Remember that you can take Muni the entire day for a single $5 fare.

Muni Service Notes: There are no planned service changes for this event though routes to the area may see increased ridership. How to Get There on Muni: Riders may utilize any Muni Metro Line to Powell Station, the F Market and Wharves Line, any Market Street bus route as well as the 8 Bayshore, 10 Townsend, 12 Folsom/Pacific, 14 Mission, 14R Mission Rapid, 27 Bryant, 30 Stockton, or the 45 Union/Stockton routes to the event near Yerba Buena Gardens. The festival features a parol lantern parade, a gallery of handmade parols, with live music and dance performances. This year’s theme will honor the resilience of leaders, artists, youth, student groups and especially families who have faced political and economic challenges for decades in San Francisco and the Bay Area.

It is a reminder of the community’s strength and the ways it has continued to rise up. This Saturday's 16th annual Parol Festival in Jessie Square in SoMa is not just a celebration, but also a reflection of history in the area which has long been a site of resistance against community displacement. Such lanterns can be found lighting up windows in Filipino homes throughout the world. The parol lantern is the quintessential Filipino symbol of hope, blessings, luck and peace during the holiday season. How to Get There on Muni: Riders may take the 14 Mission, 14R Mission Rapid, 22 Fillmore, 33 Ashbury/18th Street, 49 Van Ness/Mission, or the 55 16th Street routes to near Valencia and 16th streets. Keeping an eye out for the balloons that will guide the way, participants can then spend the rest of the day exploring the Valencia Corridor, picking up cookies at any of the participating shops, meeting neighbors, shopping exclusive discounts and more. A suggested one-time donation of $10-$20 at any participating merchant -the proceeds of which will go to support the Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Public School- will net a cookie bag and a map of all the other participating shops. Photo: LadyDragonfl圜C/Flickr Mission Holiday Block Party and Cookie CrawlĮxplore the Valencia Corridor this Saturday during the fourth annual Cookie Crawl. Who needs a bar crawl when the Mission is offering a cookie crawl this weekend? Check out the Valencia Corridor as you hunt for goodies this Saturday.

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