Free events in San Francisco in December 2026

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

• Visual arts

  until Dec 19

  David Driskell: Wake Up Everybody

  David Driskell

  Minnesota Street Project · Dogpatch

  • Visual arts

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Visual arts

  until Feb 27

  Sideways Glance

  Alexa Burrell · Sienna Freeman · Barbara Hammer · Daviel Shy

  Minnesota Street Project · Dogpatch

  • Visual arts

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Visual arts

  until Dec 19

  Zedekiah Gonsalves Schild: A Verb Meaning to Wash One's Wounds in an Ocean

  Zedekiah Gonsalves Schild

  Minnesota Street Project · Dogpatch

  • Visual arts

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Visual arts

  until Dec 16

  Lasting Joy: Asawa Family Selections

  Ruth Asawa

  Minnesota Street Project · Dogpatch

  • Visual arts

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Wednesday, December 2, 2026

• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Thursday, December 3, 2026

• Literature

  6:30 PM

  Melissa Clark Author Talk • The Big Book of Dinner: Recipes and Rules (and How to Break Them)

  Melissa Clark

  Omnivore Books on Food · Noe Valley

  • Literature

  Free Tickets ↗

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Music

  8 PM

  Oksional: Yaz, Justyn Myers

  Yaz · Justyn Myers

  Mothership Bar · Bernal Heights / Mission

  • Music
  • Nights out
  • House
  • Progressive house

  Free Tickets ↗

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Music

  9 PM

  Connect w/JustJovani

  Justjovani

  F8 · SoMa

  • Music
  • Nights out
  • Techno

  Free Tickets ↗

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Friday, December 4, 2026

• Literature

  6 PM

  PEN 2 POWER

  San Francisco Public Library, Main Library · Civic Center

  • Literature

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Visual arts

  7 PM

  FF in SF: A Celebration of 50 Years of Free Expression with Franklin Furnace

  The Lab · Mission District

  • Visual arts
  • Literature

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
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• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Saturday, December 5, 2026

• Literature

  1 PM

  Rosanna Xia in conversation with Marina Psaros

  Rosanna Xia

  San Francisco Public Library, Main Library · Civic Center

  • Literature

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Sunday, December 6, 2026

• Music

  9:30 AM

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture Farmers Market

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Other

  1 PM

  Eugene O’Neill—51 Plays in 51 Minutes

  San Francisco Public Library, Main Library · Civic Center

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Literature

  2 PM

  Joan Steinau Lester in Conversation with Jewelle Gomez

  Joan Steinau Lester

  San Francisco Public Library, Main Library · Civic Center

  • Literature

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Monday, December 7, 2026

• Music

  5 PM

  Analog Music Mondays @ Manny's

  Manny's · Mission District

  • Music

  Free Tickets ↗

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Tuesday, December 8, 2026

• Literature

  6 PM

  Elizabeth Svoboda in conversation with Sweta Chawla

  Elizabeth Svoboda

  San Francisco Public Library, Main Library · Civic Center

  • Literature

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Wednesday, December 9, 2026

• Music

  11 AM

  MARS Project Exhibition Concert with Downtown High School

  San Francisco Public Library, Main Library · Civic Center

  • Music
  • Concert

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Cinema

  6:30 PM

  Mud Frontier: Film Screening & Talkback with Rael San Fratello

  Yerba Buena Center for the Arts · SoMa

  • Cinema

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
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• Other

  7 PM

  Trivia Night at Manny’s

  Manny's · Mission District

  Free Tickets ↗

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Thursday, December 10, 2026

• Literature

  6 PM

  Kim Shuck's Poem Jam Celebrates November Dance Shirt

  Kim Shuck

  San Francisco Public Library, Main Library · Civic Center

  • Literature

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Friday, December 11, 2026

• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Sunday, December 13, 2026

• Music

  9:30 AM

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture Farmers Market

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Literature

  2 PM

  Susanna Kwan, Awake in the Floating City

  Susanna Kwan

  San Francisco Public Library, Main Library · Civic Center

  • Literature

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Monday, December 14, 2026

• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Tuesday, December 15, 2026

• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Wednesday, December 16, 2026

• Literature

  6 PM

  Poets on Jen Siraganian’s Everything Has Been Moved, Even The Dead

  San Francisco Public Library, Main Library · Civic Center

  • Literature

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Other

  6 PM

  The Velvet Underground

  San Francisco Public Library, Main Library · Civic Center

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
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• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Thursday, December 17, 2026

• Music

  7:30 PM

  Walker Talks

  Bird & Beckett Books & Records · Glen Park

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Friday, December 18, 2026

• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Saturday, December 19, 2026

• Music

  12 PM

  Blue Bear School of Music All Stars Band Concert

  San Francisco Public Library, Main Library · Civic Center

  • Music
  • Concert

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Sunday, December 20, 2026

• Music

  9:30 AM

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture Farmers Market

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Music

  12 PM

  Blue Bear College of Music All Star Band Concert

  San Francisco Public Library, Main Library · Civic Center

  • Music
  • Concert

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Monday, December 21, 2026

• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Tuesday, December 22, 2026

• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Wednesday, December 23, 2026

• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Thursday, December 24, 2026

• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Friday, December 25, 2026

• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Sunday, December 27, 2026

• Music

  9:30 AM

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture Farmers Market

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested
• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Monday, December 28, 2026

• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Tuesday, December 29, 2026

• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

Wednesday, December 30, 2026

• Music

  —Time not announced

  American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

  Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina

  • Music

  Free

  ✓ Going ★ Interested

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