Free events in and around San Francisco this week

1,645 events in the next 7 days (Oct 31 – Nov 6) in and around San Francisco, 150 of them free. Each links to its original listing. Updated October 31.

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Saturday, October 31

8:30 AM Trick or Treating Mountain View Public Library Free
9 AM Yoga and Zumba in the River Park Arena Green West Free
10 AM Castro Cleanup Hi Tops SF Free
10 AM Glen Park Cleanup Critter Fritters Pet Foods Free
10 AM Haunted Hacks: Real-Time AI Edition Y Combinator Free
10 AM Save Our Democracy - VOTE - Vacaville East Monte Vista Avenue & Nut Tree Road Free
10 AM SLV Voices for Democracy Boulder Creek Free
10:30 AM Mid-Market Cleanup Cumaica: Artesanos del Cafe Free
11 AM 2026 Marin Country Mart Halloween Spectacular: Costume Contest + Treats (Larkspur) Marin Country Mart Free
11 AM CYC Chinatown Halloween Festival Waverly Place Free
1 PM Dialing for Democracy — the Final Senate Push Democratic Volunteer Center Free
1 PM Scaling Intelligence: Modal x Gray Area AI Commissions Gray Area Free
1 PM Spooktacular Halloween Matinee Clarion Performing Arts Center Free
1 PM Tricks Treats & Trinkets: Halloween Makers Market 2026 (San Jose) Spark Social San Jose Free
1:30 PM Tax the Billionaires: Protest Tesla HQ for YES on Prop 40 Tesla Engineering Headquarters Free
2 PM Halloween Pet Parade DogHood × The Yard at SaltBreaker at Alameda , CA The Yard at Saltbreaker Free
2 PM Howl-O-Ween Yappy Hour Etude Wines Free
2:30 PM Vintage Dress up before the Movie: Frankenstein at The Paramount Oakland Paramount Theatre Oakland Free
3 PM Halloween Block Party + Free Gumbo Tastings in SF’s Bayview (2026) Gumbo Social Free
4 PM Alameda Landing Shopping Center Announces Halloween Spooktacular Event Alameda Landing Shopping Center Free
4 PM Halloween by 365 Night Market Grand Century Mall Free
4 PM Mission Community Farmers Market Mission Community Farmers Market Free
4:30 PM Canvass @ Fillmore After Dark (Shift 1 Kids Scream Zone | Shift 2 Night Market) Fillmore Street & O'Farrell Street Free
5 PM Night Market Fillmore and O'Farrell Free
5 PM Valkyries Watch Party SILVERCLOUD SF Free
6 PM Bannering 101 (Palo Alto) Adobe Creek pedestrian & bike bridge Free
6 PM BITTEN BY THE BAY - Halloween Costume & Dance Party Hyatt Centric Mountain View Free
6 PM Dig Your Own Grave, Ptyl, Demoncast, dj Goalyn, dj Ptml Dragon Tequila Mockingbird Free
6 PM Monoween: Ezz, Midtwn Decodance Free
7:30 PM Creature Features in the Fillmore An evening of theater + conversation African American Art & Culture Complex Free
8 PM Halloween Costume Party & Dance, Adults of all ages Lighthouse Bar & Grill Free
8 PM Rock's Den - Halloween Party Rock's Den Free
9 PM A Little Bit Wicked: Halloween Party Night Heron Free
9 PM B.P.T. Is Dead Halloween w/ Wonja + Anya Bar Part Time Free
9 PM No Basic SF Halloween Temple Free
9 PM PNG, OKF, Skid Marq Club Waziema Free
10 PM DJ Knives + Axra, DJ Switch, Lucci & Zerodayz Hawthorn Free

Sunday, November 1

9 AM Inner Sunset Farmers Market Inner Sunset Neighborhood Bulletin Board Free
9:30 AM Muttville Cleanup Muttville Free
10 AM Canvass @ Sunset Dunes - Judah Judah Performance Space at Sunset Dunes Park Free
10 AM Dia de los Muertos Family Fun Fest Siesta Valley Bowl Free
10 AM Safe & Healthy Haight Street Cleanup Haight Street & Shrader Street Free
11 AM First Sundays at OMCA OMCA Free
11 AM Potrero Flatlands Cleanup Jackson Playground Park Clubhouse Free
11 AM “Travel Memories” by Jan Grady Viewpoints Art Gallery Free
11:30 AM Nolan Wells Overpass Visibility Event: I-580 @ Adams I-580 Adams Overpass Free
1 PM 4th Annual Lowrider Art Showcase Montalvo Arts Center - Garden Theatre Free
1 PM Family Matters: A Next Gen Series ODC Theater Free
1 PM Film: The Loneliest Whale Main Library Free
1 PM Public Tour | A Closer Look Cantor Arts Center Free
1 PM Scaling Intelligence: Modal x Gray Area AI Commissions Gray Area Free
2 PM Film: Kikuyu Land Main Library Free
2 PM Live Music for Voters Little Green A Plant Bar Free
2:30 PM Necuhtli: VR Film & Artist Discussion Gray Area / Grand Theater Free
3 PM The Hub Cleanup McCoppin Hub Plaza Free
3:30 PM Bannering 101 (Palo Alto) Adobe Creek pedestrian & bike bridge Free
4 PM Back Porchestra Rancho Nicasio Free
4 PM Banda Day Party: Day of The Dead at Providence SF Providence Free
4 PM DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS AT KAIYŌ ROOFTOP KAIYŌ Rooftop Free
5 PM 20s & 30s Social @ Biergarten + New Friends Biergarten Free
8 PM NEIL LEVIN's COSMIC BLUES The Boom Boom Room Free
9 PM Dani Flow El Dia De Los Muertos The Valencia Room Free
9 PM The After Party Day Of The Dead The Valencia Room Free

Monday, November 2

8 AM Outer Sunset Morning Cleanup Andytown Roastery & Coffee Lab Free
9:30 AM OSA Con - Anti-Hype Conf For Open Source Analytics & AI AWS Builder Loft Free
4 PM CONCORD / PLEASANT HILL - Honk & Wave Protest Monument Boulevard & Mohr Lane Free
5 PM Tendon thread feat. Tanya Lukin Linklater Grimes Engineering Center Free
5:30 PM Are Jews an Ethnic Group? Angela Nomellini & Ken Olivier building (ANKO) Free
6:30 PM Is a Service Dog the Right Next Step? JUKU Free
6:30 PM Khir Johari Author Talk • The Food of Singapore Malays: Gastronomic Travels Through the Archipelago Omnivore Books on Food Free
7 PM Oakland's Brand New "Mezcal & Mole" Comedy Night Mesa Maguey Free

Tuesday, November 3

9 AM Calm & Focus Morning Meditation – San Francisco, Drop-In Dharma Treasury Temple Free
10 AM Miraloma Cleanup Mollie Stone's Market Free
11 AM Palestine Cinema Days @ McMurtry & Harmony House (Day 2) McMurtry Building Free
2:30 PM Read to a Dog Suisun City Library Free
4 PM Rage Baiting and Border Crossing: How AI/LLMs Complicate Translation MLK Library Free
4:30 PM 2026 States Win CA Peninsula Election Watch Party! Pacific Catch Free
5 PM Defending our Democracy Moraga Road & Mount Diablo Boulevard Free
5 PM Open Lakehouse + AI Meetup: Diwali Edition Databricks MTV Free
5:30 PM Artist Talk with CFGNY: A Practice in Collaboration Anderson Collection Free
5:30 PM Election Night 2026 Watch Party (co-hosted by Swing Left SF) Harrington's Bar & Grill Free
5:30 PM Off Topic & On Tap - The Night Before Current The Grove Free
5:30 PM Stefanie Hutka // What Your Machines Should Do: The Science and Strategy of Human-Centered Automation Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Free
6 PM Election Night: 2026 Midterm Election Watch Party Institute of Governmental Studies Library Free
6 PM Game Night The Main Bar at R3 Hotel Free
6 PM Yoga of Sound Sacred Mantra Meditation, Kirtan & Dinner The Mantra Room Free
7 PM Decentered Open Mic Decentered Arts Studio Free
7 PM Election night party! 🗳️🎉 Fieldwork Brewing Co. Free
7 PM Election Night Watch Party with Gordon Britannia Arms - Almaden Valley Free
7 PM SF CogSci - Tapes Together Strong Frontier Tower Free
7 PM Trivia Night at Barebottle Brewing San Francisco Barebottle Brewing Company Free
7 PM Trivia Tuesday @ Alameda Brewing Alameda Brewing Free
9 PM Clownzone - 3 Year Anniversary Party: Hex Embrace, CarnieRobber, Byter F8 Free

Wednesday, November 4

3:30 AM Bannering 280 (Cupertino) Mary Avenue Bridge over Highway 280 Free
9 AM Volunteering at Stanford Educational Farm - Weekday O'Donohue Educational Farm Free
10 AM Presentation: El Niño is Coming: Is Your Business Ready? San Francisco Public Library Free
11 AM Crissy Field Cleanup Sports Basement Presidio Free
11 AM Natural Wonders Viewpoints Gallery Free
12 PM HAI Seminar with Marcos Santiago Rojas Pino & Thomas Caruso Gates Computer Science Building Room 119 Free
12 PM Leading by Unwritten Rules: Rural Educators in Myanmar’s Crisis Encina Hall Free
4 PM Charged Particles Plays Funky Latin Jazz at the Hedley Club The Hedley Club at Hotel DeAnza Free
4 PM Gallery Tour & Sketching Activity: Dread Scott & Rael San Fratello Gallery 1 & 2 Free
5 PM Indivisible Berkeley Wednesday Anti-Trump Protests In front of the Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch of the Berkeley Public Library Free
5 PM San Francisco Tech & AI Social Bella Free
5:30 PM Postgres Day SF Meetup PlanetScale Free
6 PM AI 101 Series: Build the Tool You Keep Asking Someone Else to Build Shack15 Free
6 PM Desafia SF Demo Day AWS Builder Loft Free
6 PM Presentation: Collectively Operating a Performance Theater in SF Main Library Free
6:30 PM Chef Eric Bédiat • 60-Minute Culinary Demonstration & Book Signing of Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts School: Volumes 1-7 Omnivore Books on Food Free
6:30 PM Trivia Night at SPARK Social SF Spark Social SF Free
7 PM Head Games Trivia Night @ O'Reilly's Pub SF - Haight O'Reilly’s Pub Free
7 PM Ryli Gallery 3 Free
7 PM Trivia at The Riptide! The Riptide Free
9 PM Strut SF & F8 Present Lee Reynolds F8 Nightclub & Bar Free

Thursday, November 5

8 AM BoxWorks Dev Summit 2026 San Francisco Marriott Marquis Free
9 AM ALD SF - Enterprise AI Builders Conf AWS Builder Loft Free
9:30 AM TVR Signal Series - San Francisco | AI Infrastructure and Security Event for IT Pros SPIN San Francisco Free
11 AM Natural Wonders Viewpoints Gallery Free
2 PM Korean AI Startup Demo Day Frontier Tower Free
3:30 PM One Richmond Cleanup One Richmond Free
4:30 PM Energy, Materials, and Water Use in Semiconductor Manufacturing Bishop Auditorium Free
5 PM Downtown First Thursdays Natoma Cabana Free
5 PM Hayward B st Hold a Sign Protest Hayward Free
6 PM Caribbean Cocktails: Migration, Memory, and Making Across the Diaspora Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) Free
6 PM Cypherpunk Society Inaugural Meeting - Members +3 Frontier Tower @ Spaceship 995 Market Street Free
6:30 PM Imperfect Circles Discussion Group Orinda Library Free
6:30 PM Rachel Gurjar Author Talk • East to East: Recipes and Stories from Mumbai to New York Omnivore Books on Food Free
6:30 PM UNARMORED: Feel more confident, connected, & at ease in your life outside o HeartLab Free
7 PM Building & Monetizing Agents Entrepreneurs First Free
7 PM Oakland's Brand New "Mezcal & Mole" Comedy Night Mesa Maguey Free
8 PM AZ Chike Brick and Mortar Music Hall Free
8 PM Karaoke Zoe Cocktail Bar ZOE Cocktail Bar Free
8 PM Oksional: Tyler Ross, Sher1E Mothership Bar Free
8 PM Together: Jeff Straw, Spooki, Black Panda, Nile Santino, Taking Back Sundance, Baba MC, Dean Samaras, ISA Hawthorn Free
9 PM 1984 vs Fringe -- Talking Heads vs INXS theme in front-- Fringe in back! Cat Club Free

Friday, November 6

9 AM Big Tech, Democracy, and Human Rights Conference 2026 at Stanford Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center Free
10 AM Free First Friday at the San Mateo County History Museum San Mateo County History Museum Free
10 AM Harvest Festival® ~ Santa Rosa Sonoma County Fairgrounds Free
1 PM eWEAR Health Prize @ Stanford U. Alumni Center Free
1 PM Hack The Feed - Creator Tools Hackathon Amplitude Analytics Free
2 PM Gallery Conversations | JANE! Cantor Arts Center Free
5 PM Weekly Napa Rally to Resist the Trump/Musk/GOP Regime! Soscol Avenue & 3rd Street Free
5 PM Weekly Peace Vigil: San Jose Dr. Martin Luther King Free
6 PM Mini Masterpieces Holiday Gifts Show 2026 - Nov. 6th Reception Rythmix Cultural Works Free
7 PM Diwali Concert with Arjun Verma Cupertino Library Free
9 PM Bongo 1 Year Anniversary: Jim Hopkins, Buck Wilson, Golem, mind2motion Mothership Free
9 PM Elevation (1st Fridays) with Nina Sol, Mind Motion & Renoir Golden Ratio Free
9 PM Nine Dog Dick, Future Kill, Black Bibles, Step Up Tequila Mockingbird Free
9 PM Resurgence: Senyor, Anxious Drip, Sampphire, DJ Jaded, G!zmo, Endz, Afterprty, DJ Frank Nitty Buzzworks Free
10 PM Hawthorn feat. Kromatic + Young Kid Speed, DJ the DJ & Will Masters Hawthorn Free

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