Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Past Events
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts has hosted many events in the past. There are 170 listings stored in the HistoryGuide database for this property.
| Date | Event Information |
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| Every Fri | Central Asian Cinema: Films from Along the Silk Road. YBCA presents 'Films from Along the Silk Road', a series of double-features showcasing the films and cultures of Turkmenistan, T… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| Every Sun Every Wed Every Thu More... | Alonzo King LINES Ballet Spring Home Season. Triangle of the Squinches, is set to a commissioned score by legendary musician Mickey Hart and features an innovative kinetic s… (Performance - Ballet) 650-704-7844. |
| Daily | Occupy Bay Area. Come support of political and social causes.. (Politics - Party Rally / Event) |
| Every Sun Every Tue Every Wed More... | Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar. Exhibition Title: Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar. This remarkable exhibition spans the length of Hershman Leeson's career to… (Arts - Art Exhibit) |
| Every Sun Every Tue Every Wed More... | Tania Bruguera: Talking to Power / Hablandole al Poder. Talking to Power / Hablandole al Poder is a survey exhibition that presents all of Bruguera's long-term, socially engaged art pr… (Arts - Art Exhibit) 415-978-2787. |
| Every Tue Every Wed Every Thu More... | Edgar Arceneaux. Los Angeles' based artist and YBCA 100 honoree Edgar Arceneaux explores historical patterns around race and representation throu… (Arts - Art Exhibit) 415-978-2787. |
| Every Sun Every Tue Every Wed More... | Yishai Jusidman: Prussian Blue. Yishai Jusidman, a Mexican artist of Jewish heritage currently working in Los Angeles, explores the history of paint and paintin… (Arts - Art Exhibit) 415-978-2787. |
| Every Sun Every Tue Every Wed More... | The Open Workshop: New Investigations in Collective Form. Presenting a group of design experiments by Bay Area design-research studio The Open Workshop that test how architecture can emp… (Arts - Art Exhibit) 415-978-2787. |
| Every Sun Every Mon Every Tue More... | Art of Peace. A group exhibition that aims to raise awareness about the continued escalation of death in our country due to senseless gun viol… (Arts - Art Exhibit) |
| Every Sun Every Tue Every Wed More... | Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America?. Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America? is an art and civic experience intended to drive awareness and mobilize the diverse… (Arts - Art Exhibit) |
| 05/20/04 | Death to Electric Guitars. The Institute for Unpopular Culture presents 'Death to Electric Guitars', a performance featuring Punk Rock Orchestra, Extra Act… (Performance - Musical) |
| 05/21/04 05/22/04 | Kronos Quartet. A San Francisco Performances presentation, the Kronos Quartet, presents a 'Visual Music' program, jam-packed with mulimedia wond… (Performance - Musical) |
| 05/23/04 | California Chinese Orchestra's 11th Annual Concert. The California Chinese Orchestra will perform their 11th Annual Concert, featuring Cantonese Opera and Chinese music and showcas… (Arts - Concerts) |
| 05/26/04 | MIX. A fundraising event presented in association with YBCA, MIX presents the opportunity to savor fine hors d'oeuvres from local gou… (Community - Fundraiser / Benefit) |
| 05/27/04 | Illuminate the Peripheral: Films by Ross Lipman. Event category: Performance - Movies. |
| 06/03/04 06/04/04 06/05/04 More... | Joe Goode Performance Group 2004 Season. Event category: Performance - Dance. |
| 06/16/04 | Who is Bozo Texino? by Bill Daniel. YBCA and Film Arts presents 'Who is Bozo Texino?', an in-person world premiere of Bill Daniel's experimental documentary that ex… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 06/17/04 | Landscapes Large and Small. SF Cinematheque presents 'Landscapes Large and Small', an in-person screening of films by Jennifer Fieber and Steve Polta. The e… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 06/18/04 06/19/04 | Mark Foehringer Dance Project. Celebrating its 9th season, the Mark Foehringer Dance Project/San Francisco peforms world premieres of Loose Translation and Ari… (Performance - Dance) |
| 06/19/04 | Afrobeat in the Gardens: A Tribute to Fela Kuti. Afrobeat in the Gardens is a musical tribute to the legendary Nigerian Afrobeat musician and activist, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, feat… (Arts - Concerts) |
| 06/17/08 | Campari Talks. Featuring two world premieres. Music performed live by Zakir Hussain and the Philharmonia Chamber Players. (Performance - Ballet) 415-373-0185. |
| 07/27/08 | San Francisco Theater Festival. The Bay Area's amazing and unique one-day live theater extravaganza showcases 80 theater groups and solo artists on 11 stages. S… (Performance - Theater) 415-291-8655. |
| 11/14/08 11/15/08 | Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company 20th Anniversary Home Season. Hailed as a modern day alchemist of Eastern and Western dance with a flair for dazzling visual effect, choreographer Lily Cai an… (Performance - Dance) 415-978-ARTS. |
| 06/12/09 06/13/09 06/14/09 | Yannis Adoniou's Kunst-Stoff 11th San Francisco Home Season. Delving in across the spectrum from grief and hilarity, these works promise to offer considerable emotional scope. Kunst-Stoff i… (Performance - Theater) 408-274-7734. |
| 07/12/09 | Schwabacher Summer Concert. This delightful potporri of extended scenes from operas by Wagner, Gluck, Menotti, Rossini, and Puccini is perfect for the seaso… (Arts - Concerts) 415-247-6500. |
| 10/23/09 10/24/09 10/25/09 More... | Alonzo King LINES Ballet Jason Moran and The Moroccan Project. Moran pairs his technical virtuosity with a cutting-edge approach to jazz in creation of his first ballet score. Don't miss his… (Performance - Ballet) 415-978-2700. |
| 01/14/10 01/15/10 01/16/10 More... | Encore of Janice Garrett / Charles Moulton's Dance / Theater Hit. Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton's large-scale movement spectacle "The Illustrated Book of Invisible Stories" returns. (Performance - Dance) 415-978-2787. |
| 01/30/10 | Ensemble Parallele Presents Wozzeck. Ensemble Parallele presents Alban Berg's Wozzeck in fully staged chamber opera performances. Don't miss this rare opportunity to… (Arts - Opera) 415-978-2787. |
| 07/11/10 | The Bowls Project. Conceived by Jewlia Eisenberg, founder of the band Charming Hostess. The interactive sound installation is based on sex and magi… (Arts - Art Exhibit) 510-848-0237. |
| 07/18/10 | Finale: 25th Jewish Music Festival Watcha Clan with Charming Hostess. Nomadic genre bending music fronted by the charismatic Sistah K, with Berber, Algerian, Sephardi, Ashkenazi and French influence… (Arts - Concerts) 415-978-2787. |
| 01/17/11 | The 2011 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration: "Sustaining the Dream: Through Community and Service". A commemorative march will celebrate the 45th anniversary of the march on Selma, Alabama, followed by an inter-faith service and… (Festivals - Holiday Event / Party) 415-978-ARTS. |
| 02/12/11 | Company C Contemporary Ballet Opens 2010-2011 Season. Two emotionally-charged world premieres, "Indoor Fireworks," by Artistic Director Charles Anderson and Benjamin Bowman, and "Omi… (Performance - Ballet) 925-708-0752. |
| 02/18/11 02/19/11 02/20/11 | World Premiere of 'Fable & Faith'. Presented by Robert Moses' Kin, created by choreographer Robert Moses with playwright Anne Galjour, featuring live on stage the… (Performance - Musical) 415-252-8384. |
| 04/02/11 | Dance with the Dancers - Paul Taylor Dance Company Cocktail Reception. Following tonight's performance, attend a reception with the dancers for a night of food, drink, merriment and mingling. (Performance - Dance) 212-431-5562. |
| 04/11/11 | Breast Cancer Fund Heroes Celebration 2011. Celebrate the groundbreaking work to eliminate the environmental causes of breast cancer, and our Heroes who are innovating for… (Community - Fundraiser / Benefit) 415-346-8223. |
| 05/17/11 05/18/11 | TV of Tomorrow. The TV of Tomorrow Show (TVOT) is the live events division of InteractiveTV Today. Our annual conference in San Francisco is the… (Business - Conference) 212-616-6003. |
| 02/10/12 02/11/12 02/12/12 | Ensemble Parallele Presents The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald's magnificent portrait of the Jazz Age in all its idealism, hopes, excesses and decadence, comes to… (Arts - Concerts) 650-704-7844. |
| 02/17/12 02/18/12 02/19/12 | Company C Contemporary Ballet Opens 2012. Opening program is led by Peter Anastos, frequent collaborator with Mikhail Baryshnikov, whose "Footage" will receive its Compan… (Performance - Dance) 650-704-7844. |
| 03/15/12 03/15/12 03/16/12 More... | ODC/Dance Downtown. Breathing Underwater features a score by avant-cellist Zoe Keating who will play live alongside members of the Magik*Magik Orche… (Performance - Dance) 650-704-7844. |
| 10/19/12 10/20/12 10/21/12 More... | Celebrating 30 Years - Fall Home Season 2012. The 30th Anniversary Fall Home Season explodes with a tour de force collaboration with Alonzo King, the LINES Ballet dancers, an… (Performance - Dance) 415-863-3040. |
| 11/08/12 | All Out for Locally Owned Small Businesses. The event merges networking with problem-solving to inspire big thinking, cross-sector collaboration to deliver results-not rhet… (Business - Conference) 510-271-0142. |
| 01/25/13 01/26/13 01/27/13 | Nevabawarldapece. Performances of NEVABAWARLDAPECE mark the first time these artist collaborators - Robert Moses Kin', Rux, Harris, and Love -- wi… (Arts - Concerts) 415-252-8384. |
| 03/08/13 | Second Annual Y for Youth Luncheon: Y Then Y Now?. The YMCA is pleased to announce a dynamic line-up of youth artists who will emcee the event, present live performances and creat… (Community - Fundraiser / Benefit) 415-281-6734. |
| 11/05/13 11/06/13 | ROADMAP 2013. Organized by GIGA-OM. Topics include Big Data, UI design, smart homes and more. The RoadMap Product Lab offers companies the opp… (Business - Trade Show) 415-758-1503. |
| 01/23/14 01/24/14 01/25/14 | Robert Moses' Kin Presents Rise. Robert Moses' Kin presents RISE, an evening of choreography by Artistic Director Robert Moses, featuring two world premieres, "T… (Performance - Dance) 415-252-8384. |
| 03/10/14 | Bloomberg Businessweek Design 2014. Speakers include Hosain Rahman, Founder and CEO, Jawbone; Bre Pettis, CEO, MakerBot. 4 sessions plus cockail reception. 2nd Annu… (Business - Conference) 212-617-9743. |
| 03/21/14 03/22/14 | Cellist Maya Beiser Performs 'All Vows'. In the world premiere of All Vows, "cello goddess" Maya Beiser explores the dichotomy between the physical world and our secret… (Arts - Concerts) |
| 04/03/14 04/04/14 04/05/14 | Margaret Jenkins Dance Company 40th Anniversary Season. The MJDC will perform the West Coast Premiere of Times Bones, with original music by long-time collaborator Paul Dresher, perfor… (Performance - Dance) 415-861-3940. |
| 12/04/14 12/05/14 12/06/14 | 4Trains Shadow Theater. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is delighted to present the world premiere of 4TRAINS, a spectacularly innovative, shadow theate… (Performance) 415-978-2700. |
| 12/04/14 12/06/14 12/07/14 More... | New Waves in Mexican Cinema. It's a new day for Mexican cinema, which is exploding with energy and talent. This four-part series showcases contemporary films… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 12/18/14 | ConVerge: Unproductive Time. December's YBCA:You-hosted ConVerge features an evening exploring unproductive time. In a city of innovations, iterations, and m… (Community) |
| 04/03/15 04/04/15 04/05/15 More... | Alonzo King LINES Ballet Spring Season. A world premiere LINES Ballet collaboration unites Alonzo King with natural soundscape artist Bernie Krause and composer Richard… (Performance - Ballet) 415-863-3040. |
| 04/15/15 | Paul Taylor Dance Company - Program A. SF Performances is proud to present the company for the fourteenth season of Paul Taylor Dance Company. Featuring: Aureole, The… (Performance - Dance) 415-392-2545. |
| 04/16/15 04/17/15 | Paul Taylor Dance Company - Program B. SF Performances is proud to present the company for the fourteenth season of Paul Taylor Dance Company. Featuring: Diggity [San… (Performance - Dance) 415-392-2545. |
| 05/14/15 05/15/15 05/16/15 | Robert Moses' Kin 20th Anniversary Season and SILT World Premiere. Robert Moses' Kin announces the world premiere of SILT, the Company's 20th Anniversary Home Season, for four performances only,… (Performance) 415-252-8384. |
| 11/28/14 11/29/14 11/30/14 More... | The Velveteen Rabbit - A Holiday Tradition!. Told though music, dance and a powerful narrative, "The Velveteen Rabbit" celebrates the unique relationship between a little bo… (Kids Theater) 415-863-6606. |
| 03/18/16 | Y for Youth Luncheon. The 5th annual Y For Youth Luncheon at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will celebrate the impressive achievements and succes… (Community - Fundraiser / Benefit) |
| 03/21/16 | The Isadora Duncan Dance Awards. The Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, known locally as the "Izzies," are awarded annually to acknowledge exceptional creative achieve… (Performance) |
| 04/21/16 04/22/16 04/24/16 More... | Alonzo King LINES Ballet Spring Season. This spring Alonzo King collaborates with tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd and jazz pianist Jason Moran as they bring their accla… (Performance - Ballet) 415-863-3040. |
| 11/02/16 11/03/16 11/04/16 More... | Alonzo King LINES Ballet Fall Season. Israeli mezzo-soprano Maya Lahyani takes the stage with LINES Ballet for a world premiere collaboration. The fall home season a… (Arts - Concerts) 415-863-3040. |
| 11/29/16 | DanceFAR (Dance For A Reason). The Bay Area's most celebrated dance companies and international guest artists unite for one night only for a great cause. Follo… (Community - Fundraiser / Benefit) 510-608-5000. |
| 03/23/17 03/24/17 03/25/17 More... | ODC Dance Downtown. San Francisco's internationally acclaimed contemporary dance company ODC/Dance celebrates its 46th season with two world-premier… (Performance - Dance) 415-863-6606. |
| 03/24/17 03/25/17 03/25/17 | Leela Dance Announces SPEAK. Leela Dance, a dance collective bringing together today's leading Kathak artists presents the world premiere of SPEAK: A Kathak… (Performance - Dance) |
| 05/13/17 05/13/17 05/14/17 More... | The Happy Film by Stefan Sagmeister. Super-fast-paced and breathtakingly honest, acclaimed graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister decides to turn himself into a design p… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 05/18/17 | Free Third Thursday Live Practice Arash Fayez. This May, YBCA invites artist Arash Fayez - officially known as Faeiz - to explore personal and historical notions of (Muslim) m… (Community - Lecture) |
| 06/15/17 | Third Thursday: Midori. Presenting Bay Area queer feminist artist and author Midori in Queer Qraft Qamp, a communal maker event intended to promote soci… (Arts - Art Exhibit) |
| 06/17/17 | Death by Design | 2017 Architecture and Design Films Showcase. Death by Design investigates the underbelly of the electronics industry, revealing how even the smallest devices have deadly env… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 06/17/17 | Yarn | 2017 Architecture and Design Films Showcase. Meet the artists who are redefining knitting and crochet, reinventing our relationship with these colorful traditions by bringin… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 06/17/17 | Original Copy | 2017 Architecture and Design Films Showcase. Hand-painted movie posters have almost disappeared in India. But in the heart of Mumbai lives Sheikh Rehman, the city's last suc… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 06/17/17 | Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future | 2017 Architecture and Design Films Showcase. Explore the life and visionary work of Finnish American modernist architectural giant Eero Saarinen (1910-1961). (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 06/18/17 | The Cobweb | 2017 Architecture and Design Films Showcase. The Cobweb is big-budget Hollywood psycho-drama, starring Lauren Bacall, Gloria Grahame, and Richard Widmark. Set in a private m… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 06/18/17 | Design Disruptors | 2017 Architecture and Design Films Showcase. The future of business is being written by companies and products that - intentionally or not - are shaking up billion-dollar in… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 06/22/17 06/23/17 06/24/17 | 30th Anniversary Home Season - Nobody Lives Here Now. The centerpiece of the celebration will be the world premiere of Nobody Lives Here Now, a poetic fable that mines questions of i… (Performance - Dance) 415-561-6565. |
| 06/24/17 | Invention | 2017 Architecture and Design Films Showcase. An homage to the "City Symphony" films of the 1920s, Invention is a searching love letter to urban spaces, art, and cinema.. (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 06/24/17 | Mystery Screening! | 2017 Architecture and Design Films Showcase. All we can say is that it's your first chance to see a new, intimate portrait of one of the world's great architects. The screen… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 06/24/17 | Neon | 2017 Architecture and Design Films Showcase. In a world where neon will soon be superseded by LEDs, Neon celebrates the beauty, color, and vibrant history of the neon sign f… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 06/24/17 | Yohji Yamamoto: Dressmaker | 2017 Architecture and Design Films Showcase. One of the most influential and enigmatic fashion designers of the last forty years, Yohji Yamamoto: Dressmaker tells the fascin… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 06/25/17 | Citizen Jane: Battle for the City | 2017 Architecture and Design Films Showcase. Citizen Jane is a timely tale of what can happen when engaged citizens fight the power for the sake of a better world. (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 06/25/17 | David Adjaye-Collaborations | 2017 Architecture and Design Films Showcase. The first feature-length documentary on the designer of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 07/06/17 07/09/17 | Mali Blues | Global Sounds on Screen. The West African country of Mali is a birthplace of the blues, a musical tradition later carried by the transatlantic slave trad… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 07/13/17 07/16/17 | Quest | Global Sounds on Screen. Filmed over a decade with the intimacy of cinema verit, Quest is an epic portrait of a family in north Philadelphia. (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 07/20/17 07/23/17 | Eye and Ear Control | Global Sounds on Screen. A selection of short films on the evolution and formation of what came to be called free jazz through the form's earliest adopti… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 07/27/17 07/30/17 | A Life in Waves | Global Sounds on Screen. A Life in Waves explores the life and innovations of composer and electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani. (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 08/03/17 08/06/17 | Raving Iran | Global Sounds on Screen. Anoosh and Arash are at the center of Tehran's underground techno scene. Tired of hiding from the police and frustrated with the… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 08/17/17 08/27/17 | Sunday Beauty Queen | New Filipino Cinema 2017. Beneath Hong Kong's glittering facade, nearly two hundred thousand Filipinas are domestic workers living in relative anonymity w… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 08/18/17 08/25/17 | Apocalypse Child | New Filipino Cinema 2017. Apocalypse Child explores the Baler's relationship with its stories through the eyes of an outsider who has fallen in love with… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 08/18/17 08/26/17 | Forbidden Memory | New Filipino Cinema 2017. In 1974, two years after the declaration of martial law in the Philippines, the Philippine army marched into the town of Malisbo… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 08/18/17 08/31/17 | Seklusyon | New Filipino Cinema 2017. A group of deacons are undergoing their final trial before ordination: a week isolated from the rest of the world, confronted by… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 08/19/17 08/24/17 | Bliss | New Filipino Cinema 2017. This intricately structured tale (by the director of Heneral Luna [2015]) blurs the boundaries between dream and reality, using… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 08/20/17 08/27/17 | Hamog (Haze) | New Filipino Cinema 2017. All over the Philippines you will find homeless street children, known as batang hamog, or "children of the dew." Hamog's unique… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 08/20/17 | Inside The War On Drugs | New Filipino Cinema 2017. Raffy Lerma is a photojournalist based in Manila. For twelve years he worked as a staff photographer for the Philippine Daily In… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 08/20/17 09/01/17 | Lily | New Filipino Cinema 2017. Lily springs from a popular urban legend in Cebu about a shape-shifting witch who supposedly roams the streets at night. The fil… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 08/25/17 | Ma'Rosa | New Filipino Cinema 2017. An ordinary family tries to make ends meet by selling small amounts of "ice" (crystal meth). They get set up by a drug user, and… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 08/26/17 | Patay Na Si Hesus (Jesus is Dead) | New Filipino Cinema 2017. This sharp, at times wacky road comedy takes odd turns through the personal lives of its characters, none of whom conform to the… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 08/26/17 09/01/17 | Mercury is Mine | New Filipino Cinema 2017. The superb comic actress Pokwang stars as a grouchy cook who is about to close down her restaurant at the foot of Mount Arayat d… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 08/27/17 | Pagdating Sa Dulo (At The Top) - Restored Version. Rita Gomez plays a stripper fed up with her lot in life. Luckily, or so it seems at first, she is discovered by a movie director… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 09/02/17 09/03/17 | Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis (A Lullaby To The Sorrowful Mystery). Master filmmaker Lav Diaz turns his eye on revolutionary times with a movie that seamlessly blends real history with some of the… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 09/14/17 09/22/17 | Transform Fest Fall 2017 | Embodiment Project & Jesse Hewit. This fall's Transform festival is one of YBCA's most ambitious dance productions ever. Each fall and spring, they convene leadin… (Performance - Dance) 415-978-2787. |
| 09/15/17 09/23/17 | Transform Fest Fall 2017 | RAWdance & Fauxnique. This fall's Transform festival is one of YBCA's most ambitious dance productions ever. Each fall and spring, they convene leadin… (Performance - Dance) 415-978-2787. |
| 09/16/17 09/21/17 | Transform Fest Fall 2017 | Amy Seiwert's Imagery & Arrington/Ndu/Zomorodinia & Fogbeast. This fall's Transform festival is one of YBCA's most ambitious dance productions ever. Each fall and spring, they convene leadin… (Performance - Dance) 415-978-2787. |
| 09/17/17 09/24/17 | Bronx Gothic. An electrifying portrait of writer and performer Okwui Okpokwasili and her acclaimed one-woman show titled Bronx Gothic. (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 10/01/17 | Swim Team. Parents of a boy on the autism spectrum form a competitive swim team, recruiting other teens on the spectrum and training them w… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 10/14/17 | Morning of the Earth | Psychedelic Surf Films 1966 - 1980. Albert Falzon's first film reveals the revolutionary and pioneering spirit of Australian surfers who took the sport to a radical… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 10/15/17 | Crystal Voyager | Psychedelic Surf Films 1966 - 1980. Crystal Voyager is written and narrated by the eccentric American surfer and filmmaker George Greenough, who pioneered the earli… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 10/19/17 | Palm Beach | Psychedelic Surf Films 1966-1980. Three loosely-connected stories from the beachside underbelly...surfing mates trying to score drugs to sell; a teenage runaway s… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 10/22/17 | The Endless Summer | Psychedelic Surf Films 1966-1980. Bruce Brown's iconic documentary takes young West Coast surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August on an epic around-the-world jaunt… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 10/26/17 10/29/17 | Animals | Avant-Garde Horror. They are thrilled to present this totally unhinged new art-shocker, which combines malevolent marital drama, bitter black comedy… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 10/27/17 | Shocking Shorts! | Avant-Garde Horror. Vintage and modern experimental shorts, spanning almost a century. This sinister lineup will be (mostly) shown on 16mm film. (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 11/02/17 11/04/17 | Cabaret | Bob Fosse's Dark Musicals. A British journalist falls hard for the American singer in a Weimar-era German nightclub, and their relationship blossoms even a… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 11/09/17 11/11/17 | Sweet Charity | Bob Fosse's Dark Musicals. Spun from a stage musical also directed and choreographed by Fosse, Sweet Charity stars a winsome Shirley MacLaine as a dance-ha… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 11/12/17 | CatVideoFest 2017. Watch the best internet cat videos on YBCA's big screen! CatVideoFest 2017 will feature 80 minutes of footage of your favorite i… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 11/18/17 11/19/17 | All That Jazz | Bob Fosse's Dark Musicals. Roy Scheider is sensational as Joe Gideon, a workaholic womanizing choreographer (loosely but clearly modeled on Fosse himself)… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 12/03/17 12/10/17 12/17/17 | British Arrows Awards 2017. From high-tech extravaganzas to wacky comedy, the British Arrows Awards showcase the most innovative and daring type of filmmaki… (Performance) 415-978-2787. |
| 12/14/17 | Philadelphia by Jonathan Demme. Jonathan Demme's film, Philadelphia, was the first movie to address the AIDS epidemic and institutional homophobia for a mainstr… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-321-1345. |
| 12/17/17 | Storefront Hitchcock by Jonathan Demme. Jonathan Demme's rarely screened opus captures singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock in an intimate and engaging performance in a de… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 01/18/18 01/20/18 01/21/18 | Bugs. With global food shortages on the horizon, chefs, environmentalists, and food scientists are turning to an unexpected source of… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 01/25/18 01/28/18 | Time to Die (Tiempo de morir). After serving his time, a former gunman returns to his hometown, planning to live a quiet life. But the sons of the man he kille… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 01/27/18 01/28/18 | Bleak Street (La calle de la amargura). A surreally entertaining neo-noir based on a true crime that shocked Mexico, Arturo Ripstein's Bleak Street tracks an ill-fated… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 02/01/18 02/04/18 | Black Coal, Thin Ice. Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, this edgy, neon-soaked mystery begins with the discovery of… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-321-1345. |
| 02/11/18 02/25/18 | The Dead End | Chinese Crime Films. Based on a novel by Xu Yigua, this nail-biting morality play focuses on three men haunted by shared guilt over their role in an… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 02/15/18 02/18/18 | The Coffin in the Mountain | Chinese Crime Films. In this unconventional and darkly comic depiction of the claustrophobia of provincial life, a burned body is discovered in a mou… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 02/22/18 02/25/18 | Lethal Hostage | Chinese Crime Films. A whiplash succession of double and triple crosses, set to an offbeat soundtrack by trip-hop artist Chen Weilun, this ingenious… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 02/23/18 02/24/18 02/25/18 | Robert Moses' Kin presents Bootstrap Tales. The show is inspired by The Bootstrap Program, designed to engage San Francisco foster youth in the process of creating a life i… (Performance) 415-252-8384. |
| 03/01/18 03/03/18 | Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? | The Hard Truth: New Documentary Cinema. In 1946, S. E. Branch, a white man, murdered Bill Spann, a black man, in Alabama. Years later, director Travis Wilkerson, Branch… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-321-1345. |
| 03/04/18 03/11/18 | The Sacrifice | Tarkovsky/Ruiz: Recent Restorations. This poetic final film from Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker, Solaris) is a moving testament to the power of faith, rapturously filmed… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 03/08/18 03/10/18 | Ama-san | The Hard Truth: New Documentary Cinema. This ravishing film follows the everyday lives of three "sea women" who, for more than three decades, have dived together. Shot… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 03/10/18 03/11/18 | Araby (Arabia) | EXCITANTE! New Films from Brazil. Araby is an unpredictable, fable-like road movie about a young man who sets off on a twenty-year journey in search of a better l… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 03/15/18 03/17/18 | Michael Glawogger | The Hard Truth: New Documentary Cinema. In December 2013, the visionary Austrian filmmaker Michael Glawogger and his cinematographer set out to travel the world for one… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 03/16/18 | Artist Conversation with Edgar Arceneaux. YBCA presents an evening of lively conversation between two longtime friends and collaborators, artist Edgar Arceneaux and art h… (Community - Lecture) 415-978-2787. |
| 03/17/18 03/18/18 | Good Manners (As Boas Maneiras) | EXCITANTE! New Films from Brazil. In this enchanting supernatural fantasy, Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of Sao Paulo, is hired by a mysterious and wea… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 03/18/18 03/25/18 | Time Regained by Raul Ruiz. The year is 1922: on his deathbed, novelist Marcel Proust pores over photographs taken throughout his life. Gradually, we watch… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 03/22/18 03/24/18 | Mrs. Fang | The Hard Truth: New Documentary Cinema. In a quiet village in southern China, sixty-seven-year-old Fang Xiuying returns home. After having suffered from Alzheimer's for… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 03/24/18 03/25/18 | Friendly Beast (O Animal Cordial) | EXCITANTE! New Films from Brazil. When an armed robbery in a Brazilian restaurant interrupts an already-tense situation between the owner and a customer, a group… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 03/29/18 03/31/18 04/01/18 | 12 Days | The Hard Truth: New Documentary Cinema. Every year in France, nearly 100,000 people are placed under psychiatric care without their consent. Raymond Depardon has been g… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 04/06/18 04/07/18 04/08/18 More... | Alonzo King LINES Ballet 2018 Spring Season. For over twenty years, Alonzo King and Zakir Hussain have been pushing boundaries of creative expression together. This spring,… (Performance - Ballet) 415-863-3040. |
| 04/10/18 | BFA Program 2018 Senior Showcase. Celebrate the accomplishment and artistry of the Class of 2018! The grand finale to their four-year college journey, the 2018 Se… (Performance - Ballet) |
| 04/23/18 | Zama | Director Lucrecia Martel In Person. Zama depicts the steady descent into madness of an officer of the Spanish crown in eighteenth-century South America. It?s a hars… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 04/26/18 04/27/18 04/28/18 | Cielo. The film is a cinematic reverie on the intense beauty of the night sky as experienced in the Atacama Desert, Chile, one of the b… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 05/03/18 05/06/18 | New French Cinema: Lover For a Day. Lover for a Day stars Philippe Garrel's daughter - rising star Esther Garrel (Call Me by Your Name) - whose character returns ho… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 05/11/18 05/12/18 | DJ Spooky | Transform Fest Spring 2018. Experience the polar regions as never before through the eclectic artistry of composer, author, musician, and 2014 National Geog… (Nightlife - Live Music) 415-978-2787. |
| 05/11/18 | Mark de Clive-Lowe | Transform Fest Spring 2018. Equal parts pianist, composer, and live production wizard, Mark de Clive-Lowe casually erases the lines between genres and eras. (Nightlife - Live Music) 415-978-2787. |
| 05/11/18 05/12/18 | Printz Dance Project | Transform Fest Spring 2018. Printz Dance Project's GLASSlands invites audiences to engage with a transparent, inflatable world envisioned by choreographer/d… (Performance - Dance) 415-978-2787. |
| 05/16/18 05/17/18 | Campo Santo, Roger Guenveur Smith | Transform Fest - Spring 2018. This multidisciplinary work follows a group of people through their interactions with liquor stores in San Francisco's Tenderloi… (Performance) 415-978-2787. |
| 05/17/18 05/18/18 05/19/18 | Capacitor | Transform Fest Spring 2018. The company's visually stunning experiences are delivered by athletic dancers, acrobats, aerialists, and contortionists on abstr… (Performance - Dance) |
| 05/19/18 05/20/18 | Lars Jan / Early Morning Opera | Transform Fest Spring 2018. The Institute of Memory conjures a portrait of Lars Jan's enigmatic father, prompting questions about privacy, memory, and fathe… (Performance) 415-978-2787. |
| 05/24/18 | Gimme Shelter | San Francisco's Dark Decade. The greatest and scariest rock film ever made, Gimme Shelter follows the Rolling Stones on their ill-fated 1969 tour. (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 05/25/18 | Patty Hearst | San Francisco's Dark Decade. This paranoid satire of radical chic and the aftermath of the 60s stars Natasha Richardson as the notorious Hearst Corp. heiress. (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 05/27/18 | Zodiac | San Francisco's Dark Decade. Director David Fincher (Seven, The Social Network) conducted his own eighteen-month investigation of the Zodiac killer's reign o… (Festivals - Film Festival) 415-978-2787. |
| 06/02/18 | Public Square. YBCA Fellows will unveil their yearlong projects through workshops, visual and performance art, dance, music, and more. (Arts - Art Exhibit) 415-978-2787. |
| 06/05/18 06/07/18 06/12/18 More... | Chorale Workshop Series With Holcombe Waller. The Requiem Mass workshops are an opportunity for singers of all abilities to create choral music together, but the primary focu… (Educational - Workshop) |
| 09/27/18 | Curatorial Research Bureau Opening Party. Peruse this one of a kind bookstore, enjoy a cocktail, music, meet the students and faculty, and get the opportunity to learn mo… (Nightlife - Parties) |
| 11/03/18 | YBCA 100 Summit: Calling Youth to Power. A full day of conversations & performances that challenge your perspective & further the conversations on critical issues of tod… (Community) |
| 12/05/18 | Gloria Cheng & Terry Riley: The Heaven Ladder & other works by Riley. Grammy Award winning pianist Gloria Cheng teams up with the father of minimalism, Terry Riley, for a recital of Riley's music. (Arts - Concerts) 415-934-8134. |
| 05/09/19 05/10/19 05/11/19 | ETM: Double Down. With Michelle Dorrance at the premiere of the celebrated ETM: Double Down project, which celebrates the extreme mobility of the… (Arts - Concerts) 415-978-2700. |
| 05/10/19 05/11/19 05/11/19 More... | We Have Ir?. A multidisciplinary theater work by award-winning poet and playwright Paul S. Flores. It explores the true stories of Afro-Cuban… (Performance - Theater) 415-978-2700. |
| 05/11/19 | Conversation with Jazz Musician Yosvany Terry. Join Grammy Nominated jazz musician and composer Yosvany Terry as he discusses the process for composing dynamic jazz music for… (Performance - Headliner) 415-978-2700. |
| 05/25/19 | Real Vocal String Quartet World Premiere and CD Release of Culture Kin. Real Vocal String Quartet announces the one-night-only performance and cd release of Culture Kin, featuring original songs and p… (Arts - Concerts) |
| 06/01/19 | Public Square. Join YBCA Fellows as they unveil their yearlong projects through visual and performance art, live remixes and soundscapes, ritua… (Arts - Art Exhibit) 415-978-2700. |
| 06/14/19 06/15/19 06/16/19 | Robert Moses' Kin presents The Exceptionally Elderly Overweight Black Man Phoenix. With this new work Moses reflects on what happens when the viewpoints of an "exceptionally elderly overweight Black man" are re-… (Performance - Dance) 415-978-2787. |
| 06/15/19 | Other Minds Festival 24: The Lightbulb Ensemble presents 'The Pressure'. A 90-minute multimedia work based on themes of early German expressionist film and features more than 25 players including the c… (Arts - Concerts) 415-934-8134. |
| 06/16/19 | Other Minds Festival: Ivan Wyschnegradsky, works for 1, 2, and 4 pianos. A program that will include Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra, a four-movement 30-minute work for four grand pianos, two of them tuned… (Arts - Concerts) 415-934-8134. |
| 07/18/19 | We Are STILL Here featuring YR Media. Enjoy specialty cocktails, YR Media DJs Clay Xavier and Stoney Creation spinning in the lobby, and complimentary admission to Su… (Community) |
| 08/15/19 | National Relaxation Day. Enjoy a full-day of activities including free dance classes, guided meditation, chair massages and more as we look to raise awar… (Community) |
| 10/01/19 10/02/19 10/03/19 More... | Alonzo King Lines Ballet: Fall Season. Ballet theatrical performance. (Performance - Ballet) |
| 02/19/20 02/22/20 02/23/20 | Paul Taylor Dance Company: Program A. Dance theatrical performance. (Performance - Dance) |
| 02/20/20 02/21/20 | Paul Taylor Dance Company: Program B. Dance theatrical performance. (Performance - Dance) |
| 02/29/20 | San Francisco Girl's Chorus & Berkeley Ballet Theater: Rightfully Ours. Classical concert. (Arts - Concerts) |
| 04/16/20 04/17/20 04/18/20 | X Rated Planet. X Rated Planet is an original street dance performance that engages a critical conversation around the root causes of sexual vio… (Performance - Dance) |
| 05/15/20 05/16/20 05/17/20 | Opera Parallele: Harvey Milk. Operatic theatrical performance. (Arts - Opera) |
| 08/17/24 08/18/24 | The Pirates of Penzance. Directed by Bay Area favorite Michael Mohammed and conducted by Resident Music Director Brett Strader, this comic jewel is packe… (Performance - Musical) 415-227-4797. |
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