🌟Local Kiddo SF

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Author

Jasmine Alves
June 20, 2025

📆Issue No. 22 - June 21-22, 2025

Happy Friday, friends! We’re sharing everything that is going on for you and the kiddos just in time for the weekend. We’ll be back at our regularly scheduled time next Friday morning.

This weekend brings the circus, outdoor festivals, cultural block parties that showcases San Francisco at its most vibrant. Whether you're drawn to acrobats soaring through fairy tales, musicians creating magic under Presidio stars, or joining thousands in honoring Black heritage and Japanese culture, this weekend offers moments that will stay with your family long after the final bow. Grab your blankets for outdoor shows, bring your sense of wonder, and prepare for a weekend where entertainment meets meaning in the most San Francisco way possible.

⚡ TLDR: Weekend Gameplan

All Weekend:

Saturday:

Sunday:

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All Weekend

Don't miss your final chance to experience this acclaimed circus-theater production that combines acrobatics, aerial arts, and timeless storytelling in an epic adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's beloved fairytale.

Worth knowing:

  • Saturday at 3:00pm & 7:00pm

  • Sunday at 2pm

  • 90 Minute Run Time

  • Children's Creativity Museum, 221 4th Street

  • Tickets Start at $28.52

  • Recommended for Ages 7+

🚌 Getting There: Powell BART/Muni Station + short walk Multiple Muni lines to 4th & Mission

Experience an intimate two-day outdoor music festival in the scenic Presidio featuring diverse Bay Area artists, food trucks, complimentary beer and wine tastings, and hands-on arts and crafts activities.

  • Saturday at 5:30pm

  • Sundays at 2:30pm

  • Presidio Theatre, 99 Moraga Avenue

  • Single day tickets - Adults: $35, Youth $10

  • Weekend package - Adults: $50, Youth $15

  • Food trucks

  • Complimentary beer and wine tastings

  • Paint your own Talavera tiles courtesy of The Mexican Museum

  • Create friendship bracelets

🚌 Getting There: 28-19th Ave, 44-O’Shaughnessy, 45-Union/Stockton

Saturday Highlight

The region's premiere circus company returns with their 16th annual free outdoor show featuring the brightest circus talents from the Bay Area and beyond in an exuberant celebration of acrobatics, aerial arts, and live music.

Worth Knowing: 

🚌 Getting There: Bart/Muni to Powell station, 30-Stockton, 45-Union/Stockton

Sunday Highlight

Join San Francisco's annual Juneteenth Parade as the city honors Black freedom, heritage, and achievement with a flagship parade down Market Street followed by celebration and multiple block parties throughout downtown.

Worth knowing:

  • 10:30am-12:30pm

  • Market & 8th Street

  • Free admission, RSVP appreciated

  • A dozen block parties throughout downtown during parade

  • Games, giveaways, dancing, and community activities

🚌 Getting There: BART/Muni to Civic Center

Experience the beauty and richness of Japanese arts and culture at this annual summer festival featuring traditional performances, hands-on workshops, and cultural demonstrations that bring authentic Japanese traditions to life in the heart of Japantown.

Worth knowing:

  • 12:00pm-5:00pm

  • Free admission

  • Outdoor stage at Post and Laguna

  • Indoor events at Studio Gen

  • Music and dancing

  • Arts and crafts

  • Calligraphy workshop

🚌 Getting There: 22-Fillmore, 38-Geary

 

✨Full List of What’s Good This Weekend✨

Ongoing:

Saturday, 6/21:

Sunday, 6/22:

🔭 On Our Radar

If you’ve missed this week’s baby gear swap, you still have an opportunity to give your baby gear a new life at the Potrero Hill or Richmond free baby item swap.

Support local businesses at the Richmond Night Market (June 21).

Celebrate Pride month with a family block party (June 28).

Dance along with San Francisco Ballet at the Legion of Honor (June 28).

Celebrate World Smurf Day at the Cartoon Museum (June 28).

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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