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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

Performances

Luciano Chessa

Presented by YBCA

April 30, 2016

A retrospective self-portrait by the internationally renowned artist Luciano Chessa.

Performances

The Crossing

Edward Schocker and the Crossing Ensemble presented by YBCA

April 29, 2016

A performance that invites audiences to physically experience sound.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Exhibitions

Metahaven: The Sprawl

December 17, 2015–April 3, 2016

The project explores the mutation of propaganda in the age of social media.

Exhibitions

Kevin Cooley: Golden Prospects

December 17, 2015–April 3, 2016

Cooley blurs the lines between the natural and the environmentally harmful.

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.

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.