3 Best Performing Arts Venues in The Bay Area, California

The festival takes place in mid-September in Old Mill Park, with live music, a kids' stage, and artisans selling crafts, jewelry, and art.

The well-regarded 11-day festival, held annually in early October, shows everything from features and documentaries to experimental works and draws crowds of more than 60,000. Films are shown at various locations around town.

This annual juried fine-arts show, held over Labor Day weekend, features more than 270 artists and attracts more than 30,000 people to the Sausalito waterfront. Blue & Gold Fleet ferries from San Francisco dock at the pier adjacent to the festival.