Gallery Visits San Francisco

Classical Music Concert at a Private Pantheon Exhibition Gallery 🎻 🖼️

Private Pantheon Exhibition Gallery - Classical Music Concert 🖼️ 🎹

Join us in the gallery of Nancy Lee Katz: A Private Pantheon for a special concert with UC Berkeley faculty and student musicians playing compositions by, and instruments of, sitters on view. Leighton Fong on cello performing: Chaconne for Solo Cello by Giuseppi Colombi (1635-1694) Dreaming Chaconne by Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023) Sept Papillons for Solo Cello by Kaija Saariaho UC Berkeley students Lila Belle Cesar on violin, Jaden Qiu on violin, Daniel Siu on viola, and John Paul Lee on cello performing: String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 76, No. 4 (“Sunrise”) by Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) I. Allegro con spirito II. Adagio III. Menuetto. Allegro IV. Finale. Allegro, ma non troppo Please RSVP in Advance, since they have limited seating: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9CiX74Gt-Uf5AAysWTHskNZ3TLjQbU9xE7ltrvMn4tayVrA/viewform Event Website Link: https://magnes.berkeley.edu/program/gallery-concert-kaija-saariaho/ Also they will have a special Gallery Tour prior to the Gallery Music Concert from 1:30-1:50pm. Please RSVP for the gallery tour here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeh3tU45UmmQm62tHlfl-A4aIFzkoRFvHR7h7cMJE1HmTHG2Q/viewform

Sketch Club at SF Garden for the Environment

We're continuing our exploration of the gardens of San Francisco this time at SF Garden for the Environment. Across the street is Clancy's Christmas Trees, which is also an option for sketching. We are celebrating the one-year anniversary of our sketch group so afterward we will go grab a sweet treat on Irving street! Feel bring to bring your sketchbook or plein air set and something to sit down on. We'll meet at 7th and Lawton entrance. The 6, 36, 43, and 44, bus lines and the N Judah all run within a few blocks of the garden. Forest Hill Station is also nearby and you can take the 43 or 44 directly from there to the garden.

East Bay Sketchers at OMCA

Let's sketch at the Oakland Museum of California. 1000 Oak St. There are public gardens and views of Lake Merritt. There are covered areas in case of rain. Reminder from last event. Don't forget to bring your 8x10 artwork for the upcoming show. 11:00-1:00 Sketching 1:00- 1:30 Throw Down

Nature Journaling @ The Conservatory of Flowers , GGP

Would you like to slow down, notice more, and invite a sense of awe, calm, and wonder into your day? Join us for a Nature Journaling adventure every third Sunday of the month! Each month, we explore a different natural gem within San Francisco, pausing to capture our observations, curiosity, and moments of joy in our journals — using words, pictures, and numbers. This Sunday we will explore the life at The Conservatory of Flowers which is a beautiful Victorian glasshouse tucked into Golden Gate Park, and one of San Francisco's oldest landmarks, dating back to 1879. Inside, you'll find nearly 1,700 species of tropical and aquatic plants from across the world, spread across different growing environments. There's a remarkable collection of orchids, giant water lilies, unusual ferns, carnivorous plants, and even a century-old giant philodendron affectionately known as Phil! SF residents please bring a valid ID with your SF address to get free entry. The entry is around $15 for non SF residents. Given how narrow the pathways inside the Conservatory are, please avoid gathering in groups or blocking walkways once we're inside. This will help ensure that other visitors can move around comfortably too Event Details 🕐 **Time**: 1pm to 4pm 📍 **Location**: Conservatory of Flowers 📍 **Meeting Point**: we will meet at the stairway outside the conservatory entrance 🖊️ **What to Bring:** A journal or sketchbook, writing and drawing/coloring supplies. Optional: binoculars, and your curiosity! 🧻 **Nearest restrooms** are next to the conservatory to the right side of the building. 🚙 **Parking**: Parking in this area is challenging to find. Please consider taking public transport or carpool. 💰**Cost**: It's a free event, but we encourage 20$ donations to Wild Wonder Foundation https://www.wildwonder.org/donate **📚References:** KtfNj email list: tinyurl.com/ktfnj Getting started with Nature Journaling: wildwonder.org https://johnmuirlaws.com Come as you are — no experience needed, just a sense of wonder. We can’t wait to explore with you! **🌼 Who are we ?** **We are a community of nature loving humans in our favorite city in the world - San Francisco!!!** **“Karl the Fog and Nature Journalers” meet on the third Sunday of each month to fall in love with various parks, museums, lakes, trails, community gardens etc in SF. We facilitate these sessions to encourage curious exploration and a healthy exchange of ideas.** **Nature Journaling is a tool that got us to fall in love with our natural surroundings and we now see the world in a new light - full of awe and wonder, and they want to share that magic with YOU and YOU and YOU!!!**

Contact Improvisational Dance at Mabuhay Gardens with Juliana Mendonca

6:30-8 PM contact improvisational class with Juliana Mendonca 8-11 PM open dancing continues: live musicians' jam and solarpunk riffs (words that reflect the future we wish for) Contact Improvisational Dance at Mabuhay Gardens is an ongoing series of classes and jams, led by multiple collaborators of themab.org. Juliana Mendonca opened the series with two Fluid Dance evenings, and she returns to lead this one. THE CLASS WITH JULIANA MENDONCA (6:30-8 PM) Fluid Dance is Juliana's somatic movement practice. It grew out of her water-based work, Aquatic Intelligence (formerly Liquidanza), and tonight she brings it onto the dance floor. Through breath, rhythm, weight-sharing, and contact improvisation, we explore fluidity, relational awareness, and embodied connection: how to move with ease, give and receive weight, and listen to each other through touch. You are invited to arrive exactly as you are, with your joy, your longing, your stillness, or your movement. Whatever lives within you is welcome. No experience needed. What to bring: Comfortable clothes you can roll, lean, and move in, and a water bottle. AT 8 PM: SOLARPUNK RIFFS OVER LIVE MUSIC At 8, the class opens into more than a contact jam. Darrell from Camp Contact will also help invite the contact improvisational dance community. Loke, of the funk jam band «As/Is», anchors the music. Loke is joined by a new circle of musicians for the night, and solarpunks riff freestyle over the groove with spoken, improvised visions of regenerative futures. The music answers the words, and dancers carry the contact practice into both. Dance, play, play an instrument, speak, or witness. Musicians are welcome to bring an instrument and sit in. What are SolarPunk riffs? Short, spoken, improvised visions of the futures we'd love to live in, riffed over live music. See a 15-minute uplink of Shared Origin, Mutual Futures from Mabuhay Gardens, originally broadcast live to 70 countries as part of the global ORIGIN festival. TEXTS FROM STEVE PAXTON, FOUNDER OF CONTACT IMPROVISATION These words are part of History Texts Back, a series where real words from history arrive as messages on your phone, as if they were meant for tonight: "a martial art, but without the martial... an art-cooperation." (1975) "Improvisation is a very difficult nut to crack because it can't really be defined. It deals with the future, maybe only the next second but the future. Its definition is in the result of it." (1986) "Maybe it isn't art... for a while. Maybe it has to exist for a while before people see the art of it or the art in it." (1986) "I'm talking about the democracy between two people. Did I, through energy and exchange between two people find out a secret that I could share with you? Yes, it's one that was already known." (1998) Contact improv, live music, and spoken word, improvised together in one room, isn't a familiar form yet. Maybe it isn't art for a while. Dancers, musicians, and solarpunk riffers will each be improvising and listening, with none of them leading: an art-cooperation, defined by whatever we make together that night. A note from Bobby: This is a gathering the week of my birthday in celebration at a favorite place - Mabuhay Gardens. I'm a San Francisco artist and community builder, and Artistic Director and Solarpunk in Residence at Mabuhay Gardens. My work comes from a belief that intuition, exuberant creativity, and authentic stretch goals can unlock phase shifts in people and in systems. I'm drawn to the unfinished task of protecting and growing the conditions where people can imagine a future fit for their future selves, in a more-than-human world. I do that by exploring everyday micro-utopias: preferred futures specific enough to be walked toward together. So for my birthday I wanted a room where everyone gets to be an improviser, and where we meet each other in the vignettes of micro-utopian kind. The building has long been a center for inspirationally positive deviance - it has hosted legends including Louis Armstrong, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Dead Kennedys, Iggy Pop, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Specials, Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Herbie Hancock, REM, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Green Day, Soundgarden, George Lopez, Bad Religion, and Dave Chappelle. HOW TO ARRIVE Thursday, November 19 6:30-8:00 PM: The Waters Within, a contact improvisational dance class with Juliana Mendonca 8:00-11:00 PM: Solarpunk riffs over a live musicians' jam, open dancing, and Bobby's birthday celebration Mabuhay Gardens, 435 Broadway, San Francisco Suggested donation $20, pay what you want - any amount welcome, and no one turned away for lack of funds. Full listing with videos: https://luma.com/0zbutx52 Let's meet in the flow.

Nature Journaling @Conservatory of Flowers , GGP

Would you like to slow down, notice more, and invite a sense of awe, calm, and wonder into your day? Join us for a Nature Journaling adventure every third Sunday of the month! Each month, we explore a different natural gem within San Francisco, pausing to capture our observations, curiosity, and moments of joy in our journals — using words, pictures, and numbers. This Sunday we will explore the life at The Conservatory of Flowers which is a beautiful Victorian glasshouse tucked into Golden Gate Park, and one of San Francisco's oldest landmarks, dating back to 1879. Inside, you'll find nearly 1,700 species of tropical and aquatic plants from across the world, spread across different growing environments. There's a remarkable collection of orchids, giant water lilies, unusual ferns, carnivorous plants, and even a century-old giant philodendron affectionately known as Phil! SF residents please bring a valid ID with your SF address to get free entry. The entry is around $15 for non SF residents. Given how narrow the pathways inside the Conservatory are, please avoid gathering in groups or blocking walkways once we're inside. This will help ensure that other visitors can move around comfortably too Event Details 🕐 Time: 1pm to 4pm 📍 Location: Conservatory of Flowers 📍 Meeting Point: we will meet at the stairway outside the conservatory entrance 🖊️ What to Bring: A journal or sketchbook, writing and drawing/coloring supplies. Optional: binoculars, and your curiosity! 🧻 Nearest restrooms are next to the conservatory to the right side of the building. 🚙 Parking: Parking in this area is challenging to find. Please consider taking public transport or carpool. 💰Cost: It's a free event, but we encourage 20$ donations to Wild Wonder Foundation https://www.wildwonder.org/donate 📚References: KtfNj email list: tinyurl.com/ktfnj Getting started with Nature Journaling: wildwonder.org https://johnmuirlaws.com Come as you are — no experience needed, just a sense of wonder. We can’t wait to explore with you! 🌼 Who are we ? We are a community of nature loving humans in our favorite city in the world - San Francisco!!! “Karl the Fog and Nature Journalers” meet on the third Sunday of each month to fall in love with various parks, museums, lakes, trails, community gardens etc in SF. We facilitate these sessions to encourage curious exploration and a healthy exchange of ideas. Nature Journaling is a tool that got us to fall in love with our natural surroundings and we now see the world in a new light - full of awe and wonder, and they want to share that magic with YOU and YOU and YOU!!!

Fall Holiday Chocolate Salon 2026

The premier chocolate show on the West Coast brings the Annual San Francisco **Fall Holiday CHOCOLATE SALON**. Chocolate aficionados, fanatics, buyers and journalists can experience the finest in artisan, gourmet & premium chocolate in one of the world's great culinary metropolitan areas. This is a smaller, seasonal version of the spring San Francisco International Chocolate Salon. Great for gifts, tastings, fun, and meetups. **SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY FAIR BUILDING AUDITORIUM** Curated chocolatiers and artisan culinary partners in the past have included Amano Artisan Chocolate, Socola Chocolatier, Z. Cioccolato, Kindred Cooks Caramels, Raphio Chocolate, Michael's Chocolates, The Cocoa Exchange, Mojo Bakes SF, Goufrais, Flying Noir, Dark Heart Chili Sauce, Farm Fresh to You, Tandem Chocolates, Gourmet Blends, The Good Chocolate, P.O.P. Candy Co., 3D Candies, All Star Dips, CocoTutti Chocolates, Formosa Chocolate, Alexander's Patisserie, Endorfin Food's chocolate, chocoMe, Welk Resorts, Renewal By Andersen, Kids Cooking for Life, and more. **ADVANCE TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE HERE**\*\* (Advance Prices Change from Month to Month) [http://www.FallChocolateSalon.com](http://www.FallChocolateSalon.com) **IN SOME PREVIOUS YEARS THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT IN ADVANCE**

Free event at Pier 70, Building 12. Market and festivities!

Building 12 is a complex of a bakery, padel courts, ceramic studios will be celebrating Nov 14. The festivities starts at 11,but we can start early for some outside sketching and coffee. Sounds like there will be a market.. fun! Eileen 415-305-0892

Annual Fort Mason Craft Friends Social

**RSVP via:** https://app.gistirl.com/event-details/w9fjjqcpWDl2rf44fDWa **Early Bird Discounts | More $ Later** Hello New Friends, This event is like no other - you'll meet at least 10 new friends here with our rotating 1-1 conversations! Come spend the afternoon surrounded by beautiful handmade goods, discovering independent makers alongside people who share your eye for art at the Renegade Craft Fair. We'll start with an hour of quick, app-paired chats to break the ice, and then we'll break into small groups to explore the bustling artisan pavilions together. We're going to kick things off by chatting one-on-one. The Gist IRL app takes the guesswork out of mingling by pairing you up, so you can easily figure out who shares your taste in ceramics, textiles, and independent art. Once the rounds wrap up, the real fun begins. You'll choose a few folks you really hit it off with, form a little squad, and walk through the Renegade Craft Fair to explore the artisan booths together. By the time the fair closes at 5pm, you'll have found some favorite new makers and shared the afternoon with people who love local design as much as you do. Whether this small group becomes your go-to crew for artisan markets and craft fairs, or you just head home with a unique souvenir and a great memory, it's going to be a wonderful Saturday. The Plan: - 3:00PM: Check-In. Follow the link to set up your quick profile on your phone. - 3:05PM - 4:25PM: One-on-One Rounds. The app pairs you for focused chats. Find out who shares your appreciation for independent makers, thoughtful design, and handcrafted goods. - 4:25PM+: Form Groups & head into the fair pavilion. Reconnect with your favorite matches, form groups of 3-5, and head into the fair pavilion to check out the booths together — your group leaves together today. Let's skip the usual routine of wandering the aisles solo and collecting business cards you never look at again, and instead actually explore the craft fair side-by-side with folks who might just become your regular crew for future craft fairs, makers markets, and design walks to explore together. Plus, if you want to swap notes on what you bought after the fair wraps up, you can easily stay in touch through the app without ever needing to hand out your phone number. I can't wait to discover some amazing local art with you all this afternoon. A few favorite spots nearby: The Interval at Long Now - Housed right inside Fort Mason, this conversational cafe and salon serves artisan coffee, fine teas, and light bites surrounded by kinetic clockwork and floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. Equator Coffees - Situated at Fort Mason's historic entrance gatehouse, this breezy cafe pairs specialty espresso drinks and fresh pastries with outdoor seating facing the bay. Dandelion Chocolate - Located a short stroll away on Chestnut Street, this inviting cafe specializes in bean-to-bar hot chocolates, specialty coffee, and decadent house-baked chocolate treats. Over the Moon Creamery - A neighborhood staple on Chestnut Street, this charming dessert shop is known for its small-batch ice cream scoops tucked into warm, freshly baked cookies. The Original Ghirardelli Chocolate & Ice Cream Shop - A scenic walk along the waterfront into Ghirardelli Square, this iconic spot offers plenty of seating to share classic hot fudge sundaes and thick shakes. **RSVP via:** https://app.gistirl.com/event-details/w9fjjqcpWDl2rf44fDWa **Early Bird Discounts | More $ Later**

SFMOMA Museum Day + Lunch in SoMa 🎨

📅 UPDATE: We moved this to Saturday, Nov 14 at 1 PM! Another conflict came up on my end, sorry for the shuffle again. If the new time doesn't work for you, no worries, just update your RSVP. Hope to see you there! Hey hey, let's spend a Saturday afternoon at SFMOMA together and then grab a late lunch in SoMa 🎨 SFMOMA has seven floors of modern and contemporary art, from big names like Frida Kahlo, Rothko, Warhol and Calder to photography, sculpture and huge installations. There's also an outdoor sculpture terrace and a living wall, so there's plenty to see even if you're not an "art person." It's a great low key way to meet people, since there's always something to talk about. We'll be doing general admission only, so no special exhibition tickets needed. How we'll meet up: 1\. RSVP here so I know who's coming 2\. Get a general admission ticket on sfmoma\.org or at the front desk when you arrive\. It's free for SFMOMA members and anyone 18 and under 3\. 1:00 PM meet at the main entrance on Third Street\. I'll post a pic of where I'm standing in the event chat 4\. Quick intros\, then we head in together 5\. Explore the floors for about an hour and a half\. Wander solo or stick with the group 6\. 2:45 PM regroup in the lobby\, then optional late lunch or coffee nearby in SoMa / Yerba Buena 🚇 Getting there: SFMOMA is at 151 Third St. Montgomery St BART is about a 5 minute walk. Parking in SoMa is pricey, so transit or carpooling is the move. Come solo or bring a friend, lots of people come to these on their own. See you there 👋

Drink and Draw at Jupiter

Come draw, paint, or do whatever other art you're working on! Bring your own supplies. We're usually on the second floor -- look for all the people with sketchbooks and/or drawing tablets. In case you'd like to share your art or just stay in touch, we have a Discord server: [https://discord.gg/k7Vbwgm5ey](https://discord.gg/k7Vbwgm5ey)