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What to do in San Francisco in October 2026

548 events from Friday, October 23 to Saturday, October 31, 2026. Free: 84. Busiest venues: The Midway, Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, Minnesota Street Project.

Friday, October 23, 2026

Visual arts
until Dec 6

Contemporary Painting in Papua New Guinea: Mathias Kauage and His Family

de Young Museum · Golden Gate Park
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until May 9

Table Manners

SFMOMA · SoMa
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 16

Al-An deSouza: Table Settings

Asian Art Museum · Civic Center
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 21

Alexandre Estrela: RedSkyFalls

Alexandre Estrela

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Feb 28

Feel the Beat: Dance in Photographs

SFMOMA · SoMa
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 21

Caguiat Delacruz: The Tramp

Justin Caguiat · Rafael Delacruz

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Nov 29

Graciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds

SFMOMA · SoMa
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jul 25

Miró: Proof Against All

Legion of Honor · Lincoln Park, Richmond District
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jul 4

O. Smith: Artivist

SFMOMA · SoMa
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Mar 29

Kim Minwook: On Carving, Bending, and Binding Wood

Asian Art Museum · Civic Center
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 31

Treasures of the Pharaohs

de Young Museum · Golden Gate Park
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 25

CE Residency at YBCA

Creativity Explored · Mission District
- Visual arts
Free
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Visual arts
until Jan 3

GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts · SoMa
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Apr 18

Klee Behind the Mask

SFMOMA · SoMa
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 15

Jennifer Steinkamp: It's a nice day for a white wedding.

SFMOMA · SoMa
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 17

OBJECTS: USA

Museum of Craft and Design · Dogpatch
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 21

Drawn Together

Creativity Explored · Mission District
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Oct 31

20 Years: Eleanor Harwood Gallery Anniversary Exhibition

Minnesota Street Project · Dogpatch
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Oct 31

Blaise Rosenthal: A Far Country

Blaise Rosenthal

Minnesota Street Project · Dogpatch
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Oct 24

Flora + Fauna

Minnesota Street Project · Dogpatch
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Oct 31

Isadora Gullov-Singh: Traces We Hold

Isadora Gullov-Singh

Minnesota Street Project · Dogpatch
- Visual arts
Free
Music
until Oct 31

Little Shop of Horrors

New Conservatory Theatre Center · Civic Center
- Music
- Theatre
Visual arts
until Oct 31

Megan Broughton: False Horizon

Megan Broughton

Minnesota Street Project · Dogpatch
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Oct 31

Rex Ray

Minnesota Street Project · Dogpatch
- Visual arts
Free
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Visual arts
until Nov 13

Artist-in-Residence: CFGNY

CFGNY

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Nov 7

Haines Gallery: 250 Years, Indigenous Futures

Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Marina
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Jan 4

Garuda in Bali

Asian Art Museum · Civic Center
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Oct 31

BLACK INTERIORS: Celebrating 5 Years of Black (Space) Residency

Minnesota Street Project · Dogpatch
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Nov 14

Raymond Meeks: Assemblage

Raymond Meeks

Minnesota Street Project · Dogpatch
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Oct 24

Unfinished Lines

Minnesota Street Project · Dogpatch
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Jan 31

Dread Scott: The Body Politic

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts · SoMa
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 25

Ha Chong-Hyun: Retrospective

Asian Art Museum · Civic Center
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 31

Rael San Fratello: Prototypes and Provocations

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts · SoMa
- Visual arts
Comedy
until Nov 28

Peter Pan Goes Wrong

San Francisco Playhouse · Union Square
- Comedy
- Theatre
$60–$145
Visual arts
until Nov 14

Kevin Cohya Valor: Drooling Corner

Kevin Cohya Valor

Cushion Works
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Nov 14

Wendy Clarke: The Prison Tapes (1979-2002)

Wendy Clarke

Cushion Works
- Visual arts
- Cinema
Free
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Visual arts
until May 30

After the Island: Ornament and Ceramic Practice in the Jamaican Diaspora

Museum of the African Diaspora · SoMa
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Dec 6

Calling All Cats!

Museum of the African Diaspora · SoMa
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until May 30

Dewey Crumpler: Sonic Lineages

Museum of the African Diaspora · SoMa
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 4

2026 Next Generation Bamboo Art Prize Winners

Asian Art Museum · Civic Center
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Dec 19

David Driskell: Wake Up Everybody

David Driskell

Minnesota Street Project · Dogpatch
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Oct 24

Felicia Chiao: Not Too Sweet

Felicia Chiao

Minnesota Street Project · Dogpatch
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Nov 28

Martin Malvar: For Your Amusement

Martin Malvar

Minnesota Street Project · Dogpatch
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Feb 7

RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me

SFMOMA · SoMa
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Feb 27

Sideways Glance

Alexa Burrell · Sienna Freeman · Barbara Hammer · Daviel Shy

Minnesota Street Project · Dogpatch
- Visual arts
Free
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
Visual arts
until Jan 9

Leila Weefur: The Chapel of Becoming

Leila Weefur

The Lab · Mission District
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Dec 16

Lasting Joy: Asawa Family Selections

Ruth Asawa

Minnesota Street Project · Dogpatch
- Visual arts
Free
Comedy
until Nov 1

Oh, Mary!

Curran Theatre · Theater District
- Comedy
- Theatre
Tickets
Visual arts
until Nov 20

England Hidalgo: How Not to Gaze at the Colonial Archive

England Hidalgo

SOMArts Cultural Center · SoMa
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 15

2026 Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition

SOMArts Cultural Center · SoMa
- Visual arts
Free
Theatre
until Nov 15

A Case for the Existence of God

New Conservatory Theatre Center · Civic Center
- Theatre
Music
until Oct 23

MuZiek

Madrone Art Bar · NoPa
- Music
Theatre
Open run

Dear San Francisco

The 7 Fingers

Club Fugazi · North Beach
- Theatre
- Circus
Theatre
until Nov 8

Word for Word: Assimilation (stories by E.L. Doctorow and Tatyana Tolstaya)

Word for Word Performing Arts Company

Z Space · Mission District
- Theatre
- Literature
Literature
10 AM

Café littéraire with Guy Alexandre Sounda: Les mots marcheurs

Guy Alexandre Sounda

Alliance Française de San Francisco
- Literature
Music
10 AM

Jeno & Markie b2b

Underground SF · Lower Haight
- Music
- Nights out
- House
- Techno
Tickets
Cinema
11 AM

Godzilla vs. Megalon

Alamo Drafthouse New Mission · Mission District
- Cinema
Tickets
Cinema
12:15 PM

Marie Antoinette (2006)

Alamo Drafthouse New Mission · Mission District
- Cinema
Tickets
Music
4 PM

You Can See Everything ~ 4 PM

Balboa Theater · Outer Richmond
- Music

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