Sat October 5th 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!
Performances
Presented by Smuin Contemporary Ballet
December 14–24, 2022
Public Art
June Grant
2022–2023
A public artwork featuring colorful expressions that call attention to locations typically taken for granted.
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Sunday, October 30, 2022, 4–7 PM
Performances
Presented by YBCA
October 28–30, 2022
Wicked Bodies reflects on many issues centering women and their bodies.
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Presented by Epiphany Dance Theater
October 22–23, 2022
Exhibitions
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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October 20, 2022–March 19, 2023
This incomplete participatory exhibition asks visitors to critically engage with the U.S. Constitution.
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Presented by Alonzo King LINES Ballet
October 12–16, 2022
Event
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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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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Presented by Diaspora Arts Connection
September 10, 2022, 7 PM
Public Programs
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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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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Presented by Lamplighters Music Theatre
August 13–14, 2022, 2 PM
Screenings & Films
Watch in person at YBCA or stream on YBCA.org
August 12–14, 2022
Performances
Presented by Merola Opera Program
August 4, 7:30 PM & August 6, 3:00 PM
Screenings & Films
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & SOMA Pilipinas
Friday, June 17, 2022, 6–7:30 PM
Digital Conversations
May 31, 2022, 3 PM PST
Public Programs
May 14, 2022, 12–6 PM
Celebrate the YBCA 10 artists and their creative prototypes.
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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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Presented by Alonzo King LINES Ballet
May 13-22, 2022
Alonzo King LINES Ballet kicks off its 40th Anniversary season.
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Presented by Galería de la Raza
May 1 & 2, 2022
Dance
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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Thursday, April 14–Saturday, April 16, 2022
Dance
Presented by ODC/Dance
March 31–April 10, 2022
Celebrating ODC’s 50+ Anniversary.
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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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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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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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Presented by Lamplighters Music Theatre
February 19 & 20th, 2 PM
Exhibitions
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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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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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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