Public Programs
Three exciting series of public programs offer a deeper experience of YBCA films, exhibitions and performances.
Artists InSight are artist talks and guided tours that focus on the artist's creative process and influences. YBCA Live are social events and performance-related happenings. Centered on YBCA's Big Ideas, Community Conversations offers a forum for critical dialogue that positions the art and artists we present in a broader social, political, philosophical and historical framework.
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Sep 1–Sep 28, 2008
In YBCA’s Room for Big Ideas (RBI), the Art House presents a month-long program of artists spanning disciplines and musical traditions of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, joining the traditional to the contemporary …
Sep 26, 2008
Join YBCA for an exciting evening of dancing and celebration, featuring performances by Bay Area artists including La Malamaña and Adrian Arias …
R. Zamora Linmark Literary reading of The Evolution of a Sigh
Sep 27, 2008, 3 pm • Room for Big Ideas • FREE
R. Zamora Linmark, author of the best-selling novel Rolling The R's and poetry collection Prime Time Apparitions, will be reading from his latest collection of poetry, the just-published The Evolution of a Sigh, as well as new works, including scenes from the stage adaptation of Rolling The R's, which will have its world premiere in Honolulu in November at the Kumu Kahua Theatre.
Oct 9–Nov 16, 2008
West Oakland-based artist, activist and cultural historian Marcel Diallo and his long-time collaborators transform the Room for Big Ideas (RBI) into an outpost of The Black New World using assemblage altars, multimedia and spiritual commodities …
Oct 11, 2008
Celebrate the Bay Area’s progressive approach to the apparel design industry. This all-day festival highlights homegrown talents with a local bazaar, a panel discussion, and a runway show featuring the craft and couture of some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic independent designers …
Oct 18, 2008
West Oakland-based artist, activist, cultural historian Marcel Diallo performs and discusses excerpts from his forthcoming books exploring Black New World philosophies …
Nov 8, 2008
An entourage of the Bay Area's finest in performance, music and art transforms the YBCA Forum and Grand Lobby into a sky-splitting freestyle ritual of dance, sensuality, pyromania, magic and song …
Jan 31, 2009
A free open house festival where the public can learn more about contemporary art with visual art, music, performances, hands-on workshops, exhibition tours, film screenings and food & drink …
May 30, 2009
A free open house festival where the public can learn more about contemporary art with visual art, music, performances, hands-on workshops, exhibition tours, film screenings and food & drink …
YBCA's programs are made possible in part by:
The Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund
LEF Foundation
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Community Engagement and Audience Development Programs
supported by a generous grant from The Wallace Foundation.
Community Engagement and Youth Education Programs are made possible in part by:
AAA of Northern California, Citibank, Irene S. Scully Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, Potrero Nuevo Fund of Tides Foundation, The Sato Foundation, Koret Foundation, Wells Fargo Foundation, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, The Morris Stulsaft Foundation and Members of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Free First Tuesdays:
Underwritten by Directors Forum Members