Upcoming Events
Work-in-Progress Screening of THE DAY AFTER • Sunday, July 26
The 46th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and partner Irish Culture Bay Area are excited to co-present a work-in-progress screening of THE DAY AFTER on Sunday, July 26 at the JCCSF. Co-Director/Co-Producer Yuval Orr and Executive Producer Libby Lenkinski expected to attend.
Join the filmmakers in conversation as they work to finish their film, THE DAY AFTER, which profiles a group of Israelis and Palestinians who travel to Northern Ireland to hear and to try to tell an impossible story: how bitter enemies finally make peace.
How do two groups of people overcome their violently entwined past? How does a person reconcile their actions with their hope for a better future? How can peace be made to last? These are the questions asked in THE DAY AFTER, a documentary about the long and arduous process of resolving a geopolitical conflict. A group of Israelis and Palestinians travels to Belfast, where the story of The Troubles is recounted by witnesses, victims and participants alike. These testimonies—of military checkpoints and bombs on every street corner—convey the long road to the eventual Good Friday Agreement. The group’s goal is to understand how to replicate a political triumph, to find something to bring back home with them.
THE DAY AFTER is a film about the potential for conversation to redirect history; it is both an eye-opening historical inquiry and a clear-eyed analysis of the present, ingeniously structured by directors Aziz Abu Sarah & Yuval Orr. Above all else, this is an essential story about our capacity for understanding whilst surrounded by ruin. — David Cohn
PLEASE JOIN US! Use IRISH46 for a discount on tickets to this screening
2026 Past Events
European Union Pride Parade • Sunday, June 28 2026
10:30 AM – 2 PM – Spear Street & Market Street
The European Consulates in the Bay Area invite all Europeans and friends of Europe to join us in marching at the San Francisco Pride Parade. Let’s come together to celebrate love, equality, and diversity, and show our shared commitment to inclusion and human rights. Bring your flags, your friends, and your pride, everyone is welcome in the European contingent. Register here
Colum McCann will appear at Sonoma Valley Authors Festival – free event at Authors on the Plaza, May 2 at 2pm
For more information on Sonoma Valley Authors Festival, visit SVAF website
Marin Irish Festival – Saturday & Sunday, May 16–17 at Marin County Fairgrounds
Named for Beltane, the ancient Celtic festival marking the arrival of summer, The Marin Irish Festival inspires a weekend filled with maypoles, lively tunes, and revelry. Festivalgoers can explore seven stage areas of live entertainment, featuring acclaimed Irish musicians, high-energy dance performances and competition, storytelling, free children’s game area, craft and food vendors, sheep dog demos, falconry, and a lakeside pub!
Produced by Red Barn Productions, creators of The Great Dickens Christmas Fair and the original Renaissance Pleasure Faire, the festival offers a full weekend of performances, hands-on cultural experiences, and family-friendly fun rooted in Irish heritage.
Mufutau Yusuf – April 30, 8pm; May 2, 4pm – Dance Mission Theatre – EVENT POSTPONED; STAY TUNED FOR FUTURE DATES
Mufutau Yusuf is a Nigeria-born Irish choreographer, performer, teacher, and curator based between Ireland and Brussels.
“Impasse” at the 2026 San Francisco International Festival, is a powerful, driving, high-speed performance with a set and props that reference African immigration, and confronting the biased narratives etched onto Black bodies throughout history. These narratives, steeped in cultural imperialism, violence, exploitation, marginalization, and powerlessness, are laid bare with raw physicality and emotional intensity.
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Lúnasa – March Dates
Hailed as “The Hottest Irish Acoustic band on the Planet” by The Irish Voice, Lúnasa has sold over 250,000 albums, performed over 2,500 shows across 36 countries, and has become one of the most influential bands in the history of Irish music.
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March 27 – Sebastopol
March 28 – Santa Cruz
March 29 – San Francisco
Laura Byrne & Rose Flanagan – March 28, 7pm – Plough & Stars, Clement Street, SF
Join Crossroads Irish American Festival 2026 for a wonderful evening of traditional Irish music featuring flute and whistle player, Laura Byrne in concert with fiddle player, Rose Flanagan. Byrne has performed extensively across North America and Ireland and has recorded solo albums as well as a duo album with Rose Flanagan, entitled Forget Me Not. She is also the Founder and Artistic Director of the Baltimore Irish Trad Fest. Flanagan has toured extensively with her group, the Green Gates Céilí Band and has taught workshops in Canada, Ireland and many places in the US. She also runs a large music school in Pearl River, New York. Join Crossraods for the annual Flynn Memorial Concert. TICKETS
Mufutau Yusuf – April 30, 8pm; May 2, 4pm – Dance Mission Theatre, part of SF INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL – THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED
Mufutau Yusuf is a Nigeria-born Irish choreographer, performer, teacher, and curator based between Ireland and Brussels.
“Impasse” is a powerful, driving, high-speed performance with a set and props that reference African immigration, and confronting the biased narratives etched onto Black bodies throughout history. These narratives, steeped in cultural imperialism, violence, exploitation, marginalization, and powerlessness, are laid bare with raw physicality and emotional intensity.
TICKETS
Marin Irish Festival – Saturday & Sunday, May 16–17 at Marin County Fairgrounds
Named for Beltane, the ancient Celtic festival marking the arrival of summer, The Marin Irish Festival inspires a weekend filled with maypoles, lively tunes, and revelry. Festivalgoers can explore seven stage areas of live entertainment, featuring acclaimed Irish musicians, high-energy dance performances and competition, storytelling, free children’s game area, craft and food vendors, sheep dog demos, falconry, and a lakeside pub!
Produced by Red Barn Productions, creators of The Great Dickens Christmas Fair and the original Renaissance Pleasure Faire, the festival offers a full weekend of performances, hands-on cultural experiences, and family-friendly fun rooted in Irish heritage.
Saturday, March 7, 9pm – Gurriers at Brick & Mortar
As the end of the first quarter of the 21st century inches ever closer, our planet precariously teeters from one crisis to the next. Rather than passively sit back and watch, the high-energy Irish guitar quintet Gurriers are firing on all cylinders and confronting the ills of the modern world on their debut album, Come and See, a truly thrilling collection of razor-sharp progressive punk songs.
Saturday, March 7 – San Francisco Irish Film Festival DocFest at Delancey Street
The 9th annual DocFest, themed “Community + Connection,” explores the invisible threads that bind Ireland to the Bay Area and beyond through shared histories of struggle, resilience, and triumph. Éire agus Na Chéad Naisiúin, is the exploration of the profound historical relationship between Ireland and Native American communities; Dipsea Generations, follows five young runners tackling the iconic Dipsea race; A Quiet Love follows three Deaf couples—including a forbidden religious romance and an LGBTQI+ couple, navigating life with deafness, and Stolen Lives is the story of the world’s only married couple to both be wrongly sentenced to death and later exonerated. Films at 3pm, 4.30pm, 5.15pm and 7pm.
Saturday, March 14 – Eileen Ivers at The Freight
Eileen Ivers will change the way you think of the violin. Grammy-winning and Emmy-nominated, Ivers continues to push traditional fiddling boundaries from a folk music staple to an intensely driving, powerfully beautiful world stage experience. In a career that has spanned more than 40 years, Ivers has performed and/or toured with such diverse artists as Sting, Patti Smith, Al Di Meola, Hall and Oates and The Chieftains.
Tuesday, March 17 – The Black Brothers & Friends at The Freight
Shay & Michael Black are singing siblings from Ireland’s foremost family of song, The Black Family, which also includes their sisters Mary & Frances, & brother, Martin. Hailed in the Irish Echo as “one of the most impressive groups of Irish singers to be found anywhere; exquisite, exhilarating and nothing short of thrilling” they raise their sibling rivalry to revelry, The Blacks adroitly accompany themselves on banjo, cittern & guitar. The musical lineup also features button accordion virtuoso, Félim Egan and keyboardist, Eamonn Flynn.
Thursday, March 12, 6pm – Early Irish Films at the Roxie
Join the Consulate General of Ireland and the San Francisco Film Preserve during on Thursday March 12th, 6:00pm at the Roxie Theatre in San Francisco for “Early Irish Films”, a celebration of Ireland in the early days of the silent silver screen.
On view are two rare silent movies: “You Remember Ellen, filmed on location in Ireland by the so-called “O’Kalem” company in 1912, and The Gault Collection, an ethnographic collection shot on the Irish coast in the mid-1920s, accompanied by traditional Irish music by Cormac Gannon and Kyle Alden.
After the screening SFFP Executive Director Kathy Rose O’Regan and Cultural Officer Elizabeth Creely will discuss the restoration process, and Hollywood’s enduring fascination with Ireland’s landscapes, stories, and people. TICKETS
Mufutau Yusuf – April 30, 8pm; May 2, 4pm – Dance Mission Theatre
Mufutau Yusuf is a Nigeria-born Irish choreographer, performer, teacher, and curator based between Ireland and Brussels.
“Impasse” is a powerful, driving, high-speed performance with a set and props that reference African immigration, and confronting the biased narratives etched onto Black bodies throughout history. These narratives, steeped in cultural imperialism, violence, exploitation, marginalization, and powerlessness, are laid bare with raw physicality and emotional intensity.
TICKETS