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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)701 Mission StreetSan Francisco, CA 94103 map cross street: 3rd St. district: SoMa Tel. 4159782700 Website |
Events Calendar
| Sat Jul 19 - Sun Nov 16 Bay Area Now 5 is a series of exhibitions, films, performances and public programs which showcase the vitality of the Bay Area as a site of artistic production. This triennial event, created by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as part of its commitmen... More |  |
| Fri Sep 05 - Sun Oct 19 Guest-curated by Jenifer K. Wofford, Galleon Trade: Bay Area Now 5 Edition is a collaborative project that builds international bridges between the Bay Area and other cities on the globe through a process of exchange and dialog. The BAN 5 edition of ... More | |
| Thu Oct 09 - Sun Nov 16 415.978.2787 or ybca.org
Reservations are required for all Community Engagement events.
West Oakland-based artist, activist and cultural historian Marcel Diallo and his long-time collaborators transform the Room for Big Ideas (RBI) into an outpos... More |
 | Sat Oct 11 - Sun Oct 12 "Combining elements of ballet, jazz and modern dance, acting and graphic design, the Inbal Pinto Dance Company’s theatrical productions are perfect for busy young minds. Bring the whole family to watch this Israeli company share its ideas, memories a... More | |
| Thu Oct 16 THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCREEN: BAY AREA FILM CURATORS INVADE YBCA
kino21 presents "The 10,000 Mile Bike Race"
"The 10,000 Mile Bike Race" is a performance based on a text adapted from Le Surmâle (The Supermale), the first cyborg sex novel, by Al... More | |
| Thu Oct 16 - Sat Oct 18 San Francisco-based innovator Dohee Lee explores metaphysical questions about life in the world premiere of a YBCA commission, titled FLUX, integrating traditional Korean performance with contemporary music, movement and film. Born in Korea and now i... More |
| Sat Oct 18 An Unnatural History of Golden Gate Park
The Studio for Urban Projects team up with landscape designers, ecologists and park historians to create a walking tour illuminating Golden Gate Park’s complex history. Meets on the steps of the Conservatory ... More | |
| Wed Oct 29 A leading figure in the world jazz movement, and one who helped shape the Bay Area scene, Peter Apfelbaum forged a dynamic group concept built upon extended improvisational techniques, West African forms and Afro-Caribbean grooves. His viscerally exh... More | |
| Wed Oct 29 A leading figure in the world jazz movement, and one who helped shape the Bay Area scene, Peter Apfelbaum forged a dynamic group concept built upon extended improvisational techniques, West African forms and Afro-Caribbean grooves. His viscerally exh... More | |
| Thu Oct 30 YBCA invites you to join us in celebration of the opening of The Gatherers: Greening Our Urban Spheres with a party featuring cash bars, music and special entertainment. The Gatherers is an exhibition of work from a culturally diverse group of artist... More | |
| Fri Oct 31 - Sun Jan 11 How do we ensure sustainability of nature for growing urban populations? The Gatherers is an exhibition that brings together work from a diverse group of practitioners who combine art with cultural activism to answer this question. Through the lens o... More | |
| Fri Oct 31 A Halloween party with a downtown NYC twist, featuring drinks, dancing, and the rhythms of DJ Spooky and Forro in the Dark. DJ Spooky (Paul D Miller) is a composer, multimedia artist, writer, and DJ who has remixed artists from Wu-Tang Clan to Metall... More | |
| Sat Nov 01 As a composer and bandleader, Ravi Coltrane creates music that is harmonically mysterious, melodically enticing and rhythmically compelling. The second son of John and Alice Coltrane, Ravi was raised in a Los Angeles household filled with a global ar... More | |
| Sat Nov 01 As a composer and bandleader, Ravi Coltrane creates music that is harmonically mysterious, melodically enticing and rhythmically compelling. The second son of John and Alice Coltrane, Ravi was raised in a Los Angeles household filled with a global ar... More | |
| Thu Nov 06 - Sat Nov 08 Blending text, video, sound, architecture and stage performance to convey stories about life in the 21st century, OBIE Award-winning Builders Association exploits the richness of technology and media to extend the boundaries of theater. Co-commission... More |
| Sat Nov 08 Featuring an entourage of the Bay Area's finest in performance, music and art, CocoaBabies and Black New World transform the YBCA Forum and Grand Lobby into a sky-splitting freestyle ritual of dance, sensuality, pyromania, magic and song. Join us for... More |
| Thu Nov 13 - Sat Nov 15 When:
Thu-Sat, Nov 13-15, 8 pm
What:
Delinquent
Keith Hennessy
In the world premiere of Circo Zero founder Keith Hennessy’s work Delinquent young bodies and voices take flight in a genre-defying performance uniting dance, spoken word and aer... More |
| Sat Dec 06 - Sun Mar 22 A rare opportunity to view cutting-edge contemporary art by critically acclaimed artists from three countries whose works explore representations of modernity and popular culture, transPOP features 16 artists from Vietnam and Korea and their respecti... More | |
| Mon Dec 08 David Milnes and the players delve into Pierre Boulez’s landmark piece "Le Marteau sans maître" for flute, guitar, viola, three percussion and voice. Guitarist David Tanenbaum is featured in a smoldering ensemble piece by Luca Francesconi. Two cello ... More | |
| Thu Jan 29 - Sat Jan 31 Electronica and noise, satire and ingenuity, beauty and humour—discover a new generation of Japanese choreographers. The highly stylized Baby Q, formed by Yoko Higashino in 2000, is known for collaborating with dancers, actors, visual artists and rob... More |
| Thu Feb 05 - Sat Feb 07 Monsters and Prodigies is about this fascinating cultural phenomenon: talented child singers born in poverty who were castrated to preserve their soprano voices, and propelled to stardom in the frivolous courts of Europe. Directed by Claudio Valdés K... More |
| Thu Feb 19 - Sat Feb 21 From esteemed Japanese director Hiroshi Koike and his dance-theater troupe Pappa Tarahumara comes Ship in a View, an ethereal spectacle making its Bay Area premiere at YBCA. Drawing on memories of his Japanese seaside home, Koike creates a haunting d... More |
| Thu Mar 05 - Sat Mar 07 YBCA is proud to co-commission an exciting new work from David Roussève/REALITY, one of the most important voices to emerge in contemporary American dance in recent history. An ode to those transcendental moments when joy and sorrow collide, Saudade—... More |
| Thu Apr 02 - Sat Apr 04 Internationally acclaimed dancer/choreographer John Jasperse presents an exhilarating new evening-length work for five dancers, with an original score performed live on stage by multi-instrumentalist (and Mills College faculty member) Zeena Parkins. ... More |
| Thu Apr 23 - Sat Apr 25 YBCA presents the Bay Area premiere of New York-based Big Art Group, a company that uses media language to push the narrative boundaries of performance, film and visual art. S.O.S. utilizes ten performers and a video matrix that inhabit a multi-camer... More |
| Thu May 28 - Sun May 31 YBCA is thrilled to conclude its 08_09 season with a truly remarkable confluence of performing and visual art in our Exhibitions gallery, fusing the movement of renowned choreographer Ronald K. Brown and the shimmering “Soundsuits” of visionary sculp... More |
| About Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) includes, respects and celebrates the people and ideas that energize our myriad communities. YBCA presents exciting local artists in context with their national and international peers; and provides the Bay Area with an eclectic and wide-ranging slate of exciting exhibitions, performances, films and educational programs. Hours Sunday: 12 noon - 5 pmMonday: closed Tuesday: 12 noon - 5 pm Wednesday: 12 noon - 5 pm Thursday: 12 noon - 8 pm Friday: 12 noon - 8 pm Saturday: 12 noon - 8 pm |
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Editorial Review  Yerba Buena Center’s BAN 5 Where is the Bay Area Now? By Michelle Wallace (08/08/2008)" When galleries and cities begin recurring art exhibitions, they make long term commitment to showcasing their region’s art well into the future. Twelve years ago, San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts committed to the Bay Area with the initiation of its triennial exhibition, Bay Area Now. Only this year, just four triennials in, they almost didn’t hold BAN 5. " |
Editorial Review  The Way That We Rhyme The Legacy of Feminism By Nirmala Nataraj (05/09/2008)" The question of what it means to be a woman might summon a few immediately stereotypical ideas (bras, lipstick, painful visits to the waxing salon), but at least in this generation, it’s becoming increasingly rare to find femaleness aligned with stalwart pronouncements of power or that dreaded “f” word: feminism. " |
Editorial Review  Dark Matters: Artists See The Impossible Through a Glass, Very Darkly By jesse nathan (09/20/2007)" New technology always generates new art forms, mediums, and modes of exhibition. The rapid digitization of our globe -- with its accompanying technologies of hyper-communication, intimate surveillance and documentation -- stands as no exception. “Dark Matters” at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts addresses the information-technology drenched society we reside in head-on, uniting a range of artists, each one using a dramatically different medium to reveal the invisible and the shrouded. " |
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