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Weekly Highlights in California

Every featured event of the week, past and present

Nureyev Ballet Opens SF Dance
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Nureyev Ballet Opens SF Dance

The San Francisco Dance Film Festival opens Oct. 23 at the Lucasfilm Premier Theater with the U.S. premiere of Staatsballett Berlin's 'Nureyev,' the ballet Russia pulled from the Bolshoi, plus a live Q&A.

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Light the Night at Sutter
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Light the Night at Sutter

Blood Cancer United brings its Light the Night ceremony and lantern walk to Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on October 24, 2026, honoring 11-year-old survivor Marcel Bendorf as Honored Hero.

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Halloween Harvest & Pawlooza
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Halloween Harvest & Pawlooza

The Los Gatos Farmers' Market turns its Sunday run at Town Park Plaza into a free Halloween Harvest & Pawlooza on October 25, 2026, with pets in costume alongside the produce.

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San Pedro Día de los Muertos
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

San Pedro Día de los Muertos

San Pedro's Día de los Muertos Festival takes over 6th and Mesa streets in downtown San Pedro with community altars, mariachi and folklórico, a Catrina costume contest, and free admission.

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South Clairemont Carnival
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

South Clairemont Carnival

San Diego's South Clairemont Recreation Center hosts its first-ever family carnival October 22-25, 2026, with 14-16 rides, games, and $2 adult gate admission.

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California flag
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Wolves Film Screening at UC

UC Berkeley's California Wolf Project hosts a free screening of the Jeff Bridges-narrated documentary 'In the Company of Wolves: An American Journey' on October 19, paired with Malia Byrtus's pop-up photo exhibit 'Wolves of California.'

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LA Phil Players' Free 'Three
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

LA Phil Players' Free 'Three

Los Angeles Philharmonic musicians join pianist Junko Ueno Garrett for a free Beethoven, Bach and Brahms chamber concert at Pasadena's First United Methodist Church, opening the Third@First series' 2026-27 season.

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Dogtown at 50 on the Pier
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Dogtown at 50 on the Pier

Santa Monica Pier's free Locals' Night on October 15, 2026 marks the 50th anniversary of Dogtown and the Z-Boys with a drive-in screening, a Tony Alva vinyl set, a skate ramp, and a classic car meet.

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Firefighters Pancake Breakfast
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Firefighters Pancake Breakfast

Mountain View firefighters host the 19th Annual Firefighters Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026, from 8 a.m. to noon at Fire Station No. 4, 229 N. Whisman Road.

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St. Francis Relics at S.F
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

St. Francis Relics at S.F

Sacred relics of St. Francis of Assisi, many leaving Italy for the first time, go on free public display at San Francisco's Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption from October 16 to November 28, 2026.

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Hispanic Heritage Night at
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Hispanic Heritage Night at

Chicago's Humboldt Cultural Center hosts a free, all-ages Hispanic Heritage Celebration on Friday, October 16, 2026, with country art installations at 5 p.m. and an Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba performance by Los Médicos at 8 p.m.

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The Crane That Held the Navy
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

The Crane That Held the Navy

A 500-foot shipyard gantry crane becomes a 40-minute monument of light, sound, and memory in Hunters Point.

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Rocky Horror's Brad Back in SF
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Rocky Horror's Brad Back in SF

Barry Bostwick brings a 4K restoration of the cult classic to the Curran Theatre, with a live shadow cast, a costume contest, and a song the movie left behind.

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Ladies First at the Pit
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Ladies First at the Pit

A pancake breakfast, an all-women rib cook-off and a kids' steak challenge turn a North Natomas parking lot into Sacramento's most unusual barbecue festival — and a fundraiser for two causes at once.

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LA:ON Opens a Free K-Culture
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

LA:ON Opens a Free K-Culture

The Korean Cultural Center's new permanent K-lifestyle zone debuts on Wilshire with a Hanbok fashion show, then hosts Hangeul Day festivities the next day.

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Seafood at the End of the Road
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Seafood at the End of the Road

Off the Hook returns to the Santa Monica Pier for its eighth year, pairing 25-plus chefs with a Route 66 centennial and a pile of oyster shells headed back to the bay.

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Long Beach Runs Deep
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Long Beach Runs Deep

The 42nd Long Beach Marathon sold out at more than 28,000 runners, but its real story began with a few YMCA joggers in 1982.

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A Flea Market Comes Home
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

A Flea Market Comes Home

Friends & Family Flea brings 24 mostly Koreatown-rooted vendors, hwatu lessons, and $5 tarot readings to a restored Western Avenue warehouse — with hat sales benefiting a neighborhood institution that has served the area since 1975.

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Fifty-Two Years of Arirang
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Fifty-Two Years of Arirang

The 53rd Los Angeles Korean Festival returns to Seoul International Park October 1–4 with free admission, a Tiger JK and Yoon Mirae finale, and a half-century of history behind it.

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A Ten-Dollar Ghost, Poured by
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

A Ten-Dollar Ghost, Poured by

The Ghost Garden Candle Workshop is a one-hour, ten-dollar make-and-take at a Coast Highway studio built by a former teacher who turned a quiet dream into a community art hub.

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Stabbing Wool Into Ghosts: A
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Stabbing Wool Into Ghosts: A

A free needle-felting workshop at the Marcy Library invites anyone to sculpt a Halloween ghost from raw wool — a craft barely forty years old, in a building with a much longer story.

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No Lottery, No Waitlist: The
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

No Lottery, No Waitlist: The

For one Saturday in September, the Port of Long Beach drops its notoriously competitive lottery system and invites anyone who shows up to board a free narrated cruise past the behemoth cargo ships that anchor America's maritime economy.

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Two Milestones, One
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

Two Milestones, One

A free community celebration at History Park honors both the fifth anniversary of San Jose's formal apology to Chinese immigrants and the 35th anniversary of the Chinese American Historical Museum, with lion dancing, cultural entertainment, and a newly unveiled apology exhibit.

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A Promise Kept: Rocklin's
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A Promise Kept: Rocklin's

On the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Rocklin gathers at Johnson-Springview Park for a free community day of helicopter rescues, K-9 demonstrations, and quiet remembrance.

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Reading the Language Back to
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Reading the Language Back to

On a September morning in Hoopa, author and linguist Muriel Ammon will read her Hupa-language books aloud to families — a small, joyful act in the long fight to reclaim an endangered tongue.

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A Free Art School on the Bay
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Free Art School on the Bay

The beloved author and a coalition of Bay Area artists are transforming a century-old waterfront warehouse into a tuition-free atelier where mentorship replaces tuition and the public gets a front-row seat to the creative process.

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Berkeley's Other Side: The
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Berkeley's Other Side: The

A new exhibition at the Berkeley Historical Society & Museum tells the long story of the city's shoreline — from Ohlone sacred land to industrial wasteland to the contested open space of tomorrow.

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Sixty Years After the Coffee Went Flying: The Tenderloin Remembers Compton’s Cafeteria
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Sixty Years After the Coffee Went Flying: The Tenderloin Remembers Compton’s Cafeteria

A series of events of theater, performance, and remembrance marks the 60th anniversary of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, one of the first known acts of militant queer resistance to police harassment in U.S. history.

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A Language Comes Home: Hupa
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Language Comes Home: Hupa

On a late August morning in Hoopa, a young linguist will read her Hupa-language children's books aloud, inviting families to join a quiet act of reclamation that reaches back generations.

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Sixty Years After the Coffee
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Sixty Years After the Coffee

A series of events of theater, performance, and remembrance marks the 60th anniversary of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, one of the first known acts of militant queer resistance to police harassment in U.S. history.

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