Here is The complete list of Autumn events in San Fransisco :
Where: Ghirardelli Square, between North Point, Beach, Larkin & Polk Streets, Fisherman's Wharf When: early Sept Tel & website: 775 5500/www.ghirardellisq.com
Keep reminding yourself that doctors say a little chocolate is good for you, as you sample chocolate-covered strawberries, decadent brownies and chocolate cheesecake. Proceeds go to a local charity.
Website: www.sfemf.org
A celebration of the experimental, plenty on offer for lovers of the avant-garde. MadCat Women's International Film Festival Where: various theatres When: mid Sept & early Oct Tel & website: 436 9523/www.madcatfilmfestival.org This radical, alternative women's film festival happens over three weeks, squeezing in pioneering films that range from earnest feminist polemics to raunchy sexploitation.
When: late Sept
Website: www.howberkeleycanyoube.com Politicians and protestors, hippies and punks, Klingons and Stormtroopers make a show of civic pride with a procession of costumed (or naked) participants and 'art cars' – vehicles adorned with anything from organic fruit to cannabis – parading from the corner of California Street and University Avenue to Civic Center Park.
When: wkend in late Sept
Website: www.sfblues.com The San Francisco Blues Festival held over a weekend in late September at the Great Meadow by Fort Mason, is the oldest event of its type in the US.
When: last Sun in Sept Website: www.folsomstreetfair.org
The Queen Mother of all leather street fairs, the Folsom Street Fair is a veritable gawkfest for visitors. Don your studded jockstrap and be prepared for masks, whips, chains and – that old favourite – public fellatio. Needless to say, this might not be suitable for the whole family.
When: early Oct Tel & website: 383 5256/www.cafilm.org/mvff
One of the state's best-known and most influential film events offers dozens of new movies over ten days. There's also a six-day Videofest, star guests and kids' events.
When: early Oct
Tel & website: 841 1824/www.castrostreetfair.org
A taste of the softer side of gay life in San Francisco, this one-day fair – started in 1974 by gay city official Harvey Milk – features food, crafts and community activists' stalls, along with plenty of rainbow merchandise.
When: early Oct Website: www.berkeleyjuggling.org/festival
In addition to unicycling and juggling, you can also see staff twirling, plate spinning, devil stick flipping, yo-yoing- in all, pretty much anything that requires a keen sense of balance and superhuman dexterity – at this Berkeley festival. Workshops allow you to get in on the fun.
When: Oct Tel & website: 861 9838/www.artspan.org
Get up close to San Francisco's creative visionaries throughout the month of October. More than 900 artists' studios open up to the public, with a different neighbourhood getting to show off its work every weekend. You'll find a free map detailing participating venues and the Directory of San Francisco Artists in city bookshops.
When: Oct Tel & website: 705 5500/www.military.com/fleetweek
Since the early 1980s, the US Navy's acrobatic Blue Angels have rattled nerves and torn up the skies over San Francisco on Columbus Day weekend. The fleet sails into San Francisco Bay on Saturday morning; a spectacular air show and free battleship tours follow. A noisy couple of days.
When: Oct Tel & website: 564 1100/www.aff.org
This inclusive mix of features, documentaries and shorts, which turns 12 in 2008, provides a lively and involving survey of Arab cinema of every stripe and style.
Where: Great Meadow
When: mid Oct to early Nov
Website: www.sfjazz.org
From the big guns at the San Francisco Jazz Festival comes a terrific series of shows throughout town.
When: late Oct
Tel & website: 1-888 396 8426/www.exoticeroticball.com It's obnoxious. It's exploitative. It's the bridge-and-tunnel crowd's annual excuse to pull on the latex and fishnets and party with other desperate housewives at the world's largest indoor masquerade ball.
City Hall's doomed attempts to divert joyful Halloween revellers from the traditional fray in the Castro to the staid Civic Center have proved as unpopular as last year's pumpkin pie. So pop on your fright wig, head for the Castro, duck through the SFPD cordon and discover a land where dressed-up drag queens and half-naked pagans cavort. Leave the booze behind, though.
When: 2 Nov Tel & website: 826 8009/www.dayofthedeadsf.org
Marchers gather at 24th and Bryant Streets to celebrate the Mexican Day of the Dead. After a traditional blessing, the music starts and the procession begins: Aztec dancers, children in papier-mâché skeleton masks and women clutching bouquets of dead flowers. Things wind up in Garfield Square, where people leave candles at a huge community altar. Dress code: dark but showy. If you really want to blend in, paint your face a ghoulish white and bring a noise-maker.
When: early Nov
Tel & website: 552 8760/www.filmarts.org
The essential festival for a real snapshot of NorCal independents. Programming for the six-day fest is drawn from Bay Area filmmakers, featuring documentary, experimental and traditional narrative pieces in formats that range from Super-8 shorts to high-end DV.
When: Nov
Website: www.latinofilmfestival.org
The best recent works from Central and South America, from obscure pieces to major works.
When: Nov Website: www.trannyshack.com
An array of gender-bending beauties face off in a showdown for the coveted Miss Trannyshack tiara. Judges include local luminaries and minor celebrities.
Where: Union Square, between Geary, Powell, Post & Stockton Streets, Downtown
When: late Nov
The lights go on all over town as the holidays approach, including at the above locations. At Union Square, a 67ft (20m) living white-fir tree is decorated with 2,000 lights, 400 ornaments and 500 bows. A 22ft wooden menorah is also lit as part of the Jewish Hanukkah celebrations.
When: weekend after Thanksgiving
Tel & website: 759 2690/www.farsiderun.com
As the name suggests, participants in this annual foot race, a fundraiser for the California Academy of Sciences, dress up as their favourite Gary Larson character. They then walk or run either a three- or six-mile course around beautiful Golden Gate Park.
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Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Festival
Keep reminding yourself that doctors say a little chocolate is good for you, as you sample chocolate-covered strawberries, decadent brownies and chocolate cheesecake. Proceeds go to a local charity.
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
When: mid SeptWebsite: www.sfemf.org
A celebration of the experimental, plenty on offer for lovers of the avant-garde. MadCat Women's International Film Festival Where: various theatres When: mid Sept & early Oct Tel & website: 436 9523/www.madcatfilmfestival.org This radical, alternative women's film festival happens over three weeks, squeezing in pioneering films that range from earnest feminist polemics to raunchy sexploitation.
How Berkeley Can You Be?
Where: around Downtown BerkeleyWhen: late Sept
Website: www.howberkeleycanyoube.com Politicians and protestors, hippies and punks, Klingons and Stormtroopers make a show of civic pride with a procession of costumed (or naked) participants and 'art cars' – vehicles adorned with anything from organic fruit to cannabis – parading from the corner of California Street and University Avenue to Civic Center Park.
San Francisco Blues Festival
Where: Great MeadowWhen: wkend in late Sept
Website: www.sfblues.com The San Francisco Blues Festival held over a weekend in late September at the Great Meadow by Fort Mason, is the oldest event of its type in the US.
Folsom Street Fair
Where: Folsom Street, between 7th & 12th Streets, SoMaWhen: last Sun in Sept Website: www.folsomstreetfair.org
The Queen Mother of all leather street fairs, the Folsom Street Fair is a veritable gawkfest for visitors. Don your studded jockstrap and be prepared for masks, whips, chains and – that old favourite – public fellatio. Needless to say, this might not be suitable for the whole family.
Mill Valley Film Festival
Where: Cine Arts Sequoia, Mill Valley; Rafael Film Center, San RafaelWhen: early Oct Tel & website: 383 5256/www.cafilm.org/mvff
One of the state's best-known and most influential film events offers dozens of new movies over ten days. There's also a six-day Videofest, star guests and kids' events.
Castro Street Fair
Where: Market & Castro Streets, from 16th to 19th Streets, CastroWhen: early Oct
Tel & website: 841 1824/www.castrostreetfair.org
A taste of the softer side of gay life in San Francisco, this one-day fair – started in 1974 by gay city official Harvey Milk – features food, crafts and community activists' stalls, along with plenty of rainbow merchandise.
Berkeley Unicycling & Juggling Festival
Where: King Middle School, 1781 Rose Street, at Grant Street, BerkeleyWhen: early Oct Website: www.berkeleyjuggling.org/festival
In addition to unicycling and juggling, you can also see staff twirling, plate spinning, devil stick flipping, yo-yoing- in all, pretty much anything that requires a keen sense of balance and superhuman dexterity – at this Berkeley festival. Workshops allow you to get in on the fun.
ArtSpan Open Studios
Where: various venuesWhen: Oct Tel & website: 861 9838/www.artspan.org
Get up close to San Francisco's creative visionaries throughout the month of October. More than 900 artists' studios open up to the public, with a different neighbourhood getting to show off its work every weekend. You'll find a free map detailing participating venues and the Directory of San Francisco Artists in city bookshops.
Fleet Week
Where: Fisherman's Wharf & Piers 30-32, EmbarcaderoWhen: Oct Tel & website: 705 5500/www.military.com/fleetweek
Since the early 1980s, the US Navy's acrobatic Blue Angels have rattled nerves and torn up the skies over San Francisco on Columbus Day weekend. The fleet sails into San Francisco Bay on Saturday morning; a spectacular air show and free battleship tours follow. A noisy couple of days.
Arab Film Festival
Where: various theatresWhen: Oct Tel & website: 564 1100/www.aff.org
This inclusive mix of features, documentaries and shorts, which turns 12 in 2008, provides a lively and involving survey of Arab cinema of every stripe and style.
San Francisco Jazz Festival
When: mid Oct to early Nov
Website: www.sfjazz.org
From the big guns at the San Francisco Jazz Festival comes a terrific series of shows throughout town.
Exotic Erotic Ball
Where: Cow Palace, 2600 Geneva Avenue, at Santos Street, Daly CityWhen: late Oct
Tel & website: 1-888 396 8426/www.exoticeroticball.com It's obnoxious. It's exploitative. It's the bridge-and-tunnel crowd's annual excuse to pull on the latex and fishnets and party with other desperate housewives at the world's largest indoor masquerade ball.
Halloween San Francisco
Where: Market Street, from 15th to Castro Streets; Castro Street, from Market to 19th Streets, Castro When: 31 OctCity Hall's doomed attempts to divert joyful Halloween revellers from the traditional fray in the Castro to the staid Civic Center have proved as unpopular as last year's pumpkin pie. So pop on your fright wig, head for the Castro, duck through the SFPD cordon and discover a land where dressed-up drag queens and half-naked pagans cavort. Leave the booze behind, though.
Día de los Muertos
Where: 24th & Bryant Streets, MissionWhen: 2 Nov Tel & website: 826 8009/www.dayofthedeadsf.org
Marchers gather at 24th and Bryant Streets to celebrate the Mexican Day of the Dead. After a traditional blessing, the music starts and the procession begins: Aztec dancers, children in papier-mâché skeleton masks and women clutching bouquets of dead flowers. Things wind up in Garfield Square, where people leave candles at a huge community altar. Dress code: dark but showy. If you really want to blend in, paint your face a ghoulish white and bring a noise-maker.
Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema
Where: various theatresWhen: early Nov
Tel & website: 552 8760/www.filmarts.org
The essential festival for a real snapshot of NorCal independents. Programming for the six-day fest is drawn from Bay Area filmmakers, featuring documentary, experimental and traditional narrative pieces in formats that range from Super-8 shorts to high-end DV.
Festival ¡Cine Latino!
Where: various theatresWhen: Nov
Website: www.latinofilmfestival.org
The best recent works from Central and South America, from obscure pieces to major works.
Miss Trannyshack Pageant
Where: The Gift Center, 888 Brannan Street, at 8th Street, SOMAWhen: Nov Website: www.trannyshack.com
An array of gender-bending beauties face off in a showdown for the coveted Miss Trannyshack tiara. Judges include local luminaries and minor celebrities.
Holiday Lighting Festivities
When: late Nov
The lights go on all over town as the holidays approach, including at the above locations. At Union Square, a 67ft (20m) living white-fir tree is decorated with 2,000 lights, 400 ornaments and 500 bows. A 22ft wooden menorah is also lit as part of the Jewish Hanukkah celebrations.
Run to the Far Side
Where: Golden Gate Park When: weekend after Thanksgiving
Tel & website: 759 2690/www.farsiderun.com
As the name suggests, participants in this annual foot race, a fundraiser for the California Academy of Sciences, dress up as their favourite Gary Larson character. They then walk or run either a three- or six-mile course around beautiful Golden Gate Park.
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