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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The Black New World Annex

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 …



YBCAlive! Bay Area Independent Fashion Festival

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 …



YBCAlive! A Taste of Sanctified Gumbo

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 …



Special Event: The Good & Plenty Gumbo Cabaret

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 …



What's the Big Idea? Day: Imagining Our Future

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 …



What's the Big Idea? Day: Ritual and Redemption

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

Novellus   |   Citibank   |  

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, Washington Mutual Foundation and Members of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

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Underwritten by Directors Forum Members

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