Upcoming Calendar of fun cheap and unique bay area events Aug 18 - Aug 24
San Francisco // East Bay // North Bay // South Bay // Peninsula
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Thanks to Pan Theater's The Imagination Unleashed for sponsoring funcheap this week!
The show starts with exciting and hilarious theater games followed by a fully improvised play. Watch as performers explore the Harold, Tableaux, One Act, French Braid and Montage improv formats- creating a fully improvised play. Each show is unique and performers explore both serious and comedic storylines made up on the spot.
* When: Saturdays 8pm, 8/19, 8/26
* Where: Blue Bear Performance Hall, Bldg D - 2nd Floor - Fort Mason
* How Much: $10 adv / $12 door, but funcheapers get 2 for 1 tix with this email
Friday, August 18th
8/18 6:00 pm FREE cool SF blog SFist's 2nd birthday @ Varnish - plus a fun bingo game Games
8/18 6:00 pm FREE "The Brilliance of All Knowing" art show @ soap gallery - SOMA Art
8/18 6:30 pm FREE live concert on the beach 60s cover band Papa Doo Run Run - Santa Cruz Live Music
8/18 7:00 pm $5 "Tuff Love" black tie celebration of art inspired by pitbulls - berkeley Art
8/18 7:30 pm FREE Moonlight, Magic and Movies - family outdoor film - Martinez Family
8/18 8:00 pm FREE The Rise of Macizo - art/music/MCs/drum core event @ Balazo - Mission Art
8/18 9:00 pm $6 cool local rock band "The New Centuries" @ Hemlock Tavern Live Music
8/18 10:00 pm $5 New York Nights - uncensored stand up comedy - union square BYOB Comedy
Saturday, August 19th
8/19 All Day $5 San Jose Jazz Festival - 80 artists, 9 stages - neville borthers & dr. John Live Music
8/19 10:00 am FREE Pretzels at Aunti Anne's in Embarcadero 4 & stonestown Free Food
8/19 3:00 pm FREE Zombie Flash Mob at Market & Powell Odd
8/19 4:00 pm FREE "The Tempest" Shakespeare in the Park - Oakland Lake Merritt Theater
8/19 4:30 pm FREE "Godfellas" political comedy musical theater by SF Mime Troupe in Palo Alto Theater
8/19 8:00 pm FREE outdoor film night in the park - Breakfast at Tiffany's - Union Sq. Film
Sunday, August 20th
8/20 1:00 pm FREE lecture/walk led by UC Berkeley professor of forestry @ Lands End Outdoors
8/20 1:00 pm FREE "ChoreoFest" human artwork and moving scupture @ YB Gardens Art
8/20 1:30 pm FREE "Godfellas" political comedy musical theater by SF Mime Troupe. wash sq. pk Theater
8/20 2:00 pm FREE live music @ Stern Grove - Every Sunday @ 2pm - Ozomatli Live Music
8/20 7:00 pm FREE Ask A Scientist lecture series "Vision & Misperception" @ Canvas Gallery Lecture
8/20 9:30 pm $5 SF Weekly music pick of the week - "The Pillows" @ Hemlock Live Music
Monday, August 21st
8/21 7:00 pm FREE outdoor screening of "Shrek" - downtown oakland Film
Tuesday, August 22nd
8/22 7:00 pm FREE bookreading by trainspotting author Irvine Welsh @ the Booksmith Literature
8/22 7:30 pm FREE Pub Trivia Night, Tuesdays 7:30PM at the Cupertino Britannia Arms Trivia
Wednesday, August 23rd
8/23 5:30 pm FREE Lawn Bowling Instruction and Games in GG Park - Noon & 5:30p Sports
8/23 6:00 pm Free Eco Film Night: The Power of Community-How Cuba Survived Peak Oil Film
8/23 7:00 pm $2.50 film "Clerks" 2 for 1 tix @ pizza/beer/couch theater - Oakland Film
Thursday, August 24th and beyond....
8/24 6:00 pm FREE outdoor concert "Aja Vu" music of Steely Dan = San Mateo Live Music
8/24 7:00 pm FREE quirky two-some band like "There's Something About Mary" @ Farley's Live Music
8/24 7:00 pm Free Eco Film Night: Sharing Mt Tam/Lost People of Mtn Village @ sports basement Film
8/24 7:30 pm $2 for UCB students "Beyond Bollywood" film festival @ Pacific Film Archive Film
8/25 6:30 pm FREE 60s pop band Herman's Hermits w/ Peter Noone concert on beach - Santa Cruz Live Music
8/25 8:00 pm FREE "Capote" film night in the park - san anselmo Film
8/25 10:00 pm $5 New York Nights - uncensored stand up comedy - union square BYOB Comedy
9/6 6:00 pm FREE former Black Panther Minister of Information book lecture @ Oakland main li
9/7 5:00 pm FREE first thursdays - art galleries open late, usually free wine & nibbles
9/8 7:30 pm $5 Poetry & Pizza (yummy fresh all you can eat pizza, brazillian music & poetry
9/9 All Day 11th Annual Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Festival
9/9 10:00 am FREE San Francisco Zine Fest (comics, zines, workshops & flim) @ CellSpace
9/15 7:00 pm FREE "Labyrinth" 6 art galleris all open late w/ cool art and exhibits - SOMA
9/16 10:00 am FREE Day on the Glen Festival "Hip Music for Kids" - Dublin
9/16 2:00 pm FREE Fictional History of the US Authors Panel Discussion @ Oak. Library
9/20 7:00 pm FREE "Old Enough to Buy Art" affordable art for first time buyers - SOMA
9/21 6:00 pm FREE College Night, artist lecture, dj set, live music @ SFMOMA
10/6 2:00 pm FREE Elvis Costello @ Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival - GG Park
10/7 11:00 am FREE 6th Annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival - GG Park
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If an event is in bold, then that means we think it's cool and espeically recommend it
What is funcheapSF.com? - A free web calendar & and emailing list of events - we hate spam and we won't clog your inbox. and when you sign up you don't even have to give us your email address if you don't want to. we usually send out one email a week with all the weeks events, usually between 20 and 50. Occassionally we'll send out another email to let you know of a great event or discount that's just come up. or, if you like, you can just view our calendar. we don't care! whatever you want. this was set up by just a couple of underemployed san franciscans who want to share their list with you. no corporations, just wholesome cheap goodness.
Going out and having fun in San Francisco is just too expensive. That's why we started funcheapSF. A free website where cheap bastards like ourselves get together to share tips and events going on in the coming days.
to join our emailing list and have access to our web calendar:
1) visit www.funcheapSF.com
2) click on "Join This Group"
that's it! then you'll have to option to receive email listings and view our web calendar.
we do our best to make sure our calendar is accurate, but it's always a good idea to double check with the venue to make sure the event is actually taking place in case of rain or other unforseen events |