Think of the rain as confetti to celebrate all the weekend fun you’re gonna have with my handy dandy list of AWESOMENESS around the Bay Area! Please check websites for any changes.

Friday, May 17, 2019

MAX: 2019 A Space Festival

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
San Francisco (map)

Over three days of immersive, educational, and entertaining programming at the Exploratorium, California Academy of Sciences, Z Space, and SF Playhouse with works small and large, MAX will explore the new space age, interrogate the extraordinary scientific advances in this field, and illuminate the impact on our lives.

Annual Reenactment Of An 1852 Gold Rush Tent Town

9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Columbia State Historic Park (map)

Columbia Diggins Tent Town 1852 is presented from 10-4 daily, at Columbia State Historic Park, 4 miles north of Sonora in Tuolumne County, just off highway 49.

Maker Faire Bay Area 2019

1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
San Mateo County Event Center (map)

The Maker Movement embraces innovation, creativity, and learning to improve our communities and create a better future. Tinkerers, educators, parents, and professionals are included, because we are all Makers. That includes you. What will you make?

Contra Costa County Fair

12:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Contra Costa Event Park, Antioch (map)

The 23rd District Agricultural Association is home to the Contra Costa County Fair that has hosted hundreds of thousands of guests for over 75 years. The Fairgrounds celebrates all that is best in Contra Costa County while preserving the agricultural heritage of the community.

MAMMA MIA!

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
The Playhouse in San Anselmo (map)

ABBA's hits tells the hilarious story of a young woman's search for her birth father.

Saturday, May 18, 2019

Pelo Fest - Rescheduled to June 1

7:45 AM - 2:00 PM
Pelo Fitness, San Rafael (map)

Free Intro classes, fitness fair, bike clinic, kids games, food, drinks and dunk tank.

Luther Burbank Rose Parade And Festival

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Downtown Santa Rosa (map)

May 18th will fill the streets of Downtown Santa Rosa with themed entries saluting the last 125 years and looking forward to the future.

Habitat Restoration At Creekside Marsh

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Hal Brown Park, Greenbrae (map)

Come join this community-based effort to install a diversity of native plants and improve animal habitat at a site once dominated by weeds!

MAX: 2019 A Space Festival

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
San Francisco (map)

Over three days of immersive, educational, and entertaining programming at the Exploratorium, California Academy of Sciences, Z Space, and SF Playhouse with works small and large, MAX will explore the new space age, interrogate the extraordinary scientific advances in this field, and illuminate the impact on our lives.

Fun Family Fitness Class

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Mill Valley Recreation (map)

Join Coach Tilda for a fun workout for the entire family!

Annual Reenactment Of An 1852 Gold Rush Tent Town

9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Columbia State Historic Park (map)

Columbia Diggins Tent Town 1852 is presented from 10-4 daily, at Columbia State Historic Park, 4 miles north of Sonora in Tuolumne County, just off highway 49.

Maker Faire Bay Area 2019

10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
San Mateo County Event Center (map)

The Maker Movement embraces innovation, creativity, and learning to improve our communities and create a better future. Tinkerers, educators, parents, and professionals are included, because we are all Makers. That includes you. What will you make?

Petaluma's Salute To American Graffiti

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Downtown Petaluma (map)

Held on the streets where the movie was filmed!

Turn The Page! Children’s Book Festival

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Children's Fairyland, Oakland (map)

Our fourth annual Turn the Page! children’s book festival will take place Saturday, May 18, with a new bookstore partner: East Bay Booksellers.

Open Cockpit: Supersonic Weekend

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Pacific Coast Air Museum (map)

Open Cockpit weekends at the Pacific Coast Air Museum are your chance to get up close to selected aircraft and look inside. We raise the canopies and open the doors to give you an unobstructed view so you can see what a genuine fighter plane, attack plane, transport, helicopter, or other type is like from the inside!

Cob Oven Pizza Campout

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Slide Ranch (map)

Join the garden pizza party and celebrate farm-to-table cooking and eating! We will fire up the cob oven, harvest vegetables and herbs, make farm cheese, and eat pizza together as part of a very special family camping weekend.

Saint Anselm Festival Of Fun - Rescheduled to June 8

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
St. Anselm School, San Anselmo (map)

Rides, games, entertainers, food and beverages—it’s always a great time.

Water Safety Fair US Coast Guard

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Fort Baker, Sausalito (map)

Join us for an exciting, fun, & free family event!

Camp Day

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Downtown Recreation Center, Novato (map)

Join the Staff at Novato Parks, Recreation & Community Services (PRCS) for a morning of information, registration, & FUN at our 3rd Annual CAMP DAY!

Family Art Making

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
deYoung Museum, San Francisco (map)

Family Art Making offers a free, drop-in art project led by professional teaching artists.

Celebrate 20 Years Of Creativity!

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
San Francisco (map)

Join the Children’s Creativity Museum’s 20th Anniversary for an awesome, interactive, family-friendly musical adventure, guided by the Grammy Award-nominated Alphabet Rockers and Latin percussionists Ka-Hon.

Annual Bon Air Spring Fair & Market

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Bon Air Center, Greenbrae (map)

Visit the Annual Bon Air Spring Fair & Market, a free, family-friendly day of fun along the promenade.

Contra Costa County Fair

12:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Contra Costa Event Park, Antioch (map)

The 23rd District Agricultural Association is home to the Contra Costa County Fair that has hosted hundreds of thousands of guests for over 75 years. The Fairgrounds celebrates all that is best in Contra Costa County while preserving the agricultural heritage of the community.

Taste Of The Town Center

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Corte Madera Town Center (map)

The 10th Annual Taste of Town Center will take place on Saturday, May 18, featuring an afternoon of free, outdoor fun for the whole family.

Berkeley Bluegrass Festival - Music For Kids And Families

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Freight & Salvage, Berkeley (map)

Singout! Magazine calls Kathy Kallick “one of the best songwriters in bluegrass and acoustic music, always coming up with interesting, sometimes playful, always sure-handed songs” and praises her band as “a wonderful combination of youth and experience.”

The Valley Jamboree - Postponed

1:00 PM 6:00 PM
Upper Campus (map)

A family-friendly fundraiser for the Lagunitas School District!

Spring Into Summer Bees, Movies And Mac & Cheese

1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Mill Valley Learning Cottage (map)

Please join us as we celebrate our one-year anniversary at our Mill Valley location and SPRING INTO SUMMER with us! Extraordinary Kid, Jake, founder and owner of Carmel Honey Company, will be teaching our VGK extraordinary kids about bees, we'll have crafts and face painting, homemade Mac and Cheese, popcorn, and The Bee Movie! It's a kids' celebration!

Virtual Reality In Special Education

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
XR Marin, Novato (map)

Join us for XR Marin’s first-ever event focusing on how XR technologies (virtual reality, augmented reality, 360 degree video) can be used when educating students with special needs. Hear from experts about the innovative ways they’ve been using XR technologies with students who have special needs in educational settings.

MAMMA MIA!

2:00 PM 7:30 PM
The Playhouse, San Anselmo (map)

ABBA's hits tells the hilarious story of a young woman's search for her birth father.

Madeline And The Gypsies

2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Young Performers Theatre(map)

When Madeline and her friend, Pepito, get lost during a visit to the carnival and end up being carried away by gypsies, their rousing adventures with a traveling circus begin!

Campfire Program

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Sonoma State Historic Park (map)

Our monthly campfire program is an experience that’s fun for everyone! Join us in the Sonoma Barracks Courtyard for a short educational talk, great songs, and a tasty marshmallow roast! All ages welcome, free of charge.

Sunday, May 19, 2019

Bay To Breakers

7:00 AM - 11:00 AM
San Francisco (map)

Bay to Breakers is a race built by the people. Since 1912, Over 2 million costumed runners, walkers and centipedes have completed the iconic 12K journey from the San Francisco Bay to the breakers on Ocean Beach.

MAX: 2019 A Space Festival

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
San Francisco (map)

Over three days of immersive, educational, and entertaining programming at the Exploratorium, California Academy of Sciences, Z Space, and SF Playhouse with works small and large, MAX will explore the new space age, interrogate the extraordinary scientific advances in this field, and illuminate the impact on our lives.

Annual Reenactment Of An 1852 Gold Rush Tent Town

9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Columbia State Historic Park (map)

Columbia Diggins Tent Town 1852 is presented from 10-4 daily, at Columbia State Historic Park, 4 miles north of Sonora in Tuolumne County, just off highway 49.

Maker Faire Bay Area 2019

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
San Mateo County Event Center (map)

The Maker Movement embraces innovation, creativity, and learning to improve our communities and create a better future. Tinkerers, educators, parents, and professionals are included, because we are all Makers. That includes you. What will you make?

Family Farm Chores

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Tolay Lake Regional Park (map)

Do you have children who love animals? Need a goat fix? Have you always wanted your own horse? Come help feed our goats, chickens, and resident superstar, Pete, the mini horse.

Family Fun Day

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Mill Valley Rec Center Parking Lot (map)

Let's have a family fun day filled with biking, kayaking & meeting new friends!

Beginning Birding

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Sausalito (map)

Experience the birds in the Marin Headlands by joining volunteer Jane Haley for an easy walk along Rodeo Lagoon.

Silicon Valley Bikes! Festival & Bicycle Show

10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Emma Prusch Farm Park (map)

Viva CalleSJ’s Family Friendly Silicon Valley Bikes! Festival & Bicycle Show Celebrates National Bike Month at VCSJ’s Emma Prusch Farm Park hub!

Stinky Tales - Hosted By Doug Zesiger

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Sweetwater Music Hall, Mill Valley (map)

Stinky Tales Is Coming To Town!

Learn To Saltwater Fish

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
McNears Beach Park (map)

Join rangers to learn how to fish on the San Pablo Bay.

Contra Costa County Fair

10:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Contra Costa Event Park, Antioch (map)

The 23rd District Agricultural Association is home to the Contra Costa County Fair that has hosted hundreds of thousands of guests for over 75 years. The Fairgrounds celebrates all that is best in Contra Costa County while preserving the agricultural heritage of the community.

Sunday Special: Children's Musician Mister Q

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Mill Valley Library (map)

Fun, live, interactive musical entertainment for babies, toddlers, young children, and older kids too! Mister Q plays a all sorts of music, from Top 40 to traditional kid's songs.

Presidio Picnic

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Main Parade Ground (map)

Multi-cultural community celebration unveils new mobile food creators and cultural dance groups at San Francisco’s Presidio National Park.

Madeline And The Gypsies

11:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Young Performers Theatre (map)

When Madeline and her friend, Pepito, get lost during a visit to the carnival and end up being carried away by gypsies, their rousing adventures with a traveling circus begin!

Spring Free Family Day

11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
BAMPFA, Berkeley (map)

A Day of Art, Music, and Film!

Woofstock 2019

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Marin Humane, Novato (map)

Give your dogs (and family) a rockin’ day to remember at WOOFSTOCK 2019!

Grease - Cancelled

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Cushing Memorial Amphitheater, Mill Valley (map)

Celebrating more than a century of theatrical tradition in Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre on Mt. Tamalpais

“Singin’ All Over,” Featuring The Youth Choruses Of Singers Marin

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Strawberry Recreation Center, Mill Valley (map)

On Sunday, May 19 at 3:00 pm, the youth choruses of Singers Marin, K-12, will be performing their Spring Concert, “Singin’ All Over.”

Community Picnic, Cancelled

3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
White Hill School (map)

Bring a picnic or visit food booths, socialize with friends and meet new ones, and celebrate our wonderful Ross Valley community!

Marin Music Chest Young Artists' Concert

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church (map)

The concert will showcase solo performances by 2019 Marin Music Chest scholarship winners.

MAMMA MIA!

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
The Playhouse, San Anselmo (map)

ABBA's hits tells the hilarious story of a young woman's search for her birth father.

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