Thu November 21st Closed
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!
Performances
Smuin’s The Christmas Ballet
Presented by Smuin Contemporary Ballet
December 14–24, 2022
Public Art
WANDERLUST, A Joyful Noise
June Grant
2022–2023
A public artwork featuring colorful expressions that call attention to locations typically taken for granted.
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Public Programs
Opening Celebration | Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action
Sunday, October 30, 2022, 4–7 PM
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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Performances
19th Annual San Francisco Trolley Dances
Presented by Epiphany Dance Theater
October 22–23, 2022
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?
October 20, 2022–March 19, 2023
This incomplete participatory exhibition asks visitors to critically engage with the U.S. Constitution.
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Performances
Celebration of Alonzo King & Zakir Hussain
Presented by Alonzo King LINES Ballet
October 12–16, 2022
Event
On the Horizon: Bucket Brigade
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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Public Programs
Connect/Reflect/Enact
Ritual Workshop with artist Dohee Lee
October 7 & November 4, 2022, 10 AM–4 PM
Connect/Reflect/Enact is a multi-part project integrating body-knowledge and art-creation led by artist Dohee Lee.
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Performances
Let Her Sing: A Celebration of Female Voices
Presented by Diaspora Arts Connection
September 10, 2022, 7 PM
Public Programs
Celebrating Healing, Vulnerability, and Alchemy
September 3, 2022, 1-5:15 PM
Including a live music performance featuring Samora Pinderhughes, Karega Bailey, and special guests as well as a screening and panel discussion.
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Public Programs
dreamseeds: Closing Celebration
Friday, August 26, 5–8 PM
Featuring live music from DJ Ray Reck and a cash bar, don’t miss your last chance to meet the YBCA 10 artists and experience their artworks in person.
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Performances
IOLANTHE, or The Peers and The Peri
Presented by Lamplighters Music Theatre
August 13–14, 2022, 2 PM
Screenings & Films
Peter Sellars: this body is so impermanent…
Watch in person at YBCA or stream on YBCA.org
August 12–14, 2022
Performances
Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Presented by Merola Opera Program
August 4, 7:30 PM & August 6, 3:00 PM
Screenings & Films
Sa Amin (Our Place)
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & SOMA Pilipinas
Friday, June 17, 2022, 6–7:30 PM
Digital Conversations
Transformation, Music, and Healing with Keith LaMar and Samora Pinderhughes
May 31, 2022, 3 PM PST
Public Programs
dreamseeds: A community celebration of the YBCA 10
May 14, 2022, 12–6 PM
Celebrate the YBCA 10 artists and their creative prototypes.
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Exhibitions
dreamseeds
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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Performances
Spring Season 2022
Presented by Alonzo King LINES Ballet
May 13-22, 2022
Alonzo King LINES Ballet kicks off its 40th Anniversary season.
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Public Programs
Caravan For The Children: May Day March 2022 & D.C. Press Rally | Postcard Drop Off
Presented by Galería de la Raza
May 1 & 2, 2022
Dance
Smuin Dance Series 2 – P.S. Love Smuin
April 29–May 7, 2022
Dance Series 2 – P.S. Love Smuin is the next in our correspondence in love letters with audiences.
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Public Programs
Interactive Studio Hours with the YBCA 10 Artists
Thursday, April 14–Saturday, April 16, 2022
Dance
Dance Downtown
Presented by ODC/Dance
March 31–April 10, 2022
Celebrating ODC’s 50+ Anniversary.
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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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Event
Culture Aid
SF Urban Film Fest
March 12, 5–7 PM
A celebratory evening of short films, spoken word, and dance performances to showcase San Francisco’s vibrant, diverse, and deeply rooted communities.
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Digital Experience
Artist Power Center Virtual Launch Party
February 19, 2022 11:00 AM–12:30 PM PST
Celebrate the public launch of the Artist Power Center digital web app.
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Theater
Celebrating 150 Years of Gilbert and Sullivan: A sesquicentennial soirée of scenes!
Presented by Lamplighters Music Theatre
February 19 & 20th, 2 PM
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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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
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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