🌟Local Kiddo SF

Your weekend plans, handled.

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Jasmine Alves
August 01, 2025

📆Issue No. 27 - August 2-3, 2025

Happy Friday, friends! This weekend brings a perfect blend of movement, creativity, and cultural discovery right to your neighborhood. From upside-down yoga adventures and vibrant tie-dye stations at local night markets to Ghibli-inspired art workshops and enchanting musical performances, we've curated experiences that celebrate community creativity and summer magic. Plus, it's National Farmers Market Week, the perfect excuse to explore one of SF's amazing farmers markets like NoPa, Castro, Civic Center, Ferry Building, or Sunset for fresh finds and family fun. Whether your crew is ready to flip their perspective, splash some color, sample local produce, or dive into Asian art and culture, you'll find the perfect way to stretch, create, and explore in this issue.

⚡ TLDR: Weekend Gameplan

Saturday:

Sunday:

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Saturday Highlights

Turn your world (literally) upside down at this playful yoga workshop designed specifically for young yogis! Experience the joy of inversions, balance, and mindful movement in a fun, safe environment that celebrates curiosity and body awareness.

Worth Knowing: 

  • 11:00am-12:00pm, SFPL Ocean View (ages 3-6)

  • 3:00PM-4:00pm, 3:00-4:00 - SFPL Ingleside (ages 7-12)

  • Free admission

  • Perfect for kids ready to explore yoga in a new way

  • Builds strength, flexibility, and confidence

  • No prior yoga experience necessary

Transform the evening into a colorful celebration at the vibrant Excelsior Night Market! Create your own tie-dye masterpiece while enjoying the community energy, local vendors, and neighborhood charm that makes this market special.

Worth Knowing: 

  • 5:00pm-8:00pm

  • Free admission

  • Excelsior Night Market, Harrington Street

  • Hands-on tie-dye station perfect for all ages

  • Explore local food vendors and community booths

  • Great way to experience neighborhood culture

Sunday Highlight

Dive into 6,000 years of Asian art and culture with an extraordinary lineup of hands-on workshops, performances, and storytelling that brings diverse traditions to life for the whole family.

Worth knowing:

  • 10:00am-4:00pm

  • Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin Street

  • Free admission

  • 11:00am: Family Storytelling (ages 3-6)

  • 11:30am: Ghibli Doodling Class (Koret Education Center) - Drop-in guided drawing inspired by Studio Ghibli magic, no experience needed

  • 1:00pm: Batik Demonstration and Talk (Samsung Hall) featuring expert artists Agus Ismoyo, Nia Fliam, and Desmond Anabrang

  • 1:30pm: Monthly-Makers: Brush Painting (Koret Education Center) with Docent Pauline Tsui - Learn Chinese calligraphy basics (first of four August lessons)

  • 2:00pm: Performance by Violinist Rose Crelli (North Court) - Bay Area classics reimagined

✨Full List of What’s Good This Weekend✨

Ongoing:

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🔭 On Our Radar

Experience Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in concert (August 8 & 9).

Danny Go! is bringing his interactive musical extravaganza to one of San Francisco's most iconic venues for a show that promises to have the whole family jumping, singing, and laughing together (August 13).

Participate in an intergenerational day of service in Excelsior.

Get ready for tire-screeching, engine-roaring excitement as massive Hot Wheels monster trucks take over the city for jaw-dropping stunts, crushing competitions, and automotive spectacle that will leave car-loving kids (and adults) absolutely mesmerized (August 23).

Found a spot that works for both you and the kiddos? Tell us – we read everything.

Until next week,

Jasmine @Local Kiddo — Because good taste doesn’t end at parenthood.

P.S. Forward this to that parent friend who still remembers what uninterrupted coffee tastes like. We've got spots for both of you.

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