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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)

701 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 map
cross street: 3rd St.
district: SoMa


Tel. +1 415.978.2700
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Events Calendar
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
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Fri Nov 28 - Sun Dec 28
Join us this holiday season for the classic and cool, heartwarming and funny Bay Area family tradition. The Bay Area tradition returns this winter for a season of holiday fun and frolic set to both classic and contemporary musical selection reflec... More
Fri Dec 05
YBCA invites you to join us in celebration of the opening of transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix with a party featuring cash bars, and entertainment by Thomas’ Apartment, an alternative-rock-pop creation fusing hard-driving riffs, euphoric melodies and lyr... More
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Fri Dec 05 - 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
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Sat Dec 06 - Sun Mar 08
As we explore Imagining Our Future, one of the three Big Ideas that guide this season’s programming, YBCA is proud to feature the art and activism of Slow Food Nation, a nonprofit subsidiary of Slow Food USA, in the Room for Big Ideas (RBI). Slow Fo... More
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Sat Dec 06
Join us for a festival dedicated to composer Elliott Carter. Take a weekend to immerse yourself in the genius and complexity of this two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, who turns 100 years old on December 11, 2009. Carter's life and work are on the conti... More
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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
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Sat Dec 13 - Sun Dec 14
At the 2008 Dance-Along Nutcracker: Bah Humbug!, scroogey Uncle Drosselmeyer gets ghosts in his belfry when he refuses to go to the family holiday party. Stars Trauma Flintstone as Drosselmeyer and Donna Sachet as the Ghost of Marley. Performed b... More
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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
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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 pm
Monday: 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
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Great Night Out
By John Zaterka (06/17/2004)

" With all this machinery making modern music, it's great to see that big bands are back grooving on styles from Ska to Afro-beat to even the premier of a special Eno-orchestra. Live hip-hop is back with a new home in the Mission's new club 12 Galaxies as True Skool brings back live acts to the mix. DNA's stages a fund raiser for the St. James Infirmary for the hard-rockin' and gothedelically inclined. Here's another serving of six summer audio treats: "

Editorial Review
Great Night Out Image
Great Night Out
By John Zaterka (05/19/2004)

" May turns electric, eclectic and experimental. The Bay Area has always been home to the great experimenters. The next few weeks bring in a amazing array of boundary pushing talent from Buckethead to the highly visual multimedia shows of the Kronos Quartet and RJD2. Salty old punks the New Model Army come over from across the pond to play the DNA. And the good old East Bay delivers two of their finest: Rogue Wave and Hyim & the Fat Foakland Orchestra all roll into town for your Great Night Out. "

Editorial Review
Black President: The Art & Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti Image
Black President: The Art & Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
Rise and Fall of a Global Icon
By Nirmala Nataraj (05/07/2004)

" The latest exhibit at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is a methodical multimedia retrospective that probes the legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the controversial Nigerian Afrobeat musician and activist who died of AIDS-related complications in 1997 at the age of 58. Conceived by Brooklyn-based curator Trevor Schoonmaker, the exhibit showcases the work of 30 contemporary artists who distill Fela's enigmatic persona and revolutionary proclivities... "

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