New Year Mini Art & Film Festival | YBCA

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Cancelled – YBCA:ConVerge Monthly Art Gathering | SoMa

Please Note: The specific ConVerge series is no longer taking place at the YBCA, but we encourage you to still come out to the Yerba Buena district every 3rd Thursday for special events at YBCA and neighboring museums.

The YBCA:ConVerge series is a free monthly public gathering featuring creative and generative social art practices.

Community and innovative multi- and inter-disciplinary arts practices come together in the YBCA’s Grand Lobby and Room for Big Ideas with art, live music and curated performances in an interactive, experimental format. Cocktails are available for purchase.

Thursday, January 16, 2014
New Year Mini Art & Film Festival | Cancelled – YBCA:ConVerge Monthly Art Gathering | SoMa

January’s YBCA ConVerge hosts Bay Area curators working in contemporary art centers to participate in an evening of performance and conversation that will explore cross-disciplinary collaboration and generative platforms in art-making today.

Ringing in the New Year, YBCA’s public spaces will ignite in a fluid sculptural environment punctuated by sound, film, discussion, and more. Participating curators include: Devon Bella of Kadist SF, Kevin Chen of Intersection for the Arts, Jeanne Gerrity of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Jenny Gheith of SFMOMA, Justin Hoover of SOMArts, Hesse McGraw of the San Francisco Art Institute, Betti-Sue Hertz and Ceci Moss of YBCA, Amy Owen of di Rosa, Monica Ramirez-Montagut of MACLA, Meg Shiffler of SFAC Gallery, and Frank Smigiel of SFMOMA.

Participating artists include Double Zero (Hannah Ireland and Annie Vought), Lisa Rybovich Crallé, Chris Duncan, Christopher Füllemann, Bailey Hikawa, and others to be announced.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.