Room for Big Ideas
FREE and open to the public during gallery hours, YBCA's Room for Big Ideas (RBI) is an interactive space that complements YBCA's Big Ideas and artistic programs. In recent seasons, YBCA has invited artists, curators and collectives to use the RBI as a showcase for innovative art practices that supports emerging Bay Area artists and promotes exciting intersections between community, civic engagement and arts education. In addition, the RBI contains video clips of past and upcoming programming at YBCA, exhibition catalogs, artist books, educational displays, listening stations and computers with interactive websites. The RBI is a space where visitors can learn about YBCA’s artistic offerings in an atmosphere that is casual yet informative, inviting and intellectually stimulating.
Mama Calizo Voice Factory: Crash Cabaret: Where Queers Collide (heterosexuals encouraged to apply)
Aug 1–Oct 25, 2009
As part of the PUSH PLAY> YBCA Summer Festival, Mama Calizo Voice Factory will host interactive, activist and social justice events in the Room for Big Ideas and the Grand Lobby. Organized by the Voice Factory's executive director, Dwayne Colizo, YBCA will present some of the queer community's leading performers who have participated in DIY residencies at the Voice Factory. Come and see what all the "POW-BANG-KA-BOOM" is about at Crash Cabaret: Where Queers Collide, a nuevo punk variety show extravaganza of video, theater, dance and music collisions by local performance mavericks.
Fri, Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 & Sep 11, 2009
YBCALive! Mama Calizo Voice Factory – Join us for Crash Pad, Snappy Hour, featuring San Francisco's hottest D.J.s, and Crash-OUT, A Psychodelic Speak-Sleazy and Crash Cabaret, featuring live music, performances, talent shows and boylesque.
San Francisco Mime Troupe 50th Anniversary
Nov 3, 2009–Jan 31, 2010
Heroes and troublemakers are two sides of the same coin and the San Francisco Mime Troupe embodies both. Celebrate SF Mime Troupe's 50th Anniversary with a series of events at YBCA.
Engagement, Commitment and Fresh Air: Fifty Years with the San Francisco Mime Troupe
Nov 3, 2009–Jan 31, 2010 • FREE
This multi-media exhibit features archival photographs and video, musical recordings, props, costumes, scripts and other memorabilia celebrating 50 years of the Mime Troupe's colorful history.
50th Anniversary Birthday Bash
Dec 10, 2009
Toast the Mime Troupe's 50th Anniversary with YBCA and surprise SFMT characters for another "only in San Francisco" event.
Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Consumption Christmas Street Theater Workshop
Dec 12, 2009
'Tis the season to express yourself with SF Mime Troupe's Ed Holmes aka Bishop Joey, originator of St. StupidÕs Day Parade, and Keiko Shimosato Careiro, SFMT designer/actor/director.
Film: Have You Heard of the San Francisco Mime Troupe?
Jan 15, 2010
Don Lenzer's 1967 portrait of the company in its first decade.
Global Lives Project
Feb 20–Jun 20, 2010
YBCA presents the world premiere of the Global Lives Project, an innovative video installation featuring documentaries that capture 24 hours in the lives of ten people from around the world who represent the diversity of the global population. Working with acclaimed filmmakers, artists and designers, Global Lives assembles the realities of everyday life from around the world into an installation by architectural and design visionaries of Sand Studios and FOURM design+build+educate.
Feb 26 – FREE Opening Night Celebration MORE »