Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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 ...
Friday, November 6
Jam Session with Creativity Explored
Join us for an afternoon jam session featuring Creativity Explored artists and their handmade instruments. All are welcome to join!
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.
Saturday, November 21
Touki Bouki
Join us for Djibril Diop Mambéty’s stunning film that mixes the surreal and the naturalistic to paint a vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s.
Enjoy the film and free snacks, hand-picked by the series curator. Come early or stay late to visit our ...
Saturday, November 28
“Black Girl” + Free Snacks at YBCA (SF)
Watch Ousmane Sembène’s landmark debut about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy couple, only to find their home becomes a figurative and literal prison.
Enjoy the film and free snacks, hand-picked by the series curator. Come early or stay ...
Saturday, December 5
La Femme au Couteau (The Woman with the Knife)
Watch this daring drama that tells the story of a man on the Ivory Coast seeking old and new worlds as he is haunted by visions of a woman who alternately threatens and beseeches him.
Enjoy the film and free snacks, hand-picked by the series curator. ...
Wednesday, December 9
West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty
See director Med Hondo’s cinematic reimagining of an entire people’s history of resistance and struggle that investigates more than three centuries of imperialist oppression in this musical drama.
Enjoy the film and free snacks, hand-picked by the series curator. Come early or stay late to visit ...
Mud Frontier: Film Screening & Talkback with Rael San Fratello
Join us for a screening of “Mud Frontier: Architecture at the Borderlands,” a documentary exploring Rael San Fratello’s innovative fusion of 3D-printing technology and traditional adobe architecture.
Following the screening, Andrew Shaken, U.C. Berkeley Professor of Architectural History and American Studies, will moderate a talkback with ...
