Swing into Stories @ Koret Playground (Golden Gate Park)
2025-09-09 09:30 - 12:00, 2025-10-14 09:30 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Koret Playground @ Golden Gate Park, Koret Children's Quarter Playground, Martin Luther King Jr Dr & Bowling Green Dr,, San Francisco, CA, 94117, United States
The Library’s YouthMobile is coming to the park! Movement and play are essential building blocks in fostering literacy and a love of reading. In partnership with the SF Rec & Park, we bring stories and song to our City’s beloved parks. Join us for a high-energy storytime in our beautiful outdoors!
The YouthMobile offers a diverse selection of children’s library materials available for check-out with an SFPL library card. From the City’s only kid-focused bookmobile, we circulate materials, create library cards and provide the public with information about library services and programs. Come aboard and see what we have!
Tuesdays from 9:30 a.m.–12 noon.
Storytime at 10:30 a.m.
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1st Tuesday of the month
Garfield Playground (Treat & 26th Streets)
2nd Tuesday of the month
Koret Playground (Golden Gate Park, by the carousel)
3rd Tuesday of the month
Helen Wills Playground (1401 Broadway at Larkin)

4th Tuesday of the month
Redwood Grove Playground (McLaren Park, 200 John F. Shelley Dr.)

More info >

Meet the Animal Keepers @ Randall Museum
2025-09-13 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-09-20 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-09-27 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-10-04 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-10-11 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-10-18 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-10-25 11:30 - 12:30 | Randall Museum, Museum Way, San Francisco, CA, 94114, United States
Venture into the Randall Museum’s live animal exhibit, Wild in California, and join one of the animal keepers in an open discussion about the museum’s wildlife residents. Learn how the keepers care for the animals and how and where these creatures live in the wild. Kids and families will meet some of the animals up-close and can ask the keeper questions to find out more about their favorites. Visitors can meet a snake, check out a barn owl, or maybe even touch a tortoise.
This is a FREE drop-in event on Saturdays at 11:30am.
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Birding the Hill @ Randall Museum
2025-09-20 08:00 - 10:00, 2025-10-18 08:00 - 10:00 | Randall Museum, Museum Way, San Francisco, CA, 94114, United States
Join the Randall Museum’s Birder-in-Residence on the third Saturday of each month to explore the hill at Corona Heights and check out its avian residents and seasonal visitors. Birders will circle the hill to look into several habitats, each of which is enjoyed by different bird species. The east canyon, the south cliffs, the north forest, and the hilltop grasslands will all be explored. The walk is geared towards beginning to intermediate birders, but all are welcome. The walk lasts about 2 hours and includes several stairs and a steep path to climb. Meet in Randall Museum’s parking lot at 8am: 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA.
When: Third Saturday of the Month 8am – 10am
Where: Meet in the Randall Museum’s Parking Lot: 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA
Cost: FREE but registration is required.
Ages: Best for ages 10 and older
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Drive-In Movie Night
2025-09-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, 500 Hunters Point Expressway, San Francisco, CA, 94124, United States
Come Drive into the park at Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, and enjoy a good ol’ fashioned drive-in movie from your car! Cozy up with some popcorn and snacks and sit back and relax with the kids for a family friendly movie.
Movie Options: Finding Nemo, Inside Out, The Lorax, and Moana
VOTE for the movie we should screen HERE!
Free event. More info and registration>>

Garden Resource Day | Free Garden Materials
2025-09-27 10:00 - 13:00 | NOW Hunters Point, 155 Jennings St., San Francisco, 94124, United States
The Urban Agriculture Program offers free supplies to backyard gardeners, community gardeners, and urban farmers through Garden Resource Days. Happening every six weeks (during the non-winter months), these gatherings provide compost at every event, plus mulch, seeds, plant starts, and composting worms whenever available.
Where:Garden Resource Days are hosted at 155 Jennings Street.
How to Join:

Pre-registration is required.

Each adult can sign up for one time slot: 10 a.m., 11 a.m., or noon.

Please bring your own buckets—supplies are limited, so registration is needed.

Registration opens two weeks before each event.

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Activity: Gardening
2025-09-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Merced Branch Library, 155 Winston Dr, San Francisco, California, 94132, United States
De–stress and enjoy the fresh air. Garden with the Library. For ages 13–18. Note: This event is cross-posted from the SF Public Library website. Please check the original posting for full details and any cancellations: https://sfpl.org/events/2025/09/27/activity-gardening

Workshop: Planting Seeds
2025-09-27 15:00 - 16:00 | Sunset Branch Library, 1305 18th Ave, San Francisco, California, 94122, United States
Plant seeds in your own terra cotta pot. Learn about what plants are suitable to grow in containers. For children and their caregivers. Note: This event is cross-posted from the SF Public Library website. Please check the original posting for full details and any cancellations: https://sfpl.org/events/2025/09/27/workshop-planting-seeds

Activity: Gardening
2025-10-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Merced Branch Library, 155 Winston Dr, San Francisco, California, 94132, United States
De–stress and enjoy the fresh air. Garden with the Library. For ages 13–18. Note: This event is cross-posted from the SF Public Library website. Please check the original posting for full details and any cancellations: https://sfpl.org/events/2025/10/04/activity-gardening

Workshop: All About Worms
2025-10-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Visitacion Valley Branch Library, 201 Leland Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94134, United States
Learn about composting food scraps with worms, how worms help build healthy soil and meet the library’s composting worms. For children and their caregivers. Note: This event is cross-posted from the SF Public Library website. Please check the original posting for full details and any cancellations: https://sfpl.org/events/2025/10/04/workshop-all-about-worms

Swing into Stories @ Garfield Playground
2025-10-07 09:30 - 12:00 | Garfield Playground, 3100 26th St, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
The Library’s YouthMobile is coming to the park! Movement and play are essential building blocks in fostering literacy and a love of reading. Join us for a high-energy storytime in our beautiful outdoors!
The YouthMobile offers a diverse selection of children’s library materials available for check-out with an SFPL library card. From the City’s only kid-focused bookmobile, we circulate materials, create library cards and provide the public with information about library services and programs. Come aboard and see what we have!
Tuesdays from 9:30 a.m.–12 noon.
Storytime at 10:30 a.m.
+++
1st Tuesday of the month
Garfield Playground (Treat & 26th Streets)
2nd Tuesday of the month
Koret Playground (Golden Gate Park, by the carousel)
3rd Tuesday of the month
Helen Wills Playground (1401 Broadway at Larkin)

4th Tuesday of the month
Redwood Grove Playground (McLaren Park, 200 John F. Shelley Dr.)
More info >

Activity: Gardening
2025-10-11 11:00 - 12:00 | Merced Branch Library, 155 Winston Dr, San Francisco, California, 94132, United States
De–stress and enjoy the fresh air. Garden with the Library. For ages 13–18. Note: This event is cross-posted from the SF Public Library website. Please check the original posting for full details and any cancellations: https://sfpl.org/events/2025/10/11/activity-gardening

Family Halloween at the Randall Museum
2025-10-18 10:00 - 14:00 | Randall Museum, Museum Way, San Francisco, CA, 94114, United States
Come in costume and join in the fun at the Randall Museum’s annual Family Halloween Day. Inside and out, the Randall will be filled with Halloween delights and monster mischief. Enjoy games, crafts, activities, creepy critters, and costume awards. Fun for little monsters of all ages. Live entertainment by Luke Schwartz Trio and Brian Scott Magic.
Admission is FREE. Free & low-cost activities. Activity tickets sold on site.
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Activity: Gardening
2025-10-18 11:00 - 12:00 | Merced Branch Library, 155 Winston Dr, San Francisco, California, 94132, United States
De–stress and enjoy the fresh air. Garden with the Library. For ages 13–18. Note: This event is cross-posted from the SF Public Library website. Please check the original posting for full details and any cancellations: https://sfpl.org/events/2025/10/18/activity-gardening

ASL Celebration Day for Families at the Crissy Field Center
2025-10-19 11:00 - 15:00 | Crissy Field Center, 603 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA, 94129, United States
ASL Celebration Day for Families is a joint event organized by ASL Love and the Presidio Trust to celebrate American Sign Language, Deaf culture, and the families of deaf/hard of hearing children! There will be games, arts and crafts, community organizations tabling, panels and ASL performances.
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided at this event. For other accommodations, email mmanda@presidiotrust.gov or 423.704.7187 with at least seven days’ notice to help ensure availability.
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Workshop: Fix-it Clinic, Clothing Repair
2025-10-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Parkside Branch Library, 1200 Taraval St, San Francisco, California, 94116, United States
Join us and learn how to repair your clothing. This event is sponsored by the San Francisco Environment and SCRAP, a creative reuse and arts education center. You may bring one clothing item for repair and materials will be provided. Each person will be paired with a SCRAP repair coach. We cannot do alterations or complicated fixes.Space limited. Seats available first come, first served. One item per person. Note: This event is cross-posted from the SF Public Library website. Please check the original posting for full details and any cancellations: https://sfpl.org/events/2025/10/19/workshop-fix-it-clinic-clothing-repair

Activity: Gardening Club
2025-10-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Excelsior Branch Library, 4400 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, 94112, United States
Plant seeds, water plants and enjoy the Excelsior patio garden. Take planted seeds home and create your own urban garden. For children and their caregivers. Note: This event is cross-posted from the SF Public Library website. Please check the original posting for full details and any cancellations: https://sfpl.org/events/2025/10/22/activity-gardening-club

Scaregrove at Sigmund Stern Grove
2025-10-24 15:00 - 21:00 | Stern Grove Park, 19th Avenue & Sloat Blvd, San Francisco, CA, 94132, United States
Scaregrove, Rec and Park’s Halloween bash, brings Boo! on the Bayou fun to Stern Grove (19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard) on Friday, October 24, from 3 to 9 p.m.
Enjoy a haunted house, carnival rides, hay maze, arts and crafts, live entertainment, and food for sale, nestled in the forest grove.
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided at this event. For other accommodations, email rpdaccess@sfgov.org or call (415) 831-6841 with at least 72 hours’ notice to help ensure availability.
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Bioblitz: Find Your Biobliss in The Presidio
2025-10-25 10:00 - 12:30 | El Polin Spring, El Polin Loop, San Francisco, CA, 94129, United States
Join Bay Nature Magazine and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy for a joyful day of discovery at El Polin Spring. Explore local wildlife and plants with guidance from enthusiastic naturalists and learn how to record your findings using the iNaturalist app.
Unlike a traditional “BioBlitz,” our BioBliss invites you to slow down, observe, and find wonder in nature at your own pace. We’ll look for birds, butterflies, wildflowers, mushrooms—whatever catches your eye!
Free event. All ages and experience levels are welcome. Bring your curiosity, a smartphone or camera, and plenty of enthusiasm. Binoculars and hand lenses will be provided, and you’re welcome to stay for lunch afterward.
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Teen Gardening at Merced Branch Library
2025-10-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Merced Branch Library, 155 Winston Dr, San Francisco, California, 94132, United States
De–stress and enjoy the fresh air. Garden with the Library. For ages 13–18. Note:
This event is cross-posted from the SF Public Library website. Please check the Library events calendar posting for full details and any cancellations.

Join the 43rd Annual LEAP Sandcastle Classic!
2025-10-25 11:00 - 14:30 | Ocean Beach at Balboa, Great Highway & Balboa St., San Francisco, CA, 94121, United States
Bring the family to the LEAP Sandcastle Classic, where castle-building teams raise funds for arts and architecture programs serving 10,000 Bay Area public school students. This year’s theme, “Level Up,” is inspired by video games old and new, with twenty sponsored teams creating 20’ x 20’ sand sculptures.
Environmental artist Zach Pine is leading the Community Castle, a hands-on 20’ x 20’ project open to the public with a fun Pac-Man theme. Arrive anytime between 11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. to help build!
The award ceremony will be at 3:00 p.m.
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Harvest Festival at Alemany Farm
2025-10-25 11:00 - 15:00 | Alemany Farm, 700 Alemany Blvd, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Celebrate the season at Alemany Farm’s annual Harvest Festival! Enjoy a day of community and fun featuring garlic planting, face painting, farm tours, family-friendly activities, great music, and delicious food. Come experience the farm in full fall spirit—everyone’s welcome!
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In Light and Dark at the Crissy Field Center
2025-10-30 17:30 - 19:30 | Crissy Field Center, 603 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA, 94129, United States
Join park staff for an evening of storytelling and conversation at the Crissy Field Center, amplifying the voices of South Asian community leaders working at the intersections of social and environmental justice. Drawing on the metaphors of light and dark central to Diwali—the festival of lights—panelists will reflect on what inspires them to create spaces of curiosity, community, access, welcome, and belonging.
Panelists:
Barnali Ghosh, an immigrant artist, landscape architect, and co-founder of the award-winning Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour
Vishal Subramanyam, an award-winning wildlife photographer, videographer, and National Geographic Young Explorer
This is a free, family-friendly event but registration is required.
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