SF Bay Area Events: Mon June 8 evening + Tue June 9
Tonight (Mon June 8, 5 PM+): ClawCamp Campfire confirmed live at 995 Market St Floor 16 after two prior cancellations, NBA Finals at The Chapel, SF Giants vs. Nationals at Oracle Park, Conway The Machine at The Independent, and free-to-cheap nightlife across the city. Tuesday (June 9): 12-event tech slate led by From Tokens to Robots (Bright Data, 463 RSVPs), Open-Weight Models on Amazon Bedrock (5 speakers, 180 RSVPs), Banking on Startups with Mercury CEO Immad Akhund (221 RSVPs), and Next.js Night SF (Vercel, 450 RSVPs, free). Two events already waitlist-only. Cultural picks include free SF Botanical Garden day, SF Opera Barber of Seville at the Main Library, Pride Month screening of Morocco (1930) at Internet Archive, and Laugh GPT AI comedy at The Function.
Coverage: Mon June 8, 5 PM onward — Tue June 9, 2026, full day.
Tonight is short on tech meetups but long on live music and sports. ClawCamp Campfire is the one confirmed AI community event — and worth noting because the previous two Monday iterations were cancelled. Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the densest single-day tech slate in weeks: 12 events sourced from the Bay Area Founders Club weekly digest alone, covering robotics fireside chats, open-weight model deep dives, founder banking conversations, kids AI design panels, and a full Next.js team meetup. Most require RSVP; two are already waitlist-only. Plan Tuesday ahead.
Pride Month note: Drag Me Downtown is next Friday, June 12, at 101 California — not this window.
Monday, June 8 — from 5 PM
🦞 ClawCamp Campfire — personal agents + Obsidian integration
| Time | Mon June 8 · 6:00 PM–9:00 PM |
| Venue | Frontier Tower, 995 Market St, Floor 16, San Francisco, CA 94103 |
| Category | AI community / personal agents |
| Access | Ticketed (available — not sold out) |
| Register | lu.ma/clawcamp-weekly-6-8 |
ClawCamp's weekly campfire returns after two consecutive Monday cancellations. The Lu.ma page is live, the registration button is active, and the full venue address is listed — all three signals that distinguished last week's cancelled runs are now clear. 1
Four speakers are on the schedule: Steven Echtman (founder, Aiify.io / ClawCamp.us), Dave Nielsen (Head of DevRel, Cognee.ai), Colin Lowenberg (DevRel, Nebius), and Phillip Wessels (Platform Architect & Agentic Systems Builder). 1 The evening's focus: getting a personal orchestration agent running and setting up Obsidian as an agent data layer. Breakout sessions from 7–8:45 PM. Nebius is sponsoring.
ClawCamp runs a distributed Summer Camp series June–August 2026 across SF, LA, NYC, Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barbados, and Morocco; the SF flagship week is Aug 1–9. 1
🏀 NBA Finals watch party at The Chapel
| Time | Mon June 8 · 5:30 PM |
| Venue | The Chapel, San Francisco (main bar) |
| Access | Free |
| Info | dothebay.com |
The Chapel's main bar opens for NBA Finals viewing at 5:30 PM. 2 No ticket required.
⚾ SF Giants vs. Washington Nationals
| Time | Mon June 8 · 6:45 PM |
| Venue | Oracle Park, 24 Willie Mays Plaza, San Francisco |
| Access | Ticketed |
| Info | dothebay.com |
Second game of the Giants–Nationals series. 3
Live music and nightlife — Monday picks
| Event | Time | Venue | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conway The Machine | 8:00 PM | The Independent, 628 Divisadero St | Ticketed 4 |
| Witch Ripper / Lowcaster / Disastroid | 7:30 PM doors | Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th St | $15 adv ($19.81 w/ fees) / $20 door · 21+ 5 |
| Motown on Mondays DJ night | 7:00 PM | Madrone Art Bar, 500 Divisadero St | Free before 8 PM / $5 after · 21+ 6 |
| Mirthquake Monday comedy | 8:00 PM | The Abbey Tavern, 4100 Geary Blvd (Richmond) | Free · RSVP recommended · 21+ 7 |
| Minty Mondays OG karaoke | 5:00 PM | The Mint, 1942 Market St | Free 8 |
| Emporium Industry Night | 6:00 PM | Emporium Arcade Bar, 616 Divisadero St | Free · 8 tokens for bar/restaurant/nightlife industry workers · 21+ 9 |
Conway The Machine (Buffalo, NY) headlines The Independent. The show is presented by Another Planet Entertainment. 4
Witch Ripper (Seattle progressive/sludge), Lowcaster (doom), and Disastroid (St. Cloud stoner doom) form a three-band metal bill at Bottom of the Hill. 5
Mirthquake is hosted by Ben Kolina (Doug Loves Movies podcast, SF Sketchfest), Andrew Holmgren (VICELAND, SF Weekly Best Comedian), and Jesse Hett (Cobb's / Punch Line). Drink specials: $5 well drinks all night, $5 Micheladas and $2.50 beers 7–9 PM. 7
Premium Monday option
| KQED Live Taste & Sip 2026 | Mon June 8 · 7:00 PM |
| Venue | San Francisco Design Center, 2 Henry Adams St |
| Access | $109–$159 + fees · All food and beverage included · 21+ |
| Info | dothebay.com |
Leslie Sbrocco hosts the 21st-season celebration of Check, Please! Bay Area. Over 50 restaurants and a selection of Sbrocco's featured wineries are represented; all food and drink is included in the ticket price. 10
Tuesday, June 9 — all day
Tuesday's tech calendar draws from the Bay Area Founders Club weekly Substack digest (published June 7), which listed 12 confirmed events for this date. Two — GTM Eng SF and Formal Verification + AI — are already waitlist-only. Most of the rest require RSVP approval on Lu.ma.
🏃 Morning: Founders Run & Coffee
| Time | Tue June 9 · 7:00 AM–9:00 AM |
| Venue | Blue Bottle Coffee, 1 Ferry Building #7, San Francisco, CA 94111 |
| Category | Founder networking / fitness |
| Access | Free · No RSVP approval required |
| Register | lu.ma/2opylbqn |
Founders Common (Nikki Heyder, Chris Ashley) organizes a weekly 4-mile group run for founders, operators, and creatives. Meetup at Blue Bottle at 7:00 AM, group departure at 7:07 AM, post-run coffee at 8:00 AM. All paces welcome; no bag drop this week. 11
Afternoon tech: robotics, open-weight models, and startup banking
From Tokens to Robots (Bright Data fireside)
| Time | Tue June 9 · 4:30 PM–8:30 PM |
| Venue | 625 2nd St, San Francisco, CA 94107 |
| Category | Robotics / VLA / world models |
| Access | RSVP required (free) · 463 Going |
| Register | lu.ma/vla-night-panel |
Bright Data hosts a fireside discussion on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) systems, robotics, and world models — specifically how web-scale data powers multimodal training and real-world agentic deployment. Host: Adam Chan. 13 Designed as a landscape overview with capability demos, not a hands-on workshop.
Open-Weight Models on Amazon Bedrock (AWS Builder Loft)
| Time | Tue June 9 · 5:00 PM–8:30 PM |
| Venue | AWS Builder Loft, 525 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94105 |
| Category | AI infrastructure / open-weight models |
| Access | Approval required · 180 Going · Gov-issued ID required at entry |
| Register | lu.ma/jf188vvq (also register at events.builder.aws.com/gWeWVZ) |
Five speaker tracks: George Cameron (Co-Founder, Artificial Analysis) on open-weight vs. proprietary benchmarks; David Loker (VP of AI, CodeRabbit) on building AI code review at scale; MiniMax product leaders on the M3 model for agentic workloads; Adi Margolin and Yasmina Benkhoui (NVIDIA) on inference infrastructure; Kwindla Hultman Kramer (CEO, Daily) on real-time voice agents on open-weight models. 12
Schedule: 5:30–6:00 check-in; 6:00–7:30 presentations; 7:30–8:00 panel; 8:00–8:30 networking. Hosts include Sahar Mor (Bond AI). Note: this event requires a second registration step at the AWS events portal in addition to the Lu.ma RSVP.
Banking on Startups: An Evening with Immad Akhund (USVC / Mercury)
| Time | Tue June 9 · 6:00 PM–8:00 PM |
| Venue | San Francisco (address revealed post-approval) |
| Category | Founder dinner / fintech fireside |
| Access | Approval required · 221 Going |
| Register | lu.ma/immad |
Immad Akhund, co-founder and CEO of Mercury (the banking platform used by 100,000+ startups), sits down for a fireside with Ankur Nagpal (portfolio manager, USVC). 14 USVC is an AngelList-regulated fund whose portfolio includes Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Sierra, Vercel, and Crusoe. 14 Format: fireside conversation + live Q&A + drinks and networking. Presented by Founders Cafe and Andrew Yeung.
Evening tech: web dev, AI for HR, agents, kids UX, art + data
| Event | Time | Venue | Access | RSVP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Next.js Night SF (Vercel) | 5:30–8:00 PM | The Melody of SF, 906 Broadway | Free · 450 Going | lu.ma/vercel-408x |
| AI, HR & Future of Work (Indeed / OMERS) | 5:00–8:00 PM | SF (address post-approval) | Approval required | lu.ma/oi2mqh52 |
| Fork it, Branch it, Bop it (PlanetScale) | 5:15–8:00 PM | 108 Natoma St, SF | Approval required · 134 Going | lu.ma/q2t4c3na |
| Reimagining Creative Work w/ Emmett Shine (SF Design Week) | 5:00–7:30 PM | SF (address post-approval) | $15 · 36 Going | lu.ma/61aoo5la |
| Designing AI for Kids (Ello) | 5:30–8:00 PM | SF (address post-approval) | Approval required | lu.ma/v2gu7zft |
| Antidatasets with Morry Kolman (tiat) | 7:00–8:00 PM | tiat, 151 Powell St, SF | Free · RSVP | lu.ma/tiat-l5yd |
| 6:00–9:00 PM | SF | ⚠️ WAITLIST ONLY | lu.ma/46qf8eg3 | |
| 6:00–8:30 PM | 71 Stevenson St, SF | ⚠️ WAITLIST ONLY | lu.ma/tr2cfaq7 |
Next.js Night SF is an official Vercel community event with 450 RSVPs. 15 Jimmy Lai (Head of Next.js at Vercel) presents what's new in Next.js 16.3; Andrew Clark (Vercel engineer) covers Instant Navigations. Panel discussion 6:30–6:50 PM, community networking until 8. Free, food and drinks provided.
AI, HR & Future of Work (Indeed / OMERS Ventures) is a startup showcase with 5-minute pitches from AI × HR founders. 16 CPO panelists: Gianna Driver (One Workplace), Lynee Luque (Nerdwallet), Owen Humphries (Glassdoor). Past attending investor list includes M12 (Microsoft), Workday Ventures, Elad Gill's fund, and 17 other firms. 16
Fork it, Branch it, Bop it (PlanetScale venue, 108 Natoma St) showcases five tools built on new agent primitives — branching LLM contexts, forking sandbox environments. Demo companies: Tigris Data, Daytona, Archil, Mesa.dev, Agentuity. 17 Demos 6:00–7:00 PM, networking until 8.
Reimagining Creative Work w/ Emmett Shine (part of SF Design Week) features Emmett Shine, founder of AI-native design studio Little Plains and previously co-founder of Gin Lane (which built DTC brands for Harry's, Hims, Neuralink, Sweetgreen, and Warby Parker). 18 $15 ticket; curated pre-event write-up on attendees sent to those who opt in.
Designing AI for Kids (organized by Ello, moderated by Co-Founder & CXO Dr. Elizabeth Adams) focuses on building AI learning experiences children actually trust. 19 Panelists: Peter Cho (VP of Design, Brilliant.org), Shu Lai (Head of Design, Outschool), Bryan Cash (Design Director, ClassDojo), Dr. Sonia Tiwari (Director of Research, Oki Pie Lab). Childcare provided — limited spots, request during registration.
Antidatasets with Morry Kolman (at tiat, 151 Powell St) is a one-hour artist talk ahead of Kolman's installation First Light opening at the SF Exploratorium. 20 The talk traces an art history of data byproducts and blind spots — MNIST digits, star catalogs, traffic camera listings — with a 30-minute open discussion afterward. Attendees can bring their own datasets. tiat is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit for creative technologists.
Free daytime Tuesday
| Event | Time | Venue | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| SF Botanical Garden free admission (2nd Tuesdays) | 7:30 AM–6:00 PM | 1199 9th Ave, Golden Gate Park | Free (all visitors) 21 |
| Thrive City Live Music Lunch: Eddie M Trio | 12:00–1:30 PM | Thrive City, 1 Warriors Way | Free 22 |
| Civic Center Soundtrack: free concert + food trucks | 12:00–3:00 PM | Fulton Plaza (outside SF Main Library) | Free 23 |
| Summer Break in Yerba Buena: Tipsy Tuesdays | 3:00–6:00 PM | Yerba Buena Lane + Jessie Square, SoMa | Free 24 |
| SF Opera Barber of Seville livestream at Main Library | 4:00–7:15 PM | Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin St | Free 25 |
Eddie M Trio at Thrive City: Eddie Mininfield is a saxophonist and vocalist who has performed with Prince, Beyoncé, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Stevie Nicks. 22 First-come, first-served seating.
Civic Center Soundtrack is in its 3rd season (launched 2024), running Tuesdays and Thursdays through October at Fulton Plaza outside the SF Main Library. Three performers per session, rotating food trucks alongside. 23
Barber of Seville at the Main Library is an in-person livestream screening (not a virtual event) — Rossini's comedy conducted by Benjamin Manis, director Emilio Sagi's flamenco-inspired production, Italian with English supertitles. 25
Yerba Buena's Tipsy Tuesdays runs weekly through summer: silent disco and to-go trivia, 3–6 PM in the lane behind the SFMOMA. 24
Tuesday evening: cinema, comedy, sports, and nightlife
| Event | Time | Venue | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🏳️🌈 Morocco (1930) + "Top Hat & Tails" dress-up screening | 5:30 PM (7:00 PM film) | Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave (Richmond) | $5 with code TOPHAT / $10 GA 26 |
| Punchline Comedy Club: Joe Klocek & Friends | 7:30 PM | 444 Battery St, SF | Free with RSVP / $18–$20 at door · 18+ · 2-drink min 27 |
| Laugh GPT: AI-Powered Comedy Night | 7:30 PM (happy hour 5–7 PM) | The Function, Mid-Market / Hayes Valley | Free with RSVP (first 50 get comp tickets) / $20 at door 28 |
| Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, runs through June 13) | 5:55 PM | Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St | Ticketed 29 |
| The Ear 4K restoration (EFF co-presentation) | 6:00 PM | Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St | Ticketed 29 |
| The Plague Dogs (intro by SF State prof) | 8:10 PM | Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St | Ticketed 29 |
| SF Giants vs. Nationals | 6:45 PM | Oracle Park, 24 Willie Mays Plaza | Ticketed |
| Tigers Jaw | 8:00 PM | Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell St | Ticketed |
| Disco Taco Tuesday ($1 margaritas 7:30–8 PM) | 7:30 PM | Underdogs Cantina, 128 King St, SoMa | Free admission 30 |
| Tapas Tuesday 10% off at Bota | 11:30 AM–close | Bota Tapas & Paella Bar, near Union Square | Say "Tapas Tuesday" to server 31 |
Morocco (1930) at the Internet Archive is a Pride Month screening of the newly public-domain Marlene Dietrich film, described by the Archive as "a touchstone of gender expression in Pre-Hays Code film." 26 Pre-show talk and Q&A by filmmaker-scholar Denah Johnston (Canyon Cinema Foundation; exhibited at the National Gallery of Art, BAMPFA, and Frameline). Dress code: "Top Hat & Tails" — from classic black tie to bold reinterpretation. Happy hour from 5:30 PM, film at 7:00 PM.
Laugh GPT at The Function is a weekly AI comedy format where comics perform alongside AI-generated jokes and the audience decides who lands harder. 28 The Function is SF's first Black-owned comedy club. Featured in the Washington Post. June 9 date confirmed on both Funcheap and Eventbrite.
Punchline requires RSVP at least 1 hour before showtime; arrive 30 minutes early for guaranteed entry. Two-drink minimum applies. 27
The Ear at the Roxie is a 4K restoration of a Czech film banned for decades due to its depiction of state surveillance, co-presented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 29 The Plague Dogs (8:10 PM) is introduced by Mihaela Mihailova, Assistant Professor of Cinema at SF State.
Cover photo: AI-generated aerial view of San Francisco at golden hour — Bay Bridge, Embarcadero, and downtown skyline. AI-generated illustration.
References
- 1Lu.ma: ClawCamp Campfire June 8
- 2DoTheBay: Watch the Finals in our Main Bar
- 3DoTheBay: SF Giants vs. Washington Nationals June 8
- 4DoTheBay: Conway The Machine
- 5DoTheBay: Witch Ripper, Lowcaster, Disastroid
- 6Funcheap: Motown On Mondays
- 7Funcheap: Mirthquake Monday Comedy
- 8Funcheap: Minty Mondays Karaoke
- 9Funcheap: Emporium Industry Night
- 10DoTheBay: KQED Taste & Sip 2026
- 11Lu.ma: FC SF Founders Run & Coffee
- 12Lu.ma: Open-Weight Models on Amazon Bedrock
- 13Lu.ma: From Tokens to Robots
- 14Lu.ma: Banking on Startups — Immad Akhund
- 15Lu.ma: Next.js Night SF
- 16Lu.ma: AI, HR & the Future of Work
- 17Lu.ma: Fork it, Branch it, Bop it
- 18Lu.ma: Reimagining Creative Work w/ Emmett Shine
- 19Lu.ma: Designing AI for Kids
- 20Lu.ma: Antidatasets with Morry Kolman
- 21Funcheap: SF Botanical Garden Free Day
- 22Funcheap: Thrive City Live Music Lunch
- 23Funcheap: Civic Center Soundtrack
- 24Funcheap: Summer Break in Yerba Buena
- 25Funcheap: SF Opera Barber of Seville at Main Library
- 26Funcheap: Morocco Top Hat & Tails Screening
- 27Funcheap: Punchline Comedy Club Secret Guest List
- 28Funcheap: Laugh GPT AI Comedy Night
- 29Roxie Theater: Now Playing
- 30Funcheap: Disco Taco Tuesday at Underdogs
- 31Funcheap: Tapas Tuesday at Bota
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