival celebrated the innovation in cinema. PAIFF's speakers series, Palo Alto Talks, hosted conversations between indus ...

San Francisco Frozen Film Festival The San Francisco Frozen Film Festival was founded in 2006 to provide a forum for Bay Area Filmmakers to mingle and be exposed to Non-Bay Area Filmmakers, with the intention of creating a lasting and sustainable Bay Area Film Network that will cont ...

* San Francisco Green Film Festival *

San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival CAAMFest, known prior to 2013 as the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF), is presented every March in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States as the nation’s largest showcase for new Asian American and Asia ...

* San Francisco International Film Festival * San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival * San Francisco Jewish Film Festival *

San Francisco Ocean Film Festival The International Ocean Film Festival (IOFF), formerly the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival, is a film festival held in San Francisco, CA, that features films about marine life, the ocean, coastal cultures and conservation. The 2013 event took ...

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 ...

* Sonoma International Film Festival (AKA Sonoma Valley Film Festival) *

Superfest International Disability Film Festival Superfest International Disability Film Festival is a juried film festival held in the San Francisco Bay Area. Superfest is the longest-running disability film festival in the world. In addition to featuring films developed by and starring peop ...

Temescal Street Cinema The Temescal Street Cinema is a film festival that takes place weekly in the summer in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland, California in the United States. It showcases films by San Francisco Bay Area filmmakers. The festival started in 2008. It ...

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 cultu ...

Cultural and folk

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 nearl ...

Theater and arts

* Bay Area Circus Arts Festival

Music

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 ...

- Martinez, California * Bay Area Rock Fest *

Bear Valley Music Festival Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae. They are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans. Although only eight species of bears are extant, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats throughout the North ...

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 Festi ...

- Cotati, California * Day on the Green *

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (HSB), originally Strictly Bluegrass, is an annual free and non-commercial music festival held the first weekend of October in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. Conceived and subsidized by San Francisco ven ...

Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival The Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival is an annual showcase and competition for a cappella groups of all vocal styles. The competition is organized into seven regional events across the United States, with each winning group advancing to the ...

* Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival *

Loveparade The Love Parade (german: Loveparade) was a popular electronic dance music festival and technoparade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany. It was held annually in Berlin from 1989 to 2003 and in 2006, then from 2007 to 2010 in the Ruhr ...

* Music at Tateuchi *

Treasure Island Music Festival Treasure Island Music Festival is an annual two-day music festival. Prior to 2018, the festival took place on Treasure Island, California, located in the San Francisco Bay. In 2018, the festival moved to Middle Harbor Shoreline Park, located in O ...

* Vans Warped Tour

General and other

* Bay Area Maker Faire *

Bay to Breakers Bay to Breakers is an annual footrace in San Francisco, California typically on the third Sunday of May. The phrase "Bay to Breakers" reflects the fact that the race starts at the northeast end of the downtown area a few blocks from The Embarc ...

* Berkeley Jazz Festival *

BottleRock Napa Valley BottleRock Napa Valley is an annual music festival held at the Napa Valley Expo in Napa, California. The initial BottleRock was a five-day event that took place May 8–12, 2013. The event featured three stages with 60 bands, including Jackson ...

Burning Man Burning Man is an event focused on community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance held annually in the western United States. The name of the event comes from its culminating ceremony: the symbolic burning of a large wooden effigy, referred ...

Caltopia Caltopia is a free, two-day college lifestyle festival that takes place annually at the University of California, Berkeley in the Recreational Sports Facility (RSF) and according to the organizers of the event is the largest college lifestyle festiv ...

Carnaval San Francisco Carnaval San Francisco, established 1979, is an annual street parade and festival in San Francisco, California, United States, held on the last weekend in May. About Carnaval San Francisco, is a free two-day annual family festival in San Franci ...

* Castro Street Fair *

Eat Real Festival The Eat Real Festival is an annual celebration of food organized by Food Craft Institute, in Oakland, California. The festival focuses on non-GMO, antibiotic-free food, and locally produced drinks made in a Sustainable food system, sustainable and o ...

* Exotic Erotic Ball *

Festival del Sole Festival Napa Valley is a music, food, wine and lifestyle festival held in Napa Valley, California. It is presented by Napa Valley Festival Association, a nonprofit corporation governed by a board of vintners and local leaders. More than 200 mus ...

* Fiesta on the Hill - Bernal Heights, San Francisco * Fillmore Jazz Festival * Ghirardelli Chocolate Festival - September * Gilroy Community Festival - Gilroy, California * Gilroy Garlic Festival - Gilroy, California * Green Festival * Haight-Ashbury Street Fair *

Halloween in the Castro Halloween in the Castro was an annual Halloween celebration held in The Castro district of San Francisco, first held in the 1940s as a neighborhood costume contest. By the late 1970s, it had shifted from a children's event to a gay pride celebrat ...

How Weird Street Faire The How Weird Street Faire is an outdoor street fair held each year in San Francisco, occupying several blocks of Howard Street and the surrounding area, in the SoMa neighborhood. The event has been held yearly since 2000, and is currently centered ...

KFOG KaBoom ''KFOG KaBoom'' was an annual outdoor concert held by KFOG in San Francisco and which occurred in May from 1994 to 2010. It was followed by a fireworks show synchronized to a soundtrack broadcast by the station. The extravagant fireworks display dr ...

* Lafayette Art & Wine Festival * Litquake *

Maker Faire Maker Faire is a convention of do it yourself aka-DIY enthusiasts started by ''Make'' magazine in 2006. Participants come from a wide variety of interests, such as robotics, 3D printing, computers, arts and crafts, and hacker culture. History ...

Midsummer Mozart Festival The Midsummer Mozart Festival is an annual music festival that exclusively features the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, ...

Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival (MCMAF), also known ass Mission Creek, and Mission Creek Oakland Music and Arts Festival, was a week-long volunteer-driven music festival active from 1996 to 2017, and located in San Francisco and later Oaklan ...

Napa Valley Festival del Sole Festival Napa Valley is a music, food, wine and lifestyle festival held in Napa Valley, California. It is presented by Napa Valley Festival Association, a nonprofit corporation governed by a board of vintners and local leaders. More than 200 mu ...

Noise Pop Festival Noise Pop Festival is an annual week-long music and arts festival that takes place throughout the San Francisco Bay Area produced by Noise Pop. From 1993 to 2020, and then resuming in 2022, Noise Pop Festival has provided exposure to some emer ...

Northern California Folk-Rock Festival (1968) The Northern California Folk-Rock Festival was a music festival held at Family Park in the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, 344 Tully Road, San Jose, California, on May 18–19, 1968 and promoted by Bob Blodgett. It was the first of two such festi ...

Northern California Folk-Rock Festival (1969) The Northern California Folk-Rock Festival was a music festival held at Santa Clara County Fairgrounds in San Jose, California on May 23–25, 1969 and promoted by Bob Blodgett. It was the second such festival held at the venue, following the ...

* Opera in the Park hosted by San Francisco Opera * Other Minds Music Festival *

Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival The Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival is a music festival held annually in San Francisco, California, at Golden Gate Park. The festival is produced by Another Planet Entertainment, Superfly Presents, and Starr Hill Presents. It is the l ...

* Oyster Festival * PeaceOUT World Homo Hop Festival - Oakland, California *

Pink Saturday Pink Saturday is a street party held the Saturday night before San Francisco Pride (Gay Pride Day) in San Francisco's The Castro, Castro district. It coincides with the annual Dyke March in San Francisco. Attendees are asked to donate money at th ...

The Renegade Craft Fair ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in E ...

in San Francisco * Russell City Blues Festival * San Francisco Blues Festival * San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade * San Francisco Jazz Festival *

San Francisco LovEvolution LovEvolution (formerly San Francisco LovEvolution and San Francisco LoveFest) was a technoparade and festival that occurred annually in the Bay Area in late September and early October. From its inception in 2004 to 2009, the parade included 25 ...

* San Francisco Juneteenth Festival *

San Francisco Marathon The San Francisco Marathon is an annual USATF-certified road running event held in San Francisco, California, that includes a full marathon, two half marathons, an ultramarathon, a 10k, and a 5K. With the exceptions of 1988 and 2020, the marath ...

San Francisco Pop Festival The KYA San Francisco International Pop Festival was held at the Alameda County Fairgrounds on Saturday October 26 and Sunday October 27, 1968. Groups The groups playing at the festival included (in alphabetical order): * The Animals * Canned ...

* San Francisco Pride *

San Jose Holiday Parade The San Jose Holiday Parade is in San Jose, California. The parade is considered one of the "Top 25 Parades in America". Celebrities and famous locals appear as Grand Marshals and numerous bands from across America are invited to participate in the ...

* San Jose Jazz Festival * SF Sketchfest - San Francisco comedy sketch festival *

Sierra Nevada World Music Festival The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival is an annual music festival held every June on the weekend of (or the weekend following) the summer solstice. It is currently held at the Mendocino County Fairgrounds in Boonville, California. History The fes ...

Slow Food Nation Slow Food is an organization that promotes local food and traditional cooking. It was founded by Carlo Petrini in Italy in 1986 and has since spread worldwide. Promoted as an alternative to fast food, it strives to preserve traditional and regi ...

Solano Avenue Stroll The Solano Avenue Stroll, also known as the Solano Stroll, is an annual street fair held on the second Sunday of September on the Solano Avenue shopping district of Albany and Berkeley, California. Stretching close to 2 miles long and bringing be ...

* Soundwave Festival * Stanford Jazz Workshop * Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco *

Wonderfest Wonderfest is a nonprofit California corporation dedicated to informal science education. Wonderfest achieved corporate independence in September 2011. During the preceding fourteen years, Wonderfest was an educational project of, first, San Fra ...

- San Francisco Bay Area festival of science

LGBT

* Folsom Street Fair * Gay Pride Parade and Festival * San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

References

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