Take a Seat At YBCA
For a gift of $300 or $500, you can name a seat in the YBCA Theater and support the YBCA Fund for New Performance.
Take a Seat
Your name, or the name of someone you’d like to honor, will be featured on a handsome plaque affixed to a seat in the YBCA Theater. Your generous gift to the YBCA Fund for New Performance will make a difference in the life and work of an artist. If we reach our goal of $500,000, YBCA will be able to commission one new contemporary performance work every year for the next ten years. Become a visionary—take a seat today.
Orchestra $500 per seat plaque | Rear Orchestra* $300 per seat plaque
Rear Orchestra seats are limited, so please respond quickly to guarantee your place.
Tell Your Story
When you purchase a seat, we invite you, if you like, to share a story about how the arts have affected your life.
Share a personal story about a meaningful experience at a performance, or pay tribute to a family member, friend or hero. Have you ever felt transported by a dance, moved to tears by a piece of music, provoked by a performance artist into thinking about something in a whole new way? Why do you love performance—what do you get out of an evening in the theater? We want to know. Stories can be submitted with your mail order or via email to elakin (at) ybca.org. YBCA will share submitted stories in print materials and on its website.
Meet the Challenge
Take a seat today, and your donation goes even further! A corporate sponsor will match all gifts to the seat campaign one to one during the next few months. By helping us meet this challenge, your support will be doubled and you can help YBCA meet its goal of $500,000 to fund the YBCA Fund for New Performance today!
Celebrate Your Love of Performance
While you may not be able to actually sit in the seat that you purchase when you attend events at YBCA, once a year, we guarantee that you can.
For the next five years you’ll receive an invitation to the Annual Season Announcement Preview Party. During this exclusive annual event, you can literally “take your seat” as our Executive Director presents highlights of the upcoming season of exhibitions, performances and films.
Throughout the evening, the stories you’ve shared will be projected onstage as together we celebrate our collective commitment to art and the artists who make it.
3 Ways to Take Your Seat
BY MAIL
Pick up a brochure at YBCA and use the return envelope provided.
BY PHONE
Call Emily Lakin, Membership Coordinator at 415.321.1320.
IN PERSON
Visit the YBCA Box Office at 701 Mission Street @ 3rd. Open Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat & Sun from noon – 5 pm and Thursdays until 8 pm.
* Your dedication will be featured in the Theater in perpetuity. Seat plaques will be featured on each seat for a period of five years and moved to a prominent location in the Theater after the five year dedication period is completed.