The Open City/Art City Art and Ideas Festival seeks to explore the infrastructures needed within cities locally and globally to enable access to artistic exploration. Through a vibrant blend of art installations, speakers, participatory activities, performances, music, food, and play YBCA and The Institute for the Future invite the Bay Area community to imagine how we can build a city that is more open, creative, and inclusive.

The Open City/Art City festival provides a unique opportunity for visitors to interact and connect with some of the most progressive leaders in the Bay Area who are on the forefront of socially engaged enterprises in the fields of art, public sector, and technology.  The day-long public festival also unites the many diverse communities in the Bay Area together to help frame generative dialogue and identify opportunities for community engagement, collaborative design of our public spaces, and inclusive, citizen-centered city models.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) and The Institute for the Future (IFTF) are partnering to engage the public in a creative and generative weekend of activities that look at how art and artists can transform a city. Explore the future of technology, art, science, and making! The program includes IFTF’s Technology Horizons 2014 Conference (Oct 2-3) and the day-long public Open City/Art City Art and Ideas Festival (Oct 4).

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