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This is a list of festivals and fairs in the San Francisco Bay Area, both ongoing and defunct. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Carnaval San Francisco, is a free two-day annual family festival in San Francisco's Mission District over Memorial Day weekend, held on Harrison Street between 16th and 24th Streets, Guests can experience global cuisine, international music, dance, arts & crafts, and other fun activities and entertainment on every street corner for the entire family to enjoy.
During the California Gold Rush, many Chinese immigrants came to San Francisco to work in gold mines and on railroads in search of wealth and a better life. The earliest recorded New Year's celebration was "a great feast" on February 1, 1851, [7] and the first dragon dance in San Francisco was held for the New Year in 1860. [8]
The How Weird Street Faire won the SF Weekly’s 2018 Best of SF award for “street fair that continues to improve and blow our minds”. [13] The event was named one of the 10 Best Cultural Festivals in America by USA Today in 2019. [14] 2020 saw the first How Weird World Faire, a virtual fair.
In 1984 the Folsom Street Fair began in San Francisco; [5] it is the world's largest leather event and showcase for BDSM products and culture. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 2008 and 2012, Folsom Street Events received the Large Nonprofit Organization of the Year award as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards, although in 2012 it tied with Cleveland Leather ...
Audium is a sound art event that has been presented weekly in San Francisco since 1967. Audium is a creation of composer Stan Shaff that is performed on original equipment designed by Doug McEachern. It is played in a completely dark theater designed to heighten the spatial effects of sound and for "choreographing sound in space."