Compiled by the El Reportero‘s staff
Millbrae Lunar New Year Festival Street Fair is coming! Write it on your calendar and make sure you don’t miss it!
After pressing the pause button on the New Year event in 2020, with the love and sharing of our community we are bringing back the Street Fair this year!
Boba tea, mocha ice cream, Asian BBQ, coconut pudding, fresh popcorn, mini donut… 20+ food vendors offer you amazing delicious food!
Custom face painting, cute bounce houses, fashion clothing, fortune talking… and more fun vendors adding tons of joy to the event!
On top of that, free Covid testing, kids zone, live performance and firecracker show will blow your eyes and ears!
Come support our local vendors and share a fresh start with love at downtown Millbrae,
Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022 – 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. | Cost: FREE 300-400 block of Broadway.
Free de Young Museum Day for Bay Area Residents (Every Saturday)
Every Saturday, the de Young offers free general admission to the permanent galleries to Bay Area residents. Please note that admission to any special exhibits is not included nor discounted and will require the full admission price.
Saturdays feature engaging art experiences for the entire family, including art-making, gallery guides, and tours with discussion and sketching in the permanent galleries.
Saturday, February 5, 2022 – 9:30 am to 5:15 pm | Cost: FREE*
de Young Museum | 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA
Essential and Frontline Workers Discount
We are pleased to offer free general admission for essential workers — including emergency services, health care, grocery stores, city operations and maintenance, social services, public transit, and delivery services — to receive a $15 discount on tickets to special exhibitions, through December 2021. This discount can be redeemed on-site with your work badge.
2022 Chinese New Year Parade + Fireworks (San Francisco)
Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022 – 5:15 p.m. to 8 p.m. | Cost: FREE*
Chinatown | Washington and Grant, San Francisco, CA
Named one of the world’s top ten parades, the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco is the largest celebration of its kind outside of Asia. It was started in the 1860s and takes place the weekend of the Chinese New Year Community Street Fair (Feb. 19-20, 2022).
Fireworks! The parade will close with a 3-minute firework display finale.
Nowhere in the country will you see a lunar new year parade with more gorgeous floats, elaborate costumes, ferocious lions, exploding firecrackers, and of course the newly crowned Miss Chinatown U.S.A. and her court.
A crowd favorite will be the new and spectacular 288-foot Golden Dragon (“Gum Lung”). It takes a team of over 180 men and women from the martial arts group White Crane to carry this dragon throughout the streets of San Francisco.
Border communities focus of new exhibition at San Francisco Main Library
Submitted by the SFPL
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14, 2022 – For photographer David Bacon, the border region between the United States and Mexico is a land marked by life and death. Each year, at least 300-400 people die trying to cross into the U.S. in
The exhibition opens on February 12 in the Main Library’s Jewett Gallery, which is located on the lower level. The public is invited to the opening event, The Media, Art and the Border, which will feature Bacon in conversation with San Francisco artists and photographers about the way the border is represented in media and the arts.
February 12, 1 p.m., Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, Latino/Hispanic Community Room. Per the City’s Health Order, masks are required at all times in the Library.
On view at the Main Library, Jewett Gallery, Feb. 12 – May 22, 2022.
