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Free Cultural & Carnatic Events in Palo Alto
34 free events coming up — no ticket needed. All events in Palo Alto →
Happening this week
Thu, 1 OctFREE800 Welch: Flu & COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic
800 Welch Rd · Palo Alto
otherFREE
Thu, 1 OctFREEElectric Contrasts: the Art of the Detail
McMurtry Building · Palo Alto
artsFREE
Thu, 1 OctFREETangling the Digital: Weaving, Printmaking, Computing
McMurtry Building · Palo Alto
artsFREE
Thu, 1 OctFREELATE FAME: Screening and conversation with director Kent Jones and Professor Alexander Nemerov
McMurtry Building · Palo Alto
otherFREE
Thu, 1 OctFREERecent Advances in the Treatment of Intracranial Hemorrhage: Multidisciplinary Cerebrovascular CME
Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel · Palo Alto
otherFREE
Coming up
Tue, 6 OctFREEGlobal Surgery Grand Rounds
Li Ka Shing Center · Palo Alto
otherFREE
Tue, 6 OctFREEPediatric Grand Rounds (CME): Brain in a Dish, Cure in a Pipeline: Organoid-Based Drug Discovery for Neuropsychiatric Diseases
Center for Academic Medicine · Palo Alto
otherFREE
Wed, 7 OctFREEClark Center: Flu & COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic
Clark Center · Palo Alto
otherFREE
Wed, 7 OctFREEMedicine Grand Rounds with Ziad Obermeyer, MD, MPhil
Li Ka Shing Center · Palo Alto
techFREE
Tue, 13 OctFREESurgery M&M
Li Ka Shing Center · Palo Alto
otherFREE
Tue, 13 OctFREEStanford Cancer Institute Breakthroughs in Cancer: Health Policy and Oncology: Understanding Care and Outcomes in a Changing Delivery System
E.D. Stone - Alway Building · Palo Alto
businessFREE
Wed, 14 OctFREETNT Traysikel: Never Gonna Give You Up!
McMurtry Building · Palo Alto
artsFREE
Fri, 16 OctFREEArt History Lightning Talks
McMurtry Building · Palo Alto
businessFREE
Fri, 16 OctFREEArt & Art History Reunion Open House
McMurtry Building · Palo Alto
artsFREE
Mon, 19 OctFREEBiology Seminar Series: Mercedes Paredes “The Dynamic Neonatal Brain: Postnatal Neurodevelopmental Processes and Implications in Disease "
Clark Center · Palo Alto
businessFREE
Tue, 20 OctFREEArmanini Lecture
Li Ka Shing Center · Palo Alto
otherFREE
Tue, 20 OctFREE800 Welch: Flu & COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic
800 Welch Road · Palo Alto
otherFREE
Wed, 21 OctFREEMedicine Grand Rounds to Ellen Langer, PhD
Li Ka Shing Center · Palo Alto
wellbeingFREE
Thu, 22 OctFREE9th Annual Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute Symposium
Li Ka Shing Center · Palo Alto
businessFREE
Thu, 22 OctFREECopy of 9th Annual Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute Symposium
Li Ka Shing Center · Palo Alto
businessFREE
Thu, 22 OctFREEABOUT A HERO (2024): Agent Cinema, Panel Discussion
McMurtry Building · Palo Alto
techFREE
Mon, 26 OctFREEBiology Seminar Series - Orion Weiner "From Swarms to Flocks: Discovering and Rewriting the Rules of Collective Cell Migration"
Clark Center · Palo Alto
businessFREE
Tue, 27 OctFREEWellness Grand Rounds
Li Ka Shing Center · Palo Alto
wellbeingFREE
Tue, 27 OctFREE2027 Global Health Fall Kickoff
E.D. Stone - Alway Building · Palo Alto
otherFREE
Wed, 28 OctFREEMedicine Grand Rounds with Christopher Gardner, PhD
Li Ka Shing Center · Palo Alto
otherFREE
Thu, 29 OctFREEPage Mill: Flu & COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic
Page Mill Rd · Palo Alto
otherFREE
Thu, 29 OctFREEWeintz Art Lecture Series: Elizabeth Dospěl Williams
McMurtry Building · Palo Alto
businessFREE
Mon, 2 NovFREEBiology Seminar Series - Jonathan Pritchard "Trait Causal Models: Combining GWAS, Genetic Perturbations, and Observational 'Omics to Study Human Biology."
Clark Center · Palo Alto
businessFREE
Tue, 3 NovFREEGeneral Surgery Alumni Lectureship
Li Ka Shing Center · Palo Alto
otherFREE
Palo Alto runs one of the world's richest free cultural calendars. Sabhas hold Carnatic concerts most evenings, temples host utsavams and bhajans, and Bharatanatyam margams, harikathas and discourses happen year-round — most with free admission and no ticket needed. This guide gathers them in one place and refreshes itself as new events are added.
It peaks in the Margazhi season (mid-Dec to mid-Jan), when hundreds of free and low-cost kutcheris fill the sabhas — but there's something on almost every week. Bookmark this page, or get the app for reminders near you.
How to use it
- Just turn up for most sabha and temple programmes — free events rarely need registration.
- Tap any event for the exact venue, time and performer.
- Want paid shows too? See all events in Palo Alto or things to do this weekend.