San Francisco Bay Area family weekend planner
Things to do with kids this weekend in Palo Alto (October 30 – November 1)
Updated November 1, 2026
The weekend of October 30 – November 1 in Palo Alto brings Tai Chi with Nelson Ng at Rinconada Library (Sunday) and Electric Contrasts: the Art of the Detail at McMurtry Building - Bowes Art & Architecture Library, 2nd floor. Visitors: Please call 650-723-3408 (Sunday). Every listing comes from the organizer's own calendar, with times, venues, and official links — free ones are marked.
It's a quieter weekend in Palo Alto — 2 dated family events below. The San Francisco Bay Area weekend guide has the full metro lineup, and new Palo Alto dates land here as soon as organizers publish them.
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Family events in Palo Alto this weekend: October 30 – November 1
Sunday, November 1
2 events · 1 free
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Tai Chi with Nelson Ng
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Electric Contrasts: the Art of the Detail
brings together photobooks and magazines to show how the revolution of photography in the late 19th and early 20th century changed the history of art.
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Coming up in Palo Alto
- Electric Contrasts: the Art of the Detail — November 1 · McMurtry Building - Bowes Art & Architecture Library, 2nd floor. Visitors: Please call 650-723-3408
- Tangling the Digital: Weaving, Printmaking, Computing — November 2 · McMurtry Building - Coulter Art Gallery
- TNT Traysikel: Never Gonna Give You Up! — November 2 · McMurtry Building - Miller Discussion Room and Vitrine Gallery