Diedrick Brackens: gather tender night

Workshops

Free Art Workshop: Landscape Yarn Painting

Explore lines, shapes, and color with a textile medium.

Public Programs

Phillip B. Williams Poetry Reading

Join celebrated poet Phillip B. Williams for an intimate poetry reading among Diedrick Brackens’ woven works followed by a conversation with YBCA Senior Curator Essence Harden.

Exhibitions

GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain

Both visually captivating and subtly unsettling, GaHee Park’s paintings are enigmas of suggestive surrealism.

Events

Opening Night Celebration for “GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain”

Meet the artist and curator, enjoy custom cocktails at our themed cash bar, and be among the first to see new work at YBCA.

Public Programs

GaHee Park & Dorothy Dávila in Conversation

An intimate conversation between artist and curator followed by an exhibition tour of “GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain”

Workshops

Free Art Workshop: Nature Stencil Art

Explore compositional elements such as shapes, color, value, and the relationship between positive and negative spaces.

Films

Rear Window

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” (1954) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Panel Discussion

Creative Power Moves

A conversation exploring how artistic practice responds to community needs, political urgency, and the ongoing work of movement building.

Workshops

Free Art Workshop: Mixed Media Landscape Collage

Learn the basics of landscapes and channel your connection to nature.

Films

And Life Goes On

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Abbas Kiarostami’s “And Life Goes On” (1992) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Films

We Can Love It Together: Creativity Explored Short Film Fest

Co-presented by Creativity Explored & YBCA

An evening of short animations and films made by Creativity Explored artists over the last two decades.

Workshops

Free Art Workshop: Watercolor Flower Paintings

Express yourself through watercolor by painting a collaborative flower still life.

Films

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Tsai Ming-liang’s “Goodbye, Dragon Inn” (2003) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Films

Querelle

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Querelle (1982) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Films

Pandora and Flying Dutchman

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Albert Lewin’s “Pandora and Flying Dutchman” (1951) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Films

Trouble in Paradise

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Ernst Lubitsch’s “Trouble in Paradise” (1932) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Workshops

Pressing Matters: Hands-on Printmaking with Creativity Explored

Co-presented by Creativity Explored & YBCA

A hands-on, family-friendly activity for the public with Creativity Explored artists and staff demonstrating the basics of printmaking.

Films

Yourself and Yours

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Hong Sang-soo’s “Yourself and Yours” (2016) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Films

A New Leaf

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Elaine May’s “A New Leaf” (1971) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Films

The Music Room

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Satyajit Ray’s “The Music Room (Jalsaghar)” (1958) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Workshops

Making Faces: A Puppet Crafting Workshop with Creativity Explored

Co-presented by Creativity Explored & YBCA

Join Creativity Explored artists for a hands-on, drop-in workshop to build your very own hand or stick puppet.

Films

The Ceremony

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Nagisa Ōshima’s “The Ceremony” (1971) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Films

Silent Shorts Program

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

This program of silent shorts features three multi-hyphenate artists-filmmakers-performers influential to GaHee Park’s work.

Films

The Red Shoes

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See “The Red Shoes” (1948) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Public Programs

Progressive Art Studio Models: A Lecture By Cléa Massiani

Co-presented by Creativity Explored & YBCA

A lecture on Progress Art Studios (PAS); radical spaces that support artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities while disrupting normative assumptions about art, labor, and value.

Public Art

SoMa Mahal Kita (SoMa I Love You)

Ciriaco Sayoc

A message of love for the SoMa neighborhood and community, inspired by weaving practices in the Phillipines and the colors of the Filipino flag.

Public Art

We fly for a liberated we, we rooted in flight

Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo

A public artwork inviting passerbyers to join in the journey of collective flight

Public Art

Dream

Ana Teresa Fernández

A public art installation commissioned by YBCA and co-sponsored by San Francisco Public Works.