Night Market Returns to UN Plaza

Amid the backdrop of a glowing City Hall and twinkling Tivoli string lights, the Night Market attracts nearby workers, neighborhood residents, students and visitors alike to spend Friday evenings eating, drinking, shopping, dancing and listening to music in the historic plaza.

• What: Night Market
• When: Every Friday, April 10-Oct. 30, except June 26
• Opening night: Friday, April 10, 2015
• Time: 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
• Location: United Nations Plaza, Seventh and Market streets
• Cost: free
• Family fun: face painting, jumpy house, clowns and games
• Entertainment: live music, DJs and dancing 
• Opening night band: Bobbie Webb and Smooth Blues
• Food: six-plus food trucks
• Drinks: beer, wine, soft drinks and cocktails
• Vendors: local Bay Area artists and sellers 
• Website: www.fridaynightmarketsf.org
• Poster & graphic

Piloted in 2014 during the months of September and October, the popular Night Market went on winter hiatus and is ready to spring into action. This time around, Public Works continues the collaboration with the Market Street Association and Lefty O'Doul's Foundation for Kids, to manage the market. Changes include later hours, more entertainment and children’s activities, lower-priced drinks and a wider variety of food options.

Friday’s opening night is in conjunction with the Market Street Prototyping Festival, a three-day event showcasing innovative ideas to enliven and transform Market Street. The Market Street Prototyping Festival and the Night Market are part of the City’s Make Your Market initiative that is inviting new and vital public life into Market Street’s sidewalks and plazas. In partnership with community-based organizations, the City is aiming to make San Francisco’s busiest street into a place where creative and engaged people experiment with how to make a more beautiful, livable and vibrant city.

Night Market sponsors (partial list) include, Twitter, Stantec, United Playaz, Turner, Clean City Coalition, Pankow, Cannon, Recreation and Park Department, Office of Economic and Workforce Development (Invest in Neighborhoods), Clark Construction, UC Hastings College of the Law, SOM, MEI, the Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs, Webcor, Recology and Academy of Art.