The best events in SF this week, from Black Pride to dance and film festivals

In San Francisco, we celebrate Pride year-round. Participate in a full week of intersectional programming, culminating in a closing party (opens in new tab) at El Rio with DJ David Harness. 

Catch the work of filmmakers from Creativity Explored, a San Francisco-based nonprofit supporting artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Following their Shoreline Amphitheatre concert, Train is heading back to where it all began. To celebrate their new album, “Mad Dog in the Fog,” the band will play a free show outside the bar where they got their start. Note: RSVP does not guarantee entry; attendees must receive confirmation to enter.

Get into the groove at this disco-themed museum evening, complete with drag bingo, karaoke, food trucks, and DJs.

In honor of the 60th anniversary of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, trans and nonbinary classical artists pay homage to San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ history.

At this launch party dedicated to queer storytelling, attendees can choose their own adventure with two simultaneous experiences: an outdoor orchestra and indoor rave with DJs.

Programmed alongside SFMOMA’s Matisse exhibition, this free reading of stories by San Francisco writer Harriet Lane Levy transports visitors to a Parisian salon to learn about Gertrude Stein and her contemporaries.

Local musicians headline this end-of-summer night market. Stop by to pet ponies, make reptile friends, and swap plants.

Dancers from across the country organize a full slate of workshops and performances. 

Connect with community and delight in bites from local vendors during Visitacion Valley’s first-ever night market.

Come for the beats, stay for the eats. Drag queen Nicki Jizz’s theatrical spectacular returns with a lineup of performances and food vendors.

Celebrate indie cinema with a lineup of international, micro-budget films made by “punks, dirtbags, metalheads, and oddballs.”

Find inner peace with complimentary fitness classes and yoga flows, plus a kids activity area and booths from wellness merchants.

Seven Bay Area musicians present an intergenerational lineup spanning jazz, blues, cabaret, funk, and hip-hop.

The Korean comedian closes his U.S. tour with a night of laughs.