A useful way to see all the dances in the Bay Area in one glance is this combined calendar:
https://sites.google.com/view/bacds/dances
(if you want to simplify the view, you can select the calendar icon next to the word "Month" and deselect some of the entries - e.g. deselecting Bay Area Irish Dancing will remove all the Irish dances from your view)
You can always find this calendar by going to bacds.org and selecting the entry All contra, English, traditional square & Irish dances in the Bay Area in the Calendars dropdown menu.
For Cajun & Zyedeco, check https://sfczcalendar.com/.
Ashkenaz (Berkeley) often has Cajun/Zydeco, Balkan, Latin, and other types of dancing.
For Scottish country dancing, see https://rscds-sf.org/classes/ and https://rscds-sf.org/calendar/.
Additional links are available at https://bacds.org/links/.
There is a SF Bay Contra Discord server that is useful for planning carpools & meeting for meals before, various discussions, etc.
Traffic Alert for folks coming from or through San Francisco: Southbound US 101 in San Francisco closed from Friday October 16, 11 pm. to Monday October 19, 6 a.m.
Wed Oct 7
2pm-4pm Napa 1726 Ball practice dance
Native Sons Hall 937 Coombs Street Napa
Oct 9-11
Harvest Moon Contra Dance Weekend Santa Barbara
Frannie Marr, Jacqui Grennan, Stomp Rocket, Syncopaths
Fri Oct 9
8pm-10:15pm Feral Friday Square Dance Polish Club, SF
Band: KC and the MooNshine Band; Caller: Nina Berry
7pm San Anselmo set dancing
Sat Oct 10
2pm-4:30pm Marin English Dance Mill Valley
Caller: Lise Dyckman; Musicians: Rebecca King, Anne Goess, Betsy St.Aubin
7pm San Francisco English Dance
7pm San Rafael contra
Caller Edie Sussman; Rebecca King & Anne Goess
7pm Palo Alto contra
Caller Kelsey Hartman; Pigs in the Rigging: Valerie Rose, Jason Courtney, Philip Batchelder, Chris Dillingham, Randy Fish
7pm Sacramento contra
Talib Huff; Full Tilt (Lonna Whipple, Ann Meigs, and Roke Whitson)
Sun Oct 11
2:30pm-5pm San Jose English
Caller: Alan Winston; Band: Mary Tabor, Robin Lockner, William Allen
3pm Santa Cruz contra
Susan Petrick; Little big Band: Marta Lynch & Bob Silberstein
4pm Hayward contra
Kelsey Hartman calling; Totally Tubular: Michelle Masek , Shira Kammen, Patti Cobb
6pm Set dancing O'Reilly's Pub SF
Mon Oct 12
Irish Céilí dance, Starry Plough Berkeley
Tues Oct 13
7pm-9:30pm Improper English, Berkeley (masks required)
Rachel Pusey & Dilip Sequeira calling to Ehler Orngard, Christopher Jacoby, Rebecca King
Wed Oct 14
7:45pm Berkeley English
7:30pm SF contra
Doe Taryn with music by Leah Wollenberg, Paul Kotapish, Charlie Hancock
8pm-10pm Irish set dancing lessons Ireland's 32 SF
Thurs Oct 15
8:30pm Irish set dancing Plough & Stars SF
AFTER
Mon Oct 19
Irish Céilí dance, Starry Plough Berkeley
Tues Oct 20
Peninsula English Palo Alto
Sharon Green; music: Bill Jensen, Valerie Rose, Elizabeth Ingber
Wed Oct 21
8pm-10:30pm Berkeley contra
Doe Taryn with music by Pigs in the Rigging: Valerie Rose, Jason Courtney, Philip Batchelder, Chris Dillingham, Randy Fish
8pm-10pm Irish set dancing lessons Ireland's 32 SF
Thurs Oct 22
8:30pm Irish set dancing Plough & Stars SF
Fri Oct 23
7pm Santa Cruz contra
music by Jeff Spero, M’Gilvry Allen
Sat Oct 24
7:30pm Berkeley Experienced English
7pm-10pm Palo Alto contra
Lindsay Verbil with music by Jeff Spero, M’Gilvry Allen
7pm-10pm Sebastopol "Switcheroo" contra
Sun Oct 25
4pm Hayward contra
Lindsay Verbil with music by Jeff Spero, M’Gilvry Allen
5pm-8pm Irish Set Dancing Alhambra House, Redwood City
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
10/16-10/18/26 Fairfax irish Festival (Marin county)
10/12/26 9am-12pm East Bay Parks Monday birding - Hayward Shoreline
10/19/26 9am-12pm East Bay Parks Monday birding - San Pablo Reservoir