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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
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
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
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 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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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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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
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
Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area
March 11–August 14, 2016
Who is an activist? What role does art play in social change?
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Exhibitions
Samara Golden: A Trap in Soft Division
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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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
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
December 17, 2015–April 3, 2016
Cooley blurs the lines between the natural and the environmentally harmful.
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Exhibitions
Office Space
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
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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