The year of the wood snake is a magical time of wisdom and collective transformation. Come to Chinatown to celebrate the new year in an evening of delicious foods, dancing, music, poetry, healing spaces , alongside an incredible maker and night market to bring in the new year grounded in intention and community.

The Pacific Renaissance Plaza courtyard will be lit up with lanterns on bamboo sticks plus have giant red scrolls hanging. There will be about 25 vendors with traditional lantern festival foods like herbal soups and Chinese desserts, plus here are many chef entrepreneurs showcasing their latest dishes from different immigrant culturals in Oakland including Palestinian/Cuba (falafels, harissa wings and yucaa fries),  Panama (tamales), Mexico (Oaxacan cacao) and more plus vendors focusing on healing arts.

For more information please folllow the links below https://sf.funcheap.com/3rd-annual-oakland-lantern-festival-night-market-2025/

Opened to the public in 1993, YBCA was founded as the cultural anchor of San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens neighborhood. Our work spans the realms of contemporary art, performance, film, civic engagement, and public life. Centering artists as essential to social and cultural movement, YBCA is reimagining the role an arts institution can play in the community it serves.

YBCA is located in the heart of San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood, across the street from SFMOMA and the Moscone Convention Center. The main entrance to our galleries and forum event space is at 701 Mission Street. The main entrance to our theater is 700 Howard Street.

For more information please visit the links below:

https://ybca.org/

https://sf.funcheap.com/free-admission-day-at-yerba-buena-center-for-the-arts-ybca-43/

Immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of San Francisco’s exhilarating Chinatown during one of the community’s most exciting times of the year. The Chinatown Community Street Fair takes place the weekend of the Chinese New Year Parade. At the fair, experience Chinese cultural arts such as Chinese folk dancing, opera, drumming and much more at the entertainment stage on Pacific St. below Grant Ave.

You will find over 120 booths and concessions making this a shopper’s paradise. The SF Chinese Chamber of Commerce has activities and entertainment for all ages. Make sure to get a family photo with the giant puppets, dragon and other memorable artifacts from the Parade!

Attendance at the two-day fair in the past has typically been around 500,000.

2025 Chinese New Year Community Street Fair
– Saturday, February 15, 2025 | 10 am to 4:30 pm
– Sunday, February 16, 2025 | 9 am to 5 pm
Chinatown, San Francisco
FREE

Where is the street fair located?

• Grant Ave – from California to Broadway
• Washington, Jackson and Pacific bwtween Stockton and Kearny

Chinese New Year Parade takes place Saturday, February 15, 2025 from 5:15 to 8 pm – from Market and Second, to Kearny and Jackson with elaborate floats, lion dancers, folk dancers, costumed elementary school groups, marching bands, stilt walkers, Chinese acrobats, and a 288 foot long Golden Dragon (“Gum Lung”).

For more information please follow the links below

https://sf.funcheap.com/chinese-year-community-street-fair-chinatown/

https://chineseparade.com/