Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

At #YBCA we're proud to support public investment in art and culture to help artists get back to work. Datebook SF shows how artists from The San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company, Dance Brigade's Dance Mission, and Carnaval San Francisco as part of Mayor London Breed 's #SFCreativeCorps are using their craft to share vital public health messages that are needed now more than ever. https://bit.ly/3qqTvI5

YBCA's marquee needs YOU! What urgent message do you want to share with the world on the cusp of the 2020 election? We want to elevate the creative and activist voices in our community. We want to know what is inspiring you, provoking you, and keeping you up at night. And we want the world to know. Submit your message for consideration today: https://bit.ly/31pfJiP... Winning messages will appear on our marquee facing the corner of 3rd Street and Mission Street outside our downtown campus, as well as on social media. The #YBCAmarquee was created in 2017 as a living installation by Cuban artist and activist #TaniaBruguera.

How have Black, Brown, Indigenous, Queer, and Trans artists and communities practiced different modes of survival? #YBCA Curator Thea Quiray Tagle considers this question and more in an introduction to our physical and online exhibition "AFTER LIFE (we survive) https://bit.ly/3fwRhll #AfterLifeYBCA

A special thank you to those of you who were able to join us this Saturday for City Is Alive, an online concert and in-person augmented reality experience celebrating the everyday heroes of San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point. If you missed the Bayview Live 2020 musical experience you can watch it here https://youtu.be/hqa-sZxUOUo?t=1754 Stay tuned for highlights from the evening where murals came to life along the Bayview’s Egbert Avenue to honor the neighborhood’s heroe...s. We extend our gratitude to our collaborators: YBCA artists-in-residence SF Urban Film Fest (SFUFF), and Bayview-based partners Imprint.City and Young Community Developers, Inc., and Crux, an XR movement founded by and centering Black technologists for uplifting the community in a time when connection is so vital for us to thrive.

Together we can do more. Installed November 9, 2020. Submitted by Jomara Padilla. #StrongerTogether #YBCAMarquee #arteutil #YBCA Tania Bruguera

We are LIVE NOW for #CityIsAlive x #BayviewLive2020! In case the Facebook LIVE stream gets interrupted, watch the digital concert on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hqa-sZxUOUo SF Urban Film Fest Imprint.City

Join us for a digital concert featuring 9 Bay Area musical artists celebrating the everyday heroes of San Francisco’s Historic Bayview neighborhood! Tonight's lineup includes San Quinn, Footz da Beast, Dayones, Xpress, Kaly Jay, Ajgod, So Vicious, Young Avii, and Rob Woods. ***... YBCA presents City Is Alive, YBCA’s inaugural neighborhood commission to celebrate the everyday heroes of BayviewHunters Point in collaboration with YBCA artists-in-residence SF Urban Film Fest (SFUFF) and Bayview-based partners Imprint City and Young Community Developers. This one-day digital and in-person experience brings Imprint City’s signature annual event BayviewLIVE Festival online for the first time in tandem with neighborhood murals coming to life along Egbert Avenue, which you can experience in person in the Bayview, or online from wherever you are.

Thank you to everyone who visited with the #YBCACommunityHealthAmbassadors this weekend! We appreciate the support of our partners City of San Francisco, Paint the Void, The San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company, Dance Brigade's Dance Mission, Carnaval San Francisco, San Francisco Parks Alliance, Shared Spaces SF, and San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) for bringing joy and inspiration to our community with #SanFranciscoCreativeCorps. Want to be... a part of our efforts to share public health messages? Apply for the opportunity to be a mural artist for Paint the Void https://bit.ly/2UTPk8Z For more on this #NewDeal2021 program, check out SFGATE’s latest story https://bit.ly/2J9kBSA Photos by Tommy Lau #YBCA #SFCreativeCorps #artistsatwork #YBCACommunityHealthAmbassadors

STARTING in 15 minutes at 7:00PM PST! Watch #YoungAvii and 8 other Bay Area musical artists perform in our digital concert #CityIsAlive x #BayviewLive2020! SF Urban Film Fest Imprint.city

TONIGHT at 7pm PST! Don't miss #SoVicious and 8 other Bay Area artists performing at #CityIsAlive x #BayviewLIVE2020! SF Urban Film Fest Imprint.City

Starting tomorrow: #YBCACommunityHealthAmbassadors will be promoting pandemic safety practices in San Francisco. In partnership with the City and County of San Francisco - Government and Paint the Void, we’re employing artists through #SanFranciscoCreativeCorps to encourage COVID-safe behaviors and paint temporary public health-themed murals. Read more about how this program is providing innovative approaches to support artists and bring inspiration to our community via KQED Arts: https://bit.ly/394GGNc Thank you Mayor London Breed for your vision and continued support of artists and arts workers. #NewDeal2021 Photo of The San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company founders Marcelo Javier and Rodney Earl Jackson Jr. by Mabel Jimenez/Paint the Void.

TOMORROW! SATURDAY @ 7PM PST ON FACEBOOK LIVE: musical artist Rob Woods performs during our digital concert #CityIsAlive x #BayviewLIVE 2020! SF Urban Film Fest Imprint.City

THIS SATURDAY @ 7PM PST ON FACEBOOK LIVE: musical artist Footz Da Beast performs during our digital concert #CityIsAlive x #BayviewLIVE 2020!

THIS SATURDAY @ 7PM PST: musical artist San Quinn performs during our digital concert City Is Alive x #BayviewLIVE 2020!

Listen to YBCA CEO Deborah Cullinan on NPR affiliate KJZZ Phoenix discuss her new role as the inaugural #NationalFieldLeaderInResidence at ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts where she will work with students, alumni, faculty, and community members to advance the role of art in shaping culture and catalyzing social change https://kjzz.org//new-position-asu-will-study-how-arts-res

THIS SATURDAY @ 7PM PST: musical group XPRESS performs during digital concert City Is Alive x #BayviewLIVE 2020!

We are reimagining how we can safely bring our community together in person once again. We worked with the #YerbaBuenaGardens to curate colorful social distancing artwork by local artists to welcome the public to safely connect with one another in the center of our city. Infinite Center, infinite sun by multidisciplinary artist, educator, and former YBCA Fellow Tosha Stimage is the first in a series of artwork for the public to enjoy. We invite you to enjoy all 21 versions of these social distancing-inspired 12-foot explosions of color. Be within them, or view them as a source of inspiration. #socialdistancing #ybca #sanfrancisco Photos: Tommy Lau.

Join us Wednesday, 9/23 from 1112:30pm PT for a virtual brunch as YBCA’s Martin Strickland and more Bay Area artists talk with moderator and #CCArts faculty Sam Vernon about pivoting to digital arts programming in the time of social distancing. Register for this CCA@CCA event https://portal.cca.edu//ccacca-hosts-virtual-brunch-conve/... #creativecitizensinaction #CCArts #californiacollegeofthearts