For seventeen years the third weekend of February has been bear weekend in San Francisco thanks to the extremely hard work of The Bears of San Francisco and their annual International Bear Rendezvous (IBR) event, which was a ton of fun and raised a lot of money for great causes, as well as brought in needed money to the local economy. Sadly, 2011 was the last IBR. In its absence, and with the understanding that the essence of any bear event is of course the people, SF Bear Weekend - a grassroots...
For seventeen years the third weekend of February has been bear weekend in San Francisco thanks to the extremely hard work of The Bears of San Francisco and their annual International Bear Rendezvous (IBR) event, which was a ton of fun and raised a lot of money for great causes, as well as brought in needed money to the local economy. Sadly, 2011 was the last IBR. In its absence, and with the understanding that the essence of any bear event is of course the people, SF Bear Weekend - a grassroots, web 2.0, social media driven event was born!
What it WONT have:
* Dog Tags or any type of Official Registration
* A Host Hotel
* A Shuttle Bus
* A Theme (other then bears!)
* Official Events
* Official Sponsors
* An Official Charity Fund
* Any Group, Non-Profit or Otherwise officially organizing it
What it WILL have:
* Bears, Cubs, Otters, Chubs, Chasers and more!
* Events that each bar, club, venue or promoter will organize, some incorporating a fund raising element (check here later for a calender)
* A suggested donation of $100 to your favorite charity. Tell them its on behalf of SFBW and optionally post the charity's name on our Wall
How to Help:
* Invite your friends, share on your Wall and RSVP yourself (click I'm attending, top right of this page)
* Like our FB page, follow @SFBW, discuss #SFBW
* Support SFBW with your skills (create a poster, organize an event, or whatever you can do).
* Come to SF the third weekend of February and be ready to party!!!
The Future:
Hopefully, upon the success of the first SF Bear Weekend, it shall be declared by The Bears of Planet Earth, that now and forevermore the third weekend of February shall be an international bear weekend in the Great City of San Francisco, regardless of if theres a person, group, page, twitter, or anything else to organize it. It will just happen, like Marti Gras in New Orleans or Carnival in Rio. :)
The SF Bear Weekend facebook page is meant to be a central hub for the development and execution of SFBW, however by definition SF Bear Weekend has no organized group or entity behind it.