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Arts events in and around San Francisco this weekend

350 events this weekend (Oct 31 – Nov 1) in and around San Francisco, 48 of them free. Each links to its original listing. Updated October 31.

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Saturday, October 31

10 AM Dia de los Muertos Altars Exhibition & Celebration (evento bilingüe) Napa Valley Center for Spiritual Living Free
10 AM LEGO® Fun Evergreen Library Free
10 AM Open Sewing Half Moon Bay Library Free
10 AM Spooky Science at Chabot (Oakland) Chabot Space & Science Center See tickets
10 AM Sunnyvale Autumn Food Festival 2026 (Oct. 31-Nov. 1) Cityline Sunnyvale Free
10 AM Tech or Treat at The Tech Interactive in Downtown San Jose The Tech Interactive
11 AM Salsa, Bachata & Merengue Class – Beginner 2: Practice & Turns La Peña Cultural Center $101.35
11 AM Sugar Skull Decoration Brisbane Library Free
11:30 AM Bluegrass Breeze featuring Rare Company Salesforce Park
12 PM Halloween Hoopla at YBG Festival Children's Garden $0-$20
1 PM Oh, Mary! (Touring) - Ages 14+ (No children under 5 allowed.) Curran Theatre
1 PM Performance / Entanglement: Steffani Jemison and Leslie Cuyjet on Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi BAMPFA
1 PM Public Tour | A Closer Look Cantor Arts 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
1:30 PM Illusions The Drag Brunch San Francisco-Drag Queen Brunch-San Francisco, CA Illusions the Drag Queen Brunch $12.82-$890.71
1:45 PM Dia De Muertos Storytime North Fair Oaks Library Free
2 PM Bluey's Big Play - ASL Performance San Jose Center for the Performing Arts
2 PM Family Movie: Hocus Pocus Dublin Library Free
2 PM Gallery Conversations | JANE! Cantor Arts Center Free
2 PM Joyce Ellington Library Halloween Festival San Jose Library: Joyce Ellington Branch
2 PM Jules Broussard New Orleans Jazz Festival | Mac's, Fairfax | CA Mac's at 19 Broadway $17.85-$23.18
2 PM Marin County Jules Broussard New Orleans Jazz Festival Mac's at 19 Broadway
2 PM Peter Pan Goes Wrong San Francisco Playhouse
2 PM SF Craft & Learn at the Museum of the Eye: Ojo de Dios (Oct. 24-31) Truhlsen-Marmor Museum of the Eye Free
2 PM ZHU - ON THE MOVE - Halloween San Francisco Gold Bar Whiskey Distillery Tasting Room $26.07-$169.64
2:30 PM Dark matter short film premiere and scientist Q&A Chabot Space & Science Center
2:30 PM TeenHQ: Pipe Cleaner Flowers King Library 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
3 PM HIPHOP HALLOWEEN - BLOCK PARTY For The Culture $15.18-$321.96
3 PM Public Tour | A Closer Look Cantor Arts Center Free
4 PM Halloween by 365 Night Market Grand Century Mall Free
4 PM HALLOWEEN MATINEE SHOW! OREILLYS PUB $16.82
4 PM LEGO Halloween Themed Coding @Central Central Library Free
4 PM Midnight Carnival Block Party: Rl Grime, Imanu B2B Nitepunk, Casey Club B2B 2Spade, Strobez B2B Buns, Falldren, Odd Language, Ratchaelbeats, Re!Gn, Silcrow, Devyn, Dvan B2B Viceversa, Hiraeth, Ike B2B Jujuseph, Nykoe, Control Freak, Lucky & Wink The Midway See tickets
4 PM PERREOWEEN DAY PARTY @ THE ENDUP 4PM The EndUp $0-$19.98
5 PM Halloween Night at the Museum Museum of American Heritage Free
5 PM Oakland : One Love Music & Food Show Venue Oakland $23.61-$374.24
5:30 PM Denny Berthiaume Jazz Piano Compositions Max's of Burlingame Free
6 PM Boos & Brews Halloween Party at Taplands Taplands Free
6 PM RUDY CAN’T FAIL Madrone Art Bar
6:30 PM SQREAM OASIS $57.33-$108.58
6:30 PM The 10th Single City Series Poetry Show The Pour Up Wine Bar
7 PM "Crazy Funny Asians" Live Comedy Show (SF) The Function SF: Comedy Club & Cocktail Lounge Free
7 PM HOUSE OF VELVET: HALLOWEEN (MUST BE 18+) Yoshi's Oakland
7 PM Pablo Francisco San Jose Improv See tickets
7 PM Rush Hour Comedy Night w/ SFs Best Black & Asian Stand-Up Comedians The Function SF: Comedy Club & Cocktail Lounge $0-$35
7 PM Saturday Night Laughs - Sat Oct 31 2026 Quinn's Lighthouse $25
7 PM THTHNG: Desolation Unknown — Halloween Screening at Live Worms The Church of Mother Gong Free
7 PM Vile Idol Halloween Show Magnolia San Francisco
7:30 PM 80s Halloween Party with Guilty Pleasures Almost Famous Wine Lounge $23.18-$39.19
7:30 PM Creature Features in the Fillmore An evening of theater + conversation African American Art & Culture Complex Free
7:30 PM Doctor Atomic and Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall
7:30 PM Halloween Magic & Mystery The Sound Room $39.19
7:30 PM Halloween with The Illegitimate AC/DC and Electric Funeral Sebastiani Theatre
7:30 PM Mac’s Masquerade Halloween Costume Party Mac's at 19 Broadway $17.85
7:30 PM The Marriage of Figaro w/ San Francisco Opera War Memorial Opera House
8 PM A Ghostly, Ghastly Get It?! Gameshow Cobb's Comedy Club
8 PM Comedy Open Mic at Grateful Gardens Grateful Gardens
8 PM Galactic — October 31 The Fillmore
8 PM Hallorager XIII Kilowatt Bar
8 PM Halloween Comedy Show Gilman Brewing Company $12.50-$25
8 PM Live Band Karaoke featuring the TJ Carter Band Rebel Vintners Free
8 PM Medium Build The Regency Ballroom
8 PM Mellow Nights The Mellow Haight $7-$20
8 PM Rocky Horror Picture Show The UC Theatre
8 PM Sabbath Lives Occidental Center For the Arts
8 PM The Confessional Endgames Improv Theater $17.12
8 PM The Uninvited San Leandro Museum/Auditorium See tickets
8 PM Wake the Dead The Freight
8:30 PM Chaminade Resort and Spa: Vampire Ball Chaminade Resort & Spa See tickets
8:30 PM Edu Bega Band, Marshall House Projec, Kayatta & Company Mystic Theatre
8:30 PM KATDELIC (P-Funk Allstar & Grammy Winner) *FUNKY HALLOWEEN COSTUME BALL* w/ DJ D-FLY + *GALACTIC AFTERPARTY* The Boom Boom Room
9 PM All Hallow's Eve: OtebNSolrac, Digital KitKat, Artune, Aeromancer, Nicolo, 1Becoming11, Michael Liu, Nichi, Rainy, EggZen, CorporateTool, Atran, Hate2death, Crashfaster (Live), Bleeds (Live), E.N. Cowell (Live), Alice Knows Karate (DJ Set), Ceno.B1t (DJ Set) DNA Lounge See tickets
9 PM Christian Löffler >< Halloween Night >< presented by Public Works & Safra Public Works $53.47
9 PM Dusk to Dawn Halloween at the Palace of Fine Arts Palace of Fine Arts $72.54-$82.84
9 PM Garage of Horrors: An All-Night Halloween Rush of UKG and Hard House Swig Free
9 PM HALLOWEEN NIGHT w/ DJs DCISCHILLIN, THE C.M.E, SEAN G & DJ KLEPTIC For The Culture $0-$106.49
9 PM Little Hillows' Eve with Dog House and The Laytcomers Little Hill Lounge
9 PM R&B and RIBS SF - HALLOWEEN SVN West - A NPU Venue $24.20-$47.41
9 PM The (Not So) Late Show - Sat Oct 31 2026 Quinn's Lighthouse $25
9 PM The Boo-Over SF The Great Northern $19.66-$48.85
9 PM Tony Lindsay feat. Janice Maxie-Reid Keys Jazz Bistro See tickets
9 PM TWISTED CIRCUS | HALLOWEEN PARTY | HIP-HOP REGGAETON | DELIRIUM SF Delirium Free
9:30 PM De’Sean Jones & Friends Black Cat $20-$60, fees included
9:30 PM ZHU at Space 550 Space 550 $41.80-$48.08
10 PM Halloween All Night Experience (Presented by Afrobeats Oakland) Oakland $22.68-$30
10 PM HALLOWEEN DAMN NEAR NAKED PART 2 Lux Pub and Club $12.51
10:30 PM Late Set: Simon Rowe Organ Trio Keys Jazz Bistro See tickets

Sunday, November 1

10 AM Free First Sunday (November 2026) New Museum Los Gatos Free
10 AM Open Art Studio: "Choose ur Project" Artist Center $49.87
10:30 AM Storytime & Drawing Demo With Nidhi Chanani Foster City Library Free
11 AM First Sundays at OMCA OMCA Free
11 AM “Travel Memories” by Jan Grady Viewpoints Art Gallery Free
11:30 AM Dia de los Muertos DRAG BRUNCH NIDO's BackYard $7.18-$12.51
12 PM Reggae Roadhouse! Rio Nido Roadhouse Free
12:30 PM CW Bayer Hopmonk Tavern - Sonoma
1 PM 4th Annual Lowrider Art Showcase Montalvo Arts Center - Garden Theatre Free
1 PM 5TH ANNUAL OUTDOOR CLASSICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL Central Park Performance Pavillion Free
1 PM Family Matters: A Next Gen Series ODC Theater Free
1 PM OMCA Architecture Walk and Talk Oakland Museum of California 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 Bluey's Big Play San Jose Center for the Performing Arts
2 PM Gallery Conversations | JANE! Cantor Arts Center Free
2 PM Live Music for Voters Little Green A Plant Bar Free
2 PM Manon w/ San Francisco Opera War Memorial Opera House
2 PM Nala | Rooftop Party Blanco Urban Venue $23.18-$28.52
2 PM Rescue Rocks- Annual animal sanctuary benefit concert Lucca Bar & Grill $33.85-$68.53
2 PM SCP MainStage Presents: Alice in Wonderland Sunnyvale Theatre $48.80-$57.33
2 PM Wind Chamber Music Legion of Honor
2:30 PM Luna Mexicana Paramount Theatre See tickets
2:30 PM Necuhtli: VR Film & Artist Discussion Gray Area / Grand Theater Free
3 PM Dog Man - The Musical San Jose Civic
3 PM Ema Nikolovska, mezzo-soprano Sean Shibe, guitar Orlando Variations Hertz Hall See tickets
3 PM Public Tour | A Closer Look Cantor Arts Center Free
3:30 PM The Mutants, Short Dogs Grow, Fuzz Attack Bottom Of The Hill See tickets
4 PM "BAILE DIA DE MUERTOS" SAN FRANCISCO | OUTDOOR DAY PARTY The EndUp $0-$12.50
4 PM Banda Day Party: Day of The Dead at Providence SF Providence Free
4 PM Día de Muertos en la Misión Mission Dolores Basilica $7.18-$17.85
4 PM Halloween & Día de los Muertos, Oceánica Ballet’s Viva La Vida & Excerpts of P1N0CCH10 & Carmilla College of San Mateo Theatre
4 PM Learn beginner Country Swing, 2 Step and line dancing! The Old Wagon Saloon & Grill $12.51
4 PM Vani Suresh: Ananta Margam - The Infinite Pursuit Theater | Cañada College Free
4:30 PM Jeremy Pelt Quintet Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society
5 PM Pope Suburban, deadramones, Tree Eater, & Ratfuck @ The Knockout The Knockout
5 PM PUMPS Sundays at Beaux: Tacones - Dia de los Muertos Celebration! Beaux $0-$14.64
5 PM RS26: Fall Edition at the Palace of Fine Arts Palace of Fine Arts $39.19-$92.55
6 PM Comedy Open Mic at Eli’s Mile High Club Eli’s Mile High Club
6 PM HellaSecret Comedy & Cocktail Night 2026 : Oakland / TEMESCAL Mesa Maguey Free
6 PM Oakland's Brand New "Mezcal & Mole" Comedy Night Mesa Maguey $0-$23.18
6 PM Pablo Francisco San Jose Improv See tickets
6:30 PM Music Open Mic at The Chieftain Irish Pub & Restaurant The Chieftain Irish Pub & Restaurant
7 PM An Autumn Evening of Big Band and Vocal Jazz Mt Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church (MDUUC) $23.18
7 PM Cobb's Comedy Showcase Cobb's Comedy Club
7 PM Etana, with DJ Sep Sweetwater Music Hall
7 PM Hillside Echoes presents Folk Dancing with Da! Mozhem The Hillside Club $17.85-$20
7 PM Kapo Fox Theatre
7 PM Secret Guest List: Cobb's Free Comedy Nights (2026) Cobb's Comedy Club Free
7 PM SF Salsa Social | Salsa Dancing & Lesson at Verdi Club, San Francisco Verdi Club $17-$23.18
7 PM The Billie Holiday Project featuring the Stella Heath Quintet Biscuits & Blues $44.43-$71.09
7 PM The Musical Box The Regency Ballroom
7:30 PM Ahmed Al-kadri Live! The Lost Church San Francisco
7:30 PM Clutch The Pearls! Drag Cabaret // Put A Hat On It Make-Out Room $15-$20
7:45 PM Cheaper Than Therapy, Stand-up Comedy: Sunday FUNday, Nov 1 Cheaper Than Therapy $25
8 PM bunii & Crayon Cornerstone Craft Beer & Live Music
8 PM Karaoke Sundays with Razor Entertainment - Hosted by AJ the KJ Barrel Proof Lounge Free
8 PM NEIL LEVIN's COSMIC BLUES The Boom Boom Room Free
9 PM Steady Rockin The Knockout
9:15 PM De’Sean Jones & Friends Black Cat $20-$50, fees included

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