Make it a monthly affair starting with the Spring Night Market 2025 at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC). Following the success of an inaugural night market that drew more than 10,000 attendees in December 2024, FMCAC and its partners, West Coast Craft and Off the Grid, are teaming up again for the launch of a monthly Fort Mason Friday Night Market series.

Debuting Friday, April 18, 2025, this outdoor market transforms the historic FMCAC campus into a dynamic showcase of local artisans, cuisine, and entertainment. Running from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., this free public event combines the San Francisco Bay Area’s premier craft vendors with outstanding food offerings against a backdrop of stunning waterfront views.

Spring Event Details:
· Date: Friday, April 18, 2025
· Time: 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
· Location: Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, 2 Marina Boulevard, San Francisco
· Cost: Free

The monthly event is a family-friendly destination featuring more than 100 top retail vendors and more than 25 exceptional food and drink options from Off the Grid. Live music performances, DJs, creative workshops, special menus, and public art installations from FMCAC resident organizations round out the experience.

“This new market is an exciting evolution of what we started back in 2010 with the original Off the Grid festival here,” said Matt Cohen, Founder of Off the Grid. “This time around, we’re expanding our offerings to include both crowd favorites and emerging new food creators, plus joining forces with West Coast Craft and FMCAC to offer an interactive shopping, dining, artistic, and community experience – a perfect blend that is quintessentially San Francisco.”

The Monthly Markets Feature:
· More than 100 artist and designer craftspeople, curated by West Coast Craft (Outdoors)
· More than 25 beverage and food purveyors curated by Off The Grid (Outdoors)
· Creative workshops from FMCAC residents
· Seasonal offerings from FMCAC residents Radhaus Alpine Beerhall & Restaurant, Greens Restaurant, and The Interval at Long Now
· Live musical performances by local artists and FMCAC residents
· Public art installations throughout campus
· Extended hours at FLAX Art + Design store (Landmark Building D, First Floor)
· Stunning waterfront views and ambiance

“We are thrilled to partner with Fort Mason Center, our longtime home base, and Off the Grid, to offer this Friday Night Market series to the Bay Area,” said Paulina Nassar, Co-founder of West Coast Craft.

“This collaboration creates an incredible opportunity for our community of artists and designers to connect with their customers in a new, vibrant format, shopping from exceptional vendors while enjoying the arts programming and amazing dining options that make Fort Mason a unique destination.”

“Fort Mason Center is known for being a gathering place, a space for people to exchange ideas, experience beauty, and connect with different modes of art and cultural expressions,” said Mike Buhler, FMCAC’s President and CEO. “We’re excited to collaborate with our partners to offer another way for people to come together, support local arts organizations and small businesses, and enjoy the natural beauty of the campus.”

2025 Fort Mason Friday Night Market Schedule:

April 18, May 30,  June 27, July 18, August (Date TBA), September 5, October 17, November (Date TBA), and December 12, 2025

Monthly Event Details:

Time: 4:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, 2 Marina Blvd, San Francisco
Cost: Free to all

About FMCAC: Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC): A decommissioned military installation converted into a nonprofit cultural center, FMCAC hosts a lively mix of arts, educational, and cultural programming. Each year FMCAC provides more than $2 million in support to local arts organizations, enabling groups to produce diverse and innovative artworks at the historic waterfront campus. With a four-decade history as an arts and culture destination, FMCAC is now focused on reinvigorating its programming and amenities to better engage the evolving Bay Area creative community.

About West Coast Craft: the premiere craft event in the U.S., West Coast Craft produces indoor and outdoor markets featuring hundreds of the Bay Area’s best artists and designer craftspeople. Since its launch in 2013, West Coast Craft has featured more than 3,000 artist and designer vendors whose works are inspired by the cultural and natural histories of the West Coast.

About Off the Grid: Founded in San Francisco in 2010, Off the Grid is a leading mobile food innovator changing where and how food is consumed and created by transforming underutilized and temporary spaces into community gathering places. Through public markets, corporate dining services and catering options, Off the Grid brings communities together around food while increasing economic opportunity for mobile food entrepreneurs. Acclaimed for reinvigorating the Bay Area street food scene through 60 public events that feed more than 100,000 people weekly, Off the Grid also offers a suite of B2B products and services, including Off the Grid Catering, Off the Grid at Work, and Cubert, a modular mobile kitchen.

Free Admission

Image Credits — #1: Courtesy of West Coast Craft; All other images: Photos by Myleen Hollero Photography