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  • 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

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  • Encounter
    Chill Bump Summer Smart Night Outings
    Arts Fest
    May 17, 2013 8:00pm – 10:30pm
    YBCA:You Only
    Kunst-Stoff Arts/TheOffCenter
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    Join your fellow YOUers at Kunst-Stoff Arts/TheOffCenter for an evening of Arts Fest, featuring Sara Shelton Mann, Christine Bonansea, and Yannis Adoniou. (Gather at 8pm inside Kunst Stoff Arts.)

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  • Community Program
    Ken’s Toast and Roast
    May 24, 2013 6:00pm – 8:00pm
    FREE with RSVP
    Grand Lobby
    FREE with RSVP »

    You and a guest are cordially invited to join us in wishing Ken Foster a fond farewell after ten fabulous years as Executive Director of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

    Current Executive Director Ken Foster will be leaving YBCA at the end of May to take the position of associate professor and director of a new graduate program at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music where he will design and direct a graduate program in leadership in the arts for the 21st century. During Ken’s tenure, YBCA has evolved into a nationally and internationally renowned arts center, as well as a major presenter in the San Francisco Bay Area of contemporary visual and performing arts, and cutting-edge film and video programs.

    We hope you can join us to give him a proper San Francisco send-off before he descends into the land of Disney, Dodgers and Dancing with the Stars. There will be testimonials from friends and colleagues, entertainment from some of our favorite local artists, loads of laughs, a few tears, and a surprise or two.

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  • Encounter
    Chill Bump Summer Smart Night Outings
    Performance Research Experiment #2
    May 25, 2013 7:30pm – 10:30pm
    YBCA:You Only
    CounterPulse
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    Join your fellow YOUers at CounterPulse for Performance Research Experiment #2, a work by Jess Curtis, French/German artist Jörg Müller, and Iranian neuroscientist Ida Mommenejad, which asks, “What can a performance make you feel (and how)?” The work investigates the effect of live art on the human body, colliding performance events into a scientific experiment. (Gather at 7:30pm the CounterPulse lobby.)

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  • Encounter
    Chill Bump Summer Smart Night Outings
    Summer Special
    Jun 7, 2013 7:30pm – 10:30pm
    YBCA:You Only
    CounterPulse
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    Join your fellow YOUers at CounterPulse for an evening of Summer Special shared by Liz Tenuto and Justin Morrison, including works The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn (Uncut) and The Wicked Run Away When No One Is Chasing Them. (Gather at 7:30pm the CounterPulse lobby.)

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  • Community Program
    An Evening with Anna Deavere Smith
    Jun 8, 2013 8:00pm
    $25 in advance/$30 at the door
    Lam Research Theater at YBCA

    $20 YBCA members (in advance and at the door)
    FREE for YBCA:You with RSVP
    FREE for YBCA:You at door on a space-available basis

    The Forum: Conversations at YBCA is a series of moderated conversations with artists, activists, and thought-leaders. For our fourth program, YBCA is pleased to welcome the MacArthur Award-winning actress, playwright, and educator Anna Deveare Smith in conversation with the Artistic Director of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Steven Anthony Jones

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    New Filipino Cinema 2013
    Panel Discussion: What is New Filipino Cinema?
    Jun 9, 2013 3:00pm
    Free
    Large Conference Room

    Join us for an open, wide-ranging discussion on the issues facing Filipino cinema today. Guests will include the visiting filmmakers, scholars, and the series curators.

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  • Encounter
    YBCA:You Dinner and a Movie
    YBCA:You Dinner and a Movie - What is New Filipino Cinema?
    Jun 9, 2013 3:00pm – 4:30pm
    YBCA:You Only
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    YOUers are invited to experience YBCA’s New Filipino Cinema film series with an afternoon of discussion, food, and film! We’ll attend a panel discussion on the subject of Filipino cinema, enjoy Filipino refreshments with visiting directors, and attend the U.S. premiere of Kalayaan together in the screening room.

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  • Reflect
    ConVerge
    ConVerge: Critical Karaoke by Raquel Gutiérrez
    Jun 20, 2013 4:00pm – 7:00pm
    Free
    Grand Lobby

    YBCA: ConVerge will present Raquel Gutiérrez of the new YBCA In Community program and her karaoke star friends. YBCA In Community pairs professional artists with community members in three Bay Area neighborhoods to create art together!

    Join a who’s who of Bay Area community-based artists, community organizers, and scholars as they tackle their favorite songs through Critical Karaoke! Each artist will speak about a song as it plays, with approaches and topics as varied as the artists and songs themselves. Meet and mingle with community partners from Soma, Mission & Excelsior, and West Oakland; learn more about the dynamic work happening in those communities; and listen to the range of artists participating and presenting in the activity of Critical Karaoke. Featuring Jaime Cortez, Xandra Ibarra, Carrie Leilam Love, Perra Pumps, and many more!

    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.

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  • Soar
    MOTHA: The Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art
    MOTHA: The Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art
    Jun 21, 2013 6:00pm – 9:00pm
    Free
    Grand Lobby

    YBCA presents the inaugural celebration for the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art (MOTHA). YBCA Artist-in-Residence Chris Vargas aims to bring forward the history and art of trans and gender non-conformed people by using exhibits by current artists as well as honoring hiroes and transcestors who have come before.

    Vargas will also unveil a short film for the event, to be projected onto the Room for Big Ideas windows. The film will celebrate hundreds of important trans and gender non-conformed individuals who continue to inspire. An unlimited-edition promotional poster will be given away at the event.

    YBCA's Grand Lobby and Room for Big Ideas will come alive during this event with discussion and art, as well as drinks prepared by YBCA mixologists.

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  • Reflect
    YBCA:You Summer Book Club
    YBCA:You Summer Book Club hosted by Andi Mudd and Isaac Fitzgerald
    Jun 22, 2013 2:00pm – 4:00pm
    FREE for YBCA:You Members
    YAAW Lounge
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    YOUers join brilliant editors Andi Mudd and Isaac Fitzgerald of McSweeney’s for this summer book club! Our co-hosts select books to complement YBCA programs and facilitate a discussion with refreshments specifically curated in conjunction with the books! Get the book, read it, and bring your copy to this exclusive YOUers-only summer book club!

    June’s book club selection is Adam Johnson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Orphan Master’s Son.

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  • Soar
    MOTHA Salon with Chris Vargas
    YBCA:You Exclusive MOTHA Salon with Chris Vargas
    Jun 22, 2013 5:00pm – 6:00pm
    FREE for YOUers with RSVP (YOUers may bring one guest with each RSVP)
    Screening Room
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    YBCA Community Engagement Artist-in-Residence Chris Vargas will host a YBCA:You exclusive slide show presentation for the imminent opening of MOTHA—Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art, an as-of-yet unrealized arts and hirstory institution in the Bay Area. During this sneak peek, Vargas, the Executive Director, will discuss the mission of the museum and its future, talk about its importance in the community, and reveal some of the museum's projected programming.

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  • Encounter
    Migrating Identities
    Migrating Identities Opening Night Party
    Jun 28, 2013 6:00pm – 10:00pm
    $12 Advance; $15 at the Door; FREE for YBCA Members and YBCA:You
    Grand Lobby
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    Celebrate the opening of Migrating Identities with a night of exhilarating music and performance that embodies the exhibition’s themes of global mobility and cultural convergence. Sound artist Miya Masaoka will perform her signature synthesis of traditional stringed koto and electronic music; Ata Ebtekar—whose nephew Ala’s work appears in the exhibition—offers experimental electronic music with an Iranian influence; and the LA-based band Very Be Careful brings the accordion-inflected sounds of coastal Colombian cumbia. The evening caps off with the obscure, strange, and mind-bending global dance music of the DJ collective International Freakout A Gogo! And be sure to step out into the cool night air of the YBCA Sculpture Court in order to get a first look at Kota Ezawa's new public art work, Boardwalk.

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