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  • Dare
    Reimagine: That Which We Know But Don’t Realize
    Reimagine: That Which We Know But Don’t Realize
    May 16, 2012 – Sep 16, 2012
    FREE

    The latest Room for Big Ideas installation, Reimagine: That Which We Know But Don’t Realize, explores the ways in which we simultaneously create and conceal meaning in landscapes, and how that process defines us in relation to our environment.

    Public Programs
  • Encounter
    Occupy Bay Area
    Occupy Bay Area
    Jul 7, 2012 – Oct 14, 2012

    YBCA has curated an exhibition of works that have proven to be particularly effective in supporting the goals and aspirations of those seeking to effect societal change on behalf of the 99%.

    Visual Arts
  • Soar
    David Shrigley
    Brain Activity
    Jun 22, 2012 – Sep 23, 2012
    Main Galleries

    The work of David Shrigley effortlessly infuses a comedic sensibility into a serious fine art practice. David Shrigley: Brain Activity showcases the diversity of the artist’s work — amateurish, crude drawings, hand-crafted sculptures made of unusual materials, and installations characterized by incongruities of scale — offering insightful and often surreal commentary on the absurdities of life, death and everything in between. Irreverent and mischievous, Shrigley’s art presents the kind of odd scenarios you never come across in real life, but wish you did.

    Visual Arts
  • Soar
    Kaneto Shindo Remembered
    Kuroneko
    Aug 16, 2012 7:30pm
    Aug 19, 2012 2:00pm
    Screening Room
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    In war-torn medieval Japan, a demon haunts the Rajomon Gate, ripping out the throats of samurai in the grove beyond. The governor sends a war hero to confront the spirit, but what the man finds are two beautiful women who look just like his lost mother and wife. Both a chilling ghost story and a meditation on the nature of war and social hypocrisy, Kuroneko mixes stunning visuals, an evocative score, and influences from traditional Japanese theater to create an emotionally devastating work. (1968, 95 min, 35mm)

    Film & Video
  • Community Program
    Lamplighters Music Theatre: The Mikado
    Aug 16, 2012 8:00pm
    Aug 17, 2012 8:00pm
    Aug 18, 2012 2:00pm
    Aug 18, 2012 8:00pm
    Aug 19, 2012 2:00pm
    Lam Research Theater at YBCA (formerly Novellus Theater)
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    Lamplighters open their 60th Season with Gilbert & Sullivan’s greatest hit The Mikado. A playful tale set in a make-believe Japanese town where flirting is a capital offence, The Mikado is actually a satire on Victorian British society. Nanki-Poo has fallen in love with the beautiful Yum-Yum, fiancée to the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko. When the Mikado, emperor of Japan, demands the execution of Ko-Ko, and Nanki-Poo volunteers to take Ko-Ko’s place under the condition that he first be allowed to marry Yum-Yum, chaos, desperation, and comical mayhem ensue.

    Live orchestra, gorgeous sets and costumes, and the amazing voices of the Lamplighters — considered one of the best Gilbert & Sullivan producers in the world!

    (Walnut Creek, July 27-29 / Napa, August 4-5 / Mountain View, August 11-12 / Livermore, August 25-26)

    www.lamplighters.org

    Photo: David Allen

    Performing Arts
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