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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 |
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 | Sat Jun 07 - Sun Sep 07 Grind for the Green (G4G) is an annual summer eco-music festival produced by and for youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. More than just a showcase for local talent, G4G provides a framework and applied learning environment where youth from the hip-h... More |
| 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 | |
| Sat Sep 06 Sat, Sep 6, noon-4 pm, A Lover’s Line thru the Presidio
Jeannene Przyblyski and the Bureau of Urban Secrets examine the history of Lovers’ Lane in the Presidio on this bus tour.
Reservations Required
Ground Scores: Guided Tours of San Francis... More | |
| Thu Sep 11 Trio Garufa is among the foremost interpreters of Argentine tango, and one of the few groups performing this unique musical form live in the Bay Area. Mixing a deep respect for the traditions of Golden Era Tango with the excitement of the modern Nuev... More |
| Fri Sep 12 - Sun Sep 14 When:
Fri-Sat, Sep 12-13, 8 pm
Sun, Sep 14, 2 pm
What:
After All, Part I
Erika Shuch
Bay Area choreographer Erika Shuch and the Erika Shuch Performance Project returns to YBCA with the world premiere of After All, Part I. The performance, a... More |
| Sat Sep 13 Sat, Sep 13, 3-5 pm, Everything Is Better Now
Jonn Herschend embraces absurdity on this bus tour of locations of public and private emotional crisis.
Reservations Required. Tours leave from YBCA.
Ground Scores: Guided Tours of San Francisco Pa... More | |
| Thu Sep 18 Vocalist Marina Lavalle (formerly of Peru Negro) presents the best of Afro-Peruvian traditions in collaboration with dancer and cajon master Lalo Izquierdo. Lavalle brings fire and verve to song while introducing us to the rich tradition of Afro-Peru... More |
| Thu Sep 18 - Sat Sep 20 When:
Thu-Sat, Sep 18-20, 8 pm
What:
Toward September
Robert Moses’ Kin
Robert Moses’ Kin, one of the Bay Area’s most compelling choreographers, returns to YBCA with the world premiere of Toward September, a thrilling new work commissioned b... More |
| Sat Sep 20 Sat, Sept 20 & 27, noon-4 pm, How to Organize a Public Library
Michael Swaine’s walking tours of individual home libraries. Tour locations TBD. Tour leaves from YBCA.
Reservations required: (415-978-2710 ext. 136 or www.apleafortenderness.com).
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| Sat Sep 20 Red Poppy Art House presents a multidisciplinary exploration of the poetry of Adrian Arias, featuring dancers, musicians, photographic projections and video. Adrian has won visual art and poetry prizes in France, Argentina, Japan, Peru and Spain, and... More |
| Fri Sep 26 Join YBCA for an exciting evening of dancing and celebration, featuring performances by Bay Area artists including La Malamaña and Adrian Arias. La Malamaña, a group of eight artists from seven Latin American and Carribean countries, will conclude th... More |
| Sat Sep 27 Sat, Sept 20 & 27, noon-4 pm, How to Organize a Public Library
Michael Swaine’s walking tours of individual home libraries. Tour locations TBD. Tour leaves from YBCA.
Reservations required: (415-978-2710 ext. 136 or www.apleafortenderness.com).
... More | |
| Fri Oct 03 YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS
Artists Ball Seven: The New Party on Friday, October 3, 2008 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts brings together Hip Hop Superstar Mos Def and Event Designer Extraordinaire Stanlee Gatti for one of the bigge... More | |
| Sat Oct 04 Sat. Oct 4, noon-2:30 pm, Syndicate
A walking tour of sidewalk art installations which nod to the history of labor unions at performing arts venues in San Francisco led by Jessica Tully, Kim Munson and historians from the Labor Archives and Research... More | |
| Sat Oct 11 The Bay Area Guide To Independent Fashion Festival, an all day event---pays tribute to the region’s vibrant independent fashion scene with an exciting panel on fashion and diversity, a shopping fair, exhibits, and a runway show.
Vendors: Peggy Li ... More | |
| Sat Oct 11 Celebrate the Bay Area’s progressive approach to the apparel design industry with The Bay Area Guide to Independent Fashion Festival hosted by YBCA. Both a glimpse inside and a living exhibit based on the upcoming book The Bay Area Guide to Independe... More |
| Sat Oct 11 Buried Treasure Island
Bus tour led by BARGE (the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics) explores the history of land use on Treasure Island. Tour leaves from YBCA.
Reservations Required.
Ground Scores: Guided Tours of San Francisco Pas... 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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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