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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!
Public Art
Let’s Build from Here
Innosanto Nagara
2022-2025
A site-specific public artwork highlighting the power of collaborative future-building.
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Public Programs
Interactive Studio Hours with the YBCA 10 Artists
November 18–20, 2021, 12–5 PM
Learn about the prototype designs and connect with the YBCA 10 Artist Cohort.
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Public Programs
Parol Lantern Festival
Presented by Filipino-American Development Foundation & SOMA Pilipinas
November 13–December 11, 2021
Dance
Coming Back Home
Presented by Alonzo King LINES Ballet
November 6–7, 2021
Alonzo King’s critically acclaimed work created in collaboration with jazz luminaries Charles Lloyd and Jason Moran, in addition to excerpts of works by King.
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Public Programs
Interactive Studio Hours with the YBCA 10 Artists
Saturday, October 16, 2021, 12–4:30 PM
Explore the seeds, plans, sketches and models of the YBCA 10’s prototype installations.
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Tours
Echo Location Curator Walkthrough
Saturday, October 16, 2021, 1:00 PM
A guided tour with lead curator Robin Abad Ocubillo.
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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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Music
Let Her Sing: A Celebration of Female Voices
Presented by Diaspora Arts Connection
September 11, 2021, 7 PM
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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Events
Reopening Celebration
August 7, 2021 11:00am - 6:00pm
Join us in person to experience new interactive artist activations, intimate conversations, and more.
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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
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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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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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
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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Public Art
Statement marquee from Escuela de Arte Útil (School of Useful Art)
Tania Bruguera
2017–2025
YBCA continues to activate the marquee with timely and responsive messages generated from artists and community partners.
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