What does happiness mean in a time of genocide and collapse? Entering each day anew, what is our capacity for joy, grief, resistance, chance? In a world of relentless horrors, and borders constructed by violence, we stand at a crossroads, questioning what is ending and what is beginning. DANCE ELIXIR's Happy Days Finale is an invitation to explore these questions, in body and time.

This venue is ADA accessible.

ASL Interpretation for 8/15 show
AD and Haptic Tour for 8/16 show

Haptic tour begins at 1 PM for 2 PM performance.

Ticket price(s): $10-$20 (NOTAFLOF)

Access Service Provider and Contact Info: EastSide Arts Alliance Box Office, MWF, 11-5pm at 510-533-6629

Event Information Link: http://bit.ly/LAIR-LeyyaTawil

What does happiness mean in a time of genocide and collapse? Entering each day anew, what is our capacity for joy, grief, resistance, chance? In a world of relentless horrors, and borders constructed by violence, we stand at a crossroads, questioning what is ending and what is beginning. DANCE ELIXIR's Happy Days Finale is an invitation to explore these questions, in body and time.

This venue is ADA accessible.

ASL Interpretation for 8/15 show
AD and Haptic Tour for 8/16 show

Ticket price(s): $10-$20 (NOTAFLOF)

Access Service Provider and Contact Info: EastSide Arts Alliance Box Office, MWF, 11-5pm at 510-533-6629

Event Information Link: http://bit.ly/LAIR-LeyyaTawil

Zaccho Dance Theatre and Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture proudly present the Seventh Biennial San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival, a three-day celebration of contemporary aerial dance, circus arts, and site-responsive performance.

Experience breathtaking performances from internationally recognized aerial artists alongside the next generation of innovative performers. Set against the spectacular waterfront backdrop of Fort Mason, the festival transforms theaters, galleries, and public spaces into stages where artists defy gravity and reimagine what movement-storytelling can be.

From theatrical works and intimate performances to youth showcases and site-responsive installations, the San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival offers audiences a rare opportunity to experience the full spectrum of aerial arts in one incredible weekend.

This venue is ADA accessible.

ASL Interpretation

Access Service Provider and Contact Info: Shonnese Grant afiya@zaccho.org

Ticket price(s): $15-$75

Event Information Link: http://zaccho.org/?sfaaf-2026

Zaccho Dance Theatre and Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture proudly present the Seventh Biennial San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival, a three-day celebration of contemporary aerial dance, circus arts, and site-responsive performance.

Experience breathtaking performances from internationally recognized aerial artists alongside the next generation of innovative performers. Set against the spectacular waterfront backdrop of Fort Mason, the festival transforms theaters, galleries, and public spaces into stages where artists defy gravity and reimagine what movement-storytelling can be.

From theatrical works and intimate performances to youth showcases and site-responsive installations, the San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival offers audiences a rare opportunity to experience the full spectrum of aerial arts in one incredible weekend.

This venue is ADA accessible.

ASL Interpretation

Access Service Provider and Contact Info: Shonnese Grant afiya@zaccho.org

Ticket price(s): $15-$75

Event Information Link: http://zaccho.org/?sfaaf-2026

A visual art and performance project created by members of the Indigenous Maya Mam immigrant community of East Oakland, integrating personal and collective narratives, movement and textile art inspired by the weaving traditions practiced by women from Xjan Xwan Atitan, Chimb'al and Torasant, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.

This venue is ADA accessible.

ASL Interpretation for 7/25 show
AD and haptic tour for 7/26 show

Ticket price(s): $10-$20 (NOTAFLOF)

Access Service Provider and Contact Info: EastSide Arts Alliance Box Office, MWF, 11-5pm at 510-533-6629

Event Information Link: http://bit.ly/MamWeaving2026

Part of a multi year project titled, “(may there be) Good Atmosphere Between Us: The Parables of Now.” It is grounded in community stories, collective rituals and the re telling of African and Indigenous mythologies, Bible verses and Black feminist invocations, guided by the core question, “How do we activate our collective ancestral wisdom and spirit to survive, adapt, and heal from climate catastrophe and global political chaos in the Anthropocene.

This venue is ADA accessible.

Haptic Access Tour at 2 PM
Audio Described Tour at 5 PM

Ticket price(s): $20 - No one turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF)

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Part of a multi year project titled, “(may there be) Good Atmosphere Between Us: The Parables of Now.” It is grounded in community stories, collective rituals and the re telling of African and Indigenous mythologies, Bible verses and Black feminist invocations, guided by the core question, “How do we activate our collective ancestral wisdom and spirit to survive, adapt, and heal from climate catastrophe and global political chaos in the Anthropocene.

This venue is ADA accessible.

ASL Interpretation provided

Ticket price(s): $20 - No one turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF)

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TRANSMARSH: free outdoor vertical dance by B Dean/BODYSTORM, Pangaea, and tome on the Timbri Hotel's Taylor Street facade at Turk and Taylor, SF — rewilds the Tenderloin with the memory of prehistoric salt marshes, the 1966 Compton's Cafeteria uprising, and queer life on this block, asking how we grieve the past, adapt to the present, and move through coming storms together. June 25, 7pm: walking tour, Skywatchers, block party. June 26, 8pm: post-Trans March performance.

This venue is ADA accessible.

June 26th ASL Interpretation by Kevin Abrams

Ticket price(s): free

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Set on a Hollywood film shoot where the chaotic soundstage mimics the real-world climate crisis their big-budget movie addresses, the director, Maria, tries to keep her set – and herself – together in this sharp-witted, fast-paced comedy. Egos clash, secrets spill, and hard truths force the crew to look inward and ask, can we fix our climate catastrophe with movie magic?

This venue is ADA accessible.

ASL Interpretation provided

Ticket price(s): $25-$80

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A courageous mixed bill that brings together the Bay's emerging and established contemporary dance artists.

GREENLIT Choreography Showcase amplifies the Bay Area's artistic voices with a focus on community, opportunity, and risk-taking. An open space for ideas that are old, new, evolving, or undiscovered. In this two-night showcase, we present seven works investigating the poetry of T.S. Eliot, cycles of nature, the body's relationship to rage, humanity in the digital age, and more.

This venue is ADA accessible.

ASL Interpretation Provided

Access Service Provider and Contact Info: Pilar Marsh: wpminterpreting@gmail.com

Ticket price(s): from $17.85

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The Oaklash Festival is the premier celebration of Drag and queer performance in the Bay Area.

Our ninth annual festival will feature a full day of nonstop queer art including live performances, DJs, vendors, and more! Kings, queens, and queers from all over the Bay Area and beyond will join together for this annual celebration of queer culture and art.

CHECK OUT THE FULL SCHEDULE >> www.oaklash.com/lineup

QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS >> www.oaklash.com/faq

All pre-sale registrations are suggested donations that come with perks such as expedited entry to our festival events. All events are No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds (NOTAFLOF), though limited entry may be available at the door!

Oaklash aims to make our events accessible to all! All events will take place at ADA-compliant venues and feature ASL interpretation during performances.

For questions, concerns, or access needs, email us at oaklashtickets@gmail.com

WE DO NOT TOLERATE HATE, VIOLENCE, OR DISCRIMINATION OF ANY KIND. CONSENT IS MANDATORY. IF IN VIOLATION, YOU MAY BE ASKED TO LEAVE OUR​ EVENT AT ANY TIME WITHOUT REFUND.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation Provided

Ticket price(s): Free - Optional $20 donation

Event Information Link: https://www.oaklash.com/

"Air Between Us" is a landmark vertical dance performance, where aerial performers scale walls, soar across open spaces, and cascade down a building facade—turning the architecture of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts into an uncommon dance partner. In this new site-specific work from Megan Lowe Dances, performers climb, float, and fall in a choreography shaped by gravity, trust, and interdependence. What unfolds is both breathtaking and intimate: bodies moving through air, gathering and separating, revealing how the space between us can hold tension, tenderness, and connection. The work features the performance of Gabriele Christian, B Dean, Rose Huey, Megan Lowe, Roel Seeber, and Saharla Vetsch​, with music be William Cenoté.

This venue is ADA accessible.

Live ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $30-$40

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Palo Alto Players presents Disney’s Frozen at the Lucie Stern Theater, April 24–May 10, 2026. Tickets: paplayers.org. Based on the Academy Award-winning film, the musical features songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez plus new stage music. In Arendelle, sisters Anna and Elsa grow apart as Elsa struggles with her powers. When she flees, bringing endless winter, Anna sets out with Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf on a journey of sisterhood, acceptance, and true love.

This venue is ADA accessible.

Live ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): Starts at $20 - Use code FROZASL10 for $10 off tickets

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Box Office Info: 650.329.0891

An exhibition of Maya Mam backstrap weaving textiles where the act of weaving is also an act of storytelling, resisting erasure, and preserving ancestral knowledge.

This venue is ADA accessible.

ASL Interpretation and Haptic Tour available for Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 2 pm & Closing Reception: Saturday, May 9, 2 pm.

Access Service Provider and Contact Info:
NAKA Dance Theater, info@nakadancetheater.com

Ticket price(s): free

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Savor the thrill of the unexpected in Jacklean (Jacklean). Governed by play and collaborative improvisation, New York powerhouse choreographer and dancer Mariana Valencia’s improvised gestures are prompted by transmissions from Jazmin Romero’s vocal and instrumental repertoire of cumbia, punk, jazz, and electronic music. Can an everlasting process frame a final performance?

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation Provided

Ticket price(s): $0-$100

Event Information Link: https://odc.dance/marianavalencia

Return to Forever is an intimate, music-driven work-in-progress by Zaccho Dance Theatre featuring contemporary and aerial dancers in a series of solos and duets to a curated playlist of jazz, blues, and soul from the 1930s–1970s. Inspired by Artistic Director Joanna Haigood’s rediscovery of a handwritten song log from her teenage years, the piece reflects on how memory shapes present choices and future paths. It revisits songs that shaped Haigood’s early creative life while reconstructing decades of work created at Zaccho Studio.

This venue is NOT ADA accessible.

Live ASL Interpretation, Haptic Tour and Audio Description.
Contact michael@gravity-sf.org for Haptic Tour details

Ticket price(s): free

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Get swept up in The Waves, an expansive, intimate, surreal, and impressionistic contemporary dance about sound waves, light waves, brain waves, and intersubjectivity. The piece considers how individuals experience and craft their own sense of reality. The Waves is conceived and directed by Charlie Slender-White, and utilizes Virginia Woolf’s novel of the same name as a primary source text.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation Provided

Ticket price(s): $0-$100

Event Information Link: https://odc.dance/factsf

The Weight of Thread is a dance ritual rooted in Jewish mourning, supplication and resistance traditions, to reckon with grief, rupture, and solidarity in the shadow of genocide. The work challenges Zionist definitions of Jewishness while affirming Judaism’s anti-genocidal, humanitarian values and expressing kinship with Palestinian liberation. Audiences are welcomed into an intimate, intergenerational community built through dance, music, food, and shared presence.

This venue is ADA accessible.

ASL Interpretation provided.

Tickets: $25+

Event Information Link: http://mollylevy.com/the-weight-of-thread

Box Office Link, telephone, TTY etc.: https://www.viewcy.com/event/theweightofthread

LIVE ARTS IN RESISTANCE (LAIR) is a dynamic series of performance showcases, artist residencies, and community town halls that address racial inequity and white supremacy in popular culture. Collectively, we contribute to a new cultural consciousness of self-determination and indigenous knowledge as integral to our resistance to systemic oppression and imperialism.

This venue is ADA accessible.

ASL Interpretation provided.

Ticket price(s): General Admission $25; Students and Seniors $10; No one turned away for lack of funds

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How Do I Look? - the most vain, mundane and loaded question. Fauxnique, the drag queen guise of multi-faceted artist Monique Jenkinson, wields her unique combination of precise physicality, irreverent humor and gutsy vulnerability, to dig past glossy platitudes and flattering exaggerations into the hot mess of perception, subjectivity, identity and taste.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Provided

Ticket price(s): $0-$100

Event Information Link: https://odc.dance/fauxnique

An exhibition of Maya Mam backstrap weaving textiles where the act of weaving is also an act of storytelling, resisting erasure, and preserving ancestral knowledge.

This venue is ADA accessible.

ASL Interpretation and Haptic Tour available for Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 2 pm & Closing Reception: Saturday, May 9, 2 pm.

Access Service Provider and Contact Info:
NAKA Dance Theater, info@nakadancetheater.com

Ticket price(s): free

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FROLIC! with the Queering Dance Festival at our annual celebration of new dance works by Queer and Trans Bay Area choreographers, Thurs-Sat April 2-4 at Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St, San Francisco. ASL Interpretation & Audio Description available, Masks required.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL interpretation provided.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.
Haptic Tour beings at 4 pm, performance begins at 5 pm.

Ticket price(s): $0 - $40

Event information.

FROLIC! with the Queering Dance Festival at our annual celebration of new dance works by Queer and Trans Bay Area choreographers, Thurs-Sat April 2-4 at Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St, San Francisco. ASL Interpretation & Audio Description available, Masks required.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation Provided

Ticket price(s): $0 - $40

Event information.

Every body carries patterns of movement, habit, culture, identity, and history. These patterns shape how we navigate the world—they repeat, evolve, and at times constrain us. Through a series of live dance performances and a short film from AXIS Dance Company and acclaimed choreographers Nadia Adame, Sonya Delwaide, Christopher Unpezverde Nunez, Kayla Hamilton, and Natasha Adorlee, Patterns explores how individuality are expressions of the infinite ways we move and connect. Witness this celebration of humanity in motion, and experience the new possibilities that emerge.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation Provided

Ticket price(s): $20 - $44

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ODC/Dance returns to the Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA for Dance Downtown, March 5-8, 2026. An exhilarating program of adventuresome works invites audiences into the visceral, uplifting and provocative power of dance as the next chapter for ODC unfolds. Thrill to the world premiere of After the Deluge from Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way, Theories of Time by Co-Artistic Director Mia J. Chong, and Caught in the Act, a world premiere from guest choreographer Gypsy Snider, Co-Founder of The 7 Fingers and Dear San Francisco.

On Friday, March 6, enjoy a special one-night-only Gala Night program featuring the world premiere of After the Deluge as well as the celebrated return of Investigating Grace by Brenda Way, named an American Masterpiece by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2011.

"The dancing is always excellent: full-bodied and expansive." – THE NEW YORKER

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation provided

Ticket price(s): $30-$125

Event Information Link: https://odc.dance/dance-downtown

Based on Dan Brown’s bestselling international phenomenon, Professor Robert Langdon is called to the Louvre in the dead of night, where he unwittingly becomes the center of a murder investigation. Soon he is in a race against time to clear Robert’s name and decipher a labyrinthine code before a shocking historical secret is lost forever. Don’t miss the chance to experience The Da Vinci Code like never before in its Bay Area Regional Premiere!

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $20-63

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Audiences are in for a dazzling treat as award-winning magician Xavier Mortimer, the most followed magician on social media with more than 15 billion video views, brings his acclaimed production Master of Magic to
San Francisco.

Known for blending humour, storytelling and breathtaking illusions, Mortimer has captivated global audiences, starred in Cirque du Soleil’s Michael Jackson One and made history as the first Cirque performer to headline his own Las Vegas residency. Directed by Alex Goude and Michael Goudeau, the show features stunning visuals, physical comedy and intricate illusions and has earned top international honours including First Place at the Albano International Congress, a Gold Star at the L’Eau d’Olle Magic Festival and back-to-back wins for Best Magic Show in Las Vegas from the Las Vegas Review Journal.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation provided

Ticket price(s): $59.99- $199.99

Michael Smuin’s wonderfully adaptable toast to the holidays features new works this year by Julia Adam Dance director Julia Adam, Artistic Director Amy Seiwert, and San Francisco Ballet Soloist Myles Thatcher. In addition to beloved Michael Smuin classics, look for favorite numbers by Val Caniparoli, Nicole Haskins, Ben Needham-Wood, and Rex Wheeler. And, of course, Santa Baby will be there too, sauntering across the stage and inviting you to join her—and us—in celebrating everything magical about the season.

Run time is approximately 2 hours, including 1 intermission.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpreted performance

Ticket price(s): $25-$105

Event Information Link: http://www.smuinballet.org/audio-described-performances-2/

Box Office telephone: 510 647-2949 Tue–Sun, noon–7 pm