Public Programs

  • Encounter
    Feb 5, 2012 2:00pm – 4:00pm
    FREE
    Screening Room

    Author Nayan Shah comes to YBCA to share his thought-provoking new book, Stranger Intimacy. Exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants, Shah’s book illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations—dignified, collaborative, and illicit. At the same time Shah demonstrates how the United States and Canada, in collusion with each other, actively sought to exclude and dispossess non-white races. Stranger Intimacy uncovers the intersections between capitalism, the state's treatment of immigrants, sexual citizenship, and racism in the first half of the twentieth century.

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  • Encounter
    Feb 17, 2012 – May 6, 2012
    FREE
    Room for Big Ideas

    The Raw Feed presents work from three artists who explore the issues of globalization and dislocation, focusing on the ways in which we are given sustenance. The project includes an interactive rice factory that examines the politics of grain production and world hunger; a multidisciplinary video installation that takes a critical look at the messages fed to us by the United Nations; and a pop-up café built on a bicycle chassis that connects food with personal narratives of dislocation through a collection of war-time recipes. The act of feeding ourselves has served as the basis of ritual, connection and artistry for as long as we've lived in societies, and The Raw Feed brings together these disparate strands of shared experience in an exploration of what sustenance means.

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  • Encounter
    Feb 17, 2012 9:30pm
    Grand Lobby
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    Join us as we celebrate the opening of Mark Bradford and Audience as Subject, Part 2. The evening’s entertainment will include contemporary Butoh performance artist Deborah Butler (of Kitsune Butoh) in a fierce and highly charged performance piece called "Ground-tone." And we’ll be spinning late into the night with none other than the Bay Area's beloved DJ Sake-Onederful!

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  • Dare
    Feb 17, 2012 9:30pm
    Grand Lobby
    Buy tickets »

    Join us as we celebrate the opening of Mark Bradford and Audience as Subject, Part 2. The evening’s entertainment will include contemporary Butoh performance artist Deborah Butler (of Kitsune Butoh) in a fierce and highly charged performance piece called "Ground-tone." And we’ll be spinning late into the night with none other than the Bay Area's beloved DJ Sake-Onederful!

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  • Reflect
    Mar 18, 2012 12:30pm – 3:00pm

    Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab  •  301 8th Street #200, SF, CA 94103
    $10 at the door (cash/check only, no advance payment)
    The workshop is grounded in Eiko and Koma's movement vocabulary as well as their compositional and performance techniques, which employ images, body articulation, floor work and transformation. However, the aim of the workshop is not to teach these. Rather, the participants, through their personal digestion of the material and of the improvisation and nonchalant partnership which supports it, are encouraged to acquire personal taste and flexible discipline to suit their own moving body. They are guided through a series of exercises designed to increase skills and awareness in the areas of focus, coordination and stance. Eiko and Koma hope each participant will develop lifelong pleasure in dancing any time, anywhere available to them, whether professionally or in their living room. Please RSVP to rkawai@ybca.org if you are interested in attending. Space is limited to 30 people.

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  • Reflect
    Mar 24, 2012 6:00pm

    Part workshop, dinner date, and behind-the-scenes sneak peek. A pre-show dinner with guest speakers and exclusive insights and post-show cocktail debrief/reflection help you gain a new level of contemporary arts expertise. Space is limited!

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  • Dare
    Mar 31, 2012 5:00pm
    FREE w/ gallery admission
    Screening Room

    An engaging panel discussion featuring four speakers representing different perspectives on current artistic trends around audiences, spectators, and fans. Academics Henry Jenkins (University of Southern California) and Andrew Weiner (California College of the Arts), with artists Andrea Bowers and Tania Bruguera (via skype), examine issues of spectatorship in contemporary practice in an attempt to understand the individual’s behavior within environments of collective participation.

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  • Reflect
    Apr 27, 2012 6:00pm
    FREE w/ gallery admission
    Large Conference Room

    A double feature presentation by San Francisco Super 8 artist/curator Richard T. Walker and San Francisco artist Nate Boyce, which includes a lecture on the history of psychedelic visuals, performances, and music from the Bay Area.

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