BAR | Bay Area Registry

Arts of Indigenous America
2025-08-26 - 2028-08-31 | de Young – Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Golden Gate Park | 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA, 94118, United States
Celebrating the vibrancy and diversity of Indigenous American art, this new presentation features beloved collection highlights alongside major acquisitions and commissions by contemporary artists. In the most extensive reinstallation of this collection in 20 years, each of the four refreshed galleries explores a different aspect of the theme “Relationship to Place.” Developed with Native scholars and in consultation with communities of origin, the project centers Indigenous values and voices. Works spanning over a thousand years of history in all types of media challenge expectations about what Native art is and can be.
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Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON
2025-08-30 - 2026-08-02 | de Young – Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Golden Gate Park | 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA, 94118, United States
This exhibition brings together two seemingly distinct art forms: Pueblo pottery and classic cars. In 2014, Rose B. Simpson, a mixed-media artist from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, refurbished a 1985 Chevy El Camino, transforming it with a black-on-black Tewa pottery motif. Simpson titled her work Maria in honor of renowned artist Maria Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1887–1980), who popularized the distinctive black-on-black style. Ten years later, this exhibition debuts Simpson’s second customized car, a 1964 Buick Riviera painted in vibrant polychrome.
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Children’s Creative Lab
2025-09-01 - 2025-12-01 | Livermore Valley Arts, 2400 First St, Livermore, CA, 94550, United States
Our children’s after-school drawing and painting class is designed for kids ages 7-10, welcoming all skill levels from beginners to more experienced young artists. In this fun and supportive environment, students will explore various techniques and mediums, including pencils, watercolors, and acrylics. Each session includes guided instruction, creative projects, and opportunities for self-expression.
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Teen Art Studio: Exploring Techniques and Mediums
2025-09-03 - 2025-12-03 | Livermore Valley Arts, 2400 First St, Livermore, CA, 94550, United States
This dynamic art class is designed for teens who want to build their creative skills and explore a wide range of artistic mediums. From drawing and painting to sculpture, printmaking, and mixed media, students will experiment with different materials while learning foundational art techniques. Each session will focus on developing key artistic skills such as composition, shading, color theory, and perspective, all while encouraging personal expression and creativity. Get creative and explore! This class offers a supportive environment to grow as an artist and create a strong, diverse portfolio.
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San Mateo County History Museum Free First Friday
2025-09-05 - 2025-12-05 | San Mateo County History Museum, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City, 94063
San Mateo County History Museum FREE First Fridays Every Friday of the Month. Don’t miss this day of discovery each month at the History Museum inside the iconic 115-year-old Old Courthouse in Redwood City.
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The Day the Sky Turned Orange
2025-09-05 - 2025-10-05 | Z Space, 499 Alabama St, San Francisco, CA, 94110
High school science teacher Amari must let go of her grief while starting a new relationship; her brother, QC, grapples with the realities of long-COVID and his future as an artist; and her student, Alé, is just trying to pay for remote therapy.
Painted with the background of the ongoing pandemic, Black Lives Matters uprisings, and an upcoming election, these interconnected San Franciscans face yet another sobering moment: the day the sky turned orange.
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The Addams Family
2025-09-05 - 2025-10-05 | Berkeley Playhouse, 2640 College Avenue, Berkeley, 94704
A spooky-fun musical comedy feast!
*Snap snap* Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family—a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the entire family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents. Inspired by the popular TV and film series, The Addams Family musical is a spooky good time for all ages and a hilarious send-up of family quirks, being true to oneself, and celebrating love in all its forms.
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The Reservoir
2025-09-05 - 2025-10-12 | Peet’s Theatre, 2025 Addison St, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
Josh is a hot mess of a queer twenty-something. He’s dropped out of school to get his life together — but can’t manage to stay sober. Struggling with fogginess and memory loss, he finds unlikely allies in his four hilarious grandparents. Desperate for a sense of purpose, Josh sets out to bring them along on his road to recovery. He drags them to Jazzercise at the JCC. He makes them play memory games. He insists they eat spinach by the handful. Eventually, he slams up against the limits of his quest. When he can no longer help his grandparents, they begin to help him. The Reservoir is Jake Brasch’s sharply funny and deeply heartfelt new comedy about family, memory, and the path toward healing.
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Hula Class for Seniors
2025-09-05 - 2025-12-19 | Harvey Milk Cultural Arts Center, 50 Scott St, San Francisco, 94117
New Hula Class geared for Seniors and Beginners (open to all).
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"Light Bodies" by Bill Kane
2025-09-06 - 2025-10-25 | Themes+Projects, 1275 Minnesota St Suite 205, San Francisco, 94107
Themes + Projects presents Light Bodies, a solo exhibition by Bay Area artist Bill Kane. Featuring nineteen new lenticular artworks.
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15th Annual Caregivers Count! Conference
2025-09-06 - 2025-09-20 | Campbell Community Center, 1 W Campbell Ave C-31, Campbell, 95008
Caregivers Count Conference is an annual event designed for families and friends caring for their loved ones. Conference features professional speakers covering wide ranging topics to support caregivers. Past conference topics have included in home support services, compassion fatigue, advocacy, caregiving info, etc.
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Oliver Lee Jackson
2025-09-06 - 2025-10-25 | Rena Bransten Gallery, 1275 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA, 94107, United States
Rena Bransten Gallery is pleased to present a selection of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from celebrated artist Oliver Lee Jackson. The works on view span decades, and exemplify Jackson’s breadth of material mastery and expansive, nuanced visual language.
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Indecent
2025-09-07 - 2025-09-28 | Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, CA, 94596, United States
February 19, 1923—the internationally renowned play God of Vengeance by Polish dramatist Sholem Asch opens on Broadway. Weeks later, the entire cast is arrested for obscenity. Is this play a seminal work of Jewish culture, or an act of traitorous libel? Bursting forth with an original Klezmer score, Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel’s “riveting” (Variety) true tale shines a glaring light on the intersection of art and censorship when America was pitched at a cultural crossroads. “Masterful” (Entertainment Weekly) and “spellbinding” (Deadline), Indecent is a thunderously relevant modern theatrical classic that stands as a testament to the power of theatre and the resilient immigrant artists who create it.
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Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection
2025-09-10 - 2026-07-12 | BAMPFA, 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection explores how artists have represented, reshaped, and reimagined familiar objects, drawing attention to the role of design in our everyday lives. This exhibition encourages acts of close looking, asking viewers to question their immediate recognition of what they see. In this way, an object that might at first appear to be a chair could also be considered a sculpture, a stand-in for a body, or simply a piece of metal.
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Sunset Baby
2025-09-11 - 2025-09-28 | Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, 2 Marina Blvd, San Francisco, 94123, United States
A searing and heartfelt story of family, legacy, and the weight of history, Dominique Morisseau’s Sunset Baby follows Nina—a sharp, guarded woman carving out her path in present-day Brooklyn. When her estranged father, a former Black Panther, suddenly reappears seeking redemption, their collision sparks a reckoning over grief, betrayal, and the generational scars of revolution.
Directed by Artistic Director Margo Hall, Sunset Baby confronts the tension between dreams and survival, the fight to define identity on one’s own terms, and the quiet, radical power of forgiveness.
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THE CAST

Exploratorium: After Dark Thursdays
2025-09-11 - 2025-10-30 | Exploratorium, Pier 15, San Francisco, CA, 94111
🏡 Learn and play at the same time with over 650 hands-on exhibits at night
🎵 Experience a special adults-only program of guest speakers, music, films, and one-of-a-kind activities.
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Adult Beginning Painting
2025-09-11 - 2025-12-04 | Livermore Valley Arts, 2400 First St, Livermore, CA, 94550, United States
This introductory painting class is designed for adults with little or no previous experience. Students will explore foundational painting skills while working with a variety of media, including acrylic, watercolor, gouache, and more.
The class covers essential techniques such as color mixing, brushwork, layering, and composition in a supportive, step-by-step environment.
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EIGHT/MOVES Season 2
2025-09-12 - 2025-09-14 | ODC Dance Theater, 3153 17th Street, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
EIGHT/MOVES, the contemporary dance company founded by Artistic Director Mia J. Chong, returns to ODC Theater with its highly anticipated Season 2. Following an electrifying debut, the company expands its mission to challenge artistic norms, amplify marginalized voices, and explore urgent social issues through deeply collaborative, genre-defying work.
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Flower Piano
2025-09-12 - 2025-09-21 | Golden Gate Park, 501 Stanyan St. (office), San Francisco, CA, 94117, United States
Sunset Piano, Gardens of Golden Gate Park, and San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, present one of the most unique, creative, and interactive music festivals in the Bay Area
In the final days of summer and celebrating its 10th anniversary, Flower Piano will fill San Francisco Botanical Garden with music for everybody, September 12-21, 2025.
Participants are invited to explore and enjoy the Botanical Garden’s plant collections as they seek out 12 pianos spread out across the 55-acres. At each of the pianos, there will be scheduled professional and community partner performances as well as open play time for anyone to sit down and play, reflecting a range of genres, ages, and cultures.
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Seminar, the hit Broadway play by Theresa Rebeck
2025-09-12 - 2025-09-28 | Live Oak Theater, 1301 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, 94709
The Royal Underground Theatre Company proudly presents Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar, a sharp-witted comedy about power, ambition, and the price of success. Four young writers sign up for a private seminar with Leonard, a celebrated novelist whose unorthodox teaching style borders on brutal. As the sessions unfold, alliances form, secrets surface, and each student must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice to make it in the literary world.
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10th San Francisco Rum Fest & Congress
2025-09-13 - 2025-09-14 | Trader Vic’s Emeryville, 9 Anchor Dr,, Emeryville, 94608
We are eager to commemorate the 10th San Francisco Rum Festival & Congress with you in one of the greatest city in NoCal. Join us at the iconic Trader Vic’s Emeryville on September 13 – 14th. This event is ideal for rum connoisseurs, casual consumers, and industry professionals eager to explore and learn about rum, with over 40+ distinct award-winning premium rum brands. Indeed, there are around 200 distinct rum expressions available for sampling either NEAT or in a TWISTED DAIQUIRI.
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Last Look for Members — Kunié Suguira: Photopainting
2025-09-13 - 2025-09-14 | SFMOMA, 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
Don’t miss a final chance to see the first-ever US survey of the unique work of Kunié Sugiura. Immerse yourself in works spanning the artist’s sixty-plus-year career, blending mediums like photography, painting, and sculpture, and expressing her bicultural identity as a Japanese American artist. Whether you are a first-time visitor to this exhibition or want to see it one more time before it closes, members can enjoy exclusive viewing hours during the morning on the closing weekend!
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Shotgun Players presents "The Motion"
2025-09-13 - 2025-10-12 | The Ashby Stage @ Shotgun Players, 1901 Ashby Ave, Berkeley, CA, 94703, United States
Morality is a tricky thing – especially when interpreted through the prism of science and our thrilling and often disoriented understanding of its powers. A heated debate on animal testing slips down a kaleidoscopic rabbit hole where the audience is not only voyeur but accomplice. We invite you to Intelligence Cubed to immerse yourself in the world of Christopher Chen’s The Motion where we blur the lines between performance and participation.
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Colombian Fest at Bissap Baobab
2025-09-13 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bissap Baobab SF, 2243 Mission Street, San Francisco, 94110
Join us at Bissap Baobab on Saturday, September 13 for Colombian Fest — an all-day celebration of Colombian culture, flavor, and rhythm in the heart of the Mission! 🇨🇴🎉
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Celebrating Empire’s 15 Years in San Francisco
2025-09-13 15:00 - 19:00 | Civic Center Plaza, 335 McAllister Street, San Francisco, 94102
Celebrate 15 years of EMPIRE in San Francisco with a FREE show in Civic Center Plaza on Saturday, September 13 from 3-7PM! Featuring performances from Shaboozey, Fireboy DML, Inayah, Red Leather, and special guests, plus vendors, food trucks, and giveaways!

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Magic Shop Studios Open Studios
2025-09-13 16:00 | Magic Shop Studios Art and Gallery, 429 1st St suite 260, Petaluma, 94952
Join Magic Shop Studios Art Collective for our Quarterly Opening Reception — an evening of new gallery shows and open studios! Housed in the historic Warehouse District within the WTRSHD Building on the Petaluma River 🎨 Home to 11 studios and 14 diverse artists, In the Solo Gallery 🌿 Karen Olsen-Dunn — “Where I Go” Tracing the quiet rhythms of walking—both along the coastal trails of The Sea Ranch and through the inner landscapes of memory and imagination.
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Super Flex Festival Program
2025-09-13 16:00 - 22:00 | Edge on the Square, 800 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, 94108
For this 4th festival iteration, SUPER FLEX takes over four streets in Chinatown—Grant Avenue, Waverly Place, Ross Alley, and Wentworth Place—to address the current erasure and division in America and to inspire the concept of the alter egos and shadow selves in all of us.
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Beyond The Blade
2025-09-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Charles Blades Barber Shop, 180 2nd St #6, Oakland, 94607
Trusted conversations, resources, and community connection. Food and beverages will be provided.
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Puppet Wars 9-13
2025-09-13 18:30 - 21:00 | Almanac Beer Co., 651 West Tower Avenue, Alameda, 94501
Live pro wrestling — with puppets and chaos galore — returns to our home at Almanac Beer Co. in Alameda!
Get ready for an unforgettable night of family-friendly fun featuring outrageous characters, high-energy matches, and wild surprises only Puppet Wars can deliver.
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Taylor Tomlinson: The Save Me Tour
2025-09-13 19:00 | Paramount Theatre, 2025 Broadway between 20th and 21st Streets, Oakland, CA, United States
A rare talent who has garnered mass appeal at a young age, Taylor Tomlinson has continued to receive praise from fans and critics alike, with Rolling Stone commending her for “conquering comedy” and CNN welcoming “the era of Taylor Tomlinson.” Variety recently honored her with their Creative Impact in Comedy Award, which follows her inclusion in their “10 Comics to Watch” and “Comedy Impact Report.” She has also been inducted into Forbes 30 Under 30 and TIME100 Next, in addition to being named one of the “100 Most Powerful Women in Hollywood” by The Hollywood Reporter.
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