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Community Planting Day at Booker T. Anderson Community Center

Community Planting Day at Booker T. Anderson Community Center

Sat, Dec 5, 5:30 PM
From The Watershed Project

Join us for a fun day of planting at Booker T Anderson Community Center – let’s get some more native plants in the ground!Join The Watershed Project on Saturday Dec 05, 2026 from 9am to 12 pm to plant native plants in our community pollinator garden and our bioswale! Volunteers will learn more about native pollinator plants, and about how we use green infrastructure to collect and filter stormwater runoff and make our local waterways healthier. This event is a great opportunity to connect with neighbors, and no experience is necessary – just bring your enthusiasm! See you there \~ Hot tea and morning snacks will be provided to all volunteers. This event is free! RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2003220458316?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Community Planting Day at Shields-Reid Park

Community Planting Day at Shields-Reid Park

Sat, Dec 12, 5:30 PM
From The Watershed Project

Join The Watershed Project for a community planting day at Shields-Reid Community Center! Help us celebrate the end of the year by planting native plants, caring for the park’s pollinator garden and bioswale, and learning more about the plants that support our local habitat. Come get your hands dirty, meet your neighbors, and help keep this beautiful community space thriving! **All ages and experience levels are welcome.** Gloves and tools will be provided. Please wear long pants, closed-toe shoes, and clothes that can get dirty. Bring a water bottle and sun or rain protection. [Register on Eventbrite](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-planting-day-at-shields-reid-park-tickets-2003376941361): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2003376941361?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Sunset Blvd Biodiversity Corridor 36th & Taraval

Sunset Blvd Biodiversity Corridor 36th & Taraval

Sun, Nov 22, 6:00 PM
From California Native Plant Society Yerba Buena (SF) Group
4.8

Join us in weeding and mulching and more at the Sunset Boulevard Biodiversity Corridor. See or hear the birds that depend on the local native plants we have been planting. Watch this area be transformed to a wildlife corridor. Wear sturdy shoes and clothes you don't mind getting a bit dirty. Bring a water bottle and if you have favorite gardening gloves. Tools and instruction provided. Please let us know you are coming [https://www.mobilize.us/sanfrancisco/event/554627/](https://www.mobilize.us/sanfrancisco/event/554627/)

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Solarpunk Happy Hour at Mabuhay Gardens

Solarpunk Happy Hour at Mabuhay Gardens

Fri, Nov 20, 12:00 AM
From Urban AgTech
4.9

Solarpunk Happy Hour at Mabuhay Gardens ABOUT EVENT 4–6:30 PM: a solarpunk happy hour and mixer, kicking off a full evening at Mabuhay Gardens (and Bobby Fishkin's birthday). Solarpunk asks what it would take for our most preferred futures to become our most probable futures. What would a world in which we cared for the multidisciplinary potential of cooperation look like and feal like? Our hyper realistic imminent aspirationally optimistic solarpunk wishes are good to be in conversation on. This is a relaxed gathering for people who are building that world, or curious about it: artists,regenerative technologists,catalytic weavers, social permaculturalists, civilization gardeners, dreamers, and anyone interested in conspiring. Come for a drink and a good conversation. Meet people working on regenerative futures across the Bay Area, share what you're dreaming up, What are you building, tending, or imagining right now? \- Bobby's birthday welcome\. Friends of Bobby\, start the celebration here\. Stay for the rest of the night- 6:30–8 PM: Contact Improvisational Dance workshop with Juliana Mendonca. No experience needed. 8–11 PM: Live musicians' jam with solarpunk riffs (spoken, improvised words about the future we wish for), open dancing, and Bobby's birthday celebration. RSVP for the workshop and jam: https://luma.com/0zbutx52 WHERE Mabuhay Gardens, 435 Broadway, San Francisco (https://themab.org) Come as you are. Leave with depth perception into a preferable future via community.

Hiking to a bright future together

Hiking to a bright future together

Thu, Nov 19, 10:00 PM
From Urban AgTech
4.9

Hiking in solarpunk spirit of systems change and radical collaboration. Let's meet under the tall dome at the Palace of Fine Arts and walk together to Mabuhay Gardens. Walk and discuss how we get to a brighter future together. 2-4 PM, November 19th, 2026. This hiking tradition began years ago when David Hodgson and I, Bobby Fishkin, started gathering multi-disciplinary collaborators for hikes. Do you have an inter-disciplinary interest addressing global challenges and in reaching a future fit for our future selves? Do you want to de-risk hypothetical ways to change the world in real time together? Are you a social innovator, a solarpunk, a systems change leader, a multidisciplinary agent of change? Come join our conversation while hiking. Hiking is good at creating rhythms of thought, pace of mind, and a social cadence for collaborative creativity and improvisational thought. We will have a good hike. Please RSVP so we know to look out for you: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2004566063056 Later that day at Mabuhay Gardens (435 Broadway, San Francisco): 4-6:30 PM: Solarpunk Happy Hour 6:30-8 PM: Contact Improvisational Dance workshop with Juliana Mendonca 8-11 PM: Live Music Jam + Solarpunk Riffs If you wish to book or design or create events at Mabuhay Gardens: https://themab.org/book-event-space/

Fall’s Journey, Stop 3: SF Botanical Garden Sunset + Friendsgiving Dinner

Fall’s Journey, Stop 3: SF Botanical Garden Sunset + Friendsgiving Dinner

Thu, Nov 26, 10:45 PM
From Growth Social Volunteering Professionals
4.8

**🍁 Fall’s Journey, Stop 3: Thanksgiving Sunset at SF Botanical Garden + Friendsgiving Dinner** Spend Thanksgiving afternoon among the maples, then share a Friendsgiving table with new friends. The San Francisco Botanical Garden has one of the best fall color displays in the city. Its centerpiece is the Moon Viewing Garden, where stepping stones follow a small stream down to a still pond surrounded by Japanese maples. Across the garden’s 55 acres you’ll also see ginkgos turning bright gold, dogwoods going deep red-purple, and vine maples turning orange. Admission is free for everyone on Thanksgiving. Whether you’re new in town, your family is far away, or you just want some fresh air and good company, come spend the holiday with us. This is the third stop of **Fall’s Journey**, TownFlame’s weekly series of foliage socials, at sunset. **📅 Thursday, Nov 26 (Thanksgiving) · 2:45pm–dinner** **Location**: Main Gate, 1199 9th Ave, Golden Gate Park **Schedule** * **2:45** Meet at the Main Gate. Welcome and self-intros, including one thing you’re thankful for this year. * **3:00–4:15** Fall color walk: the Temperate Asia garden, ginkgos, the Redwood Grove and other color across the garden * **4:15–4:40** Golden hour in the Moon Viewing Garden: maples reflected in the pond * **4:40** Closing circle and a group photo in the last light. Sunset is at 4:53, and we walk out together as the garden closes at 5:00. * **\~5:15** 🦃 **Friendsgiving dinner.** We’ll walk to Irving St & 9th Ave, the neighborhood’s restaurant row, and our scouts will find us tables. Pay your own. **💵 Cost:** The garden is free for everyone on Thanksgiving. You pay your own dinner. **⏰ Important:** Last entry to the garden is **4:00pm**, and latecomers can’t get in after that. If you can only make dinner, meet us at the corner of Irving St & 9th Ave around 5:10. **🚇 Getting there:** Parking around Golden Gate Park and the Inner Sunset is tight on holidays, so take transit or carpool if you can. The Muni N-Judah line runs along Irving St nearby. **👟 Bring:** Comfortable shoes, a camera, and a warm layer. San Francisco gets cold fast once the sun goes down. **🍂 Fall’s Journey** 1. Hakone + Montalvo (Nov 15) 2. Golden Ponds of Niles (Nov 22) 3. Thanksgiving Sunset + Friendsgiving (Nov 26) ← you are here 4. Stanford finale *Honorable mention:* a self-organized evening at Filoli Holiday Lights **🔥 Want to help?** We’re looking for a few volunteers to greet people, take photos, and scout restaurants for dinner. Tell us at the closing circle or message the hosts. Hosted by [captain name] · TownFlame stewards **Join [TownFlame](http://www.townflame.org/), Make Life Happen.** **Liability Waiver:** Participation in TownFlame events is voluntary and involves social interaction in public spaces. Activities are designed to be inclusive and respectful. Participants assume all risks and release TownFlame, its organizers, volunteers, and affiliates from liability for injury, illness, or damages, except in cases of gross negligence or intentional misconduct. By attending, participants acknowledge that photographs, audio, and video recordings may be taken during events, and grant TownFlame the right to use such media for promotional and marketing purposes, in any format or platform, without further consent or compensation.

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