Latest Events in San Francisco(November Updated)

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San Francisco's light festival reaches its peak during the holiday season, when Illuminate SF™ blankets the city in epic outdoor light installations. From the day after Thanksgiving through the end of January, dozens of site-specific artworks by renowned artists from around the world will be displayed across San Francisco's neighborhoods. Some are permanent installations that have become recognizable landmarks of the city. Others are ephemeral, one-off creations that astound visitors with their complexity. Best of all, most of the artworks are free to view. ILLUMINATE SF™ celebrates San Francisco's growing light art scene and its culture of creativity and innovation. Presented by the San Francisco Tourism Association in partnership with local civic and cultural partners, the program showcases San Francisco's public light art installations, many of which are free and accessible via public transportation.

Table Manners brings together tableware, flatware, and drinkware from the SFMOMA Architecture + Design collection spanning nearly 100 years. The exhibition celebrates the ways design has shaped our relationship to food, our bodies, and communities, and how dining can be a profound communal and cultural experience. From self-filling wine glasses and teapots made of tea, to crisp modernist spoons and flatware made from discarded CDs, Table Manners explores the performance of dining. The exhibition includes works by Virgil Abloh, Joe Colombo, Zaha Hadid, Roberto Lugo, and many more, accompanied by illustrations and textiles by Lucy Stark.

Filled with a revolutionary spirit, Vikrant Bhise’s Archival Historicity series offers a dynamic visual archive of the Dalit Panthers, a group dedicated to seeking freedom from caste, gender, and labor inequities for India’s most oppressed and marginalized peoples. Founded in 1972 in Mumbai and taking inspiration from the Oakland-based Black Panther Party for Self Defense, the Dalit Panthers sought to align themselves with their Bay Area counterparts in a global struggle for equality and social change. Bhise’s intimate, postcard-sized works are made up of many layers: painted and printed elements from manifestos and pamphlets interact and overlap with newspaper images, urban monuments, and symbolic cartoons. Installed in a continuous sequence spanning a gallery wall, these selections from the ongoing series “evoke the small, localized experiences that add up to global movements, while underscoring the enduring significance of the Panthers’ call for equality,” says Padma Dorje Maitland, Malavalli Family Foundation Associate Curator of the Art of the Indian Subcontinent. This exhibition marks their first showing in a major museum.

Chandigarh-based artist Gurjeet Singh’s first show at an American institution offers a moving consideration of the emotional impact of words. Teary Eyes is a soft sculpture stitched together from pieces of dress fabric. Despite a playful, colorful surface, the work conveys a deep vulnerability; this feeling grows deeper as we witness a violent exchange of words in the painting Prickly Words. Portraits of Singh with the figure further personalize the exhibition. “These works explore what it means to be seen, to express yourself, and the power of language to build us up and tear us down,” says exhibition curator Padma Dorje Maitland, Malavalli Family Foundation Associate Curator of the Art of the Indian Subcontinent. “Even if we accept ourselves and feel confident, the wrong word at the wrong time can deeply impact us. Whether Sikh, South Asian, Queer, soft, or hard, Singh’s work addresses the complex challenges of fashioning how we appear in the world.”

July 17 -19, 2026 San Francisco Bay Area - Location To Be Announced The world's biggest creator and maker event is back! Come see interactive exhibits, get an up-close look at maker technology, attend talks, panels, and top creators from YouTube. Industry - July 17 Main Event - July 18 - 19 Information Source: Open Sauce INC. | eventbrite

We are excited to invite you to join us at The Box SF Artists and Makers Fair for a multi-day weekend event held monthly at our historic building located in the heart of San Francisco! This Fair will also be our annual Holiday event! Originally the William Randolph Hearst printing plant built in the 1920’s, The Box SF is now home to two floors of premier event space, as well as an antique printing & vintage advertising mercantile modeled after an 1850’s country store. These monthly events span three days: Friday evening’s Early Buyers & Meet The Artists Reception (public tickets: $15) and Saturday - Sunday Art Sale with FREE public entry. Tickets can be reserved through Eventbrite or on our website (no additional fees). If you are an artist or maker and would like to exhibit and sell your work please call 415-934-6900, email Jake at events@theboxsf.com or click this link. We hope to see you there! Information Source: The Box SF | eventbrite

The Golden State Warriors, established in 1946 and based in San Francisco, California, USA, play their home games at Chase Center. The Warriors have won the NBA Championship seven times, including four titles between 2015 and 2022. Current key players include Stephen Curry and Draymond Green. The Boston Celtics, established in 1946 and based in Boston, USA, play their home games at TD Garden. The Celtics have won the NBA Championship 18 times, making them the team with the most titles in the league, including an eight-year championship streak from 1957 to 1969. Current key players include Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown.

The Golden State Warriors, established in 1946 and based in San Francisco, California, USA, play their home games at Chase Center. The Warriors have won the NBA Championship seven times, including four titles between 2015 and 2022. Current key players include Stephen Curry and Draymond Green. The Los Angeles Clippers, established in 1970 and based in Los Angeles, California, USA, play their home games at Intuit Dome. The Clippers have not won an NBA Championship. Current key players include Kawhi Leonard and James Harden.

Offering a rare chance to see contemporary Korean ceramics from the museum collection, this exhibition highlights clay creations by four prominent 20th-century artists. Their various approaches, each one an heir to its own creative lineage, demonstrate innovations deeply rooted in Korea’s rich legacy of ceramics production. On one side, the lively surface textures of stoneware and porcelain works by Roe Kyung-Jo (b. 1951), Kim See-man (b.1958), and Yoon Kwang-jo (b. 1946) bring fresh updates to traditional marbling and glazing techniques. Exhibition curator and Assistant Curator for Korean Art Yoon-Jee Choi notes that “buncheong (분청), the central decoration of Kim and Yoon’s vessels, is one of the most innovative techniques of Korean ceramics; the two artists advance this traditional method by exploring a sense of rhythm and spontaneity.” Directly opposite are three smooth, black pillars of stacked onggi (옹기) — vessels historically used to carry fermented foods such as kimchi — by Cho Chung-Hyun (b. 1940). Standing as tall as people, each of these appealing works seems animated by its own unique personality, conveyed via subtle variations in shape and size.