IMAGINE: New Year's Eve 2017 at the Payne Mansion

The elegant, black tie (optional) IMAGINE New Years Eve affair promises to bring the “mystical and bizarre” to life, setting the tone with cirque performers: ballet dancers, contortionists, stilt walkers, jugglers, and illusionists. The venue is also loaded with Insta-worthy photo ops, thanks to 11 fantasy-themed decorated backdrops and actors dressed as Merlin the Wizard, fairies, dragons, mermaids, and the Evil Queen herself. Payne Mansion, 1409 Sutter at Franklin (www.donovansf.com/imaginenye.htm). Dec 31 8pm. $125-$175.