Should your Saturday need a bit of spirituality and San
dra Bernhard, Tablet Magazine’s Dawn Festival event at the Academy of Sciences could be well worth a visit to Golden Gate Park. The self-described “late-night cultural arts festival celebrating the Jewish Holiday Shavuot” will also feature Gary Shteyngart, author of “Russian Debutantes Handbook,” and Daniel Handler, author of the Lemony Snicket series, slinging cocktails. You might say that the harvest festival is being reimagined–Technicolor aquarium included–while keeping the tradition of staying up all night learning. Expect good things from Spike Jonze’s video tribute to Maurice Sendak and Tiffany Shlain’s reading of “Yelp-with apologies to Allen Ginsberg” before the clock strikes 12.