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Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove, locally called Stern Grove, is a 33-acre (130,000 m 2) recreational site in the Parkside District.It is administered by the city's Recreation and Parks Department and is the concert setting for the Stern Grove Festival, which has taken place annually since 1938.
San Francisco-based SHN hosts productions of Broadway shows in its vintage 1920s-era venues in the Theater District: the Curran, Orpheum, and Golden Gate Theatres. San Francisco has had a thriving improv theatre community, with a distinctly different style of improv than much of the rest of the country [citation needed].
During the California Gold Rush, many Chinese immigrants came to San Francisco to work in gold mines and on railroads in search of wealth and a better life. The earliest recorded New Year's celebration was "a great feast" on February 1, 1851, [7] and the first dragon dance in San Francisco was held for the New Year in 1860. [8]
The Stern Grove Festival is an admission-free series of performing arts events held during the summer months in San Francisco. Established in 1938, the festival is held at Sigmund Stern Grove, a eucalyptus-wooded natural amphitheater on a 33-acre (130,000-square-meter) site about two miles (three kilometers) south of Golden Gate Park that ranges from 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard west to ...
Saint Joseph's Arts Society, run by the Saint Joseph's Arts Foundation, is an arts nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and arts community located at 1401 Howard Street in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, California. [1] [2]
San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center, 301 Van Ness Street Civic Center venue of the San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Ballet: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: 701 Mission Street includes the Novelius/YBCA Theatre or Blue Shield of California Theater Z Space: Project Artaud, 450 Florida Stree Mission District
The Legion of Honor was inspired by the French pavilion, a replica of the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur in Paris, at San Francisco's Panama–Pacific International Exposition of 1915. The museum opened in 1924 in the Beaux Arts–style building designed by George Applegarth on a bluff overlooking the Golden Gate .
San Francisco Bay Area Education A mobile museum focused on environment concerns. 2009 New Langton Arts: San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco Bay Area Arts 2009 Playland-Not-At-The-Beach: El Cerrito: Contra Costa: East Bay: Amusement