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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents contemporary art, performances, film, and more. Open Thu-Su from 11a–5p, and Wed 11a–8p with free admission.
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🎄 Holiday season is kicking off at YBCA! Here’s what’s in store over the next few weeks:
🐇 11/18 from 2–4pm: Design a pop-up book featuring characters from the “The Velveteen Rabbit” at our free weekly artmaking workshop.
🐰 11/28–12/6: ODC/Dance returns with the 40th anniversary of the beloved Bay Area holiday classic “The Velveteen Rabbit”—full of wit, festive costumes, madcap characters, and the perfect amount of holiday cheer!
❄️ 12/10–12/24: An elegant seasonal favorite, make spirits bright with “Smuin’s The Christmas Ballet.”
🩰 12/19–12/20: Join SF Pride Band for a fun evening of music and dance-it-yourself ballet in the “Dance-Along Nutcracker: A Dance-Along Toy Story.”
Get into the holiday spirit via the link in our bio.
Art workshop photos by Robbie Sweeny.
ODC/Dance’s “The Velveteen Rabbit” photo by Shawna Sarnowski.
San Francisco Pride Band’s “Dance-Along Nutcracker®” photo by Andrea Nguyen.
“Smuin’s The Christmas Ballet” photo by Maximillian Tortoriello.
13 Nov 2026
Opening in the fall of 2028, “Bay Area Now 10” will be the tenth edition of YBCA’s signature triennial. This upcoming edition will be co-curated by Essence Harden (Senior Curator at YBCA) and Leigh Raiford (Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley).
Harden and Raiford recently sat to discuss their approach to curating the show, to reflect on their studio visits across the region, and to share what it’s like working together.
During the conversation Harden said “I think anniversaries can provide a regrounding—in why we do what we do, and in the investments we make, as an institution, as a city, as a group of people.” Raiford added “The beauty of being a historian is that you learn to think about change over time. The Bay Area has gone through many iterations… We have the advantage of being able to take that long view—to see how people have endured and how people have continued to make despite.”
Read the full conversation between the co-curators via the link in our bio.
Photo by Fiona Duong.
01 Jan 1970
We’re adjusting our hours select days the next two weeks, due to a private event and the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday:
❌ 11/11–11/13: Closed
🖼️ 11/14–11/24: Regular hours
🕔11/25: Closing at 5pm (no extended Free Wednesday hours or program)
❌ 11/26-11/27: Closed
🖼️ 11/28: Regular hours
Plan your visit to explore “GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain,” “Dread Scott: The Body Politic,” and “Rael San Fratello: Prototypes and Provocations" via the link in our bio.
Photo by Corey Marsau
01 Jan 1970
Coming soon! “The World of Black Film: Revolutions” is a new weekly film series, co-presented with Criterion Collection Curatorial Director Ashley Clark.
The 1960s to the early 1980s represented an electrifying period in global Black cinema, as Black filmmakers began to step behind the camera in significant numbers for the first time. Clark’s selection of films captures the era’s explosion of styles and formal approaches—from a musical set on a slave ship, to a French New Wave-influenced fantasy-drama, to a vérité-style portrait of working class solidarity.
For just $15, you’ll get a movie, snacks, and free gallery admission. Better yet, your ticket also unlocks a discounted price on Clark’s book, “The World of Black Film,” available for purchase at YBCA’s front desk.
Films screen every Saturday at 2pm, from 11/14 through 1/16. Check out the full lineup today via the link in our bio.
04 Nov 2026
Introducing the newest members of the Culture Forward family! 🏁🏁
Our 7th round awarded $550K to projects spanning an impressive range of creative practices, from Youth Speaks’ Love Letters to Our City to La Pocha Nostra’s Requiem for the End of an Empire.
The SF Scale Model Project will be reassembled at Pier 29 through CCSF’s internship program, while SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive teams up with Inventory Press for An Incomplete* Listing of San Francisco Libraries, Reading Rooms, and Archives.
Further will spotlight its downtown SF participants, and SFAW will close out with a night of experimental music by Endzeit. MoAD and YBCA are expanding their programming, while Gray Area, Exploratorium, and Stud Arts bring us new festivals!
Read more about our newest grantees on our website, and stay tuned here for deeper dives into their projects.
🏁Culture Forward runs for 3 more rounds.
💰We review and distribute grants every quarter.
🗓️Next application deadline is December 1.
💌Spread the word.
🪩This is a space for experimentation.
All the links in bio 🧬
03 Nov 2026
Cozy up to music, films, and more this November at YBCA!
✏️ 🎵 11/4: Two special events as part of Free Wednesdays at YBCA: first, join us for a gallery tour and sketching in “Dread Scott: The Body Politic” and “Rael San Fratello: Prototypes and Provocations” at 4pm; then enjoy San Francisco jangle-pop quartet Ryli’s special in-gallery performance among GaHee Park’s surreal and fantastical paintings at 7pm.
🎶 11/6: Join Creativity Explored and their artists for a welcoming afternoon jam session, as part of their residency at YBCA. Bring your instrument or grab one here—or just swing by to enjoy the sounds.
📽️ Starting 11/14, we’re launching a new film series co-presented with Criterion Collection Curatorial Director Ashley Clark. Drawn from his new book “The World of Black Film,” this month’s films include “West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty,” “Touki Bouki,” and “Black Girl.” Every Saturday at 2pm.
🧑🎨 11/18: Presented with Creativity Explored, hear from Cléa Massiani on Progress Art Studios (PAS), radical spaces that support artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Don’t miss this talk (and all of their new work on display in our Front Door Gallery).
📆 Heads up that we’re closed Wed 11/11 through Fri 11/13 for a private event. For the holidays, we’re closed Thu 11/26 and Fri 11/27, and will close at 5pm on Wed 11/25.
🖼️ The exhibitions “Dread Scott: The Body Politic,” “Rael San Fratello: Prototypes and Provocations,” and “GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain” are on view each week Wed 11am–8pm and Thu–Sun 11am–5pm.
🌃 Check out our full calendar via the link in our bio. Don’t forget: every Wednesday we’re open late until 8pm, with free gallery admission all day.
Film stills: “Touki Bouki.” Courtesy of Janus Films.
Creativity Explored image: John Iwaszewicz, “Untitled,” 2018.
Photos by Bobby Martinez and Jessica Monroy for Drew Altizer Photography.
02 Nov 2026
There's a lot happening at YBCA this weekend:
👻 Fri @ 5pm and 8pm, and Sat @ 8pm – Don't miss The Haunt, a hand-crafted Halloween art experience!
🩰 Sat @ 2pm – See "The Red Shoes," the final installment of our weekly film series with GaHee Park. Nearly sold-out, advance tickets recommended.
🍽️ On Sat, YBCA visitors can unlock food and drink happy hour specials all day at The Grove (690 Mission St). Just show your YBCA sticker or ticket QR code at their counter.
🎃 Also on Saturday, be sure to swing by Halloween Hoopla in Yerba Buena Gardens for family-friendly frights and delights from noon to 3pm.
📺 From Fri Oct 30 – Sun Nov 1, we’re proud to be part of the Inaugural Meet the Moment Video Art Festival. This free video art festival is a walkable loop from TnT Art Lab (67 Turk Street), along Market Street, through Yerba Buena Lane to YBCA, and down Mission Street to Root Division. See over 30 videos by established, emerging, local, and international artists, including an outdoor projection at YBCA by Dread Scott. Full schedule at www.meetthemoment.us
Photos of The Haunt by Jason Henry.
30 Oct 2026
This weekend, don't miss The Haunt at YBCA! Spooky and surreal environments built out of salvaged materials, with art-making stations by @scrapsf, music from @lowergrandradio, beers from @recroomsf, zines by @dethpsun, tarot reading, and more.
Fri 10/30 @ 5pm (family-friendly early show)
Fri 10/30 @ 8pm
Sat 10/31 @ 8pm
Come for the thrills, stay for the atmosphere. Tickets at YBCA.org/TheHaunt or via link in bio.
Video by Adriel (@stayhomme)
30 Oct 2026
Is it a haunted house? A video installation? A rave? An immersive B movie, brought to life with duct tape, discarded electronics, and dark magic?
Yes, yes, yes, and yes. It's The Haunt.
And it's at YBCA this week only! Thur 10/29 through Sat 10/31 (with a kid-friendly early show Fri at 5pm).
Don't miss out, tickets going fast! YBCA.org/TheHaunt (or via link in bio)
28 Oct 2026
Opening January 16, 2027 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: “Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Why? Why Not?”
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon became famous almost overnight in 1966, when she painted giant letters, stripes, and arrows across the walls at The Sea Ranch. Yet her whole practice—as an artist, designer, writer, architect, and landscape theorist—has never been seen in full.
“Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Why? Why Not?” brings a wide body of work together for the first time since her death. Trained in Swiss graphic design in Basel and later in architecture at Berkeley, Stauffacher Solomon produced prolifically for over 60 years: everything from books to Supergraphics, from landscape drawings to paintings of ping-pong tables, all relevant to the time in which she lived.
Drawing on rarely seen material from her estate’s archive and a new Supergraphic realized from her designs on YBCA’s walls, the exhibition takes visitors on a journey from Swiss grids to California freeways. Read more about the exhibition at YBCA.org or via link in bio.
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"Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Why? Why Not?" is guest curated by Martin Strickland.
Artwork images courtesy of the Estate of Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Anthony Meier, Mill Valley, and von Bartha, Basel.
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon with “Exit” sign mock-up at Demonstration House, The Sea Ranch, California, c. 1965. Courtesy of Lawrence Halprin Collection, Architectural Archives, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon rooftop photograph courtesy of the Estate of Barbara Stauffacher Solomon.
23 Oct 2026
🍂 November is just around the corner, and we've got free music programs on the calendar at YBCA:
🎸 Wed. 11/4 at 7pm: Join SF indie-pop quartet Ryli for an in-gallery performance surrounded by GaHee Park's surrealist paintings. Seating limited for this up-close-and-personal show, as part of Free Wednesdays at YBCA.
🎶 Fri. 11/6 from 12–3pm: Musicians of all kinds are invited to make some noise in a welcoming jam session hosted by Creativity Explored! Grab an instrument, bring your own, or explore the instruments handmade by their artists.
Mark your calendar, can’t wait to see you there.
Image + Video credits:
Photos by Bobby Martinez and Corey Marsau.
John Iwaszewicz, “Untitled,” 2018.
Video courtesy of Ryli. Directed by Staci DeGagne.
19 Oct 2026
UPCYCLED HAUNTED HOUSE
Open: October 29 30 31
Tickets at ybca dot org slash the haunt
18 Oct 2026
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