🌟Local Kiddo SF

Your weekend plans, handled.

Author

Jasmine Alves
July 03, 2025

📆Issue No. 24 - July 4-6, 2025

Happy Thursday, friends! Get ready for a July 4th weekend that only San Francisco could deliver - where patriotic fireworks explode over the bay while jazz legends take over historic Fillmore, farm animals teach life lessons, and 6,000-year-old masterpieces spark your imagination. We've curated the perfect long weekend recipe: equal parts red-white-and-blue celebration, soul-stirring music, muddy boots learning, and world-class culture that proves why this city knows how to party with purpose.

⚡ TLDR: Weekend Gameplan

Fourth of July Festivities:

Saturday:

Sunday:

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🎇Fourth of July Festivities

All Weekend

Experience SF’s largest free jazz fest for a weekend of culture, creativity and connection. Expect live music, captivating art, and amazing food and beverages.

Worth Knowing: 

  • 10:00am-6:00pm

  • Fillmore, from Jackson to Eddy Street

  • Free admission (feel free to make a donation to support)

  • 12 blocks and 5 stages

  • Food vendors

  • Artisan booths

  • Community activities

Saturday Highlight

Connect with nature and agriculture at SFPL’s social at the New Farm. This event will be buzzing with live music, art and crafts, book giveaways, and of course, goats and chickens. Plus, the Bookmobile will be there!

Worth Knowing: 

  • 11:00am-4:00pm

  • The New Farm/Bay Natives Nursery, 10 Cargo Way

  • Free admission

  • If you are looking for a way to move your body before the event you can take a group ride from the Ferry building to the New Farm with San Francisco Bicycle Coalition at 10:30am

  • Arts and Crafts with Cristina Edwards from 11:00am-2:00pm

  • Live Music featuring Bay Beats Artists from 12:00pm-2:00pm

  • Self guided walking tour on the stroller-friendly trail at Heron’s Head Park

Sunday Highlight

Explore 6,000 years of Asian art and culture with free admission to world-class collections, plus special family programming, cultural performances, and hands-on activities that bring diverse Asian cultures to life.

Worth knowing:

  • 10:00am-4:00pm

  • Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin Street

  • Free admission

  • Your kiddos can express their inner artist at the drop in art activities from 10:00am-4:00pm and the Zine lesson at 1:30pm

  • Belt out Disney tunes at the Mulan screening and singalong at 11:30am

  • Family story time (ages 3-6) at 11:00am and again (for all ages) at 1:00pm

  • Tour the museum collection at 2:00pm

  • Hear from the curator at 11:30am and 12:30pm

✨Full List of What’s Good This Weekend✨

Ongoing:

Friday, 7/4:

Saturday, 7/5:

Sunday, 7/6:

🔭 On Our Radar

 The Hayes Valley Carnival transforms the streets of Hayes Valley into a vibrant community celebration with Circus Bella, local vendors, live music, family activities, and more (July 19).

Give your baby gear a new life at the Richmond free baby item swap (July20).

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).

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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