How have the concurrent crises of homelessness, systemic racism and the global pandemic affected the most vulnerable residents of San Francisco? And how does art address and respond to these complex issues? Join Composer/educator Marcus Shelby and Eva Paterson, Co-Founder of the Equal Justice Society, for a riveting conversation and Q&A. Marcus will also share […]
*Classes have been extended through September 2021! Classes may be moved to a different location - please check class dates and registration for the latest updates. * Salsa Workout with Sidney and Ryan of Rueda Con Ritmo is an hour-long dance class that includes a warm-up, body isolation exercises, a cardio dance workout, and a fun and easy choreography […]
Long time favorites of the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers are proof positive that dance-inducing music never goes out of style. A leading force in the swing music revival of the 1990s, Smith and her scalding Skillet Lickers earned international renown interpreting West Coast jump blues, Kansas City […]
More than a musician or a performer, Idris Ackamoor is a conjurer who transforms any space he inhabits into a protean state where the past manifests and the future reveals itself. A saxophonist, composer, percussionist, actor, tap dancer, producer, and director, he’s the guiding spirit of the San Francisco performance company Cultural Odyssey and the […]
*Classes have been extended through September 2021! Classes may be moved to a different location - please check class dates and registration for the latest updates. * Salsa Workout with Sidney and Ryan of Rueda Con Ritmo is an hour-long dance class that includes a warm-up, body isolation exercises, a cardio dance workout, and a fun and easy choreography […]
A loving advocate for the queer community, rooted in Black music and dedicated to wielding music as a transformative force, Oakland vocalist Valerie Troutt has spent years developing songs to inspire and enhance bodies in motion. Steeped in gospel and jazz, she’s a gifted songwriter and improviser who powerfully chronicled the life of her acclaimed […]
Presented by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, ChoreoFest 2021 highlights the spectacular strength, diversity, and vibrancy of the Bay Area contemporary dance scene. Curated by RAWdance’s Co-Artistic Directors Wendy Rein, Ryan T. Smith and Katerina Wong, the fourth annual YBG ChoreoFest is reimagined as safe artistic gatherings in response to San Francisco’s return to live, outdoor […]
*Classes have been extended through September 2021! Classes may be moved to a different location - please check class dates and registration for the latest updates. * Salsa Workout with Sidney and Ryan of Rueda Con Ritmo is an hour-long dance class that includes a warm-up, body isolation exercises, a cardio dance workout, and a fun and easy choreography […]
This program is part of Yerba Buena Day on August 19 - a day full of music, art and poetry programs throughout the Yerba Buena neighborhood. All free and outdoors! More Yerba Buena Day Programs! The dynamic Mexican-born conga player Javier Cabanillas has come a long way since he started performing in pop-up flea markets […]
This program is part of Yerba Buena Day on August 19 - a day full of music, art and poetry programs throughout the Yerba Buena neighborhood. All free and outdoors! More Yerba Buena Day Programs! OPEN MIC THURSDAYS continue for an All-Star edition of the MoAD Open Mic series. Launched in April 2018, MoAD Open Mic has been […]
This program is part of Yerba Buena Day on August 19 - a day full of music, art and poetry programs throughout the Yerba Buena neighborhood. All free and outdoors! More Yerba Buena Day Programs! In partnership with Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM), experience the latest iteration of an ongoing project by GLTTR Collective co-founders Leah […]
Claudia Villela seizes your ears with her extraordinary voice, a voluptuous instrument that can caress vowels with a velvet purr or deliver consonants with the percussive snap and rattle of a pandeiro. But the Brazilian-born singer is also a capaciously inventive composer with a luminous body of songs that serve as ideal vehicles for her […]
*Classes have been extended through September 2021! Classes may be moved to a different location - please check class dates and registration for the latest updates. * Salsa Workout with Sidney and Ryan of Rueda Con Ritmo is an hour-long dance class that includes a warm-up, body isolation exercises, a cardio dance workout, and a fun and easy choreography […]
A special program presented by Native Contemporary Arts Festival, celebrating the creativity of California’s indigenous peoples. Curated by Janeen Antoine (Sicangu Lakota), American Indian Contemporary Arts founder and producer of the weekly Bay Native Circle airing on KPFA 94.1. Presented in partnership with American Indian Contemporary Arts, with major support by the San Francisco Art […]
This program repeats at Saturday, August 28 at 2:15pm. Humorous is a celebration of the fantabulous world we discover together through the simple gifts of wonder and laughter. Directed by Abigail Munn, the sixty-minute performance features the amazing Circus Bella Company — a diverse and talented troupe of acrobats, aerialists, jugglers, and clowns — performing to […]
This is a repeat of a program on Saturday, August 28 at 12pm. Humorous is a celebration of the fantabulous world we discover together through the simple gifts of wonder and laughter. Directed by Abigail Munn, the sixty-minute performance features the amazing Circus Bella Company — a diverse and talented troupe of acrobats, aerialists, jugglers, […]
*Classes have been extended through September 2021! Classes may be moved to a different location - please check class dates and registration for the latest updates. * Salsa Workout with Sidney and Ryan of Rueda Con Ritmo is an hour-long dance class that includes a warm-up, body isolation exercises, a cardio dance workout, and a fun and easy choreography […]