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Public Art
UNDO MEN
Sanctuary City Project
2023–2024
This work shines light on the power of the student-led pro-immigrant movement while examining the impact of policies on the lives of the undocumented community.
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Performances
If I Give You My Sorrows
Flyaway Productions presented by YBCA
January 31–February 2, 2025
An elegant and imaginative apparatus-based dance performance.
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Exhibitions
Art, Action, Change: YBCA Creative Corps Initiative
Presented by YBCA
August 16–September 15, 2024
Discover the intersection of art, action, and community empowerment.
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Exhibitions
Nick Dong: 11 to 88
Presented by YBCA
June 6–August 25, 2024
A distinctive world of levitating symbols, illuminated rooms, and cyclical transformations.
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Screenings & Films
California Newsreel – Forward to the 6th Decade
Presented by YBCA
Saturday, January 13, 2024, 3–5 PM
Experience a selection of films from the past 20 years advancing the causes of health and social justice, led by outgoing co-director Cornelius Moore and incoming executive director Rachel Poulain of California Newsreel.
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Screenings & Films
fragments: films by Emily Chao
Bay Area Now 9 Looping Film Program
January 3–31, 2023, 11 AM-5 PM
A cycle of four films from filmmaker Emily Chao that offer fragments of memories of people and places, experiences both shared and private, and new considerations of familiar views.
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Public Art
Audio Archive Booth
Sholeh Asgary
2023
Engage with artist Sholeh Asgary’s Audio Archive Booth to record stories, reflections, experiences, hopes, dreams, pasts, and futures of the Iranian diaspora.
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Public Art
Insufficient Memory
Sean Fader
2019–2023
An interactive Google Earth map which allows you to engage with a digital memorial to LGBTQ+ lives.
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Screenings & Films
Spectral Evidence
A showcase of expanded cinema
Saturday, December 9, 2023, 12–2 PM
A dynamic film program from Shapeshifter Cinema, featuring three sets of kinetic, multi-projector, and multimedia performances.
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Screenings & Films
Prismatic Permutations: Expanded Cinema Performances
Bay Area Now 9 Looping Film Program
December 1–30, 2023, 11 AM–5 PM
An hour-long program of select expanded cinema performances that have been presented by Shapeshifters Cinema over its 11-year history.
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Screenings & Films
Canyon Cinema Across Time and Space
Bay Area Now 9 Looping Film Program
November 1–30, 2023, 11 AM–5 PM
A selection of films from the Canyon Cinema collection tracing six decades of experimental filmmaking in the Bay Area.
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Screenings & Films
APAture 2023: Unearthing, a film showcase
In partnership with Kearny Street Workshop
October 29, 2023, 2–4:30 PM
A film showcase featuring Adamu Chan, as a part of Kearny Street Workshop’s annual multi-disciplinary arts festival, APAture.
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Screenings & Films
San Francisco Cinematheque: Contemporary Views from the Bay Area
In partnership with San Francisco Cinematheque
October 21, 2023, 3–5 PM
Nine works by ten contemporary Bay Area filmmakers, a cross-section of the Bay Area’s ever-vibrant multi-generational community curated by Steve Polta, artistic director of San Francisco Cinematheque.
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Screenings & Films
Canyon Cinema: Contemporary Bay Area Film
In partnership with Canyon Cinema
October 14, 2023, 3–5 PM
An afternoon of contemporary Bay Area works on film and video from the Canyon Cinema catalog, curated and hosted by executive director Brett Kashmere.
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Screenings & Films
San Francisco Cinematheque’s CROSSROADS Film
Bay Area Now 9 Looping Film Program
October 6–31, 2023, 11 AM–5 PM
Experience selections from fourteen years of CROSSROADS, San Francisco Cinematheque’s annual film festival in this ongoing daily screening.
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Exhibitions
Bay Area Now 9
Presented by YBCA
October 6, 2023–May 5, 2024
The ninth iteration of YBCA’s signature triennial exhibition highlighting 30 artists working throughout the Bay Area’s nine counties.
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Screenings & Films
I Hear a Butterfly
Presented by YBCA
Sunday, June 25, 2023
This new short film shares vibrant stories of migration and resilience.
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Performances
MU–Connector/When the land stands alone
Dohee Lee presented by YBCA
Friday, June 23 & Saturday, June 24, 2023, 7-9:30 PM
A multi-part ritual theater experience from Korean shamanistic performance artist Dohee Lee.
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Public Art
Tend Your Orchard
Cece Carpio and Miguel “Bounce” Perez of Trust Your Struggle
2021–2023
A new mural on YBCA’s glass passageway in collaboration with SOMA Pilipinas.
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Exhibitions
طراوت | TARAVAT
Presented by YBCA
May 13–July 23, 2023
A record of one Iranian-American woman’s attempts to grapple with the difficult legacy of women’s freedoms and Muslim identity—to transform it visually, to make something both beautiful and uncomfortable.
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Exhibitions
Future Resonance
Presented by California College of the Arts' Studio Forward
April 1–30, 2023
Designers imagine, prototype, and build possibilities for the present moment and for what’s to come.
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Performances
The Black (W)hole: calling our young ancestors home
Presented by Destiny Arts Center & YBCA
Saturday, February 25, 2023
An immersive experience featuring dance, poetry, video, and visual art.
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Public Art
June Grant: WANDERLUST, A Joyful Noise
Presented by YBCA
2022–2023
A public artwork featuring colorful expressions that call attention to locations typically taken for granted.
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Performances
Wicked Bodies
Presented by YBCA
October 28–30, 2022
Wicked Bodies reflects on many issues centering women and their bodies.
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Exhibitions
Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action
Presented by YBCA
October 20, 2022–June 11, 2023
This exhibition asks the public to consider the role of an artist within an institution—and in the public sphere—as urgent and responsive.
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Exhibitions
Alex Strada and Tali Keren: Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?
Presented by YBCA
October 20, 2022–March 19, 2023
This incomplete participatory exhibition asks visitors to critically engage with the U.S. Constitution.
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Public Art
On the Horizon: Bucket Brigade
Anna Teresa Fernandez presented by YBCA
Sunday, October 9, 2022, 11:30 AM
Join us as we carry ocean water from the Embarcadero waterfront to Mission St. in the historic SF tradition of bucket brigades.
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Exhibitions
dreamseeds
Presented by YBCA
May 14–September 4, 2022
You are invited to play, move, question, contribute and dream your way through the space. These artists have been waiting for you.
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Exhibitions
The Healing Project
Presented by Samora Pinderhughes & YBCA
March 24–September 4, 2022
A digital archive, music album, and exhibition from composer and artist Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes.
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Festival
SF Urban Film Fest 2022: Urban Futures
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA
March 9–March 13
Exhibitions
Pedagogy of Hope: Uncage, Reunify, Heal
Presented by Galería de la Raza
March 10–July 3, 2022
A textile and photographic based exhibition that surveys the Caravan for the Children Campaign.
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Screenings & Films
Diasporas of Resilience
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA
Saturday, October 2, 2021
An afternoon of film programs and artist talks around immigration to the South of Market, the power of mutual aid, and the power of writing a community narrative.
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Screenings & Films
SoMa Social Landscapes
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA
Saturday, September 25, 2021
An afternoon of exploring the social landscapes of the South of Market with artist talks, film screenings, and panel discussions.
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Screenings & Films
Generations of Filipinx Power
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA
Saturday, August 28, 2021
A night of artist talks, one-act plays, and film screenings celebrating Filipinx power in South of Market.
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Exhibitions
Echo Location: The Cultural Geopolitics in South of Market
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA
August 5-October 23, 2021
A new exhibition exploring the complicated history and celebrating the future of the South of Market.
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Public Art
Now We Are Here
Fredericko Alvarado
July 15, 2021–September 11, 2022
A site-specific mural in YBCA’s Grand Lobby inspired by the Wiphala flag.
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Public Art
love @ first line
Anna Sergeeva
2021–2025
A new site-specific public artwork by Anna Sergeeva featuring the first lines of love poems.
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Festival
SF Urban Film Fest 2021
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA
February 14–21, 2021
This year’s festival explores enduring injustices and environmental destruction alongside the resilience of neighborhoods and the communities that fill them.
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Public Art
MOURNING IS AN ACT OF LOVE
SF Urban Film Fest
February 12—May 10, 2021
Films, photos, and participatory art ask us to reconsider memorials making, and reimagine how we build public experiences that are rooted in our histories, acknowledge our grief, and use love to inspire us to work together for our collective future.
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Exhibitions
AFTER LIFE (we survive)
Presented by YBCA
November 9, 2020–February 7, 2021
A new multimedia public art experience that brings artists together to explore speculative and real modes of survival.
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Screenings & Films
Jeffrey Gibson: Nothing is Eternal
Presented by YBCA and the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art
October 30–November 3, 2020
Conceived during this pandemic era, the immersive video work depicts the American flag in unsettling stillness, as a marker of territory, and projected onto bodies, while set to a heartrending soundtrack.
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Public Art
The Monument as Living Memory
Presented by YBCA
October 12, 2020–April 18, 2022
This work illustrates the closure, dismantling, and restructuring of institutions, the toppling of monuments, and the uprising of a palpable collective spirit across our country.
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Public Art
Tosha Stimage: Infinite center, infinite sun
Presented by The Lawn Art Project & YBCA
September 25 – October 25, 2020
The first of a series of installations for the public to take part in, curated by YBCA for the Lawn Art Project.
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Art & Civic Experience
Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America?
Presented by YBCA
April 1–October 1, 2020
A digital art and civic experience that examines the issues around the 2020 Census and its direct impact on each individual living in America.
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Screenings & Films
Pocket-Size Cinema in Spain: Experiments in Super-8
Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
February 27, 2020, 7:30 PM
A program of contemporary and historic films made in Super-8mm by Spanish filmmakers.
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Screenings & Films
let me tell you what home looks like
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA
February 8, 2020, 7 PM
As cities gentrify, black artists and activists create new narratives, shift the audience gaze, amplify unheard voices, and showcase their resilience.
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Screenings & Films
Diaspora: Identity and the Pathos of Global Labor
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA
February 6, 2020, 6:30 PM
Films and a panel discussion explore personal experiences of diaspora within the global labor market.
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Festival
SF Urban Film Fest 2020
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA
February 3–8, 2020
Exploring Place and the Populist Revolt, investigating how cities are ground zero for the struggle to find or hold on to a place, for both incumbents and newly arrived.
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Screenings & Films
Be Water: Civil Disobedience and the Fight for Democracy in Hong Kong
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA
February 3, 2020, 6:30 PM
Alex Yong Kang Chow co-curates this event looking at the Hong Kong demonstrations from the lived experience of the student protestors.
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Screenings & Films
Interludes: New and Recent Films by Nathaniel Dorsky
Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
January 23, 2020, 7:30 PM
New and recent works by the master filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky.
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Public Art
Justin Brice Guariglia: WE ARE THE ASTEROID III
Presented by YBCA
December 9, 2019–April 30, 2020
Guariglia’s solar-powered LED highway message board draws audiences into lively discussions about the climate crisis.
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Screenings & Films
Celebrating Jonas Mekas 2: Walden
Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
December 8, 2019, 5 PM
Cinematheque closes its 2019 exhibition year with a rare screening of Mekas’ legendary film.
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Screenings & Films
Everywhere at Once: Films by Sylvia Schedelbauer
Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
November 7, 2019
Sylvia Schedelbauer appears in person to present a retrospective of recent films.
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Screenings & Films
Something Between Us: Films by Jodie Mack
Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
October 24, 2019
Jodie Mack appears in person to present a collection of works.
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Screenings & Films
Makino Takashi: Memento Stella
Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
September 26, 2019
Makino Takashi appears in person to present this digital video work.
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Exhibitions
The Body Electric
Presented by YBCA
September 6, 2019–February 23, 2020
Works by an intergenerational and international group of artists who have seized upon the screen as a place to rethink the body and identity.
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Screenings & Films
Remembering Phil Solomon
Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
August 8, 2019
This tribute includes several of Solomon’s greatest films.
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Exhibitions
Art of Peace
Presented by YBCA
July 23—August 25, 2019
Art and artists raising awareness about the continued escalation of death due to gun violence in our country.
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Exhibitions
Identity & Pride
Presented by YBCA
June 18—July 14, 2019
A show exploring broad themes of identity, including gender, ethnicity, culture, community, and love.
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Event
Public Square
Presented by YBCA
June 1, 2019
YBCA Fellows unveil their yearlong projects through workshops, visual and performance art, dance, music, and more.
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Performances
A Tribute to A Tribe Called Quest’s Midnight Marauders
UnderCover presented by YBCA
May 16—18, 2019
UnderCover honors the album with a genre-bending tribute show.
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Performances
We Have Iré
Paul S. Flores presented by YBCA
May 10–12, 2019
A multidisciplinary theater work exploring the true stories of Afro-Cuban immigrants living in the United States.
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Exhibitions
Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here
Presented by YBCA and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
April 20–August 4, 2019
The first full retrospective of the Los Angeles–based artist, co-organized by YBCA and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Performances
Requiem Mass: A Queer Divine Rite
Holcombe Waller presented by YBCA
November 16–17, 2018
A performance that remembers those who suffered persecution for their sexual orientation and gender expression.
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Exhibitions
Bay Area Now 8
Presented by YBCA
September 8, 2018–March 24, 2019
An exhibition that focuses on what is being created in studios across the region is not just desirable, but vital.
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Public Art
Andrea Bowers: Climate Change is Real
Presented by YBCA
September 7–18, 2018
A public art project commissioned for the Global Climate Action Summit.
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Exhibitions
Futurefarmers: Out Of Place, In Place
Presented by YBCA
April 20—August 12, 2018
A collective, playful, inquiry-based approach to art making that spans multiple disciplines and ways of inhabiting the world..
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Exhibitions
The Open Workshop: New Investigations in Collective Form
Presented by YBCA
March 9—July 29, 2018
A group of design experiments by Bay Area design-research studio The Open Workshop.
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Exhibitions
Yishai Jusidman: Prussian Blue
Presented by YBCA
December 1, 2017–March 25, 2018
A series of paintings rendered almost exclusively in one of the earliest artificially developed pigments used by European painters—Prussian Blue.
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Exhibitions
Edgar Arceneaux
Presented by YBCA
December 1, 2017—March 25, 2018
Edgar Arceneaux explores historical patterns around race and representation through drawings, installations, and theater.
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Performances
Transform Fest Fall 2017: Program C
Presented by YBCA
September 16 & 21, 2017
Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, Larry Arrington, Sandra Lawson Ndu, Minoosh Zomorodinia & Fogbeast perform.
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Performances
Transform Fest Fall 2017: Program B
Presented by YBCA
September 15 & 23, 2017
Fauxnique and RAWdance perform.
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Performances
Transform Fest Fall 2017: Program A
Presented by YBCA
September 14 & 22, 2017
Visual and performance artist Jesse Hewit and street-dance theater company Embodiment Project perform.
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Festival
Transform Fest Fall 2017
Presented by YBCA
September 14–23, 2017
Seven newly commissioned performances by prolific Bay Area artists—spanning from contemporary dance to experimental performance—to pop-up installations, community conversations, and even a late-night party that creates dance floor citizenship
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Exhibitions
Space Brainz–Yerba Buena 3000: Damon Rich & Jae Shin
Presented by YBCA
June 30, 2017–January 28, 2018
Where the art center becomes a laboratory for dissecting how power works through built space.
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Public Art
Jerome Reyes: Abeyance (Draves y Robles y Vargas)
Presented by YBCA
June 21, 2017-June 21, 2021
Abeyance honors three Bay Area natives by sharing their stories of migration, displacement, and resilience.
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Exhibitions
Tania Bruguera: Talking to Power / Hablándole al Poder
Presented by YBCA
June 16–October 28, 2017
A survey exhibition that presents all of Bruguera’s long-term, socially engaged art projects to date.
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Performances
Last Blue Couch in the Sky
Kim Epifano presented by YBCA
June 2–4, 2017
Featuring site-specific dance and performance happenings in the street, on fire escapes, and throughout public space.
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Performances
Dearest Home
Kyle Abraham presented by YBCA
May 16–20, 2017
A work about love, longing, and loss that weaves together movement and vulnerability with cross-cultural conversation and community action.
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Performances
For You
Erika Chong Shuch presented by YBCA
April 1, 2017
Erika Chong Shuch crafts performances informed and inspired by select submissions from local creatives.
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Performances
The Blues Project
Dorrance Dance presented by YBCA
March 16–18, 2017
A dynamic evening of rhythm, original live music, explosive energy, and raw emotion.
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Exhibitions
Teddy Cruz & Fonna Forman – Visualizing Citizenship: Seeking a New Public Imagination
Presented by YBCA
March 10–June 18, 2017
Presenting case studies for more expansive and inclusive ways of thinking of the relationships between the United States and its neighbors
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Dance
Clas/sick Hip Hop
Amy O'Neal & UnderCover presented by YBCA
February 16–18, 2017
Clas/sick Hip Hop brings you “Opposing Forces” and “UnderCover Presents: A Tribute to The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.”
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Performances
A Tribute to The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
UnderCover presented by YBCA
February 16–18, 2017
Fifteen Bay Area ensembles pay homage to Grammy award–winning, iconic artist Lauryn Hill.
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Performances
Opposing Forces
Amy O'Neal presented by YBCA
February 16–18, 2017
Utilizing tropes of contemporary performance to expose fears around feminine qualities in our culture through the hyper masculine dance style of breaking.
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Exhibitions
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar
Presented by YBCA
February 10–May 21, 2017
An acclaimed retrospective of Bay Area artist Lynn Hershman Leeson’s revolutionary career from the 1960s to the present day.
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Performances
les vérités
Gregory Dawson presented by YBCA
January 27–28, 2017
“les vérités” builds on the rich, raw, highly energized style of movement that dawsondancesf has been building for the past decade.
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Performances
Honduran Garifuna Dance Party!
Aurelio presented by YBCA
December 4, 2016
Aurelio, a torchbearer of the Garifuna musical tradition, marries the music and the movements of his Caribbean coastal culture.
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Performances
The Poet of Havana
Carlos Varela presented by YBCA
December 3, 2016
Legendary Cuban nueva trova singer-songwriter Carlos Varela, showcases a musical style that developed in post-revolutionary Cuba.
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Performances
Edward Simon and Ensemble Venezuela
Presented by YBCA
December 2, 2016
Pianist and composer Edward Simon leads Ensemble Venezuela in creating and showcasing underrepresented Venezuelan music.
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Performances
I Am Home: A Musical Reflection on Love, Migration and Identity
Diana Gameros presented by YBCA
December 1, 2016
Diana Gameros presents an evening of Latin-influenced indie-pop, folk, jazz, and orchestral music.
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Performances
SF Sonido Fest
Presented by YBCA
December 1–4, 2016
A four-day music festival featuring a rich diversity of Latin American & Caribbean singer-songwriters.
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Performances
/pe-LO-tah/
Marc Bamuthi Joseph presented by YBCA
November 18–20, 2016
/peh-LO-tah/ links culture and sport to the complexities of soccer as a conduit for both global joy and global corruption.
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Performances
Retribution
Tanya Tagaq presented by YBCA
November 18, 2016
A complex, exhilarating, howling protest that links lack of respect for women’s rights to lack of respect for the planet, to lack of respect for Indigenous rights.
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Performances
In Concert with Nanook of The North
Tanya Tagaq presented by YBCA
November 17, 2016
Tanya Tagaq’s intense, evocative vocalizations, based on Inuit throat singing traditions, help reclaim the controversial 1922 film “Nanook of the North.”
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Exhibitions
Erick Meyenberg: The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg
Presented by YBCA
October 14, 2016–February19, 2017
An intricate case study of participation and coproduction between an artist and a specific community.
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Exhibitions
Tom Sachs — Space Program: Europa
Presented by YBCA
September 18, 2016—January 15, 2017
Tom Sachs and his team of astronauts set their sights on the next frontier of space exploration.
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Exhibitions
The Ocean After Nature
Presented by YBCA
June 17–August 28, 2016
An exhibition that considers the ocean as a site reflecting the ecological, cultural, political, and economic realities of a globalized world.
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Performances
This Was Made Here: A Diasporic Odyssey
Meklit presented by YBCA
May 19–21, 2016
This performance teases the senses weaving American jazz and traditional Ethiopian rhythms.
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Performances
Luciano Chessa
Presented by YBCA
April 30, 2016
A retrospective self-portrait by the internationally renowned artist Luciano Chessa.
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Performances
The Unlearning
Theresa Wong presented by YBCA
April 29, 2016
This work questions whether war is a cycle that repeats itself or if it can be broken through deeper individual unlearning and learning.
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Performances
The Crossing
Edward Schocker and the Crossing Ensemble presented by YBCA
April 29, 2016
A performance that invites audiences to physically experience sound.
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Music
New Frequencies Fest 2016
Presented by YBCA
April 28–30, 2016
An annual ode to eclectic contemporary music featuring visionary musicians and sound explorers.
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Performances
Memory Trace
Pamela Z presented by YBCA
April 28, 2016
An exploration of the concept of memory inspired by her late mother’s affair with memory loss.
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Exhibitions
Slow Dialogues: Time, Space, and Scale
Presented by YBCA
April 22–July 10, 2016
A site-specific dialogue with social, cultural, and environmental conditions of the Bay Area.
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Performances
echo::system–treadmill dreamtime running in place
Grisha Coleman presented by YBCA
April 15–17, 2016
A full sensory experience, the work inspires a significant perspective shift in how we interact with our environment.
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Exhibitions
Samara Golden: A Trap in Soft Division
Presented by YBCA
March 11–May 29, 2016
Golden attempts to stage the sixth dimension–a place where the future, present, and past exist simultaneously.
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Exhibitions
Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area
Presented by YBCA
March 11–August 14, 2016
Who is an activist? What role does art play in social change?
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Performances
Analogy/Dora: Tramontane
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company presented by YBCA
March 10–13, 2016
A meditation on perseverance, resourcefulness, and resilience while suggesting the amorphous nature of memory.
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Performances
The Odyssey–from Vietnam to America
Vân-Ánh Võ presented by YBCA
January 22–23, 2016
The Odyssey–from Vietnam to America explores the personal and spiritual journeys of the Boat People.
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Exhibitions
Metahaven: The Sprawl
Presented by YBCA
December 17, 2015–April 3, 2016
The project explores the mutation of propaganda in the age of social media.
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Exhibitions
Kevin Cooley: Golden Prospects
Presented by YBCA
December 17, 2015–April 3, 2016
Cooley blurs the lines between the natural and the environmentally harmful.
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Exhibitions
Office Space
Presented by YBCA
November 7, 2015–February 14, 2016
The exhibition cleverly subverts contemporary office culture to explore labor practices in the 21st century post-industrial economy.
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Exhibitions
Work in Progress: Investigations South of Market
Presented by YBCA
November 7, 2015–February 16, 2016
New works on site that delve into the layered history of the South of Market neighborhood.
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Exhibitions
Earth Machines
Presented by YBCA
August 14–December 6, 2015
This exhibition considers the relentless stream of new technological products in light of their underlying material precariousness and profound ecological impact.
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Exhibitions
Won Ju Lim: Raycraft is Dead
Presented by YBCA
August 14–December 6, 2015
Lim presents a new iteration of an ongoing body of work that considers our relationships to the spaces we occupy and own.
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Exhibitions
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art
Presented by YBCA
June 13–October 11, 2015
The first comprehensive survey of performance art by visual artists of African descent from the United States and the Caribbean.
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Exhibitions
Shana Moulton: Picture Puzzle Pattern Door
Presented by YBCA
April 16–August 2, 2015
A multimedia installation featuring a humorous, playful, and sometimes painful world where kitsch, mysticism, pop culture, and spirituality collide.
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Exhibitions
A Special Curatorial Project with Rirkrit Tiravanija: The Way Things Go
Presented by YBCA
February 13–June 21, 2015
This exhibition uncovers narratives, reveals personal stories, and shares vignettes that lead to a larger understanding of migration in the production of material culture.
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Exhibitions
Nate Boyce: Polyscroll
Presented by YBCA
January 23–April 5, 2015
A body of work that emphasizes the hand drawn and painterly representation, in order to forefront how our tools create the semblance of space and depth in 2D and 3D within the longer history of painting and sculpture
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Exhibitions
Lucy Raven: Hollywood Chop Riding
Presented by YBCA
November 14, 2014–January 11, 2015
Lucy Raven uncovers the complexities at play in technology.
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Performances
Dohee Lee: MAGO
Presented by YBCA
November 14–15, 2014
Dance, music, animation, and ritual take you on a mythical journey where continents, seas, internal landscapes, ancestral legacies, and a woman’s earthly journey intertwine.
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Exhibitions
Alien She
Presented by YBCA
October 24, 2014–January 25, 2015
A view into the passion and diversity of Riot Grrrl, a pioneering punk feminist movement that emerged in the early 1990s.
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Exhibitions
Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible?
Presented by YBCA
October 24, 2014–January 25, 2015
The exhibition considers visual, perceptual, and conceptual systems that have become increasingly unstable, both physically and metaphorically.
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Public Art
Future Cities Lab: Lightswarm
Presented by YBCA
October 24, 2014–October 31, 2016
A stunning facade installation of 430 individual modules, employing sound sensors and LED lights to produce a spectacular light show in a state of perpetual flux.
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Public Art
Future Cities Lab: Murmur Wall
Presented by YBCA
May 21, 2014–May 31, 2017
An extraordinary combination of sculpture, light installation and data collector.
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Exhibitions
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon: It Only Happens All of the Time
Presented by YBCA
March 7–June 15, 2014
Gordon explores sound’s ability to establish different levels of intimacy.
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Exhibitions
Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa
Presented by YBCA
February 14–June 8, 2014
An exhibition that brings together twenty-five artists and collectives who disrupt expected images of a country known largely through its apartheid history.
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Exhibitions
Dissident Futures
Presented by YBCA
October 18, 2013–February 2, 2014
An investigation into possible alternative futures, particularly those that question or overturn conventional notions of innovation in biological, social, environmental, and technological structures.
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Exhibitions
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company 30th Anniversary Exhibition
Presented by YBCA
September 20–November 3, 2013
Significant works by visual artists and designers that have played integral roles in works by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company since the early 1980s.
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Exhibitions
Brenna Murphy: Liquid Vehicle Transmitter
Presented by YBCA
July 19–September 8, 2013
Working in sculpture, game design, installation, performance, sound and the internet, Portland-based artist Brenna Murphy is interested in digital technology’s capacity to connect and expand human consciousness.
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Public Art
Kota Ezawa: Boardwalk
Presented by YBCA
June 28, 2013–November 30, 2015
Kota Ezawa rebuilds in YBCA’s Sculpture Court a side view of the Seaside Heights boardwalk on the New Jersey shore, which was devastated during Hurricane Sandy.
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Exhibitions
Migrating Identities
Presented by YBCA
June 28–September 29, 2013
Artists reveal the ways in which their identities have been transformed by the confluence of mobility, cultural retention, and personal history.
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Exhibitions
Erin Shirreff: Lake
Presented by YBCA
March 1–June 30, 2013
Erin Shirreff, informed by her training in sculpture, explores the physical and technical aspects of image production in an effort to extend and examine the act of looking.
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Exhibitions
Shih Chieh Huang: Synthetic Seduction
Presented by YBCA
March 1–July 7, 2013
Shih Chieh Huang creates sculptural ecosystems using computer parts and common objects, such as plastic bags and bottles, which he animates in installations that mix a machine aesthetic with an organic impulse.
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Exhibitions
smoke signals: viviendo pa’ la ciudad
Presented by YBCA
October 26, 2012–February 17, 2013
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Exhibitions
The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg
Presented by YBCA
October 12, 2012–January 27, 2013
Nathalie Djurberg’s wild flock of more than eighty freestanding bird sculptures and five animated films.
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Exhibitions
Nathalie Talec: The One Who Sees Blindly
Presented by YBCA
April 21–July 8, 2012
Talec brings together elements representative of her ongoing artistic concerns.
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