What is Burnoff.fyi?

The Bay Area is full of events that will satiate your inner nerd and help you better understand the world — but they are maddeningly hard to find. Scattered across dozens of websites, buried in newsletters, or hidden behind venue-specific calendars. Almost as if obscured by fog.

Burnoff.fyi clears away that fog. We aggregate events from universities, civic institutions, bookshops, museums, and independent organisers across the Bay Area and surface them in one place — easy to search, easy to skim, and updated daily. Lectures, salons, book talks, bar-hosted talks, science nights, forums, and more.

The site is a personal project, hand-curated and built with love for the Bay Area and the curious minds who live here. If you find it useful, tell a friend.

How to use the site
Filters

Use the dropdowns to narrow by topic, vibe, location, or time window.

Topic ▾ Vibe ▾ Where ▾ When ▾

Click an option once to include it — a pill appears. Click the same option again to exclude it instead (shown struck through). Mix and match freely.

Culture & Humanities × Science & Tech ×
Search

The search bar matches against event titles, venues, and descriptions as you type — useful when you have something specific in mind.

Views

Three densities to suit how you browse. Switch between them with the toggle in the top-right of the event list.

Compact — tight rows, ideal for scanning a long list. Click any row to expand it. This is where keyboard navigation shines.

Preview — the full card with title, time, venue, and a short description.

Expanded — description surfaces upfront so you can read without clicking.

Keyboard navigation

Press j to move down and k to move up through events. Press Enter or o to open the event link. Press Esc to clear your selection.

Dark mode

Click the Burnoff logo in the top-left to open the menu, then toggle dark mode on or off. Your preference is remembered across visits.

Adding to your calendar

Each event has an Add button. Click it to save to Google Calendar, Outlook, or download an .ics file for Apple Calendar.

Add
What are the sources?

We try to pull events automagically from the sources below.

Are we missing something? Let us know.

Built with Claude. Made with love for the Bay Area & curious minds.