Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Wednesday, October 7
Free Art Workshop: Clay Vessel Sculpture
Create art inspired by our programming at this drop-in art workshop! All ages welcome, all materials provided. Sculpt experimental clay vessels and learn techniques such as pinching and coiling. Participants will explore compositional elements including color, form, and textures.
Traveling Shoes
Join DVT—the trio of composer Damani Rhodes, vocalist VADIA, and poet Tongo Eisen-Martin—for a live performance of their album “Traveling Shoes” inside the exhibition “Dread Scott: The Body Politic.” Melding jazz, poetry, and soulful sounds “Traveling Shoes” explores Black life, political consciousness, community resistance, and ...
Saturday, October 10
The Music Room
See Satyajit Ray’s “The Music Room (Jalsaghar)” (1958), a film that brilliantly evokes the crumbling opulence of a fallen aristocrat desperately clinging to a vanishing way of life. Enjoy themed snacks as part of this series inspired by GaHee Park’s exhibition “Behind the Curtain.” Free ...
Wednesday, October 14
Free Art Workshop: Hand Print Art
Create art inspired by our programming at this drop-in art workshop! All ages welcome, all materials provided. Design a mixed-media hand print art using watercolor and collage. Participants will explore the expressive nature of watercolor, and evoke themes of empowerment and community building.
Making Faces: A Puppet Crafting Workshop with Creativity Explored
Learn to craft a puppet ready for center stage! Join Creativity Explored artists for a hands-on, drop-in workshop to build your very own hand or stick puppet.
In this family-friendly activity, participants will be guided through the steps of designing, assembling, and puppeteering their work of ...
Saturday, October 17
The Ceremony
See Nagisa Ōshima’s “The Ceremony” (1971) a film that explores the politics of desire through the story of a Japanese family forced to submit to a series of cruelly enforced traditions. Enjoy themed snacks as part of this series inspired by GaHee Park’s exhibition “Behind ...
Saturday, October 24
Silent Shorts Program
Watch a series of silent shorts that share a connection to performance, masks, doubles, alter egos, identity games, interior journeys – themes found in GaHee Park’s work. Enjoy themed snacks as part of this series inspired by GaHee Park’s exhibition “Behind the Curtain.” Free gallery ...
Wednesday, October 28
Free Art Workshop: Pop-up Mini Haunted House (YBCA)
Create art inspired by our programming at this drop-in art workshop! All ages welcome, all materials provided.
Construct a pop-up mini haunted house in light of Halloween. Add objects to set a mood for your haunted house.
Thursday, October 29
The Haunt: Halloween Art Maze w/ Tarot Readings + DJs at SF’s YBCA (Oct. 29-30)
Join us for “The Haunt, a Halloween hangout crafted by artists. Mixing Halloween tradition and San Francisco’s creative undead, “The Haunt” is part labyrinth and part speakeasy.
Come wander through warped installations, sit for tarot readings, and dance and imbibe to the soundtrack of underground radio ...
Saturday, October 31
The Red Shoes
See “The Red Shoes” (1948), cinema’s quintessential backstage drama about a rising star who is torn between the composer who loves her and the impresario determined to make her great. Enjoy themed snacks as part of this series inspired by GaHee Park’s exhibition “Behind the ...
Wednesday, November 4
Ryli
Free show! Join San Francisco jangle-pop group Ryli for a special in-gallery performance inside “GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain.”
Music begins promptly at 7pm, with a chance to view Park’s paintings both before and after the set. Seating limited, RSVP recommended. Bar in the lobby, though ...
Wednesday, November 18
Progressive Art Studio Models: A Lecture By Cléa Massiani
Join us for a lecture from Cléa Massiani on Progress Art Studios (PAS); radical spaces that support artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Learn more about PAS within a lineage of artist-led, independent spaces that resisted dominant institutional models of production and exhibition.
