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Talks & Classes in the Peninsula this weekend

Updated Saturday, October 24 · 144 listings

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Quick answer

This weekend (Oct 23–25) there are 8 events in the Peninsula, plus 3 always-open favorites. Top picks:

Korean Indigenous Futures: The Art of Kim Bong-Jun 김봉준 판화전: 토착적 미래- K아트, 디아스포라, 세계 — Sun, Oct 25, Lathrop Library · Palo Alto
Text Machines: Scarlet Thread of the Digital Order (1883-2026) — Sun, Oct 25, Green Library, Bing Wing · Palo Alto
Book spells — Sun, Oct 25, Education (Cubberley Bldg) · Palo Alto
The Frontier Between Legendary Monsters and Verified Natural History — Sun, Oct 25, Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning · Palo Alto
Gallery Conversations | JANE! — Sun, Oct 25, Cantor Arts Center · Palo Alto (free)

🎉 This weekend

Oct 23–25

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Sunday, October 25 8 picks

Sun25Oct

Book spells

Sun, Oct 25 · All day Education (Cubberley Bldg) · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Sun25Oct

Korean Indigenous Futures: The Art of Kim Bong-Jun 김봉준 판화전: 토착적 미래- K아트, 디아스포라, 세계

Sun, Oct 25 · All day Lathrop Library · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Sun25Oct

Text Machines: Scarlet Thread of the Digital Order (1883-2026)

Sun, Oct 25 · All day Green Library, Bing Wing · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Sun25Oct

The Frontier Between Legendary Monsters and Verified Natural History

Sun, Oct 25 · 9 AM Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Sun25Oct

A Vision of Paris: The Roxane Debuisson Collection at Stanford

Sun, Oct 25 · 10 AM Green Library, Bing Wing · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Mission Mural - Political Art - 39364787244

Sun25Oct

CBD 2026: (In-person) University Public Worship with Rev. Dereca Blackmon - Divine Love as a Source of Power

Sun, Oct 25 · 11 AM Memorial Church · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Sun25Oct

CBD 2026: (In-person) iPause Guided Practice with Rev. Dereca Blackmon - Mantra as Medicine: How Spiritual Spoken Word Heals Our Busy Minds

Sun, Oct 25 · 12:15 PM Memorial Church · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Sun25Oct

Gallery Conversations | JANE!

Sun, Oct 25 · 2 PM Cantor Arts Center · Palo Alto

Free☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

⏩ Before the weekend

Coming up this week

The american doom metal band Pentagram live at the DNA lounge, San Francisco, USA in 2009

Sat24Oct

SOFI TUKKER Presents: ANIMAL TALK (18+)

Sat, Oct 24 · All day Cow Palace · Daly City

21+☔ Rainy-day

Sat24Oct

Book spells

Sat, Oct 24 · All day Education (Cubberley Bldg) · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Sat24Oct

Korean Indigenous Futures: The Art of Kim Bong-Jun 김봉준 판화전: 토착적 미래- K아트, 디아스포라, 세계

Sat, Oct 24 · All day Lathrop Library · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Sat24Oct

Text Machines: Scarlet Thread of the Digital Order (1883-2026)

Sat, Oct 24 · All day Green Library, Bing Wing · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Sat24Oct

Thriller" Dance All Levels Workshop!

Sat, Oct 24 · All day Motion Arts Center · San Mateo

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day$76.54–$87.21

The Grand Parade of the 2010 Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco, California.

Sat24Oct

BTS K-Pop Halloween Workshop with Chloe in San Mateo!

Sat, Oct 24 · All day 217 S Claremont St, San Mateo, CA, United States, California CA · San Mateo

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

🗓️ Plan ahead

Next week · Oct 26–Nov 1

All next week →

Mon26Oct

Book spells

Mon, Oct 26 · All day · +6 more dates Education (Cubberley Bldg) · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Mon26Oct

Branner Library Book & Map Exhibit - Water in the West

Mon, Oct 26 · All day · +1 more date Mitchell Earth Sciences · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Mon26Oct

Korean Indigenous Futures: The Art of Kim Bong-Jun 김봉준 판화전: 토착적 미래- K아트, 디아스포라, 세계

Mon, Oct 26 · All day · +6 more dates Lathrop Library · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Mon26Oct

Text Machines: Scarlet Thread of the Digital Order (1883-2026)

Mon, Oct 26 · All day · +6 more dates Green Library, Bing Wing · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Mon26Oct

The Frontier Between Legendary Monsters and Verified Natural History

Mon, Oct 26 · 9 AM · +4 more dates Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Mon26Oct

A Vision of Paris: The Roxane Debuisson Collection at Stanford

Mon, Oct 26 · 10 AM · +6 more dates Green Library, Bing Wing · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Mon26Oct

PATH+: Sherine Hamdy (Anthropology, UC Irvine): Landing in Place

Mon, Oct 26 · 12 PM Building 260, Pigott Hall · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Mon26Oct

Artist Talk with Hiroyuki Murase

Mon, Oct 26 · 12:15 PM Building 460, Margaret Jacks Hall · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Mon26Oct

The Golden Age’ or ‘the Dark Time of the Plots’: Iraq and Syria in the 1950s | Matthieu Rey

Mon, Oct 26 · 4 PM Encina Commons · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Mon26Oct

Being Muslim on Campus

Mon, Oct 26 · 4 PM Raikes Building, Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Mon26Oct

Ron Alexander Memorial Lectures in Musicology – Joy H. Calico, UCLA

Mon, Oct 26 · 4:30 PM Braun Music Center · Palo Alto

Free☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

The SPIE Photonics West conference in San Francisco at Moscone Center in 2017.

Mon26Oct

Revolutionizing Privacy and AI with Meredith Whittaker

Mon, Oct 26 · 5 PM Simonyi Conference Center, CoDa · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Tue27Oct

Get Wrapped Up in Green: Kokedama-Making Workshop

Tue, Oct 27 · All day 346 North Ellsworth Ave · San Mateo

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day$86.25

Tue27Oct

Seasonal Wreath Making Workshop

Tue, Oct 27 · All day 346 North Ellsworth Avenue · San Mateo

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day$92

Tue27Oct

Open Glass Terrarium Class - SF Bay Area

Tue, Oct 27 · All day Luludi Living Art, 346 N Ellsworth Ave, San Mateo, CA 94401, 94401, San Francisco, US · San Mateo

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Golden Gate Bridge seen from Crissy Field, San Francisco, California. People canoeing in the foreground.

Tue27Oct

Succulent Terrarium Workshop: Build Your Own Mini Garden

Tue, Oct 27 · All day 346 North Ellsworth Avenue · San Mateo

$23–$74.75

🔭 Further out

Coming soon

Mon2Nov

Branner Library Book & Map Exhibit - Water in the West

Mon, Nov 2 · All day Mitchell Earth Sciences · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Mon2Nov

Korean Indigenous Futures: The Art of Kim Bong-Jun 김봉준 판화전: 토착적 미래- K아트, 디아스포라, 세계

Mon, Nov 2 · All day · +3 more dates Lathrop Library · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Mon2Nov

Text Machines: Scarlet Thread of the Digital Order (1883-2026)

Mon, Nov 2 · All day · +3 more dates Green Library, Bing Wing · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Mon2Nov

A Vision of Paris: The Roxane Debuisson Collection at Stanford

Mon, Nov 2 · 10 AM · +3 more dates Green Library, Bing Wing · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Mon2Nov

Book Talk: Chrystia Freeland — Unreliable Boyfriend: An Insider's View of Dealing with a Chaotic Superpower, Plutocrats, and Other Complicated People

Mon, Nov 2 · 4 PM Encina Hall · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Mon2Nov

Japan and the Middle East in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape

Mon, Nov 2 · 4 PM Encina Hall · Palo Alto

Free☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Tue3Nov

General Surgery Alumni Lectureship

Tue, Nov 3 · 7 AM Li Ka Shing Center · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Tue3Nov

Superintelligence or Super Stupidity? Designing AI Systems for Human Flourishing

Tue, Nov 3 · 12 PM Building 120, McClatchy Hall, Main Quad · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Tue3Nov

Book Talk — We Shall Outlast Them: Putin's Global Campaign to Defeat the West

Tue, Nov 3 · 3:30 PM Encina Hall · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Tue3Nov

Artist Talk with CFGNY: A Practice in Collaboration

Tue, Nov 3 · 5:30 PM Anderson Collection · Palo Alto

Free☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Food trucks at Mid-Autumn Festival, San Francisco Chinatown

Wed4Nov

Food Sense: What to Eat and Why

Wed, Nov 4 · 12 PM Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

fear the fiasco concert at the DNA Lounge

Wed4Nov

Lunch Club Series | Navigating Heritage: Chinook Art and Public History Along the Columbia River

Wed, Nov 4 · 12 PM Building 500, Archaeology Center · Palo Alto

👶 Kid-friendly🍸 Nightlife☔ Rainy-day

Wed4Nov

Emergent Properties: Decennial Reflections on Collections

Wed, Nov 4 · 1 PM David Rumsey Map Center (Green Library) · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Display of puppets from Fairyland, 2010-2025

Wed4Nov

Digital Mirrors of Materiality

Wed, Nov 4 · 3 PM Anderson Collection · Palo Alto

👶 Kid-friendly☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Wed4Nov

The Rise and Fall of Tunisian Democracy: Populism, Polarization, and the Perils of Power-Sharing

Wed, Nov 4 · 4 PM Encina Hall · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Wed4Nov

Celine Halioua @ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Speaker Series (ETL)

Wed, Nov 4 · 4:30 PM Nvidia Auditorium · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Wed4Nov

Work, Exile, and Home: Honoring Milorad Drachkovitch & Reopening the Polich Library

Wed, Nov 4 · 4:30 PM Hoover Tower · Palo Alto

☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Wed4Nov

Stanford in Haus Cramer: A Berlin Microhistory - Book Launch and Reception

Wed, Nov 4 · 5:30 PM Humanities Center · Palo Alto

👶 Kid-friendly☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

⭐ Always-on picks

Classic things to do in the Peninsula

Open most days — perfect when you want a sure thing.

Coryphella cooperi from Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, California

Fitzgerald Marine Reserve Tide Pools

Daily; go at low tide Fitzgerald Marine Reserve · Half Moon Bay

Free👶 Kid-friendly☀️ Hot-day

CuriOdyssey

Wednesday–Sunday CuriOdyssey at Coyote Point · San Mateo

👶 Kid-friendlyPaid admission

Hiller Aviation Museum

Daily Hiller Aviation Museum · San Carlos

👶 Kid-friendly☔ Rainy-day☀️ Hot-day

Frequently asked questions

What is there to do in the Peninsula this weekend?

Popular picks for Oct 23–25 include Korean Indigenous Futures: The Art of Kim Bong-Jun 김봉준 판화전: 토착적 미래- K아트, 디아스포라, 세계 (Sun, Oct 25), Text Machines: Scarlet Thread of the Digital Order (1883-2026) (Sun, Oct 25), Book spells (Sun, Oct 25), The Frontier Between Legendary Monsters and Verified Natural History (Sun, Oct 25). See the full, daily-updated list on this page.

Are there free things to do in the Peninsula?

Yes — 14 free events and activities are listed in the Peninsula right now. Use the “Free” filter or visit our Free page.

How often is this list updated?

Every day. Bay Area Weekend checks dozens of Bay Area event calendars, venues and local news sources daily and removes events once they’ve ended. Last update: Saturday, October 24.

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