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This is a list of festivals and fairs in the San Francisco Bay Area, both ongoing and defunct.

• American Indian Film Festival
• Arab Film Festival
• Berlin & Beyond Film Festival
• Cinequest Film Festival
• Disposable Film Festival
• Frameline Film Festival
• Hi/Lo Film Festival
• International Black Women's Film Festival
• Mill Valley Film Festival
• Palo Alto International Film Festival
• San Francisco Frozen Film Festival
• San Francisco Green Film Festival
• San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
• San Francisco International Film Festival
• San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
• San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
• San Francisco Ocean Film Festival
• San Francisco Silent Film Festival
• Sonoma International Film Festival (AKA Sonoma Valley Film Festival)
• Superfest International Disability Film Festival
• Temescal Street Cinema
• Third World Independent Film Festival

• Asian Heritage Street Celebration

• Bay Area Circus Arts Festival

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (September 2015)

• Bay Area Indie Music Festival - Martinez, California
• Bay Area Rock Fest
• Bear Valley Music Festival
• Cotati Jazz Festival - Cotati, California
• Day on the Green
• Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
• Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival
• Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival
• Loveparade
• Music at Tateuchi
• Treasure Island Music Festival
• Vans Warped Tour

• Bay Area Maker Faire
• Bay to Breakers
• Berkeley Jazz Festival
• BottleRock Napa Valley
• Burning Man
• Caltopia
• Carnaval San Francisco
• Castro Street Fair
• Eat Real Festival^[1]
• Exotic Erotic Ball
• Festival del Sole
• Fiesta on the Hill - Bernal Heights, San Francisco
• Fillmore Jazz Festival
• Ghirardelli Chocolate Festival - September
• Gilroy Community Festival - Gilroy, California
• Gilroy Garlic Festival - Gilroy, California
• Green Festival
• Haight-Ashbury Street Fair
• Halloween in the Castro
• How Weird Street Faire
• KFOG KaBoom
• Lafayette Art & Wine Festival
• Litquake
• Maker Faire
• Midsummer Mozart Festival
• Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival
• Mushroom Mardi Gras Festival
• Napa Valley Festival del Sole
• Noise Pop Festival
• Northern California Folk-Rock Festival (1968)
• Northern California Folk-Rock Festival (1969)
• Opera in the Park hosted by San Francisco Opera
• Other Minds Music Festival
• Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival
• Oyster Festival
• PeaceOUT World Homo Hop Festival - Oakland, California
• Pink Saturday
• The Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco
• Russell City Blues Festival
• San Francisco Blues Festival
• San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade
• San Francisco Jazz Festival
• San Francisco LovEvolution
• San Francisco Juneteenth Festival^[2]
• San Francisco Marathon
• San Francisco Pop Festival
• San Francisco Pride
• San Jose Holiday Parade
• San Jose Jazz Festival
• SF Sketchfest - San Francisco comedy sketch festival
• Sierra Nevada World Music Festival
• Slow Food Nation
• Solano Avenue Stroll
• Soundwave Festival
• Stanford Jazz Workshop
• Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco
• Wonderfest - San Francisco Bay Area festival of science

• Folsom Street Fair
• Gay Pride Parade and Festival
• San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

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