About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift
August 10, 2024 - July 5, 2026
de Young – Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Visual Arts
Students on Strike: A New Installation in OMCA’s Gallery of California History
April 9, 2025 - May 31, 2026
OMCA | Oakland Museum of California
Visual Arts, Exhibitions
Art Wall / Stephanie Syjuco: Present Tense (Roll Call)
August 13, 2025 - June 28, 2026
BAMPFA
Visual Arts, Exhibitions
Rooted in Place: California Native Art
August 26, 2025 - December 6, 2026
de Young – Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Visual Arts
Arts of Indigenous America
August 26, 2025 - August 31, 2028
de Young – Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Visual Arts
Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON
August 30, 2025 - August 2, 2026
de Young – Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Visual Arts
Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection
September 10, 2025 - July 12, 2026
BAMPFA
Visual Arts, Exhibitions
UNBOUND – Art, Blackness & the Universe
October 1, 2025 - August 16, 2026
MoAD | Museum of the African Diaspora
Visual Arts, Exhibition
The McCoy Jones Collection: Textiles from Central Asia and the Middle East
November 29, 2025 - May 24, 2026
de Young – Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Exhibitions
Embroidered Histories
November 29, 2025 - May 24, 2026
de Young – Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Exhibitions
Children’s Creative Lab
January 5 - May 4
Livermore Valley Arts
Our children’s after-school drawing and painting class is designed for kids ages 7-15, welcoming ...
Trina Michelle Robinson: Open Your Eyes to Water
February 11 - May 16
Root Division
BHM 2026, Visual Arts
Exhibition Tour: Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection
February 21 - May 13
BAMPFA
Visual Arts
Monet and Venice
March 21 - July 26
de Young – Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Visual Arts, Painting
Third Saturday Monthly
April 18 - November 21
37th Avenue at Ortega to Quintara
Shopping + Retail, Food + Drink, Live Music
Urban Financial Services Coalition
April 27 - May 20
Columbia Bank
Conversations + Speakers + Conferences
Africa & California: Capital, Climate, Community
May 4 @ 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
OMCA | Oakland Museum of California
Conversations + Speakers + Conferences
Secretary Pete Buttigieg
May 4 @ 7:30 PM PDT
Marin Center Exhibit Hall
Conversations + Speakers + Conferences
Free Uber, Lyft, and Cab Rides by Wells Call Injury Lawyers
May 5 - May 6
FAIRFIELD OFFICE
Conversations + Speakers + Conferences
Secretary Pete Buttigieg
May 5 @ 7:30 PM PDT
Paramount Theatre
Conversations + Speakers + Conferences
Rooted in Legacy: Honoring Delroy Lindo
May 6 @ 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Oakland City Hall
Theater + Film, Conversations + Speakers + Conferences
Live Beyond Out Loud (SPONSORED)
May 6 @ 6:00 PM PDT
KQED Headquarters
Community, Conversations + Speakers + Conferences
The Soul Sessions: Joe Warner, Dante ‘Taz’ Roberson, Michael ‘Tiny’ Lindsey & Angelo Luster
May 6 @ 7:00 PM PDT
Black Cat
Live Music
Pints and Pairings: A Guided Beer and Charcuterie Tasting
May 6 @ 7:00 PM PDT
Laughing Monk Brewery
Food + Drink
Secretary Pete Buttigieg
May 6 @ 7:30 PM PDT
San Mateo Performing Arts Center
Conversations + Speakers + Conferences
Curator’s Tour: Tausif Noor on Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection
May 7 @ 1:15 PM PDT
BAMPFA
Exhibitions
Downtown First Thursdays
May 7 @ 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
MoAD | Museum of the African Diaspora
Exhibitions
Miljohn Ruperto & Candice Lin: Putrefaction
May 7 @ 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Cantor Arts Center
Conversations + Speakers + Conferences
Shalamar: Howard Hewett, Jeffrey Daniel, Carolyn Griffey
May 7 @ 7:30 PM PDT
Yoshi’s Oakland
Live Music
Shalamar: Howard Hewett, Jeffrey Daniel, Carolyn Griffey
May 7 @ 9:30 PM PDT
Yoshi’s Oakland
Live Music
Access to Capital
May 8 @ 11:00 AM PDT
Preservation Park Oakland
Conversations + Speakers + Conferences
Taiwan Innovation Spotlight
May 8 @ 6:00 PM PDT
Hyatt Centric Mountain View
Conversations + Speakers + Conferences, Business / Professional
Financial Literacy Workshop
May 9 @ 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT
Executive Inn & Suites
Conversations + Speakers + Conferences
Gala for the Gardens
May 9 @ 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT
San Francisco Botanical Garden
Food + Drink, Galas + Awards + Fundraiser
Thrive @ MoAD
May 9 @ 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
MoAD | Museum of the African Diaspora
Health + Wellness
2026 Half Moon Bay Wine & Jazz Festival
May 9 @ 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
Downtown Half Moon Bay
Live Music, Fairs + Festivals
Authors in Conversation with Candacy Taylor
May 9 @ 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
MoAD | Museum of the African Diaspora
Conversations + Speakers + Conferences
Olga Kern with special guest Dalí Quartet
May 9 @ 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
Lesher Center for the Arts
Live Music
Bobby Rush & North Mississippi Allstars
May 9 @ 8:00 PM PDT
Luther Burbank Center for the Arts
Live Music
Celebrating Mother’s Day with Mother Nature
May 10 @ 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Round Valley Regional Preserve
Sports + Outdoors
Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea with Asian Pastries at the Ferry Building
May 10 @ 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM PDT
SF Ferry Building
Food + Drink
Mommies & Mimosas …. A Mother’s Day Brunch
May 10 @ 12:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts
Food + Drink
Electric Squeezebox Orchestra
May 10 @ 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Hardymon Hall @ The Jazzschool
Live Music
Virtual | 4th International Conference on Gynecology and Obstetrics
May 11 - May 12
Conversations + Speakers + Conferences, Health + Wellness
Adam Mansbach & W. Kamau Bell
May 12 @ 7:30 PM PDT
Sydney Goldstein Theater
Conversations + Speakers + Conferences
The Soul Sessions: Joe Warner, Dante ‘Taz’ Roberson, Michael ‘Tiny’ Lindsey & Angelo Luster
May 13 @ 7:00 PM PDT
Black Cat
Live Music
Virtual | 4th International Conference on Neuroscience and Mental Health
May 14 - May 15
Conversations + Speakers + Conferences, Health + Wellness
The Jazz Room: A Frank Sinatra & Louis Armstrong Tribute
May 14 @ 6:00 PM PDT
The Palace Theater
Live Music
