{"id":445318,"date":"2026-08-27T17:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/445318\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:56:13","slug":"the-castro-is-hosting-a-free-5-hour-family-friendly-carnival-and-block-party-this-weekend-with-music-drag-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/445318\/","title":{"rendered":"The Castro is hosting a free, 5-hour family-friendly carnival and block party this weekend with music, drag, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/piotr-musiol-zVpcLB_LBDA-unsplash-1024x681.jpg\" class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\" alt=\"Exterior of Castro Theatre with Castro sign and marquee\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Castro regularly hosts popular community events, including a monthly night market that brings a collection of vendors, performers, and local businesses together. <a href=\"https:\/\/secretsanfrancisco.com\/things-to-do-this-weekend-sf\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretsanfrancisco.com\/things-to-do-this-weekend-sf\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_0\" data-category=\"click_internal\">This weekend<\/a>, the neighborhood is hosting another free community event,  a carnival and family block party. Here\u2019s what to know. <\/p>\n<p>Carnival Family Block Party<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/piotr-musiol-x5jEU2zHduM-unsplash-1-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51231\"  \/>Castro Street in San Francisco. Photo by Piotr Musio\u0142 on Unsplash<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday, August 29, the Castro will host a family-friendly carnival with music, drag performances, and a collection of LGBTQ+ artists. The free event will take place at Noe and Market Street from 12 to 5 pm. The carnival is hosted by the Castro Merchants, which is an organization comprised of businesses in the iconic neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The upcoming carnival is a great opportunity to experience one of the neighborhood\u2019s free events, especially if you missed last week\u2019s night market. At the same time, on Saturday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/secretsanfrancisco.com\/castro-theater-spirited-away-screening\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretsanfrancisco.com\/castro-theater-spirited-away-screening\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_1\" data-category=\"click_internal\">Castro Theater <\/a>will host a special anniversary screening of the beloved Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away. The screening takes place at 2 pm, and doors open at 1 pm. After the carnival, we recommend stopping by one of the many restaurants in the area, including Starbelly, Twin Peaks, Dumpling Story, and many more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/castromerchants.com\/events\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/castromerchants.com\/events\" data-action=\"text_cta_2\" data-category=\"click_non_sales\">The Castro Carnival and Block Party<\/a> is this Saturday, August 29, from 12 to 5 pm. We recommend taking public transportation to the carnival, as parking may be difficult to find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Castro regularly hosts popular community events, including a monthly night market that brings a collection of vendors,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-445318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}