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COMMONWEALTH CLUB PRESENTS
Website: http://www.commonwealthclub.org
Begin Date: 01/01/2008
End Date: 12/32/1010
Time: Various
Price: Various
Location: Various
Phone: 415-597-6700
The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum, bringing together its more than 18,000 members plus guest attendees for over 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy. The Club has offices in San Francisco and San Jose, with regular events in both cities, as well as programs in the East and North Bay. Check website for list of events and information about attending a program.

HUMANITIES WEST 2008-2009 SEASON
Website: http://www.humanitieswest.org
Begin Date: 10/17/2008
End Date: 04/18/2009
Time: Various
Price: All Seating is Reserved. Tickets $30-$220. Call for information
Location: Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Avenue near McAllister
San Francisco
Phone: 415-391-9700
Humanities West, now in its twenty-fifth year, will present three unique lecture/performance programs during its 2008 - 2009 season: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND THE INVENTION OF AMERICA (October 17 - 18, 2008); INDIA RISING - TRADITION MEETS MODERNITY (February 27 - 28, 2009) and CONFRONTING NAPOLEON – EUROPEAN CULTURE AT THE CROSSROADS (April 17 - 18, 2009). Check their website for program information.
REDBULL SOAPBOX RACE
Website: http://www.redbullsoapboxusa.com
Begin Date: 10/18/2008
End Date: 10/18/2008
Time: Pits open at 11am, first race at 1pm.
Price: Free admission
Location: Dolores Park
Dolores Street between 18th Street and 20th Street
San Francisco
Muni bus: 26 Valencia. Muni metro: J Church
Phone:
The event will feature a field of 40 hand-made racers, driven by men and women daring enough to brave steep drops, hairpin turns and scary speeds in pursuit of achieving raceway glory. San Franciscans can keep their eyes peeled for a burrito truck, a giant baseball, a cable car, a belt
sander and more zooming down Dolores Street alongside historic Mission
Dolores Park. Red Bull Soapbox Race will finally put to rest the long-standing argument about which San Francisco landmark is faster - the Transamerica Pyramid or the Golden Gate Bridge – as both take to the street as racers in a cross-town shootout. Other crafts rounding out the roster include: a hamster wheel, a pig with wheels, a giant squid, the Death Star and the Tin Man. The teams come from all over California and as far north as Bellingham, WA and as far west as Honolulu, HI.

WISDOM FESTIVAL
Website: http://www.wisdomfestival.com
Begin Date: 10/18/2008
End Date: 10/19/2008
Time: 9am-8pm
Price: $59 for both days
Location: Fort Mason Center
Herbst Pavilion
Buchanan Street & Marina Boulevard
San Francisco
Phone: 800-367-5777
The Wisdom Festival is a two day conversation about…wisdom. How we can take what we have learned through books, teachings, science and our own experience and combine it with developed insight and apply it to our careers, relationships, our personal lives and the state of the world and planet today.

HALLOWEEN AT THE EXPLORATORIUM
Website: http://www.exploratorium.edu
Begin Date: 10/31/2008
End Date: 10/31/2008
Time: 6-9pm
Price: Included in the price of admission to the Exploratorium.
Location: The Exploratorium
Inside the Palace of Fine Arts
3601 Lyon Street
San Francisco
Phone: 415-561-0360
Experience Halloween -- Exploratorium style. Join in-costume for a ghoulish grab-bag of tricks and treats as the Exploratorium transforms into a Phantasmagorium of spooky science and frightful fun. In the first annual
October 31st Halloween fright night, the Exploratorium digs six feet under the cultural and scientific phenomena behind Halloween, Dia de los Muertos,
and death. Find out how nature deals with death and regeneration with a decomposing snake at the Energy from Death exhibit. Get sucked into the
finer points of leech science with nurses (in costume, but for real) from the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN). Walk through a
"graveyard" dedicated to debunked science ideas, including the recently entombed Pluto is a Planet (1930 - 2006). Witness the Iron Science Teacher competition where teachers compete before a live audience -- with Halloween candy as the "secret" ingredient underlying their experiments. Or, catch a sugar skull candy-making demonstration with master confectioner Irma Ortiz, among other events.
VETERAN'S DAY PARADE
Website:
Begin Date: 11/09/2008
End Date: 11/09/2008
Time: 1pm
Price: Free
Location: Parade Route proceeds from 2nd and Townsend Streets along Market Street to City Hall, via Grove Street.
Phone: 415-554-7100
The Veteran's Day Parade features marching units, including band, drum and bugle corp; drill teams; ROTC units; color guards; K-9 unit; veterans organizations; dignitaries. Please note date correction.
EMBARCADERO SQUARE HOLIDAY ICE RINK
Website: http://www.embarcaderocenter.com/ec/Holidays/2008%20rink.html
Begin Date: 11/12/2008
End Date: 01/04/2009
Time: Sunday-Thursday 10am-10pm; Friday and Saturday 10am–11:30pm; 90 minute sessions every even hour
Price: Monday-Friday until 6pm: Adults $8; seniors/children ages 10 and under $4.50; Friday 6pm-closing on Sunday: Adults $8.50; children ages 10 and under $5; skate rentals $3.50
Location: Justin Herman Plaza
Adjacent to Four Embarcadero Center and across from the Ferry Building
San Francisco
Phone: 415-837-1931/echolidayrink@gmail.com
Delighting families, couples and ice skating enthusiasts for over twenty years, the Holiday Ice Rink at Embarcadero Center presented by Wachovia, the largest outdoor rink, will open to the public for nine magical fun-filled weeks. Plan a special holiday experience with your friends and family and skate under the stars in the shadow of the waterfront throughout the holiday season at Embarcadero Center, where you can shop, skate, dine and park for free.

REINDEER ROMP AT THE SAN FRANCISCO ZOO
Website: http://www.sfzoo.org
Begin Date: 11/22/2008
End Date: 12/31/2008
Time: 10am-5pm; skating 11am-5pm
Price: Free with paid Zoo admission; skate rentals $5
Location: San Francisco Zoo
1 Zoo Road
San Francisco
Phone: 415-753-7080
Santa’s special reindeer will return to the Bay Area to once again bring the spirit of the season to children of all ages for the third annual Reindeer Romp at the San Francisco Zoo. The popular Reindeer Romp is the only opportunity in the Bay Area to see real live reindeer. Also, enjoy skating at the Zoo’s Ice Skating Rink, where guests can experience the tranquility of gliding around a frozen pond. All levels of ice skating experience welcomed. Throughout the month-long Reindeer Romp event, a number of different holiday-themed activities will occur. Reindeer Romp is available daily, rain or shine.
CHRISTMAS AT SEA
Website: http://www.nps.gov/safr
Begin Date: 12/13/2008
End Date: 12/13/2008
Time: 3pm-8:45pm
Price: $5
Location: Aboard the Eureka
Hyde Street Pier
Fisherman's Wharf
San Francisco
Phone: 415-447-5000
Bring the whole family down to Hyde Street Pier for an old fashioned holiday. Music, refreshments, ornament-making, and a visit from Santa (by boat) will be part of the fun from 3pm to 4:45pm. Beginning at 6pm, the park`s costumed Living History players take you back to a bygone era, where you will meet and talk with the Captain and passengers on the Eureka ferryboat, the shipwrights making toys in the boatshop, and the cream of San Francisco society aboard the Ark houseboat. It all happens during a lamplit tour of the vessels decorated for Christmas 1901. Reservations required for the 6pm program.

EMERALD BOWL
Website: http://www.emeraldbowl.org
Begin Date: 12/27/2008
End Date: 12/27/2008
Time: 5pm
Price: $75, $50, $40
Location: AT&T Park
24 Willie Mays Plaza
San Francisco
Phone: 415-947-BOWL
Postseason college football game, matching a team from the Atlantic Coast Conference against a team from the Pac-10 Conference.
BAY AREA THEATERSPORTS IMPROV
Website: http://www.improv.org
Begin Date: 01/01/2009
End Date: 12/31/2009
Time: Friday-Sunday 8pm
Price: $12-$15
Location: Bayfront Theater
Fort Mason Center
Building B, Third floor
San Francisco
Phone: 415-474-6776
BATS Improv is the West Coast's largest center of improvisational theatre and the hub of the Bay Area's vibrant improv scene. The BATS Main Stage Company includes some of the nation's top improv talent and BATS has been named the Bay Area's "Best Theater Company," "Best Improv Company" (five times!) and "Best Comedy Troupe." BATS Improv presents improv shows every weekend, all year round. From comic competitions to improvised Shakespeare, BATS performs a number of different improv formats that showcase the variety and fun of spontaneous theatre. All shows are completely improvised and you never know what might happen next. Everything you see on stage-the dialogue, movement, music, songs, lighting, and more-are all created right there on the spot.
EVENTS AT THE EXPLORATORIUM
Website: http://exploratorium.edu
Begin Date: 1/01/2009
End Date: 12/31/2010
Time: Check web site for details
Price: Most are free after admission
Location: Exploratorium
3601 Lyon Street
San Francisco
Phone: 415-561-0357
The Exploratorium, San Francisco's acclaimed family science center with hundreds of fun and educational hands-on exhibits, features on ongoing schedule of events and films. Check the web site for full listings.
MARIN CENTER EVENTS
Website: http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/CU/Main/mc/mc_events.cfm
Begin Date: 01/01/2009
End Date: 12/31/2010
Time: Various
Price: Various
Location: Marin Center Exhibition Hall
Avenue of the Flags
San Rafael
Phone: 415-472-3500
Marin Center presents an exciting and varied array of shows and events for the whole family, staging incredible performers from across the globe in a line-up of superb entertainment and culturally diverse performances. Check their website for upcoming events and ticket information.
CITYPASS SAN FRANCISCO
Website: http://citypass.com/?mv_source=sfguide
Begin Date: 01/01/2009
End Date: 12/31/2010
Time: For use any day during times indicated
Price: Adults $59 (an $115.40 value); $39 for kids
Location: Available at participating attractions and other city venues
See listing below
San Francisco, CA
Phone: 707-256-0490
This pay-one-price program contains a ticket to six of San Francisco’s popular attractions allowing immediate entrance, without standing in ticket lines. CityPass includes a Bay Cruise aboard Blue & Gold Fleet; admission to the Aquarium of the Bay; California Academy of Sciences; a choice of either the Exploratorium or the de Young and Legion of Honor museums; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; plus a seven-day MUNI Passport for unlimited use of cable cars and public transportation. Buy CityPass at any of the six attractions or at the Visitor Information Center at Market & Powell Streets.
PIER 39 SEA LION CELEBRATION
Website: http://www.pier39.com
Begin Date: 01/19/2009
End Date: 01/19/2009
Time: Noon-4pm
Price: Free
Location: PIER 39
Fisherman’s Wharf
San Francisco
Phone: 415-705-5500
PIER 39 commemorates the 20th anniversary of the sea lions’ arrival at PIER 39. Through the years, California sea lions have taken over PIER 39’s K-Dock to the delight of spectators. Each January, these marine mammals return in droves for herring season in San Francisco Bay. In celebration of the sea lion’s anniversary, visitors can watch the sea lions in close proximity, talk with knowledgeable Marine Mammal Center docents about these amazing animals and stop by the Whale Bus for a complete educational experience. PIER 39 invites visitors to see for themselves why K-Dock in PIER 39’s West Marina, has been declared a “Watchable Wildlife” viewing area by the California Watchable Wildlife Project.

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