DJ D Sharp, who plans to perform at 415 Day, will be attending the Golden State Warriors 2022 Victory Parade & Rally in June 2022. Photo: Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images
San Francisco, get up! Saturday April 15 marks the 415th day in the City by the Bay.
Game Status: 415 Day—so named for the San Francisco area code and its founding on April 15, 1850—is a day of celebration for the city.
- A number of events throughout the day will commemorate the occasion, thanks in part to San Francisco-based record label Empire.
- Empire will bring musical performances from J. Espinosa, DJ D Sharp and others, food and more to the Warriors Playoffs Watch Party at the Chase Center on Saturday at 4:00 p.m.
- Empire’s nightly event, a dance party featuring jams by Dirtybird Records’ Mike Kerrigan and others, begins at 9 p.m. on Audio SF.
- Also, Funcheap SF is hosting a pub crawl on Polk Street in partnership with CrawlSF.
What you say: “The whole idea is just to celebrate the Bay Area,” Moody Jones, an executive at Empire, told Axios.
Since 2017Empire hosted 415 Day to help local businesses and the community in general “get a leg up,” he said.
- “It’s an economy,” he said. “Whatever you put into town will just come back. If we just move things further out [the city]we will lose in the end.”
Flashback: A group called the Solidarity Forever Collective held the city’s first-ever celebration in 2016 “as a community call to action to defend our hoods,” the group wrote in a 2020 blog post.
- The goal, according to the group, “is to celebrate and build solidarity and a principled struggle led by blacks and browns who have deep roots in San Francisco.”
Remarkable: Although San Francisco was officially incorporated on April 15, 1850, meaning the city was allowed to have its own elected officials and laws, many other important dates could serve as San Francisco’s birthday.
- Archaeological evidence of indigenous Ohlone tribes inhabiting the Presidio, for example, dates to 740, well before the arrival of Spanish colonists in 1776, according to the Presidio Land Trust.
