Be sure to check out our full 2025 Fall Arts Guide to live music, movies, art, theater, festivals and more in the Bay Area.

The fall season opens with a closing: On Saturday, Sept. 6, the San Francisco outpost of the arts nonprofit KADIST will present six hours of music, readings and artwork in a final farewell . After 14 years at the corner of Folsom and 20th, KADIST has become something of an institution, reliably bringing international artists and ideas to local audiences.

But like McEvoy Foundation for the Arts and Pier 24 before it, KADIST is funded by a lone donor. And we’ve learned by now to view such projects as temporary gifts, rather than permanent fixtures of the Bay Area art scene.

The good news is that there are many (so many!) other art happenings this season, includ

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