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FREE for College Students: YBCA Gallery Admission in February
YBCA wants college students to be our Valentine ( ♥ )
For the entire month of February, YBCA is offering FREE gallery admission to local college students. You show us a valid student ID and we'll give you a ticket to see the latest exhibitions in our galleries. Explore transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix, featuring cutting-edge contemporary artists from Vietnam, Korea and the United States whose works explore representations of modernity and popular culture. Move upstairs and check out Irreverent: Contemporary Nordic Craft Art, with works by a new generation of craft artists from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Learn how to create community through sustainable food production in our Room for Big Ideas with The Art of Slow Food Nation.
And don't think we'll forget about you after February! Throughout the semester keep an eye out on your campus for special student discounts on YBCA films and performances!
SF Muni Culture Bus (74X) Now In Service
Explore San Francisco arts and culture! Take your imagination for a ride aboard the new 74X Culture Bux. Convenient stops to YBCA, Union Square, Civic Center and Golden Gate Park bring you close to museums and other cultural destinations.
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See San Francisco Chronicle coverage here »
YBCA Announces 08_09 Season
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) announced its 2008_2009 performance, exhibition, film/video and community engagement season today programming on May 23. The programming engages audiences, art and artists in creative experimentation; offers art by leading contemporary artists from around the globe; looks beyond traditional definitions of visual, film and performance art with multidisciplinary works; and reflects YBCA’s commitment to commissioning new work by Bay Area artists as part of its triennial event, Bay Area Now.
The 08_09 YBCA season is organized around three themes, or Big Ideas, that place the art presented by YBCA in a broader context. These Big Ideas are
Bay Area Now 5—Inside/Outside,
Imagining Our Future and
Ritual and Redemption.
Read what the San Francisco Chronicle had to say on our new season
Watch the 08_09 Season Preview:
Download the 08_09 Performance Brochure (PDF, 8 mb)
Ken Foster Profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine
YBCA Executive Director Ken Foster was recently profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. The profile does a wonderful job of exploring Ken’s life story, his commitment to developing artists and YBCA’s Big Ideas.
YBCA Launches Seat Naming Campaign
Take a Seat and Tell Your Story
YBCA needs one more name to add to the honor roll of supporters who have helped make us the center for groundbreaking performance in the Bay Area—YOURS. For a gift of $300 or $500, you can name a seat in the Novellus Theater and support the YBCA Fund for New Performance. Do you have a story about how the arts have affected your life? We invite you to share your experience and pay tribute to the power of performance as we continue our efforts to present art that matters.
Take a seat today, and your donation goes even farther! A corporate sponsor will match all gifts to the seat campaign one to one during the next few months. Become a visionary—take a seat today.
3 Ways to Take Your Seat:
BY MAIL Pick up a brochure at YBCA and use the return envelope provided.
BY PHONE Call Emily Lakin, Membership Coordinator at 415.321.1320.
IN PERSON Visit the YBCA Box Office at 701 Mission Street @ 3rd. Open Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat & Sun from noon – 5 pm and Thursdays until 8 pm.
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4 YBCA Artists Awarded USA Fellowships
USA (United States Artists) has a mission to nurture, support, and strengthen the work of America's finest living artists. The organization's fellows program, now in its second year, awards $50,000 grants to fifty recipients each year. USA recently announced the 2007 grant recipients and YBCA is proud to say that 4 of the 50 artists have been, or are scheduled to be, shown/presented at YBCA this season. Please join us in congratulating them!
Anna Halprin
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Bill T. Jones
Shen Wei
Learn more about the United States Artists Fellows
Ken Foster Receives Fan Taylor Distinguished Service Award
YBCA Executive Director Ken Foster received the Fan Taylor Award for Distinguished Service at the annual meeting of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters in New York. The award honors individuals whose outstanding service, creative thinking and leadership have had a significant impact on the profession of presenting. Congratulations Ken!
His recent first book, Performing Arts Presenting: From Theory to Practice, was published by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.
Watch Ken Foster read from his book Performing Arts Presenting: From Theory to Practice