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We will be tabling at the Anti-Fascist Zine Fair this Saturday at the YBCA, November 22, from 11 AM–5 PM and it's FREE to attend!! 📚 💥

We will be giving away free Jenn Woodall "Smash Fascism" screen printed vinyl stickers while supplies last!! 😆
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
naylandblake.bsky.social
‘Bay Area Then’ Uplifts the Radical Artists of ’90s San Francisco | KQED
‘Bay Area Then’ Uplifts the Radical Artists of ’90s San Francisco | KQED
In a new YBCA exhibit, Rigo 23, Margaret Kilgallen and Mike ‘Dream’ Francisco affirm the power of everyday people.
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August 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
kevincollier.bsky.social
I'm at the RSA cyber conference in San Francisco right now and people are filing into the YBCA Blue Shield of California Theater to see a keynote, Making America Safe Again Through Cyber Defense, from ...DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. A decent number of Noem heads here already.
April 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
kyleprahl.bsky.social
I’ve had an incredible time at my first GDC Festival of Gaming. I got to share the same air with amazing creators like the team behind Expedition 33, see really cool projects at the YBCA News & Demo Stage, and meet @jurge.site’s standee.
March 13, 2026 at 1:50 PM
morrowjamesadam.bsky.social
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#MusicOfBlueSky

Day 6:
A song
you recognize
after
two bars

CERRONE /
SUPERNATURE
[MALLIGATOR] 1977
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WE ARE THE ASTEROID 🎨 Justin Brice YBCA, SF (2019) https://ybca.org/event/we-are-the-asteroid-iii/
March 7, 2026 at 11:47 AM
susancamille.bsky.social
“And then she said, this nest ain’t big enough for the both of us. So I’ve been crashing over at the YBCA.”
April 14, 2026 at 10:15 AM
alitez.bsky.social
Sıra dışı bir çizgi film serisi için yapılmıştı bu besteler. Vladimir Cosma ilginç bir besteci. Belki hatırlayanlar çıkar diye buraya da bırakayım www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbCA...
Mini-Star - Les Mondes Engloutis - BO Du Film Les Mondes Engloutis
YouTube video by Vladimir Cosma
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August 14, 2026 at 7:17 PM
alanmadsen.bsky.social
Harvey Milk Reimagined - saw it last night at YBCA was staged beautifully and performed perfectly. It is the reimagining of the 30 year old opera of a nearly 50 year old story. Forgot to bring a hanky for the tears it brought back. I laughed, I cried; it provoked more than emotions and memories. 😢
June 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
idamoj.bsky.social
stumbled across an old article I wrote for SF Weekly at a YBCA exhibit the other day 😭
friend I also worked with at SF Weekly with captured the moment at the Makibaka exhibit on SoMa Filipinos at YBCA 2019 feature on the South of Market Community Action Network born out the displacement of the dotcom boom
December 30, 2025 at 4:06 AM
warlord-phobos.bsky.social
More quality chiptune recommendations for the day, with Tobikomi's throwing out groovy Streets of Rage:ish vibes: "Tobikomi - Murcatt (YM2608)" | www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybca... #chiptune #ym2608 #bambootracker
[Original] Murcatt (YM2608)
YouTube video by Tobikomi
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April 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
ebogjonson.bsky.social
If you're in the Bay Area at the beginning of August, my partner in art, life, and thought crime @laventura.bsky.social is in a show at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The first piece on the page is hers ybca.org/ybca-announc...
YBCA Announces Bold Fall Season Celebrating Bay Area Art, Resistance, and Cultural Legacy - YBCA
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July 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
ginamurrell1.blacksky.app
SAT, NOV 22 in #SanFrancisco: Anti-Fascist Zine Fair at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), 701 Mission St, 11AM-5PM. FREE event by print organizer Floyd Tangeman and artist Barry McGee. ybca.org/event/anti-f... #activism #zines #BayArea #California
Nov 11, 2025 post by @ybca on Instagram: Color photograph by Robbie Sweeny of an Asian person standing with their back to the camera and looking at a white wall covered with an assortment of color and black-and-white print images. At the bottom of the image, in yellow print against an olive green background: "Anti-Fascist Zine Fair November 22 from 11 am-5 pm." And the yellow YBCA logo.
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
plinytheolder.bsky.social
Looking forward to the Conjuring Power: Roots & Futures of Queer & Trans Movements that Tina Aguirre and Caro De Robertis are curating for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, opening in March.
Conjuring Power: Roots & Futures of Queer & Trans Movements Curated by Tina Valentín Aguirre and Caro De Robertis; Opening in March 2026 A blend of art, archive, and imagination, this multimedia exhibition explores the resilient beauty, cultural richness, and fierce resistance of Bay Area queer and trans communities. The exhibition features works by Ester Hernández, Serge Gay Jr., Tanya Wischerath, Crystal Mason, and emerging artists from the Queer Ancestors Project. It also includes archival materials from the GLBT Historical Society and audio from Caro De Roberts's / See My Light Shining oral history project. Through the prism of these visionary sources, Conjuring Power provides a fresh look at queer legacies and possible futures. YBCA Announces Spring 2026 Season Elevating Art at the Intersection of Identity and Imagination By YBCA November 19, 2025 Featuring exhibitions by renowned artists and guest curators, alongside collaborations with the GLBT Historical Society and Queer Ancestors Project, the season celebrates fierce imagination and queer and trans artistry. November 19, 2025 - San Francisco, CA: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) today announced its Spring 2026 exhibition season, a bold slate of exhibitions connected by ideas of identity, resilience, and liberation. Featuring solo exhibitions by internationally acclaimed artists Diedrick Brackens and P. Staff, and the group exhibition Conjuring Power: Roots & Futures of Queer & Trans Movements, the season reaffirms YBA's role as a leading Bay Area institution where art, activism, and creative expression converge. "At a time when creative freedom is increasingly under attack, YBCA is committed to presenting work that embodies courage, conviction, and humanity," said Mari Robles, CEO of YBCA. "This season of exhibitions at YBCA uplifts bold voices that demand we pay attention to a multiplicity of liberating truths. Whether directly confrontational or tenderly defiant, these artists speak with beauty and power."
November 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
slumberlandrecords.com
Bay area, I think you might want to put this one on your calendar. Linton is making a rare trip back to the bay to play Aislers Set songs w/Alicia, Dan Lee and Tony Molina, and Tony is also doing a set of his songs with his amazing band. September 4th, 7:30pm.
Free w/RSVP:
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Bay Area Then: A V Linton & Tony Molina - YBCA
A V Linton is one of the most unforgettable songwriters of the last 30 years. For this performance, Linton will be joined by Dan Lee, Alicia Vanden Heuvel and Tony Molina.
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August 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
sahotchkiss.bsky.social
Last story of the week is about a film screening at YBCA next Friday (please, more film there!). Filmmaker Zeinabu irene Davis and Criterion's Ashley Clark will be in person to talk about Davis' decade-spanning, black-and-white gem 'Compensation':

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A Jewel From the Expansive ‘World of Black Film’ Arrives at YBCA
Zeinabu irene Davis’ newly restored 1999 film ‘Compensation’ screens in San Francisco on July 17.
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July 10, 2026 at 8:31 PM
mindtheimage.bsky.social
YCBA kicks off spring with two solid exhibits, 'Conjuring Power' and 'gather tender night'. My latest for The Voice of San Francisco.
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Spring exhibitions at YBCA shine a light on community and storytelling - The Voice of San Francisco
Through tapestry, archival media, and contemporary works, two new exhibitions explore themes of queer identity, migration, and collective resistance. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) presents tw...
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March 18, 2026 at 2:18 PM
coyotemedia.org
What happens when you turn the creation of a haunted house over to local artists? Spinning wolf heads, hanging entrails, and one very good fluffy dog 🐶
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The Only Haunted House I Can Stomach Is At YBCA
What happens when you turn the creation of a haunted house over to local artists? Spinning wolf heads, hanging entrails, and one very good fluffy dog.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
hyperallergic.com
Don’t believe the rumors about the death of the Bay Area art scene. There are several must-see shows this spring, including the Matisse painting that launched Fauvism at SFMOMA, the US premiere of P. Staff’s film “The Prince of Homburg” at YBCA, and more in our guide.
10 Art Shows to See in the Bay Area This Spring
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s vital scrolls, muralist Cece Carpio’s first solo show, the Matisse painting that launched Fauvism, the future of Japanese ceramic art, and more.
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March 23, 2026 at 3:42 PM
msatris.bsky.social
Bay Area Then exhibition of new and historic art from artists making work in the 1990s. At YBCA, opening August 1, 2025 "Central to 1990s Bay Area was a complex web of artist-run & alternative spaces that served as essential outlets for gathering, listening, performing, & learning from each other."
July 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
hellonfriscobay.bsky.social
Might film programming return to one of the San Francisco non-profit arts organizations that abandoned it in the past several years? I’ll be more impressed with deeds than words, but as the latter go these aren’t so discouraging.
Text from article: “Robles said some of her initial hiring priorities include a chief of programs, and rebuilding the institution’s artistic team, which will include positions in visual arts, performance and film. (YBCA hasn’t had a full-time film curator since 2018.) “The city has a rich history of film programming and YBCA in particular was part of that,” Robles said. She credits her time at Headlands with introducing her to the Bay Area film community.”
December 13, 2024 at 6:44 PM
sahotchkiss.bsky.social
Big news this morn from YBCA, which has named its first non-interim CEO in years after a particularly tumultuous 2024: www.kqed.org/arts/1396940...
YBCA Announces a New CEO After a Year of Protests and Staff Departures
Mari Robles, former executive director of Headlands Center for the Arts, will start on Jan. 6, 2025.
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December 12, 2024 at 6:36 PM
currenteditions.bsky.social
Tucked away in the corner of Bay Area Then at YBCA is @hernberferd.bsky.social's holy grail of Gen X thought. It's a poster he’s wanted to see in person for years.

ARE YOU BEING PROCESSED?
A poster with a black background filled with white star-like speckles. At the top, bold text reads “PROCESSED WORLD.” In the center, a white silhouette of a person sits at a desk using a computer atop a large cube-shaped Earth with world map panels. One cube face has a barcode. Below, the caption asks: “Are you DOING the processing? Or BEING processed?”
August 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
slumberlandrecords.com
The Linton/Tony Molina show is part of Yerba Buena Center for The Arts' Bay Area Then exhibit, a look at back at the underground visual and performing arts central to the pre-dot com bay area of the 90s. Looks unmissable!
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Bay Area Then - YBCA
With its iconoclastic spirit and deep commitment to community, this exhibition asks us to find power in creative persistence even during challenging times.
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August 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
selkie22.bsky.social
Attended the “If I Give You My Sorrows” performance at the YBCA and it was fantastic! 🤩Also on display in one of the galleries were paintings by the Iranian artist Nicky Nodjoumi. Wow 🌟 Check it out if you’re in San Francisco!
February 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM