July 9, 2011 - September 25, 2011
The sixth edition of YBCA’s signature triennial exhibition, Bay Area Now, a roundup of exemplary talent across an array of disciplines, continues with a visual arts exhibition showcasing 18 artists and artist collectives.
July 14, 2011 - August 25, 2011
Smut Capital of America is the title of Michael Stabile’s in-progress documentary which chronicles San Francisco's reign as the center of porn production in the U.S. during the early 70s. The series will showcase a wide variety of films made during the era.
July 23, 2011 - 8:00pm
Based upon American jazz and Persian dastgah heritage, Bay Area saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh presents a night of original intercultural works featuring acclaimed NY-based contemporary string quartet ETHEL and guest artists representing Latin, Arab and Persian musical traditions.
July 29, 2011 - July 30, 2011
Lam Research Theater at YBCA
YBCA presents the West Coast premiere of Bay Area musician/composer/vocalist Carla Kihlstedt and poet Rafael Oses’ Necessary Monsters, a contemporary song cycle based on Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges’ Book of Imaginary Beings.
July 30, 2011 - September 17, 2011
YBCA will be transformed into a sizzling oasis of visual art, performance, film, music, workshops, cross-disciplinary symposia, food, drink and unfettered access to the 25+ local artists featured in our Bay Area Now 6 triennial.
August 18, 2011 - August 21, 2011
Lam Research Theater at YBCA
On the occasion of SFMOMA’s landmark exhibition The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde and YBCA’s Bay Area Now 6, SFMOMA in association with YBCA presents a new production of Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s 1927 opera, Four Saints in Three Acts.
September 8, 2011
After spending two months in an AIDS-related coma, no one knew if jazz great Fred Hersch would ever eat or walk again — let alone play the piano. But when he gained consciousness, he was determined to survive.
September 15, 2011 - September 18, 2011
This two-part program continues the discussion from our BAN6 dialogue on environmentalism, held in May. Inspired by San Francisco's goal of "Zero Waste" by 2020, these two very special documentaries look at trash from different perspectives — the artist, and the dispossessed.
September 16, 2011 - September 17, 2011
YBCA and Z Space welcome New York-based performance troupe Big Art Group back to the Bay Area with their new work, The People: San Francisco, a site specific, outdoor extravaganza that combines live theater with large scale, real time video projection.
October 13, 2011 - October 22, 2011
The world premiere of Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s newest project, red, black & GREEN: a blues (rbGb), a collaborative, multimedia performance work that examines environmental racism, social ecology and collective responsibility in an era of dramatic climate change.
GREETINGS ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF OUR PLANET!Sep 22, 2011 7:30pm
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