Thu October 10th Open 11 AM–5 PM
Enjoy this digital journey through our history with the launch of our first online archive. Please reach out if you have intel to share that can help us build this archive!
Digital Experience
Ritual for a Radical Future
Spell Writing Workshop with the Coven Intelligence Program on YBCA.org
December 21, 2020 12:30–1 PM PST
Coven Intelligence Program will lead a seasonal ritual that teaches the basics for writing spells .
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Screenings & Films
Bayview is Alive: Film Screening & Panel
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest
December 17, 2020, 4-5:30 PM
Short films based on historic murals highlighting the Bayview’s everyday heroes and a panel discussion featuring Bayview community leaders.
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Screenings & Films
AFTER LIFE (we survive) presents Rea Tajiri’s LORDVILLE
On view on YBCA.org
December 11, 6 PM–December 13, 2020, 11:59 PM
Watch Tajiri’s documentary and a new conversation between the artist and AFTER LIFE curator Thea Quiray Tagle.
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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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Digital Experience
City Is Alive
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA
October 17, 2020, 7–9 PM
A one-day celebration of the Bayview’s everyday heroes who have fought for resources and have brought joy to the neighborhood
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Public Art
The Monument as Living Memory
A Collective Architectural Intervention led by Caleb Duarte
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
The Lawn Art Project
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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Digital Conversations
Alchemy of the Reset with Carlton Turner
Live on YBCA.org
July 1, 2020, 12 PM
Brett Cook, Liz Lerman, and Meklit Hadero are joined by Carlton Turner
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Digital Conversations
Count Us In: Showing Up For the Census Right Now
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA & Art+Action
June 30, 2020, 4–5 PM
A virtual conversation about the importance of the Census for San Francisco and the Bay Area.
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Digital Conversations
Alchemy of the Reset with Pedro Noguera
Live on YBCA.org
June 24, 2020, 12 PM
Brett Cook, Liz Lerman, and Meklit Hadero are joined by Pedro Noguera
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Digital Conversations
Alchemy of the Reset with Natalie G. Diaz
Live on YBCA.org
June 17, 2020, 12 PM
Brett Cook, Liz Lerman, and Meklit Hadero are joined by Natalie G. Diaz
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Digital Conversations
Alchemy of the Reset with Diane Ragsdale
Live on YBCA.org
May 27, 2020, 12 PM
Brett Cook, Liz Lerman, and Meklit Hadero are joined by Diane Ragsdale.
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Digital Conversations
See Black Women
Stream at YBCA & MOAD's Facebook Pages
May 19 & May 26, 2020, 4 PM
A two-part conversation featuring nine Bay Area Black Womxn Artists and Curators about visibility, grief, and our present paradigm shift in culture and practice
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Public Programs
The Rodina: On Performative Design
Presented by Curatorial Research Bureau
Cancelled
Art & Civic Experience
Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America?
A Digital Art & Civic Experience
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
I Hate the Internet
Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
March 12, 2020, 7:30 PM (Cancelled)
Dance
Open Rehearsal of Acclimate
Presented by Kristin Damrow & Company in partnership with YBCA
March 8, 2020, 12:30–1:30 PM
Take an inside look into the company’s creative process.
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Performances
Rightfully Ours
Co-presented by San Francisco Girls Chorus and Berkeley Ballet Theater
February 29, 2020, 7:30 PM
Inspired by the legacy of the women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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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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Public Programs
3rd Thursday
February 20, 2020, 5–8 PM
Enjoy free gallery access, drop-in activities, a bar, and more!
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Dance
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Presented by San Francisco Performances
February 19–23, 2020
The West Coast premiere of Taylor’s final work, “Concertiana,” and other signature dances that defined dance in America.
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Screenings & Films
let me tell you what home looks like
SF Urban Film Fest
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
SF Urban Film Fest
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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Screenings & Films
Be Water: Civil Disobedience and the Fight for Democracy in Hong Kong
SF Urban Film Fest
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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Festival
SF Urban Film Fest 2020
SF Urban Film Fest
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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Theater
Gilbert & Sullivan’s Princess Ida
Presented by Lamplighters Music Theatre
February 1–2, 2020
Lamplighters’ own version modifies this slightly to reflect modern views.
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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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Performances
Transitions
Presented by The Nocturnists
January 16, 2020, 7:00 PM
Join us for an evening of medical storytelling on the theme of “Transitions.”
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Public Art
WE ARE THE ASTEROID III
Justin Brice Guariglia
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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Tours
Exhibition Tour: The Body Electric
Every Saturday, 2pm
September 28, 2019–February 23, 2020
A guided tour of The Body Electric.
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Exhibitions
The Body Electric
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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Public Art
Abeyance (Draves y Robles y Vargas)
Jerome Reyes
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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