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- We hope you'll join us for a special evening at Manny's. A conversation about Partnerships, Placemaking & Possibility for San Francisco's performing arts institutions. 📍 Manny's | 3092 16th Street 📅 December 11, 2025 @ 6pm 🎟️ Visit www.eventbrite.com/e/new-acts-f...
- Our Managing Dir. Kate Sofis will be joined by leaders of Another Planet Entertainment + BroadwaySF for a discussion on how we’re forging new partnerships, redefining experiences and even pursuing placemaking strategies to ensure the city’s performing arts scene not only survives but thrives.
- Holiday Gaiety returns to SF! 🎄✨ Tickets are now on sale for our symphonic holiday spectacular starring Adore Delano, Sasha Allen, Sapphira Cristal, Evan Mills, Sister Roma, Nika Printz, SF Gay Men’s Chorus, & more. Snag your seats for the queerest holiday celebration at peacheschrist.com/gaiety/
- New post at On a Pacific Aisle, with some intemperate thoughts about the San Francisco Opera's phenomenal season-opening Rigoletto. pacificaisle.substack.com/p/infinite-j...
- Yes, indeed, the whole performing arts district in Civic Center is crackling with energy these days! And we love being neighbors with the @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social!
- Look, it’s us on the Cover of @SFChronicle’s Datebook! Our leadership is reimagining the Performing Arts Center venues as collaborative, future-focused spaces. View the replies for link to the online version.
- When the Performing Arts Center team and our resident companies come together to serve audiences in new ways, this is what's possible... Thanks to all our partners for helping make our creative campus an epicenter for great performances. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
- At SFJAZZ’s B-Side, Pacifico spotlights coastal Latin flavors with vibrant ceviches, a rich seafood cazuela and pre-theater-friendly service.
- With a new performance season around the corner, we're rolling out significant security upgrades throughout our creative campus. Read on ⤵️ www.linkedin.com/pulse/sf-war...
- New post at On a Pacific Aisle, with a review of SF Opera's first Pride Concert (may there be many more). pacificaisle.substack.com/p/doing-us-p...
- A show with intriguing smells, material precision and wobbly comedy. On the Elena Gross and Leila Weefur-curated 'Service Tension' at the SFAC main gallery: www.kqed.org/arts/1397821...
- San Francisco Symphony presents ‘Blackstar Symphony,’ Bowie’s final masterpiece reimagined www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
- Happening Now! San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center staff meeting in the beautiful Green Room. ❤️
- Good men are rarely revolutionaries. They don’t scream their ideologies across crowded rooms or demand applause for a good deed. Instead, they shape the world quietly through patience, poise, and persistence. Thomas Eugene Horn is such a man. www.sfopera.com/blog/2025/06...
- A behind-the-scenes tour of Davies Symphony Hall as it's never been done before! Our engineering team was delighted to host the smart students of Laney College's Environmental Control Technology program! laney.edu/news/laney-e...
- Whether you're looking for quiet contemplation or a KMEL-soundtracked block party, the Bay Area has so many ways to celebrate Juneteenth this month: www.kqed.org/arts/1397697...
- Rad! 🤘 Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...
- 🎙️ ON AIR: We're speaking with @gmeline.bsky.social, @sahotchkiss.bsky.social and @theluketsai.bsky.social from @kqedarts.bsky.social about their recommendations from KQED's Summer Events Guide for 2025. ❓What's on your summer bucket list? 📻 Listen:
- Want to see something "Hella Bay Area" or "Once in a Lifetime"? Something "Family-Friendly" or "Experimental"? Behold our summer arts preview! What's on *your* must-see art list this season? www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
- Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogan shot a sex comedy on BART — and we rode with them
- New post at On a Pacific Aisle, with operatic reports from Amsterdam and Copenhagen. pacificaisle.substack.com/p/musical-no...
- Time to ride! Any Bay Area Transit will do. Just get on board!
- “Breathtaking acoustics!” “A historic gem in the heart of SF.” “Every performance here feels like magic.” People are singing the praises of our creative campus venues — we’re here for it! Explore What's On at our event calendar. Or peruse the many venues to rent. sfwarmemorial.org/
- What’s YOUR favorite memory at the War Memorial? A performance at the Herbst, the Green Room, the Opera House, Davies Symphony Hall? Drop a comment below!
- Oh, the choices some performances halls have to make! Which would YOU choose? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/a...
- Well-deserved, Tamara Rojo of @sfballet.bsky.social!
- Introducing The SF100: The Standard’s highly subjective, surely divisive list of who holds power, influence, and attention in San Francisco in 2025. The staff of the Standard spent months figuring out who runs this place and whittled it down to 100. See the list: sfstandard.com/sf-100/
- Very cool opportunity alert! www.kqed.org/arts/1397463...
- Fun story on a film camp for teens from the director of "The Last Black Man in San Francisco." The camp will feature all the elements - chase scene, a quirky San Franciscan, iconic locations. Even the great author Gary Kamiya is in there! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
- And if you're interested in a classic San Francisco location for your next film or photo project, visit the Performing Arts Center to learn more: sfwarmemorial.org/film-photogr...
- Oh you want Grateful Dead concerts? We have band-sanctioned live recordings from the Dead & hundreds of other musicians, preserved online & available for listening now ➡️ archive.org/details/etree
- 50 BART stations! 131.2 miles! No bathrooms?!? My latest TotalSF column on the @bart.gov speedrun trend. I'm going next Thursday 3/20 with speedrun veteran & photographer @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social Follow us here! 🚆 🏃♂️🏃💨 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
- 50 stations! 131 miles! No bathroom breaks?! For the next 6-8 hours I’ll be attempting a BART Speedrun with @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social — riding @bart.gov nonstop until we cover every mile of track. The official record is 5 hours 43 minutes. Follow along! 🚇 💯 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
- 🌷🚇Take BART to Tulip Day 2025 in San Francisco's Union Square this Saturday, March 22! Tulip Day is a free one-day event where 80,000 tulips blanket Union Square Plaza and you get to pick 8 to take home with you. Line-Up Begins: 10:00 AM Event Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
- @bff.fm & @rollovereasy.bsky.social podcast joined San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center's Managing Director Kate Sofis for coffee and a chat here at the #herbsttheatre! Listen HERE: bff.fm/broadcasts/4...
- 📣 Calling all Bay Area dance, theater, and multidisciplinary artists! @krfoundation.org is now accepting applications for our New & Experimental Works Program. Learn more ⬇️ krfoundation.org/news/arts/gr... #KennethRaininFoundation #ArtsFunding #BayAreaArts
- Holy Herbst! We had a blast speaking with Kate Sofis about all about the cultural connections they’re creating across buildings and restaurants(!) in their neighborhood. Give it an async listen! 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r... 🟢 open.spotify.com/episode/13Mo... 📻 bff.fm/broadcasts/4...
- Is @rollovereasy.bsky.social gonna talk symphony, opera, ballet & performances at SF’s War Memorial/Herbst Theatre. Funny how plays either originate in the Bay Area (Swept Away❤️🔥) or tour there (Don’t miss #Stereophonic!) B.Hutch digs Broadway too
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- We’re live from the theatre tomorrow! The Herbst Theatre to be exact. We’ll learn all about their programming, tech, and even secret tunnels! 👀 We’re excited to sip coffee with Kate Sofis, the Performing Art Center’s Managing Director. Join us! Only on @bffdotfm
- 15 things to do in SF this week, from block parties to robotics
