Le Bal des Vampires

Alameda Elks Lodge 2255 Santa Clara Avenue, Alameda, CA, United States

Waltz the night away in a beautiful candlelit ballroom with the San Francisco Bay Area's most glamorous Undead at the 21st Annual Le Bal des Vampires.

Dia de los Muertos Community Ofrenda

Museum of Art and History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Visit the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s Annual Community Ofrenda in the Museum Atrium. Each year community members are asked to remember and honor loved ones who have passed on by bringing a photograph, memento or special object to place on the altar.

Barry and Maya Spector’s Day of the Dead Ritual

Hillside Church 1422 Navellier Street, El Cerrito, CA, United States

We will take a full day to help each other remember our ancestors and our personal and collective losses.

Samhain Celebration at Isis Oasis

Isis Oasis Sanctuary 20889 Geyserville Avenue, Geyserville, CA, United States

Join us for our special Halloween/Samhain Celebration at Isis Oasis! Costume Dance Party with Bear Bones Band, Drum Jam, Ancestors Ritual, DJ Dan, Hot Tub, Swimming Pool

CAYA Coven’s Festival of Death and Wisdom

Home of Truth 1300 Grand Street, Alameda, CA, United States

All are invited to bring an Ancestor photo or item for our altar, to join us in a ritual and spiral dance honoring our beloved dead, and in hearing the wisdom of the underworld gods and goddesses that will be joining us.

Community Seed Samhain

Santa Cruz Masonic Temple 828 North Branciforte Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Come journey with us as we find the links between you and the Goddess and Horned God, between their story of the Wheel of the Year, and your life story as you unfold it. Come take that first big step that leads to everything you desire.

Dia de los Muertos San Francisco

Parade starts at 22nd Street and Bryant Street 22nd Street and Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

In San Francisco, Day of the Dead has been celebrated in the Mission district since the early 70s with art, music, performances and a walking procession, which help us contemplate our existence and mortality - a moment to remember deceased friends and family, and our connections beyond our immediate concerns.

Dia de los Muertos Community Ofrenda

Museum of Art and History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Visit the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s Annual Community Ofrenda in the Museum Atrium. Each year community members are asked to remember and honor loved ones who have passed on by bringing a photograph, memento or special object to place on the altar.

Dia de los Muertos Berkeley

1400 block of Shattuck Avenue 1400 block of Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

Celebrate and remember those who have passed on at a time of year when the veil between the living and dead is thought to be at its most diaphanous.