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  • Encounter
    Without Reality There Is No Utopia
    Exhibition: Without Reality There Is No Utopia
    Feb 15, 2013 – Jun 9, 2013
    YBCA Galleries

    In the Age of Information, actual reality has been supplanted by virtual reality, computer simulation, and false narratives. Since the concept of utopia is based on the improvement of reality, the disappearance of the real also signals the end of utopia. Without Reality There Is No Utopia illustrates this premise by examining false narratives that masquerade as truth; the collapse of Communism in the 1980s; the current financial crisis, which heralds the demise of Capitalism; the contradictions inherent in geopolitics; and the explosion of democratic uprisings around the world. The exhibition includes work by more than two-dozen international artists, and features works of photography, video, drawing, painting, collage, and more.

    Visual Arts
  • Soar
    Want.Here.You.Now
    Want.Here.You.Now
    May 7, 2013 – Sep 15, 2013
    Free
    Room for Big Ideas

    Want.Here.You.Now is the latest installation in YBCA’s open-to-the-community art space, the Room for Big Ideas. It features works of art by Kenneth Lo, Ana Teresa Fernandez, and Jennifer Locke in the mediums of light, video, sculpture, photo, and text. These artists explore our complex and often fragmented connections to others, and each piece offers an interactive experience paired with unexpected media, in a combined effort to begin to uncover what we lose and gain as we move through our lives.

    Visual Arts
  • Soar
    Erin Shirreff: Lake
    Erin Shirreff: Lake
    Mar 1, 2013 – Jun 30, 2013
    YBCA Video Lounge

    Erin Shirreff, informed by her training in sculpture, explores the physical and technical aspects of image production in an effort to extend and examine the act of looking. This practice can be seen in the video Lake, which reworks a picture of Lake Okanagan in British Columbia from a 1980s tourist brochure using an intricate, multilayered process involving digital software and analog photography. Projected onto a freestanding wall, the work foregrounds the tension between a flat image and its three-dimensional physical support, providing an experience that is less cinematic, and more sculptural.

    Visual Arts
  • Encounter
    Shih Chieh Huang: Synthetic Seduction
    Pause || Practice and Exchange - Shih Chieh Huang: Synthetic Seduction
    Mar 1, 2013 – Jun 30, 2013
    YBCA Galleries
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    Shih Chieh Huang creates a sculptural ecosystem using found and collected objects — including toys, plastic bags, electrical devices, and sensors — into beautiful, ethereal installations that seem unexpectedly organic and life-like. For his exhibition at YBCA, he will create a work that reflects on the Bay Area’s rich legacy in both the machine performance movement and the countercultural aesthetics of psychedelia.

    Visual Arts
  • Reflect
    ConVerge
    ConVerge: Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi and collaborators
    May 16, 2013 4:00pm – 8:00pm
    Free
    Grand Lobby

    This month’s YBCA:ConVerge presents Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi (DJ 3rd Degree) exploring the dialectic between traditional art forms and contemporary hip-hop. In addition to music in the Grand Lobby, he will bring together films, interviews, and music videos from countries such as Ghana, Colombia, and Cuba; photos and video projections of folkloric art and global hip-hop culture; and a spirited discussion of the art and the ideas behind it.

    4 PM: Live DJ in the Grand Lobby
    5 PM: Film in Screening Room
    5:45 PM: Q&A
    6 PM: Party, photo exhibit, video projection, live DJ in Grand Lobby

    The YBCA:ConVerge series is a free monthly public gathering featuring creative and generative social art practices. ConVerge is where community and innovative multi- and inter-disciplinary arts practices come together in our free and public spaces in a fluid, interactive, experimental format designed to engage audiences. YBCA's Grand Lobby and Room for Big Ideas will come alive during ConVerge events with social art, live music, and inspiring curated performances, as well as drinks prepared by YBCA mixologists

    Public Programs
  • Dare
    Girls! Guns! Ghosts! The Sensational Films of Shintoho
    The Horizon Glitters by Michiyoshi Doi
    May 16, 2013 7:30pm
    $10 regular/$8 YBCA member, senior, student, teacher
    Screening Room
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    This black comedy about a prison break gone wrong was unlike anything else Shintoho was making at the time. Released just before the studio’s collapse, The Horizon Glitters is a brilliant one-off that doesn’t fit in the usual genre boxes, made with a freedom and an energy that verge on the anarchic. A motor-mouthed proto-punk breaks out of prison with his cellmates, in search of a large cache of diamonds. Director Michiyoshi Doi spices the journey with incidents and antics that are a mix of slapstick and surreal. (1960, 89 min, digital)

    Film & Video
  • Community Program
    Liss Fain Dance — The Water is Clear and Still
    May 16, 2013 8:00pm
    May 17, 2013 8:00pm
    May 18, 2013 8:00pm
    May 19, 2013 5:00pm
    YBCA Forum
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    Liss Fain Dance Home Season
    The Water is Clear and Still, a performance installation by Liss Fain Dance
    $30 general admission; $18 students and seniors

    Liss Fain Dance, a San Francisco-based contemporary company known for its immersive performance installations, presents The Water is Clear and Still — an interweaving of the powerful choreography of Liss Fain and the spoken text of Jamaica Kincaid’s sharp-edged and beautiful short story collection, At the Bottom of the River. This vigorous, visually complex piece creates an intimate experience for the audience. The six dancers, the actor, and the audience are surrounded by Matthew Antaky’s set — a river in a surreal grove of trees — and Dan Wool’s immersive sound environment. The audience walks around and through the set at will during the performance. Their rhythms — walking, standing, and shifting focus — create the final layer of intimacy and unpredictability. The dance, the spoken stories, the sound environment, and the set create an intricate portrait of a woman and a place.

    lissfaindance.org

    Photo by RJ Muna

    Performing Arts
  • Community Program
    Smuin Ballet: Spring Dance Series 2013
    May 10, 2013 8:00pm
    May 11, 2013 2:00pm
    May 11, 2013 8:00pm
    May 12, 2013 2:00pm
    May 16, 2013 8:00pm
    May 17, 2013 8:00pm
    May 18, 2013 2:00pm
    May 18, 2013 8:00pm
    May 19, 2013 2:00pm
    Lam Research Theater at YBCA
    Buy tickets at smuinballet.org »

    Atlanta Magazine calls Petal by Helen Pickett “the perfect piece for spring.” An effervescent and visually stunning ballet, Petal is awash in vivid colors with music by Philip Glass and Thomas Montgomery Newman further setting the mood. “Lushly hued, musically driving, tactilely expressive… with glowing physicality” (ArtsCriticATL.com).

    Michael Smuin’s romantic and lovely Chants d’Auvergne is a gorgeous series of solos, duets, trios and ensemble pieces. Set to 13 traditional French songs arranged by Joseph Cantaloube, it was praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as “one of Smuin’s loveliest ballets.”

    Bay Area audiences will also get their first look at Darrell Grand Moultrie’s JAZZIN’, a sultry ballet danced to the music of jazz greats Wynton Marsalis, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and Andy Razaf.

    For more information about the Company visit: www.smuinballet.org

    Photo: Dancer, Susan Roemer. Photographer, Keith Sutter

    Performing Arts
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