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May Fairs & Festivals
May in Motion
Look forward to SF’s Carnaval, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Bay to Breakers plus tons more.
https://sf.funcheap.com/city-guide/san-franciscos-may-festivals-street-fairs/
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MAY 2025
OSC resource fair May Legal nonprofits should be attending
May 5 13 19-21 2025
Mycological Society of San Francisco
https://www.mssf.org/calendar/index.php
May Psychedelic Society San Francisco
Apr 30 May 4 5 7 12 14 19 21 22 26 28
https://psychedelicsocietysf.org
https://psychedelicsocietysf.org/events/
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May 28 Los Altos Hills Foothill College
Two Exciting Astronomy Events in May
You are cordially invited to two astronomy events:
1) Free Public Talk on the Pluto system and Beyond
On Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 7 pm (PST), Dr. Oliver White (SETI Institute) will give a free, illustrated, non-technical lecture entitled:
"Science at the Edge of the Solar System: Uncovering the Secrets of the Pluto System and Arrokoth"
in the Smithwick Theater at Foothill College, in Los Altos (see directions below)
The talk is part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series, now in its 25th year.
Ten years ago the New Horizons spacecraft flew by the Pluto system and revealed an unexpectedly diverse range of landscapes on the dwarf planet and its largest moon Charon, implying complex geological histories for these distant worlds. Dr. White will lead a tour of their often bizarre terrains, some of which are still evolving, and will explain what processes scientists think molded them into their present appearances. After a brief stop at Pluto's four small moons, Dr. White will then extend the tour 2 billion km farther out into space to cover Arrokoth, the tiny planetesimal that New Horizons flew past three and a half years after visiting Pluto. It is the most primitive object in the Solar System yet visited by a spacecraft.
Dr. Oliver White is a planetary scientist at the SETI Institute. His research focuses on unraveling the geological histories of the planets and moons in our Solar System and learning how their surfaces have evolved. A member of the New Horizons mission team, he is particularly interested in the icy outer Solar System worlds, and has produced a geological map of Pluto to be published by the US Geological Survey. He is currently creating a similar map of Saturn's moon Tethys.
Foothill College is just off the El Monte Road exit from Freeway 280 in Los Altos.
For directions and parking information, see:
https://foothill.edu/parking/
For a campus map, to find the Smithwick Theater (Bldg. 1000), see:
https://foothill.edu/map/
Note: Parking lot 1 is closest, with access to the theater by stairs. Parking lot 5 provides access from the same elevation as the theater.
The lecture is co-sponsored by: * The Foothill College Science, Tech, Engineering & Math Division * The SETI Institute and * The Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Past lectures in the series can also be found on YouTube at:
http://youtube.com/svastronomylectures
and as audio podcasts at:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1805595
I am no longer hearing of free parking for this event sadly
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2) The 2025 Frank Drake Award Gala
Please join me, other members of the Board, many of the scientists, and other supporters of the SETI Institute at the
The 2025 Frank Drake Award Ceremonies
May 20, 2025, 5:30 – 9:00 pm
at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA;
(or virtually, from 6:30 – 9:00 pm, with special guests and commentary for those joining us on line.) For those coming in person, your ticket includes a cocktail reception, a gala seated dinner, special activities, and a chance to rub elbows with some of the leaders in the search for life in the universe. Among them will be Institute founder Dr. Jill Tarter; Board member Avery Wang, the key developer of the Shazam music app; science writer Nadia Drake; Apple Senior Vice President, John Giannandrea; SETI scientist Seth Shostak, and many others.
The Drake Award, honoring the Father of SETI, Frank Drake, is the world's premier prize highlighting the science that helps us understand the prevalence of life in the cosmos. This year’s winners are both pioneers in our understanding of how life on Earth began. Dr. David Deamer (U of California, Santa Cruz) has proposed that life may have begun in fresh-water hot-springs and not the oceans, and has suggested a mechanism by which cell membranes might have originated. Dr. John Baross (U of Washington) is a world leader in our understanding of life in extreme environments and one of the originators of the field of astrobiology.
Past winners of the Drake Award include Nobel Laureate Charles Townes, planet modeler Victoria Meadows, Kepler Mission leader William Borucki, Harvard’s Paul Horowitz, and the late Frank Drake himself.
For more information, and to reserve tickets, go to: https://drakeaward.seti.org/
Free parking will be available at the museum, located at 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard, Mountain View, CA 94043
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Palo Alto festival of the arts Aug 23 24 2025
10am-6pm Sat Sun University Ave., Palo Alto
Between Alma and Middlefield x streets = HERB
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SF EVENTS May-Dec 2025
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Planttrees.org 2025 2.29 3.22 4.01 4.20
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SF parking METERS now 7 days scroll down
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Blooms, Bunnies & Best Events
Here’s a round-up of April’s best events including Easter celebrations, Cherry Blossom Festivals & more.
https://sf.funcheap.com/city-guide/san-francisco-april-festivals-street-fairs/
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Ocean Beach Bonfire Season 2025
Mar 1 -Oct 31 6Am-9:30pm sf.funcheap.com
Ocean Beach fire rings between Stairwells 15 and 20 – Generally opposite Beach Chalet
FREE – first come, first served
More details at nps.gov
MAY 2025 SF
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START B2B
SF Bay to Breakers Sun May 18 2025 SF CA USA
100,000 people mostly costumed 2000-2020
SF Bay to Breakers Sun May 18 2025 Haight GG Park 10am-12 Panhandle to Spreckles lake JFK 30th Ave Golden Gate Park all day long party.
Upper Haight St SF after Bay to Breakers Best
Bare to Breakers Nude Run@ B2B Naked fully legal in SF at all permitted events Fairs and Festivals
ESPECIALLY B2B DykeMarch Pride FolsomStFair DoreAlley CastroStFair.
Likely True CastroHalloween CastroNYE. A: nobody complains B: permited? Events
https://plra.io/m/bare-to-breakers-at-bay-to-breakers
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Caveats Nuances Exceptions ask me: some years RARELY later in Day? Eve? SFPD or SF Park Rangers have asked folk s to get clothed in GG PARK long after event. RARE before Scott Weiner made naked illegal in SF public 2012.
7 miles or 10Km across SF from BAY to BREAKERS it is precisely for this reason X wickedly expensive parking downtown headache plus the fact that your car may have broken windows upon your return downtown …
I wish to remind people of the more pleasant option of joining in at Panhandle and upper Haight for the most colorful, fun, frolicking, festive activities on the grassy lawns of panhandle, Golden Gate Park and upper Haight afterwards
http://planttrees.org 2025 5.18 more details
FREE PARKING SUNDAY BAY to Breakers Sun May 18 2025 Side streets and parallel streets of HAIGHT St.
The only meters are on Haight Street and the first three spots north and south on side Streets
METERS Operate Sun 12-6. No free parking at start of race or downtown. Headache Nuisance.
Fell into ocean no parking race route.
Oak to Oakland varies year-by-year. Ideal plan park closer to upper Haight Street between Stanyan and Masonic as this will serve you well for nighttime costume party scene on Haight Street best Party of the year on Haight street is after B2B as 1,000 of the 100,000 celebrants pass through (1,000s 2000-2020)
2nd best: eves Aft 6pm after hardly strictly bluegrass free 3 day fest F Sa Su
Oct 2025
100,000 people FREE
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Oct 3-5 2025 GG Park F-Su
Upper Haight St SF after Bluegrass lots of folks
Bonfires ocean Beach aft BaytobreakersGGpark
Bonfires oceanBeachaft HardlyStrictlyBluegrass
99% impossible to find free parking within 10 blocks of B2B race start. SF Parking meters operate Sunday 12-6 Very expensive Downtown.
Therefore, best way to enjoy Bay to Breakers FREE parking in upper Haight district south of GG Park Pan Handle South of Oak btwn Stanyan Masonic
Nudity is not allowed in bars or restaurants on Haight Street. Nude likely to be a gray area regarding sidewalks of Haight Street. also depending on how many hours post event. Therefore support crew with shoes and bikinis. Could be helpful to meet nude runners in Haight
After race to provide clothing, bits, hydration, snacky poos, personal belongings, cell phones, wallets keys etc. back to nekkid participants with fanny packs, etc. that these naked partygoers might enjoy an evermore full evening on the Haight in this incredible costume party.
Poop map SF
My expectation is there will be no problem at all being naked on Haight Street sidewalks mid day, but as hours progress into evening, I promise you there are certain characters on the Haight as darkness falls. You do not want poking and prodding slapping pinching, touching your body as the Haight Street of the 2010 decade let alone 2020 decade is not the same as the Haight of the 2000 decade or any decade last century. In other words, there are unclean characters, not only unhoused. A.k.a. the less housed segments of our gutter punk population, which brings up another point which specifically is this. Walking nude in the Haight is a biohazard vector. You would want sandals, Teva’s, Birkenstocks, flip-flops, Tennies, vans, Converse, or some sort of footwear to walk on sidewalks in the Haight, which are specifically covered with feces and glass. Feces of Canine and human origin will be on every block of every street in the Haight.
Poop map SF
Obviously IMHO nude runners would want to wear protective, footwear for most if not all of the sections of any bay to breakers race and I will attempt to develop this information as I am able. I prefer air or gel OR similar tech running shoes, such as. TBD.
eBay and Out of the closet, thrift stores in SF Berkeley are excellent for a ASICS new balance Vibram Merrill Keen REI shoes On the cheap
Sunday mornings 10 AM excellent brands of clothing are one dollar each not including shoes but for decades I bought most of my excellent silk wool cotton cashmere Merino wool pants and shirts for one dollar each of top shelf brand names at out of the closet locations SF Berkeley
Boycott, Amazon, Instagram, SFgate Temu zoom due to privacy invasion TMI sorry.
Bud me for DMs For further info and or FAQs on any topic
what do SF and granola have in common?
Once you get past the fruits and nuts, all you have left are the flakes.
Easy simple recipe for how to enjoy the festivities in and around upper Haight, SF panhandle and Golden Gate Park, regardless of whether you wish to gravitate towards the
panhandle at 10 AM, 11 AM 12 noon and/or into
Golden Gate Park from 12 noon until afternoon and then into
upper Haight for the entire evening this would be my recipe and was most all of 2000 and 2010 decades
SFPD move folks off Fell st approx 12 noon drunks can then stumble into panhandle to touch grass blow bubbles hula hoop frisbee Hackensack picnic like a little Burningman or festival
One cannot simply conceive of 100,000 happy fun costume, sexy freaks weirdos and fools running through Golden Gate Park mostly in their 20s
The mass of these hundred thousand people flow through these 3 three sectors in this order so you might plan accordingly many of the partygoers get hung up at Spreckles Lake on 30th Ave., @ Fulton SF Golden Gate Park where they can take photos have a snack puke their brains out or worry about why they did not back up their iPhone before they lost it in their drunken stupor see also: dude where’s my car?
Lots of folks then will get on the bus at 30th and Fulton to head back east then tens or 20s of thousands of these people will migrate like Buffalo back eastward through Golden Gate Park wether from Ocean Beach and or from Spreckles Lake 30th Ave and or from whatever grassy lawn, they puked on
Then tens of thousands of people potentially will pass back through the panhandle and through upper Haight, which will be thousands of people all night long quite the scene so if you ever thought you might enjoy going to the upper Haight this specifically is the one day out of the year of 365 days That upper Haight is a serious Mardi Gras carnival with costume atmosphere
Haight Street fair Sun Sept 7
is nothing spectacular. It’s just a street fair and there are not really very many costumes so the evening of
Haight Street fair Sun Sept 7
is just mediocre or second best night and it can never ever hold a candle to upper Haight at night after Bay to breakers May 18 :)
Haight st after BlueGrass fun Oct 3-5 2025 as are
Bonfires on Ocean Beach. Also
9th Ave @ Lincoln Ave SF evening scenes of these 3 dates
https://www.haightashburystreetfair.org
HASF Haight Ashbury St Fair. Sun Sep 07 2025 11:00 - 5:30 SF CA HAIGHT STREET SKATE JAM - BELVEDERE nude naked legal At all SF permitted street fairs and events especially Haight St
Sun May 18, 2025 Bay To Breakers
at San Francisco - The City (8am - 12:30pm)
https://www.sfstation.com/bay-to-breakers-e1828302
Bay to Breakers 2025 (Everything You Need to Know)
Sunday, May 18, 2025 – 8:00 am
Howard & Main (SoMa) | Howard St. and Main St., San Francisco, CA
SoMa, San Francisco
Cost: FREE*
https://sf.funcheap.com/bay-breakers-sf/
“Bare” to Breakers: Nude/Naked Run at Bay to Breakers (2025)
Sunday, May 18, 2025 – 7:30 am
One Market St. | One Market St., SF, CA
Financial District, San Francisco
Cost: FREE*
https://sf.funcheap.com/bare-breakers-nudenaked-run-bay-breakers-2025/
https://clothesfree.com/ bare to breakers event with sign up details + a map of earth rating tolerance, other naked info and news.
Sign up not required and not policed.
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Union Street Festival 2025 – May 31-June 1, 2025 Union Street SF 11-7
https://sf.funcheap.com/union-street-festival-2025-may-31-june-1/
2025 June SF
June 14 Downtown SF’s Free Concerts Are Back neither SF fun cheap nor SF parks link state anytime of event
No Ticket? No Problem.
Get ready for another round of free outdoor concerts—kicking off June 14, Dirtybird returns to Embarcadero Plaza for a daytime rave.
https://sf.funcheap.com/city-guide/downtown-sfs-big-free-summer-concerts/
DykeMarch Saturday June 28 Dolores Park 12-5pm 10K peeps 2000-2020 FREE
Pink Sat Eve Castro 5p-2am. Pride Sun Jun 29
Castro at 18th St. SF Castro at market St., SF.
Pride SF Sunday Jun 29 10 am Parade Market st
Festival Civic Center 10-6 ( Sat Jun 28 10-6) 100,000 people 2000-2020 FREE
July 2025 SF
Fri 4th of July Pier 39 Fisherman’s Wharf Hyde St SF Aquatic Park SF lawn bleachers. Best view.
Fireworks and or drone show over bay east of GG bridge? Live cover band most years SFstation.com sf.funcheap.com
Friday, Fourth of July Bolinas California celebration day and night festivities continue Saturday. Sheriff block road noon? Arrive early
2000-2010s fireworks on beach all night parties at bars and park when 4th lands on Fri or Sat
August 2025 SF
Sat Aug 2 2025 11-6p JerryDay.org McLaren Park SF Free ARRIVE EARLY Long Walk Gridlock
Jerry Garcia Amphitheater hippie hippies smoke herb ok today. While it is not legal to smoke herb or Cigs in any SF Park, there has never been any enforcement at this event because: hippies
Also because SFPD have 100 years of understanding pot does not cause fights or problems, just munchies
ADA alter able handicap ramp destroyed stage
Hippies used to dance here but ramp destroyed hundreds square feet of dance stage ADA bad
This event is 100 times more peaceful and low-key than 4:20 GG PARK which started out low-key but became vulnerable to drunken thug hoods causing fights screaming Worldstar!
c. 2012-2015 were the years alcohol ruined 4:20
SF events http://planttrees.org California
Sept 2025 SF
https://www.haightashburystreetfair.org
HASF Haight Ashbury St Fair. Sun Sep 07 2025 11:00 - 5:30 SF CA HAIGHT STREET SKATE JAM - BELVEDERE naked legal At all SF permitted, street, fairs and events especially Haight St
FOLSOM STREET FAIR Sunday 9/28/2025 10-6
10,000 people 2000-2010s nude naked ok
928 Porsche Tom Cruise Risky Business Tangerine Dream Rebecca DeMornay
Porsche no substitute mnemonic
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Sat Sept 27 2025 SF World Naked Bike Ride
https://clothesfree.com
Sat Sept 27 2025 SF World Naked Bike Ride
https://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/wiki/San_Francisco
The Upcoming Calendar of Seasonal San Francisco World Naked Bike Rides presents the funnest opportunity to ProTest to Save Our Planet — in #ThePureSuitOfHappiness ( #BareAsYouDare ). As the San Francisco Chronicle “covered” us in 2024 & noted: “Nudism is Freedom!”
Autumn: Saturday September 27 2025 ( post-Equinox & pre-Folsom Ride&AfterParty )
https://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/wiki/List_of_rides
https://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/wiki/List_of_rides#United_States
Berkeley, CA: ? (PREVIOUS RIDES: 20 JUN 2015, 14 JUN 2014, 15 JUN 2013, 16 JUN 2012, 18 JUN 2011, 19 JUN 2010, 20 JUN 2009)
San Francisco, CA: May 17 2025 (PREVIOUS RIDES: APRIL 19 2025, FEB 15, 2025, JAN 1, 2025,
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OCT 2025 SF
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Oct 3-5 2025 GG Park F Sa Su
Upper Haight St SF after Bluegrass lots of folks
Bonfires ocean Beach aft BaytobreakersGGpark
Bonfires oceanBeachaft HardlyStrictlyBluegrass
DEC 2025 SF
Santacon.info SF Sat Dec 13 2025 always 2nd Sat
Grant and Green SF + Polk St, SF best 2 spots
12-5 Union Square. Drunken bar hops. Eve 5-2
Santacon.info lists 50 events across USA. SF often posted late. No worries. Always happens.
NYE Castro is safest place to park your car in SF
SF Beware parking meters seven days 6 evenings M-Sat. Do not park within 20 feet of upcoming crosswalk sf.funcheap.com
SF Parking Meters 7 days week schedule M-Sa 9-10 Su 12-6
SF to End Free Sunday & Evening Parking (Until 10pm) 2023
San Francisco, Transportation
Starting in July, SF will roll out an 18-month plan to extend parking meters until 10pm Monday through Saturday, plus Noon to 6pm on Sundays
https://sf.funcheap.com/city-guide/sf-free-sunday-evening-parking-10pm/
SF New Parking Rule 20 ft
SF Loses 14,000 Parking Spaces
Bye-bye curbside
New parking rules – if you park within 20 feet of an upcoming crosswalk, you’ll soon get a ticket. Jan 1 2025
https://sf.funcheap.com/city-guide/sf-loses-14000-parking-spaces-starting-today-daylighting/
33 speed cameras go will be activated tomorrow in San Francisco at these locations.
Fines range from $50-$500.
SF will become the first city in California to implement them. Oakland and San Jose will also add them.
@KTVU
Live at 10 pm with the story 2025.03.19 Thu
Betty Yu
@bett_yu
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Here are the fines speeding drivers in San Francisco will face after a 60-day grace period that starts tomorrow 2025.03.19 Thu
https://x.com/bett_yu/status/1902580719777673546
San Francisco, California SF CA USA
http://planttrees.org 2025.03.19 Speed Cameras
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SF events 2025 NorCal Fest
May
BottleRock 2025 May 23-25 no camping
at Napa Valley Exposition (see times)
https://www.sfstation.com/bottlerock-2025-e2086492
Lightning in a bottle festival May 21-25 2025
Buena Vista Lake Kern county California
https://www.libfestival.org
July
Priceless 2025: July 10-13 Belden CA b
https://pricelessfestival.org/tickets/
Dirtybird Campout and Northern Nights Collaborate on New 2025 Festival
July 18-20, 2025 Two of Northern California’s most celebrated independent festivals will join forces to host a combined festival on the Humboldt/Mendocino County Line at
https://www.sfstation.com/2025/01/31/dirtybird-campout-and-northern-nights-collaborate-on-new-2025-festival/
August
Burningman 2025 Black rock city, Nevada
August 24 - September 1, 2025 Once a year, tens of thousands of people gather in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to create Black Rock City, a temporary metropolis
Burningman.org for regional groups, events gatherings also all year long get involved have fun meet people best costume parties ever
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