Does this email look strange? See the full version here      YBCA Home | Calendar of Events | Ticket Info | Gallery Info | Forward to a Friend   The Gatherers: Greening Our Urban Spheres — Opening Night Party Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 6 pm • YBCA Galleries & Grand Lobby The Gatherers combines art with cultural activism to explore how we ensure sustainability for growing urban populations. Celebrate the opening of this exhibition with a party featuring entertainment, activities and cash bars. Ground Scores: Guided Tours of San Francisco Past and Personal Buried Treasure Island Sat, Oct 11, 2008, noon–4 pm BARGE (The Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics) presents a guided tour and podcast exploring Treasure Island's complex histories and possible futures. BARGE will lead a bus tour leaving YBCA at noon. Reservations can be made at 415.978.2787. Audio can also be accessed by calling 415.294.3627. The guidebook can be downloaded at http://davidbuuck.com/BARGE/BTI. Unnatural History of Golden Gate Park Sat, Oct 18, 2008, 2–5 pm The Studio for Urban Projects, along with landscape architects, geographers and historians, will lead a walking tour of Golden Gate Park exploring the ways in which the park represents changing ideas of nature in the city and the important role that this evolving landscape plays in the social and ecological life of San Francisco. The tour meets on the steps of the Conservatory of Flowers on Kennedy Drive at noon. For details, check studioforurbanprojects.org.   Sara Kraft: HyperREAL • Oct 10–12, 2008 • CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission St @ 9th St, San Francisco $15 Regular, $10 YBCA Members Kraft is known for her distinctive hybrid of experimental theatre, non-linear narrative and multi-media. HyperREAL investigates the profoundly ambivalent & conflicted ways we inhabit our bodies, our relationships and our world, and the paradox of physical, psychological and spiritual dislocation—and transcendence—in the digital age. Dohee Lee: FLUX • Oct 16–18, 2008 • YBCA Forum WORLD PREMIERE! $25 Regular, $20 Mem/Stu/Sen/Tea "stunning … an extraordinary lexicon of vocal colors, tones and textures." —The Chicago Tribune How can life be changed? Or healed? San Francisco-based innovator Dohee Lee explores these metaphysical questions in an evocative new work integrating traditional Korean performance with contemporary music, lighting design, imagery and movement.   YBCA presents An Evening with Peaches Christ • Sat, Oct 18, 2008 San Francisco's drag phenomenon Peaches Christ is an award-winning filmmaker currently immersed in pre-production work for her first feature. But she's better known for her Midnight Mass movie series and no-budget short film collection including her "Tran-ilogy of Terror": three different drag horror shorts chronicling the often frightening, always hilarious misadventures of Peaches and pals. Tonight she'll present these three films, in addition to the gore comedy short Grindhouse (the inspiration for the current feature film project, All About Evil) finishing with an audience Q&A. MORE OCTOBER FILMS The Superstars Next Door: A celebration of San Francisco amateur sex cinema from the '60s. kino21: The 10,000 Mile Bike Race: A performance based on the first cyborg sex novel, accompanied by live jazz. Arab Film Festival presents Environs of Seeing: Experimental Documentaries: By filmmakers from Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.   Bay Area Independent Fashion Festival Sat, Oct 11, 2008, noon–7 pm • Forum & Grand Lobby $10 / $3 with Gallery Admission / FREE for YBCA Members Celebrate local independent designers who work with sustainable materials and adhere to green business practices at The Bay Area Guide to Independent Fashion Festival hosted by YBCA. Offering a runway show, vendor fair featuring clothes and accessories from emerging and established regional brands; and panel discussion on fashion and politics, this event highlights the craft and couture of some of the Bay Area's most dynamic independent designers. Black New World Annex Exhibit & Opening Oct 9–Nov 16, 2008 • Room for Big Ideas Opening Night Party: Thu, Oct 9, 6:30 pm • Room for Big Ideas (RBI) & Grand Lobby • FREE From New Orleans' Black Indians, churches and jazz funerals to Marie Laveau and Doctor John; from hoodoo, root work and conjuration to Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Kwame Turé, YBCA invites you to enter the Black New World, become a citizen, sit a spell and experience a taste of Sanctified Gumbo. West Oakland-based artist, activist and cultural historian Marcel Diallo and his long-time collaborators transform the Room for Big Ideas (RBI) into an outpost of The Black New World using assemblage altars, multimedia and spiritual commodities. ALSO: YBCAlive! presents: A Taste of Sanctified Gumbo Sat, Oct. 18, 2–5pm • Screening Room • FREE w/ Gallery Admission Join us for an electrifying afternoon of lecture/demonstration as Marcel Diallo reads, discusses and performs excerpts from his first installment of a series of forthcoming chapter books exploring what he calls Black New World philosophies.   Want to be our fan? Want to be our friend? Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter to get the latest on activities at YBCA. And follow us online at our Bay Area Now 5 blog for behind-the-scenes videos, interviews and insight by YBCA artists and curators. Facebook : Become our fan Twitter : http://twitter.com/ybca Bay Area Now 5 Blog : http://ban5.org    Yerba Buena Center for the Arts    701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-3138 | tix 415.978.ARTS