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It’s a citywide grid of performances, from neighborhood gems to legendary stages, helping you discover what’s on and where to go.

La Doña

Guest Curator

La Doña centers the venues that sustain San Francisco’s cultural backbone, highlighting community-run spaces where artists of color create, gather, and carry forward a living tradition of performance and resistance.

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Dave Eggers

Guest Curator

Dave Eggers, a longtime Bay Area writer and publisher, gravitates toward the kinds of venues where something unexpected can happen—rooms that feel slightly improvised, a little off-center, and all the more alive for it.

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Explore the live events and venues we’re excited about.

sffilm festival

Festival Spotlight

SFFILM Festival

San Francisco International Film Festival is the longest-running film festival in the Americas, known for bringing international premieres, documentaries, and new voices into theaters across San Francisco. The 69th edition runs April 24–May 4, 2026, with screenings, filmmaker conversations, and special events throughout the city.

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mr tipples

Curator Spotlight

Jasmine Jimison on Mr. Tipple’s Jazz Club

For Jasmine Jimison, Principal Dancer with San Francisco Ballet, Mr. Tipple’s Jazz Club in Hayes Valley is a San Francisco go-to when she wants to slow things down. Tucked just off the main stretch, it’s intimate and unpretentious; a place that draws people in to settle, listen closely, and spend time with the music.

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club fugazi

Venue Spotlight

Club Fugazi

This week the spotlight is on Club Fugazi, a North Beach gem with a legacy that runs deep. From Beat poets and Thelonious Monk to the Grateful Dead and a 45-year run of Beach Blanket Babylon, it now steps into a new chapter, having debuted the San Francisco Circus Festival earlier this April.

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Jonathan Van Ness

Staff Picks

This Month’s Live Arts

A short list worth your time. This month’s picks cut across genre and neighborhood, from low-lit rooms to open dance floors. Selected by SF LIVE contributors, each one offers a different entry point into what is happening right now.

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