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Thank you
San Francisco!

What an amazing celebration of music, culture, creativity, and community! Thank you to all the partners, artists, and patrons who supported and attended the grand opening of UNIQLO Market Street on October 9, 2026. We are officially back!

UNIQLO Flagship 801 Market St.

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Lineup

The festival brought together more than 30 Bay Area artists, musicians, cultural institutions and neighborhood businesses across Market, Ellis and Powell streets, turning downtown into a showcase of local art, music, food and community.

Art

Six large-scale sculptural art cubes lined Market Street as the festival's visual centerpiece. The festival team fabricated each cube in the shape of UNIQLO's logo block, then supported a Bay Area artist in building their vision within it. Inspired by the idea of building blocks as seeds of change, the cubes explore themes of regeneration, potential and community, offering a hopeful vision of downtown's next chapter. Their work spans psychedelic graphic abstraction, narrative surrealism, architectural form and darkroom photography, bringing pedestrians face to face with contemporary San Francisco art.

Market Street Art Cubes

Oct 9 & 10: 10AM – 8PM

Oct 11: 10AM – 7PM

The finished cubes on Market Street, on view October 9–11.

Zen Treehouse by Serge Gay Jr. on Market Street: a carved wooden tree with pink blossoms, teal birds and small teal houses in its branches. Close-up of Zen Treehouse: pink and purple blossoms, teal branches and birds, and a small teal house hanging among them.
Zen Treehouse
Serge Gay Jr.
Water Torus by CreatingAs1, seen through the red cube's rounded opening: white carved trees under a green canopy, strands of hanging crystals and a swirling blue and green river floor. Water Torus at night: white carved trees framing strands of hanging crystals, lit from above.
Water Torus
CreatingAs1
Silver Lining by Nico Corona and Rewina Beshue on Market Street: a black cube lined with mirrored walls between black and white op-art floor and ceiling, reflecting the street. Silver Lining at night: the mirrored interior glowing with reflected shop lights between the op-art floor and ceiling.
Silver Lining
Nico Corona + Rewina Beshue
Ray of Light by Raylene Gorum: a white cube with amber, pink and clear glass rays fanning out from a sun at its centre. Ray of Light at night: the glass rays lit blue, violet and amber from within.
Ray of Light
Raylene Gorum
Rorschach Butterflies by Robert Malmberg on Market Street: a white cube lined with butterfly-print wallpaper, sculptural butterflies over a mossy garden. Inside Rorschach Butterflies: photographic butterflies on patterned walls above ferns and flowers.
Rorschach Butterflies
Robert Malmberg
Community Tree by Musepop: a white tree rising through a red cube against a blue sky, with grasses and ferns at its base. Community Tree at night: the white tree lit pink inside the red cube, small red cubes hanging from its branches.
Community Tree
Musepop

Activities

Beyond the music on both stages and the art cubes on Market Street, our community partners filled Ellis Street with things to play, make and collect.

Play.

Street Soccer

Street Soccer USA activated two pop-up street soccer pitches with community games and open play that promote social inclusion through sport.

Make.

Free Workshops and Interactive Art

  • Hands-on art + science demos from the Exploratorium
  • Origami making with historic Japantown shop Paper Tree
  • Interactive art presented by Gray Area, the Internet Archive, Gooism, and Ramona Sharples
  • Books and games with the SF Public Library's Bookmobile
  • Block printing with Root Division
  • Collage making with SOMArts
  • Custom buttons with ArtSpan
  • Japanese brush calligraphy with master calligrapher Yayoi Sengoku
  • Upcycled bag charms with SCRAP
  • Photobooth keepsake from UNIQLO

Collect.

Festival Passport and Art Prints

The Festival Passport invited visitors to explore the festival and downtown's dining institutions. Guests collected stamps across the festival footprint.

Completed passports were redeemed at the Art Print Pickup station for an exclusive 11x14 print by festival artists Rewina Beshue and Robert Malmberg.

Everyone taking part

Schedule

Festival Day is Friday, Oct 9 from 11AM – 6PM, featuring music on the Ellis and Powell stages, along with activities on Ellis Street. The UNIQLO store and Market Street Art Cubes share the same hours: Friday, Oct 9 and Saturday, Oct 10 from 10AM – 8PM, and Sunday, Oct 11 from 10AM – 7PM.

  • UNIQLO Market Street StoreFri 10/9, 10AM – 8PMSat 10/10, 10AM – 8PMSun 10/11, 10AM – 7PM
  • Music on Ellis Stage and Powell StageFri 10/9, 11AM – 6PM
  • Activities on Ellis, come & go anytimeFri 10/9, 11AM – 6PM
  • Art cubes on Market StreetFri 10/9, 10AM – 8PMSat 10/10, 10AM – 8PMSun 10/11, 10AM – 7PM

Friday, October 9 Set times

Map

Festival entry is at Ellis St. & Powell or Ellis St. & Stockton, one block from Powell Street BART and the cable car turnaround.

Festival site map Ellis Street is closed to traffic between Powell and Stockton, with entries at both ends. From the Powell end: two street-soccer pitches, then giveaways and activations on both sides of the street, the Parachute Bakery pop-up, and the Ellis Stage at the Market end, facing Powell with its back angled along Market Street. Neighborhood restaurants: Tad's Steakhouse on the north side of Ellis and John's Grill on the south, and Ippudo and Delarosa facing each other across Yerba Buena Lane. The Powell Stage is on Powell Street at Market. Six art cubes stand along Market Street between Powell and Stockton, three on each side of the street. The UNIQLO store is at 801 Market Street, on the corner of 4th, and Powell Street BART is on Market at Powell.

Key

  • UNIQLO Market Street
  • Block Party
  • Ellis + Powell stages
  • Street soccer
  • Giveaways + activations
  • Art cubes
  • Food & drink
  • Restaurants

Getting here

We recommend taking public transportation or a rideshare.

  • EntryEllis St. & Powell or Ellis St. & Stockton
  • BART + Muni MetroPowell St Station, two-minute walk
  • Muni busLines on Market, Mission, and Stockton
  • DrivingIf you're driving, the nearest parking garages are at 5th & Mission, Union Square, and Ellis-O'Farrell.

Thank you
San Francisco!

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