San Francisco Events

The SF Travel Association (formerly the City’s Convention and Visitors Bureau) reports today that City Hall hopes to allow outdoor tour buses and boats; outdoor film screenings and family entertainment; indoor museums, zoos, and aquariums; and hotels and lodging to reopen provided that businesses have their own health and safety plans approved by the City by mid-September. With recent reopenings, I have noticed more City Parklets being installed in front of bars and restaurants, a trend that is sure to continue towards offering outdoor street cafe’ style hospitality. Some Parklets are particularly well designed and beautifully appointed. The San Francisco Athletic Club on Divisadero Street has even opened a beer garden in the parking lot. The San Francisco Association of Performing Artists has a program that’s perfect. It’s called San Francisco Roadside Attractions.

Like the traditional roadside attraction along the side of a road or highway meant to attract tourists, SFAPA Presents ™ San Francisco Roadside Attractions. Local musicians and artists are featured outdoors at local places of hospitality like taverns and restaurants. San Francisco Roadside Attractions is a resident and tourist audience oriented original program featuring local musicians and artists representing the popular and world-famous culture of San Francisco Street Performers. SFAPA hopes to help sustain this program and to fund local artists in the program with support from the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Port of San Francisco’s Street Performers Program. Artists will also be sponsored by local bars and restaurants throughout the City at their own curbside dining in City Parklets and the featured entertainment during SF Open Streets program called Sunday Streets.