What’s Happening At The Ferry Building
Upcoming Events at the Ferry Building
June
Event Details
HEAD WEST Marketplace is pleased to return to San Francisco’s beloved Ferry Building! Every first Sunday of the month, beginning March 5th, Head West will bring Bay Area Makers,
Event Details
HEAD WEST Marketplace is pleased to return to San Francisco’s beloved Ferry Building! Every first Sunday of the month, beginning March 5th, Head West will bring Bay Area Makers, Crafters, Designers, Artists + Vintage Merchants to the Ferry Building’s beautiful back plaza.
HEAD WEST is a Local, Outdoor Retail Marketplace — created out of the need for accessible and affordable physical space, Founder Jimmy Brower curates an open-air experience that brings together the ideals of the modern maker with the spirit of the traveling vagabond. The marketplace provides an ‘in-real-life’ platform for new, emerging + established brands to have selling space multiple times per month at various iconic and well-known venues around the Bay.
The Mission of HEAD WEST is to provide an environment that supports and embraces local creativity + the spirit of entrepreneurship. Through connecting people, it assists in preserving arts + culture, realizing it’s impact on the local economy + providing for the well-bring of the people that keep these ideals alive. Those creatives + entrepreneurs that identify as BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ are strongly encouraged to apply.
Health & Safety Measures have been implemented to allow for an enjoyable and safe #ShopSmall experience. HEAD WEST is a Kid + Pet Friendly Marketplace | All Are Welcome w/ Free Entry.
Time
(Sunday) 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location
Ferry Building Back Plaza
Event Details
Join us for a free yoga series with a beautiful waterfront view, peaceful vibes and feel-good, enlivening movement for your Tuesday lunch break. The Outdoor Yoga and Ferry Building communities
Event Details
Join us for a free yoga series with a beautiful waterfront view, peaceful vibes and feel-good, enlivening movement for your Tuesday lunch break. The Outdoor Yoga and Ferry Building communities have partnered up with the intention of rebuilding community and connection in these times, to create an offering for our community feel healthy and happy with yoga and to support our local merchants. We’d love it if you stay and enjoy lunch after class.
Register here:
Please bring your own mat. We will provide headphones. Class size is limited, so be sure to pre-register! Class is held on the Ferry Building Back Plaza. Exact directions will be emailed after registration.
We look forward to seeing you!
Time
(Tuesday) 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Location
Ferry Building Back Plaza
Organizer
Ferry Building Marketplace
thu08jun4:00 pm6:00 pmLive Music on the PlazaHappy Hour 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Ferry Building Back Plaza
Event Details
Enjoy live music from 4:00 - 6:00 PM on the Ferry Building’s Back Plaza featuring Bay Area musicians every Thursday in May. Grab your Ferry Building favorites inside the Marketplace
Event Details
Enjoy live music from 4:00 – 6:00 PM on the Ferry Building’s Back Plaza featuring Bay Area musicians every Thursday in May. Grab your Ferry Building favorites inside the Marketplace and soak up picture perfect bay views in our expansive outdoor dining area!
Time
(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Ferry Building Back Plaza
Event Details
Join us in the Marketplace for a 'Ferry Family Day' of gift making for Fathers and Father Figures! Create one-of-a-kind gifts like a trophies, ties, and candy cards. Find the activity
Event Details
Join us in the Marketplace for a ‘Ferry Family Day’ of gift making for Fathers and Father Figures! Create one-of-a-kind gifts like a trophies, ties, and candy cards.
Find the activity table by Cholita Linda and Delica in the central Marketplace.
This event is free and open to the public.
Time
(Sunday) 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location
Ferry Building Marketplace
Organizer
Ferry Building Marketplace
sun11jun10:00 am4:00 pmGardeneur Plant MarketPop-Up Event10:00 am - 4:00 pm Ferry Building
Event Details
Plant parents rejoice - Gardeneur Plant Market is back in 2023! The Ferry Building front plaza will be filled with a variety of rare indoor and outdoor plants from 10
Event Details
Plant parents rejoice – Gardeneur Plant Market is back in 2023!
The Ferry Building front plaza will be filled with a variety of rare indoor and outdoor plants from 10 AM – 4 PM
Time
(Sunday) 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location
Ferry Building
Event Details
Join us for a free yoga series with a beautiful waterfront view, peaceful vibes and feel-good, enlivening movement for your Tuesday lunch break. The Outdoor Yoga and Ferry Building communities
Event Details
Join us for a free yoga series with a beautiful waterfront view, peaceful vibes and feel-good, enlivening movement for your Tuesday lunch break. The Outdoor Yoga and Ferry Building communities have partnered up with the intention of rebuilding community and connection in these times, to create an offering for our community feel healthy and happy with yoga and to support our local merchants. We’d love it if you stay and enjoy lunch after class.
Register here:
Please bring your own mat. We will provide headphones. Class size is limited, so be sure to pre-register! Class is held on the Ferry Building Back Plaza. Exact directions will be emailed after registration.
We look forward to seeing you!
Time
(Tuesday) 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Location
Ferry Building Back Plaza
Organizer
Ferry Building Marketplace
Event Details
Taste some of the world’s most rare and celebrated wines and meet the people who make them famous. This is a great opportunity to enjoy delicious wines and chat in
Event Details
Taste some of the world’s most rare and celebrated wines and meet the people who make them famous. This is a great opportunity to enjoy delicious wines and chat in an intimate, personal, yet casual atmosphere with the types of artisanal producers from around the globe featured at the Ferry Plaza Wine Merchant. All wine events are on Wednesdays, 4PM – 7PM, unless otherwise stated. View the schedule here!
These events are open to everyone, and the only cost is for the flight of the wine. All tasting events are 21+.
May 17: Turley, Christina & Whitney Turley
May 31: Lucia by Pisoni, Jeff Pisoni
June 14: Trail Marker, Drew Huffine & Emily Virgil
June 28: La Follette, Hugh Chappelle
Time
(Wednesday) 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Ferry Plaza Wine Merchant & Wine Bar
thu15jun4:00 pm6:00 pmLive Music on the PlazaHappy Hour 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Ferry Building Back Plaza
Event Details
Enjoy live music from 4:00 - 6:00 PM on the Ferry Building’s Back Plaza featuring Bay Area musicians every Thursday in May. Grab your Ferry Building favorites inside the Marketplace
Event Details
Enjoy live music from 4:00 – 6:00 PM on the Ferry Building’s Back Plaza featuring Bay Area musicians every Thursday in May. Grab your Ferry Building favorites inside the Marketplace and soak up picture perfect bay views in our expansive outdoor dining area!
Time
(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Ferry Building Back Plaza
thu15jun5:30 pm7:00 pmCookie Decorating ClassIce Cream Cookies 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Ferry Building
Event Details
Indulge your sweet tooth and embrace your creativity while learning a new skill that is sure to impress your friends and family! Join us on Thursday, June 15th at 5:30pm at
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Indulge your sweet tooth and embrace your creativity while learning a new skill that is sure to impress your friends and family!
Join us on Thursday, June 15th at 5:30pm at the iconic San Francisco Ferry Building for an evening of cookie decorating fun in celebration of summer and Pride! Learn the cookie art basics from baking pros and decorate tasty cookie masterpieces of your very own. You will leave class with a beautifully boxed custom cookie set perfect for gifting or eating, plus all the tips, tricks, and recipes you need to decorate your own royal icing cookies at home. We will provide all the supplies and you will learn how to pipe and flood with royal icing, how to make your own sprinkles, and how to add texture and dimension to your cookies. No experience needed!
Sugar cookie sisters Maya from Painted Ladies Pastry and Murrah from Burnt Cookies by Murrah are local bakers and educators who love sharing their joy of baking and cookie decorating in the classroom.
Time
(Thursday) 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Ferry Building
sat17jun7:00 pm11:00 pm6th Annual Black Food & Wine Experience7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Ferry Building
Event Details
Created by Chef Mimi, The Black Food & Wine Experience is an annual mission-driven week long event bridging food, beverage, education, health, and Black culture. Our mission
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Created by Chef Mimi, The Black Food & Wine Experience is an annual mission-driven week long event bridging food, beverage, education, health, and Black culture. Our mission is to provide a space where Black Food Culture can be explored by all.
The Grand Tasting – June 17, 2023 – 7-11 p.m. – San Francisco Ferry Building Sample the food, wine and cocktails of the African Diaspora at The Black Food & Wine Experience’s Grand Tasting in the famed San Francisco Ferry Building. Celebrate Black culture and excellence with your fellow foodies while tasting from celebrated and rising chefs and restaurants and winemakers and spirit purveyors. The event will feature limited availability wines, barrel samples and culinary concepts with incomparable flavor not to mention live entertainment and activations.
Time
(Saturday) 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Location
Ferry Building
Event Details
Join us for a free yoga series with a beautiful waterfront view, peaceful vibes and feel-good, enlivening movement for your Tuesday lunch break. The Outdoor Yoga and Ferry Building communities
Event Details
Join us for a free yoga series with a beautiful waterfront view, peaceful vibes and feel-good, enlivening movement for your Tuesday lunch break. The Outdoor Yoga and Ferry Building communities have partnered up with the intention of rebuilding community and connection in these times, to create an offering for our community feel healthy and happy with yoga and to support our local merchants. We’d love it if you stay and enjoy lunch after class.
Register here:
Please bring your own mat. We will provide headphones. Class size is limited, so be sure to pre-register! Class is held on the Ferry Building Back Plaza. Exact directions will be emailed after registration.
We look forward to seeing you!
Time
(Tuesday) 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Location
Ferry Building Back Plaza
Organizer
Ferry Building Marketplace
thu22jun4:00 pm6:00 pmLive Music on the PlazaHappy Hour 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Ferry Building Back Plaza
Event Details
Enjoy live music from 4:00 - 6:00 PM on the Ferry Building’s Back Plaza featuring Bay Area musicians every Thursday in May. Grab your Ferry Building favorites inside the Marketplace
Event Details
Enjoy live music from 4:00 – 6:00 PM on the Ferry Building’s Back Plaza featuring Bay Area musicians every Thursday in May. Grab your Ferry Building favorites inside the Marketplace and soak up picture perfect bay views in our expansive outdoor dining area!
Time
(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Ferry Building Back Plaza
Event Details
Join us for a free yoga series with a beautiful waterfront view, peaceful vibes and feel-good, enlivening movement for your Tuesday lunch break. The Outdoor Yoga and Ferry Building communities
Event Details
Join us for a free yoga series with a beautiful waterfront view, peaceful vibes and feel-good, enlivening movement for your Tuesday lunch break. The Outdoor Yoga and Ferry Building communities have partnered up with the intention of rebuilding community and connection in these times, to create an offering for our community feel healthy and happy with yoga and to support our local merchants. We’d love it if you stay and enjoy lunch after class.
Register here:
Please bring your own mat. We will provide headphones. Class size is limited, so be sure to pre-register! Class is held on the Ferry Building Back Plaza. Exact directions will be emailed after registration.
We look forward to seeing you!
Time
(Tuesday) 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Location
Ferry Building Back Plaza
Organizer
Ferry Building Marketplace
Event Details
Taste some of the world’s most rare and celebrated wines and meet the people who make them famous. This is a great opportunity to enjoy delicious wines and chat in
Event Details
Taste some of the world’s most rare and celebrated wines and meet the people who make them famous. This is a great opportunity to enjoy delicious wines and chat in an intimate, personal, yet casual atmosphere with the types of artisanal producers from around the globe featured at the Ferry Plaza Wine Merchant. All wine events are on Wednesdays, 4PM – 7PM, unless otherwise stated. View the schedule here!
These events are open to everyone, and the only cost is for the flight of the wine. All tasting events are 21+.
May 17: Turley, Christina & Whitney Turley
May 31: Lucia by Pisoni, Jeff Pisoni
June 14: Trail Marker, Drew Huffine & Emily Virgil
June 28: La Follette, Hugh Chappelle
Time
(Wednesday) 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Ferry Plaza Wine Merchant & Wine Bar
thu29jun4:00 pm6:00 pmLive Music on the PlazaHappy Hour 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Ferry Building Back Plaza
Event Details
Enjoy live music from 4:00 - 6:00 PM on the Ferry Building’s Back Plaza featuring Bay Area musicians every Thursday in May. Grab your Ferry Building favorites inside the Marketplace
Event Details
Enjoy live music from 4:00 – 6:00 PM on the Ferry Building’s Back Plaza featuring Bay Area musicians every Thursday in May. Grab your Ferry Building favorites inside the Marketplace and soak up picture perfect bay views in our expansive outdoor dining area!
Time
(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Ferry Building Back Plaza
July
Event Details
HEAD WEST Marketplace is pleased to return to San Francisco’s beloved Ferry Building! Every first Sunday of the month, beginning March 5th, Head West will bring Bay Area Makers,
Event Details
HEAD WEST Marketplace is pleased to return to San Francisco’s beloved Ferry Building! Every first Sunday of the month, beginning March 5th, Head West will bring Bay Area Makers, Crafters, Designers, Artists + Vintage Merchants to the Ferry Building’s beautiful back plaza.
HEAD WEST is a Local, Outdoor Retail Marketplace — created out of the need for accessible and affordable physical space, Founder Jimmy Brower curates an open-air experience that brings together the ideals of the modern maker with the spirit of the traveling vagabond. The marketplace provides an ‘in-real-life’ platform for new, emerging + established brands to have selling space multiple times per month at various iconic and well-known venues around the Bay.
The Mission of HEAD WEST is to provide an environment that supports and embraces local creativity + the spirit of entrepreneurship. Through connecting people, it assists in preserving arts + culture, realizing it’s impact on the local economy + providing for the well-bring of the people that keep these ideals alive. Those creatives + entrepreneurs that identify as BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ are strongly encouraged to apply.
Health & Safety Measures have been implemented to allow for an enjoyable and safe #ShopSmall experience. HEAD WEST is a Kid + Pet Friendly Marketplace | All Are Welcome w/ Free Entry.
Time
(Sunday) 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location
Ferry Building Back Plaza
thu06jul4:00 pm6:00 pmLive Music on the PlazaHappy Hour 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Ferry Building Back Plaza
Event Details
Enjoy live music from 4:00 - 6:00 PM on the Ferry Building’s Back Plaza featuring Bay Area musicians every Thursday in May. Grab your Ferry Building favorites inside the Marketplace
Event Details
Enjoy live music from 4:00 – 6:00 PM on the Ferry Building’s Back Plaza featuring Bay Area musicians every Thursday in May. Grab your Ferry Building favorites inside the Marketplace and soak up picture perfect bay views in our expansive outdoor dining area!
Time
(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Ferry Building Back Plaza
sun09jul10:00 am4:00 pmGardeneur Plant MarketPop-Up Event10:00 am - 4:00 pm Ferry Building
Event Details
Plant parents rejoice - Gardeneur Plant Market is back in 2023! The Ferry Building front plaza will be filled with a variety of rare indoor and outdoor plants from 10
Event Details
Plant parents rejoice – Gardeneur Plant Market is back in 2023!
The Ferry Building front plaza will be filled with a variety of rare indoor and outdoor plants from 10 AM – 4 PM
Time
(Sunday) 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location
Ferry Building
sun09jul11:00 pm2:00 pmAwesome Orchestra Serenades the Marketplace11:00 pm - 2:00 pm Ferry Building
Event Details
Help us ring in 125 years of the Ferry Building! Enjoy music from Awesöme Orchestra as you shop. Awesöme Orchestra brings together Bay Area music-lovers for orchestral adventures. The exciting energy and
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Help us ring in 125 years of the Ferry Building! Enjoy music from Awesöme Orchestra as you shop.
Awesöme Orchestra brings together Bay Area music-lovers for orchestral adventures. The exciting energy and sound of 100+ musicians playing together is just one of the many factors that make them awesome. AOC brings classical music out of the symphony concert halls and into the streets, parks, and rock venues of the Bay Area.
Visit www.awesomeorchestra.org for more information.
Time
(Sunday) 11:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location
Ferry Building
Event Details
Let’s party like it’s 1898! Celebrate San Francisco’s favorite landmark with events and specials throughout the year! Kicking off the fun is A Very Ferry Birthday Party at the Ferry Building
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Let’s party like it’s 1898!
Celebrate San Francisco’s favorite landmark with events and specials throughout the year! Kicking off the fun is A Very Ferry Birthday Party at the Ferry Building Marketplace on July 13th. The festivities include themed offerings from marketplace merchants, a free ice cream sundae at Humphry Slocombe, a special birthday happy hour at Fort Point, limited-edition Ferry Building swag giveaways, and a custom paint by number kit designed by SF Etsy. Don’t forget to snap a picture with the clocktower photo op!
Grab a Clocktower Crawl Passport at Bay Crossings and stamp at participating shops to be entered in a weekly prize drawing.
Share your Ferry Building story with #FerryDiaries and be featured on our social channels!
All giveaways above will be offered while supplies last.
Time
(Thursday) 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location
Ferry Building
thu13jul4:00 pm6:00 pmLive Music on the PlazaHappy Hour 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Ferry Building Back Plaza
Event Details
Enjoy live music from 4:00 - 6:00 PM on the Ferry Building’s Back Plaza featuring Bay Area musicians every Thursday in May. Grab your Ferry Building favorites inside the Marketplace
Event Details
Enjoy live music from 4:00 – 6:00 PM on the Ferry Building’s Back Plaza featuring Bay Area musicians every Thursday in May. Grab your Ferry Building favorites inside the Marketplace and soak up picture perfect bay views in our expansive outdoor dining area!
Time
(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Ferry Building Back Plaza
thu20jul4:00 pm6:00 pmLive Music on the PlazaHappy Hour 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Ferry Building Back Plaza
Event Details
Enjoy live music from 4:00 - 6:00 PM on the Ferry Building’s Back Plaza featuring Bay Area musicians every Thursday in May. Grab your Ferry Building favorites inside the Marketplace
Event Details
Enjoy live music from 4:00 – 6:00 PM on the Ferry Building’s Back Plaza featuring Bay Area musicians every Thursday in May. Grab your Ferry Building favorites inside the Marketplace and soak up picture perfect bay views in our expansive outdoor dining area!
Time
(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Ferry Building Back Plaza
thu27jul4:00 pm6:00 pmLive Music on the PlazaHappy Hour 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Ferry Building Back Plaza
Event Details
Enjoy live music from 4:00 - 6:00 PM on the Ferry Building’s Back Plaza featuring Bay Area musicians every Thursday in May. Grab your Ferry Building favorites inside the Marketplace
Event Details
Enjoy live music from 4:00 – 6:00 PM on the Ferry Building’s Back Plaza featuring Bay Area musicians every Thursday in May. Grab your Ferry Building favorites inside the Marketplace and soak up picture perfect bay views in our expansive outdoor dining area!
Time
(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Ferry Building Back Plaza