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Creatively ShadedWe're Larger than the System!Send us Fan MailOn this episode, Phaedra and Liz are joined by a local creative who puts the multi in hyphenate; Aejay Antonias Marquis, who steps in SirDiva's shoes as guest co-host. The Theatre Streets had the Divas on a trek through Afro futurism, isolation, and poles, while Center Stage Shade and SirDiva's Rant, lit it up. Chyle, now you know we had to get up on the National Endowment for the Arts - knotting us Divas all up! Come on an unravel this theatrical entanglement with us! Recommendations: "Crumbs from the Table of Joy" at...
2025-05-171h 09
Voices of the CommunityState of the Arts Summit Highlights - Part 1We must disrupt and rebuild; our task is to shift how society thinks through art” - Ralph RemingtonPart one of this special episode, in collaboration with Arts for a Better Bay Area, delves into the discussions and insights from the 2023 State of the Arts and Culture Organization Summit. Host Eric Estrada and summit reporter Isa Nakazawa bring you the voices of key panelists and attendees who are shaping the future of the arts in the Bay Area. Guests:Maria Jenson, Creative and Executive Director, SOMARTS Cultural CenterRalph Remington, Director of Cultural Affairs, San Fra...
2025-04-1630 min
The StageLync PodcastEp.40: Carmen Morgan: Founder and Director of artEquity - "Without the arts, social justice work faces headwinds; with the arts, it gains momentum and creativity" (Video)Carmen Morgan is a national activist leading conversations at the forefront of the field on equity, inclusion, and racial justice issues. She is the founder and director of artEquity, a national organization that provides tools, resources, and training to support the intersections of art and activism. She has provided leadership development and organizational planning for staff, executives, and boards for over 100 non-profit organizations. She is the 2020 recipient of the Paul Robeson Award by Actors’ Equity Association and Actors’ Equity Foundation and a YBCA 100 honoree. She’s on faculty at Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama where she addresses issues o...
2025-03-0332 minThe StageLync PodcastEp.40: Carmen Morgan: Founder and Director of artEquity - "Without the arts, social justice work faces headwinds; with the arts, it gains momentum and creativity" (Audio)Carmen Morgan is a national activist leading conversations at the forefront of the field on equity, inclusion, and racial justice issues. She is the founder and director of artEquity, a national organization that provides tools, resources, and training to support the intersections of art and activism. She has provided leadership development and organizational planning for staff, executives, and boards for over 100 non-profit organizations. She is the 2020 recipient of the Paul Robeson Award by Actors’ Equity Association and Actors’ Equity Foundation and a YBCA 100 honoree. She’s on faculty at Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama where she addresses issues o...
2025-03-0332 min
Sound and VisionGreg ItoEpisode 460 / Greg Ito
Greg Ito (b. 1987, Los Angeles, CA) earned his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions including at Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; SPURS Gallery, Beijing, China; Lyles and King, New York, NY; Jeffrey Deitch, New York; NY and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco, CA. Ito’s work is included in the permanent collections of public institutions including the Hammer Museum, Los An...
2025-02-061h 24
Making ContactArt from the Inside: Why We Need More Art By And About Incarcerated Women (Encore)On today's show, we look at how art can highlight the struggles of incarcerated women, build solidarity with them across prison walls, and fight against the erasure and censorship inherent to incarceration. First, we'll hear about a dance performance called "If I Give You My Sorrows" that's built around the complex ways that incarcerated women relate to their beds. Then, we'll learn about an art exhibition, "The Only Door I Can Open," that's curated and created by incarcerated artists, writers and poets inside Central California Women's Facility. Featuring Jo Kreiter, artistic director of Fl...
2025-01-1529 min
The Oak Spring PodcastSeedsIn the words of Connie Zheng, seeds hold the past and the future. This month's episode features interviews with Jessamine Finch and Connie Zheng who each engage with the way seeds are shared and dispersed. Jessamine speaks about her interest in the science of the natural world, and work with saving and sharing seeds, most recently on the eastern coast of the US. Then Chris speaks to Connie Zheng an artist whose work is influenced by the metaphorical significance of seeds.Connie Zheng is a Chinese-born artist, writer and experimental filmmaker based out of xučyun (also...
2024-11-0141 min
Voices of EsalenNkechi Deanna Njaka: Race in the Wellness Space and the Dating White PodcastNkechi Deanna Njaka - @ndnlifestylist - is a neuroscientist, meditation teacher, modern dancer, multi-disciplinary artist, and the co-host of the podcast "Dating White," where she and her co-host, sex and dating coach @myishabattle, speak about being women of color and their nuanced experiences in interracial dating.
Nkechi is 2017 YBCA Truth Fellow, and an upcoming 2020 Kennedy Center Artist in Residence whose practice is a vehicle for radical presence and progressive wellness. She speaks about her experience of race growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood in Minnesota, what it's like to be a woman of color in the space of wellness, and...
2024-09-0445 min
Body and SoulBhumi B Patel: This world needs queernessBhumi B Patel directs pateldanceworks and is a queer, desi,
home-seeker, science fiction choreographer, movement artist, and writer. She has presented her choreography in the Bay Area, Manoa (Hawai’i), Los Angeles, New York, and Columbus (Ohio). Bhumi was a 2022-2023 Dance/USA Fellow and a 2023 YBCA 100 Honoree. She has presented at Dance Studies Association, Popular Culture Association, National Women’s Studies Association, and Asia Pacific Dance Festival, and has published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Contact Quarterly, and InDance. Her research on queer decoloniality and improvisation intersects with her performance-making as a way of tracing the deep connections of p...
2024-03-1915 min
Sad FranciscoYBCA's Neoliberal Nothingspeak on Palestine f/ Ralowe AmpuOn February 15, eight artists altered their works at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in solidarity with Palestine. Ralowe Ampu is on to talk about the YBCA's neoliberal nothingspeak response to the artists' - and now many staffmembers' - demands of a museum that claims to be centered on diversity and community. **The museum remains closed as of March 7. Love Letter to Gaza, Open Letter from the Artists Boycott YBCA Artists' Statement Open Letter from YBCA Employees in Support of Palestine and BAN9 Artists Artists Alter Their Own Work at YBCA in Pro-Palestinian Protest (Nastia Voynovskaya, KQE...
2024-03-0744 min
That’s How the Light Gets InEpisode 06: Beehive Design CollectiveThe Beehive Design Collective’s Sakura Saunders and Orion Camero share about the Callegory, a Beehive sister project and mega-story trilogy of images and creative education campaign about California’s social and climate crises, and the state’s role in global justice.
The Beehive Collective is best known for its expansive narrative graphic posters and related campaigns that break down big complex issues and present them in accessible, engaging formats. Their incredibly intricate, hand-drawn illustrations become popular education tools to support ongoing organizing and movement building.
This episode also includes an update about...
2024-02-2948 minThat’s How the Light Gets InEpisode 05: YBCA Bay Area Now 9 Artists for #CeasefireLast week, eight artists featured in the “Bay Area Now 9” exhibit at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts altered their own artistic works live during a public YBCA show to speak out against the art institution’s silence on the on-going genocide in Palestine and to demand an end to YBCA’s censorship of artists calling for a #Ceasefire in Gaza. On this week’s episode, we speak to two of those artists, Iranian-born interdisciplinary sound artist Sholeh Asgary and queer Filipinx artist, filmmaker, and educator champoy about why they chose to take such bold action against YBCA and in sup...
2024-02-2256 min
Voices of the CommunityArts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit – “Economic Recovery in the Arts: Regaining Patrons and Artistic Engagement” Ep 3"It's all about partnering artists with small businesses to create site specific installations and that way create more exposure both for the business and for the artists and also to revitalize those corridors" - Vanessa WilsonThis is our second episode from the co-production with Arts for a Better Bay Area of the re-launch of the State of the Arts Summit "Rebuilding Our Communities," on June 28th, 2023.The COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on the importance of arts and culture and its impact on our communities and economy, as well as the under-funding and fragility...
2023-09-0953 min
Move Fast. Break Shit. Burn Out.Accelerating Change with Better Time Management - Sara Fenske BahatJoin us for an interview with Sara Fenske Bahat, who is CEO at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. As Sara took her interim role as CEO of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, an employee asked her “Why should I invest in someone who is only here as interim CEO?”
In this episode, Sara talks about the opportunities around coming in as an interim CEO and how she has chosen to focus on creating a culture of care for the leadership team and organization. She says it is about creating a culture that can move at th...
2023-07-2126 min
Recky na vaše peckyRecky II #19 (host: Tomáš Řeřucha, YBCA, Solfernus) - Dark Gamballe, Zastodeset, DWTK, 21 Gramů, Oliverova dálkaTentokrát jsem si na pokec pozval Tomáše Řeřuchu, zvaného také Paramba, který je známý svým učinkováním v kapelách jako Big Boss Band, Pačess, Solfernus nebo YBCA. Vydává také skvělý fanzin Parambucha Zine, který se zabývá výhradně domácí metalovou scénou. Připravte se na proud zábavy a brněnského hantecu s jedinečným Parambou!
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2023-07-121h 40
Making ContactThe Healing Project: An Abolitionist Story (Encore)This week we hear from artist Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes about The Healing Project, an abolitionist art exhibition. The work explores the structures of systemic racism, particularly the prison industrial complex in the U.S. and takes multiple forms including music, films, community gatherings, and live performances. A digital library of audio interviews centers the project. The stories, experiences, and ideas from intergenerational individuals across the country, including folks who are incarcerated form the foundation for The Healing Project’s vision for societal transformation.
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2023-07-1229 min
Making ContactThe Healing Project: An Abolitionist Story (Encore)In this week's encore episode we hear from artist Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes about The Healing Project, an abolitionist art exhibition. The work explores the structures of systemic racism, particularly the prison industrial complex in the U.S. and takes multiple forms including music, films, community gatherings, and live performances. A digital library of audio interviews centers the project. The stories, experiences, and ideas from intergenerational individuals across the country, including folks who are incarcerated form the foundation for The Healing Project's vision for societal transformation. Like this program? Please show us the love. Click here: http://bit.ly...
2023-07-1229 min
Great Mondays RadioReconciling Differences in Organizations with the YBCA's Sarah Fenske BahatYour host, Josh Levine, talks with the CEO of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Sarah Fenske Bahat. Situated in the center of downtown San Francisco, YBCA functions as a dynamic platform to generate ideas and nurture the talents of emerging and established artists. Centering artists as essential to the social and cultural movement, YBCA is reimagining the role an arts institution can play in the community it serves.To learn more about Sarah's work, click HERE.Think you'd be a great guest on the show? Apply HERE.Learn more about Josh and...
2023-03-2726 min
A long way from the blockEp. 68-Reflection & Action—my conversation with Brett CookInterdisciplinary artist Brett Cook's current exhibit, at The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, is profound. In this episode, we talk about the history of some of the installations, including the stunning self-portrait that greets visitors as they enter. Brett explains in detail why and how the show, a collaboration with choreographer Liz Lerman, came to be what it is—the relationships built through interviews with family members of portrait subjects, the deliberate audience engagement. To be an artist in the world, he says, means creating time and space for contemplation and opening oneself to others' ex...
2023-03-1353 min
Work. Shouldnt. Suck.Into the future with Yerba Buena Center for the ArtsIn this episode, we’re exploring uncertainty, transitions, and moving forward in ambiguity – something most of us probably feel like we’re getting pretty used to having lived the past several years amid a global pandemic.We’ll be exploring how these things show up in organizations, and in one organization in particular – San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. And we’ll discuss how they’re approaching this in their evolving work.To learn more about their Head of External Relations search, visit: https://www.workshouldntsuck.co/ybca-er.SARA FENSKE BAHAT is a conne...
2022-12-2946 min
Dance Magazine PodcastLiz Lerman on Witches, Wisdom, and Wondering WhyA transcript of this episode is available here: thedanceedit.com/transcript-episode-138Liz Lerman's website: lizlerman.comMore information about Lerman's ongoing exhibition with Brett Cook, "Reflection and Action": ybca.org/event/brett-cook-liz-lerman-reflection-and-actionMore information about "Wicked Bodies": lizlerman.com/wicked-bodiesVisit/add to the Dance Media Events Calendar: dancemediacalendar.com/Get the latest dance news direct by subscribing to our free newsletters. Find the ones that match your interests: dancemagazine.com/subscribe
2022-12-2239 min
Money + MeaningState of the Field and Practice of Impact InvestingFor the third year, SOCAP Global is pleased to present the State of the Field and Practice of Impact Investing. Join Fran Seegull, President of the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance; Monique Aiken, Managing Director or TIIP & Co-founder of Make Justice Normal; and Cathy Clark, Faculty Director at CASE at Duke to hear about the current state, emerging trends, threats and opportunities as impact investing moves more mainstream. This podcast is presented in advance of SOCAP22, held Oct. 17-20 at YBCA in San Francisco.
2022-10-1042 min
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 07.10.2022. 2nd Sunday poets, Mission District voices...FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 07.10.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific. second Sunday poets, Mission District voices... the song of the City, the stories of the People: Norman Antonio Zelaya, reading from his upcoming second book 'Gente, Folks', out on Black Freighter , in discussion on holding our stories and throwing down some serious old skool poetic and sonic funk [in the first hour] Leticia Hernández-Linares, reading new work and poems from 'Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl ', and talk about the YBCA's 'Dream Seeds' exhibition, spinning resistance sounds and words past and fut...
2022-07-141h 59
YBCA 10 PodcastEpisode 15: Deanna Van Buren and Samora PinderhughesIn this episode, we beautifully wrap up this season of the YBCA 10 podcast with an invigorating extended conversation with YBCA 10 artist Deanna Van Buren and multidisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes. Seated front and center, these two offer a wealth of insight and grounded thought on topics including the agency of healing (both individual and collective), being in service to community, uplifting the stories of marginalized voices, eradicating systems of structural violence, and much more.
Learn more about dreamseeds, the YBCA 10 artist workshop now open and available through September 4, 2022!
Learn more about Deanna by visiting:
Deanna’s...
2022-06-1057 minYBCA 10 PodcastEpisode 14: Leticia Hernández-Linares and Caleb DuarteThe dreamseeds exhibition at YBCA featuring the YBCA 10 artist workshop has launched and is open to the public til September 4! In this episode, we continue our extended conversations with YBCA 10 artist Leticia Hernández-Linares. Joining her in this intimate dialogue is YCBA Creative Cohort Artist Caleb Duarte. Listen to hear the group flesh out conceptual ideas around art, healing through storytelling, memory work, and being historians of our own history through dialogue.
Learn more about Leticia by visiting:
Leticia’s YBCA 10’s Profile Page
Leticia’s website
Order Leticia’s book of poems: Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl...
2022-05-271h 16YBCA 10 PodcastEpisode 13: Alex J. Bledsoe and Cara PageIn this episode, we keep our extended conversations going with select members of the YBCA 10 and likeminded community doers and practitioners in the space. We reconnect with YBCA 10 member Alex J. Bledsoe, a multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on Black liberation and dismantling exploitative systems. Paired with her is the eminent and renowned Cara Page, Black Queer Feminist cultural/memory worker, curator, and organizer. Together we discuss stories of healing, creation of sacred spaces, art as a supplement of healing, grief, and collective care and much, much more.
Learn more about the dreamseeds exhibition running at YBCA...
2022-05-131h 13YBCA 10 PodcastEpisode 12: Nikiko Masumoto and Galería de la RazaMore extended conversations with the YBCA 10? Yes please! In this episode, we reconnect with organic farmer, memory keeper, and YBCA 10 artist Nikiko Masumoto. We hear an update on the Plant Library, the prototype collaboration between Nikiko and fellow YBCA 10 artist Darryl Ratcliff. We also welcome to the table Galería de la Raza, a non-profit dedicated to promoting Xicanx/Latinx art and culture. Galería de la Raza’s Ani Rivera, Executive Director and Ivette Diaz, Curatorial Programs Coordinator join the conversation for a synergetic dialogue about memory keeping and cultural work, thinking of artists as professional feelers and esse...
2022-04-291h 14YBCA 10 PodcastEpisode 11: Hasain Rasheed and Fay DarmawiThis podcast has introduced audiences to the artists who comprise The YBCA 10. Now we keep it rolling with extended conversations about the deployment of artist work! In this episode, we reconnect with acclaimed photographer a member of the 10 Hasain Rasheed and get an update on his creative prototype titled Too Experienced to be Taken for a Stroll, a home structure that captures the spirit, sights, scents, and sounds shared by immigrant families who migrate to the Bay Area. We also meet Fay Darmawi - Founder and Executive Producer of the SF Urban Film Fest. Together this synergetic pairing discusses...
2022-04-1555 min
Rev Left Radio[BEST OF] Critical Race Theory and Black Liberation w/ Zoé Samudzi[Originally released Oct 2017] Zoe Samudzi is a black feminist writer whose work has appeared in a number of spaces including The New Inquiry, Warscapes, Truthout, ROAR Magazine, Teen Vogue,BGD, Bitch Media, and Verso, among others. She is also a member of the 2017/18 Public Imagination cohort of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Fellows Program, and she is a member of the Black Aesthetic, an Oakland-based group and film series exploring the multitudes and diversities of black imagination and creativity. She is presently a Sociology PhD student at the University of California, San Fr...
2022-04-121h 09YBCA 10 PodcastEpisode 10: Binta Ayofemi“As a visual artist I really think that I’m most inspired by composers…In my practice, I try to take a few notes that you don't normally recognize as being blended and create a new chord.” - Binta Ayofemi
Visual artist Binta Ayofemi creates urban forms inspired by Black abstraction, transforming overlooked spaces through sound, movement, and material. In this charming episode, Binta shares with us her artistic journey, the rehearsal of everyday spaces to create radical possibility and imagination, and her work to celebrate Afro-indigineous spaces and rituals of celebration and healing.
Learn more abo...
2022-04-0140 minYBCA 10 PodcastEpisode 9: Dr. Ayodele Nzinga“When I discovered the power in words, was when I began to take the idea of making art and make worlds and understand that’s what it was – world making – that it was powerful. Really, really powerful.” - Dr. Ayodele Nzinga
Sometimes, words just hit different. And this episode explains why. Settle in and listen to an intimate conversation with this episode’s featured guest, City of Oakland's first poet laureate Dr. Ayodele Nzinga. Hear from this renowned director, playwright, poet, and community advocate as she shares her introduction into theater, storytelling and imagination, the power of words, langu...
2022-03-181h 01YBCA 10 PodcastEpisode 8: My-Linh Le"When I look at turfing by itself […] it's already a whole database. It's already a genre of study. We think that scientific method is the only way of knowing something, and that's just simply not true. Our bodies know so much." - My-Linh Le
Largely influenced by 80s popping and hip-hop, My-Linh’s career positively exploded in different directions once she fully committed to dance. Now as a choreographer, competitive freestyle dancer, and Founder/Director of the turf dance project known as Mud Water Theater, My-Linh views her artistry as physical explorations of family, identity, and culture thro...
2022-02-2554 minYBCA 10 PodcastEpisode 7 ft. Deanna Van Buren“I think there’s been great impact in at least having people think that we can be, as architects, we can be folks who address social change rather than propping up systems of oppressions, which is what we’ve been doing since the dawn of time, even to change systems like mass incarceration.” - Deanna Van Buren
As one of only 500 licensed Black female architects in the United States, Deanna Van Buren is committed to racial equity in the built environment. In this episode, Deanna shares with us the intentions behind her creative practice in applying architecture and publ...
2022-02-1147 minYBCA 10 PodcastEpisode 6 ft. Hasain Rasheed“It’s a constant desire to want to be better…When I hear the other artists in the 10 talk, I feel motivated to learn more. And not only about myself, but about them and their art and the value of working in community.” - Hasain Rasheed
In this episode, acclaimed photographer Hasain Rasheed is the featured guest. Co-hosted by singer, composer, and YBCA’s Chief of Program Meklit Hadero, this episode not only grounds us at the intersection of creative practice and social impact, but also invites us into Hasain’s journey in emotional storytelling and an esteemed mem...
2022-01-2857 min
Work. Shouldnt. Suck.Re-Imagining the Role of the Art CenterThis conversation was recorded as part of Work Shouldn't Suck's Ethical Re-Opening Summit that took place on April 27, 2021.What does it look like to co-create a future where everyone thrives? We explore re-imagining the role of the art center as a canvas and place to play and explore, and how to transform society by transforming organizations and the systems and structures that built and sustain them.GuestDEBORAH CULLINAN Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) CEO Deborah Cullinan is one of the nation’s leading thinkers on the pivotal role artists and ar...
2022-01-1342 minYBCA 10 PodcastEpisode 5 ft. Dorothy R. Santos“A lot of my own practice, I make things based on feeling because sometimes that’s where the greatest kernels or nuggets come from.” - Dorothy R. Santos
Writer, artist, educator, and Ph.D. candidate in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Dorothy R. Santos stars as the featured guest. In this upbeat episode, Dorothy openly shares a wealth of detail about her interests in art, technology, sound, spell books, and much more. Listen in as this YBCA 10 cohort member offers us a look inside her inspirations behind writing and what it means...
2022-01-071h 03YBCA 10 PodcastEpisode 4 ft. Leticia Hernández-Linares“...this has been one of the biggest honors and gifts that I've received and the timing of it couldn't have been better. I think it's a gift to be able to have all this time with such an amazing group, not just the 10, but everybody who's part of this.” - Leticia Hernández-Linares
Alongside being a valued member of the YBCA 10, Leticia Hernández-Linares is also a bilingual interdisciplinary writer, artist, and racial justice educator. In this episode, hear from Leticia as she vibrantly shares with us her storyful inspirations and familial roots, thoughts on being a commun...
2021-12-1745 minYBCA 10 PodcastEpisode 3 ft. Alex J. Bledsoe“We have a lot to learn from one another, especially when we’re tapping into our ancestral roots and our understanding of the land and our connections with land.” --Alex J. Bledsoe.
Featured guest is Alex J. Bledsoe, multidisciplinary artist, activist, and strategist whose work is inspired by dismantling exploitative systems. In this episode, listen in as this YBCA 10 member shares insight on her journey of building community around intention, film production work centered on healing justice, and other various Black liberating ventures.
Learn more about Alex by visiting:
Alex’s YBCA 10 Profile
Breaktide Producti...
2021-12-0340 min
Haymarket Books LiveTaking Children, Taking the Land: Nick Estes with Rebecca NagleJoin Nick Estes and Rebecca Nagle for an urgent discussion of the ongoing attack on Indigenous children and Indigenous land.
Nick Estes puts into historical context recent headlines surrounding the discovery of mass graves of Native children at Canadian residential schools. The removal of Indigenous children from their communities and families has a long genocidal legacy that persists today, well beyond the boarding school era in Canada and the United States. The attack on Indigenous children is an attack on Indigenous sovereignty and land, and there is urgency to uphold protections that are under assault by the right wing, such...
2021-12-021h 28
Beyond The Fog RadioYerba Buena Center for the Arts w/ Jonathan MosconeJonathan Moscone is a champion of arts and activism. A long-time theater director and current Chief Producer at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), he has devoted his career to interweaving arts organizations with civic life and community in an impactful way. With his Civic Engagement practice at YBCA, Moscone has created youth fellowships, artist residencies in the City’s public schools, programs to help artists lead financially sustainable lives, and ballot measures to restore city funding to arts and homeless family services. He also serves on numerous community boards, such as the Alice Waters’ Edible Schoolyard Proj...
2021-11-2434 minYBCA 10 PodcastEpisode 2 ft. Darryl Ratcliff“Sometimes I say I do the work of justice because I'm actually really interested in being free. And every time I try to be free, I run into these structures that keep getting the way of me being as free as I want to be.” -- Darryl Ratcliff
In this episode, hear from award-winning artist, poet, and YBCA 10 member Darryl Ratcliff. You’re invited behind the curtain of his artistry and activism to hear about Darryl’s intention to root culture in his creative practice, motivation behind inserting joy within Black art culture, and desire behind his current...
2021-11-1943 minYBCA 10 PodcastEpisode 1 ft. Nikiko Masumoto“I want the people who work the land, the people who feed us, to be valued.”
In the kickoff episode for the YBCA 10 Podcast, this episode introduces you to Nikiko Masumoto - a yonsei (4th generation) farmer at the Masumoto Family Farm. Listen in as she describes reigniting the soul of farming, radical resilience, community engagement, and much more about her creative enterprises in art and activism.
Learn more about Nikiko by visiting:
Masumoto Family Farm
Nikiko’s Ted Talk “Reigniting the soul of farming”
Book shop
YBCA 10 profile
Connect with YBCA:
Official We...
2021-11-0545 min
Souler ScoutsSouler Scouts Ep. 8 - Ode to Keisha review! [ft. Giveaway details!!]Listen to two adult women fangirl over Jamila Rowser's latest comic "Ode to Keisha" featuring artist Trinidad Escobar. A tale of genuine sisterhood, "Ode to Keisha" gives a beautiful depiction of cultivating friendships in a foreign area. The power of friendship can protect and heal, and Jamila shows us just how it has impacted her life from a very young age until now. With beautiful art from Trinidad Escobar, "Ode to Keisha" will resonate with many people of different ages for the years to come. ************************GIVEAWAY DETAILS!!!*************************Starting November 2, we will be hosting an Instagram g...
2021-11-0229 min
Notes From A Native DaughterEpisode 134 | Adriana Bosch, director, Letters to EloisaAdriana Bosch is fantastic—humble, open, present, giving, loving, sincere, and elegant. Really. She came in as an equal and a woman artist sharing her journey.
Her latest documentary, Letters to Eloisa, is a lyrical must-watch profile dedicated to the late and great José Lezama Lima.
It airs tonight—October 15— on PBS 10-11 p.m. EST (check local listings) under the New Season of Latino Public Broadcasting’s VOCES.
She wants people to watch this film. You will not regret it. Adriana captures so much in so little time. Towards the end, my tears just flowed. She knew h...
2021-10-1542 min
The Kathak Podcast : Kathak Ka ChakkarTKP 051: Charlotte MoragaEpisode Notes
Notes Charlotte Moraga is a Kathak dancer, choreographer and educator. She is currently the artistic director of the Chitresh Das Institute. She began dancing at the age of nine, but it wasn’t until her serendipitous meeting with Pandit Chitresh Das that she found her calling. Four years after beginning her study with Pandit Chitresh Das she joined his company and was a principal dancer in his original works from 1996 to 2016. Some of those seminal productions include: Darbar, Pancha Jati, Subali Sugriwa, Sampurnam, India Jazz Progressions, Sita Haran, Yatra, and Shiva. In 2002 she had her Ga...
2021-10-031h 12
GIA PodcastPodcast #35: The American Rescue Plan Act: All policy is cultural policyWe’re circling back on the American Rescue Plan, and we are talking about progressive creative worker policies. Learn how these inspirational leaders are supporting arts organizations and individual artists. We are joined by Gonzalo Casals, commissioner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; Deborah Cullinan, CEO, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA); Randy Engstrom, collaborative arts leader and board member of Grantmakers in the Arts; and Emil Kang, program director for Arts and Culture, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
2021-09-2741 min
The MultiDimensional MD - Waking Up MedicineArt & Design for Business, Education, and Change - Sara Fenske BahatAs the kids go back to school during another pandemic year, I wanted to replay this amazing video with Sara Fenske Bahat, who is the chair of Design MBA at CA College of the Arts. I love her spirit and how she's combined the financial smarts with a do-good mindset and reverence of the arts. We'll dive into more on the topic of STEAM in education as well. One of my favorite parts is the art of critique, which is a way of getting and giving feedback with honor and respect.
It's only been a...
2021-09-0142 min
La SegundaPenelope Douglas — Chief Strategy and Revenue Officer at Yerba Buena Center for the ArtsUp on the rack is Penelope Douglas, the Chief Strategy and Revenue Officer at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA. Penelope is a founding partner of CultureBank and has spent the past twenty-five years as a social entrepreneur and pioneer in community development investment. We recently hopped on a on a call where we discussed the impact of art in her childhood, her journey working in studio art, her transition to the corporate world, and how her extensive work in social entrepreneurship set her up for her current role at YBCA.
2021-08-2522 min
Atomic Zero ShowAtomic Zero Show #51 Roger KimSend us a textJoin us this week:Roger is a multidisciplinary artist who tells stories with text, music, moving graphics, dance, and interactive electronics.He has performed and exhibited with REDCAT, the YBCA New Frequencies Festival, CultureHub LA, Re-Fest, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Aperture Duo, the Westben Performer/Composer Residency and the California Institute of the Arts. He has received grants and awards from UC Berkeley, CultureHub LA, SFCMP, and the California Institute of the Arts.Rogers current research project is about modern Asian History, centered around the effects of...
2021-07-012h 37
CivicExploring mourning, place and change at YBCAMore information about Mourning is an Act of Love here.
2021-04-2928 min
Latino Theater Co.Episode 1 | José Luis Valenzuela & Rosalba RolónCreated by Latino Theater Co., "Offstage/Unmasked" are bravely curious conversations with Latinx theater artists across the country. Join us once a month as we talk about the State of Latinx Theater a year into the Covid-19 pandemic. We shut down, we masked up, went online, we connected and we're still here. How has covid impacted our programming? What kept us going? When are we coming back to the stage and what changes do we need to make to get there?
This week we interview José Luis Valenzuela, Artistic Director of the Latino Theater Co at The L...
2021-04-0933 min
The Dance ReelMinisode: The Latest Dance News - April 2021Hey Dancers! This week I have a shorter news style segment so that you can keep in the loop with the industry's latest news. You'll hear about the latest arts funding grants available across the world, as well as a new choreographic initiative, and local performances.
San Fransisco YBCA Grant:
https://ybca.org/guaranteed-income-pilot/
Sydney Choreographic Centre:
https://www.sydneychoreographiccentre.com/
New Zealand Dance News source:
https://dancemagazine.com.au/2021/03/new-zealand-dance-news-march-2021/
If...
2021-04-0209 minDance Magazine PodcastAddison Rae on Fallon, Keeping Dancers Paid, and Sydnie L. MosleyA transcript of this episode is available here: https://thedanceedit.com/transcript-episode-57Links referenced in/relevant to episode 57:-New York Times story on Broadway vaccination sites: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/theater/broadway-vaccinations-coronavirus.html-Los Angeles Magazine story on the Addison Rae/Jimmy Fallon controversy: https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/addison-rae-tonight-show/-Datebook piece on San Francisco's guaranteed income program for artists: https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/more-than-100-san-francisco-artists-to-receive-1000-a-month-under-new-pilot-program-Application for that program: https://ybca.org/guaranteed-income-pilot/-Pointe story on Ballet Co.Laboratory and its dual-contract structure: https://www.pointemagazine.com/ballet-co-laboratory-2651173176...
2021-04-0151 min
Lineage PodcastMarc Bamuthi JosephMarc Bamuthi Joseph currently serves as the Vice President and Artistic Director of Social Impact at The Kennedy Center. He co-founded the Life is Living Festival for Youth Speaks, and created the installation “Black Joy in the Hour of Chaos” for Creative Time. His opera libretto, We Shall Not Be Moved, was named one of 2017’s “Best Classical Music Performances” by The New York Times, and his work /peh-LO-tah/ toured nationally. Future projects include commissions for the Perelman Center, Washington National Opera, and others, and a feature in HBO’s upcoming adaptation of “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehesi Coates. A...
2021-03-3158 min
Recovery BitesThe Body Is Not an Apology with Sonya Renee TaylorABOUT SONYA RENEE TAYLOR:Sonya Renee Taylor is the Founder and Radical Executive Officer of The Body Is Not an Apology, a digital media and education company promoting radical self-love and body empowerment as the foundational tool for social justice and global transformation. Sonya’s work as a highly sought-after award-winning Performance Poet, activist, and transformational leader continues to have global reach. Sonya is a former National and International poetry slam champion, author of two books, "The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love" (Berrett-Koehler Publishers; February 2021), "Your Body Is Not an Ap...
2021-03-2951 min
Magic InclinedPresence with Nkechi NjakaThis week, Nkechi Njaka, (http://www.ndnlifestylestudio.com/) joins us for a beautiful and indulgent conversation around the power of mindfulness and presence. We talk about:
The connection between neuroscience and mindfulness
pairing dance and music with meditation
the ego and what it means to us
the subconscious
and so much more!
Meet Nkechi:
Nkechi Deanna Njaka is a neuroscientist, artist, meditation guide, and public speaker in SF. She is the founder of NDN lifestyle studio, co-founder of Sitting Matters, holding Art in Residency placements at Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation and the Kennedy Center. Sh...
2021-03-1252 min
Talk Human To MeResilience, Spending Time Alone, and a Walk DowntownPenelope Douglas is the Chief of Strategy & Revenue Officer at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. But we don't talk about any of that.Instead, Penelope talks about all of the other parts that make her a complete human: how we have an amazing ability to pick ourselves back up, the satisfaction of spending time alone, what she noticed while walking downtown, stardust, and more.Returning visiting psychologist, Dr. Nettra D. Pan, specializing in social psychology, sociology and strategy, also calls in to talk about the science behind how humans find the courage to...
2020-12-1427 min
Music And A MissionMusic And A Mission #3: Beauty Behind BarsToday's guests Ericka & Pride Scott share their story as owners of Honey Art Studio, which is bringing hope for many despite the barriers of incarceration. Restoration, an exhibit of art work by prisoners, will be on display on August 16th at the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in San Francisco, California. A virtual celebration of art by those who are incarcerated and by other Bay Area community members will also be featured. To make submissions (art, photography, poems, etc.) email honeyartstudio415@gmail.com or visit https://honeyart.net/ for more information.
https://ybca.org/ybca-fellows/
Book suggestions from the epi...
2020-08-0946 min
Work. Shouldnt. Suck.Live with Bamuthi & Lisa Yancey!Work. Shouldn't. Suck. LIVE: The Morning(ish) Show with special guests Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Lisa Yancey. [Live show recorded: May 8, 2020.]LISA YANCEY is a strategist, social impact entrepreneur, community builder, and visionary who believes that people build legacies in a lifetime. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Lisa Yancey is the president Yancey Consulting (YC) and co-founder of SorsaMED and The We’s Match. With 18 years of practice, YC has served over 100 nonprofit organizations, grantmakers, and individuals. Advising across arts and culture, public space, and justice-based sectors, YC specializes in strategic organizational development, economic modeling, evaluation and assessments, bo...
2020-05-1032 min
Work. Shouldnt. Suck.Live with Deborah Cullinan!Work. Shouldn't. Suck. LIVE: The Morning(ish) Show with special guest Deborah Cullinan, Chief Executive Officer, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. [Live show recorded: April 8, 2020.]DEBORAH CULLINAN Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) CEO Deborah Cullinan is one of the nation’s leading thinkers on the pivotal role arts organizations can play in shaping our social and political landscape, and has spent years mobilizing communities through arts and culture. Deborah is committed to revolutionizing the role art centers play in public life and during her tenure at YBCA, she has launched several bold new programs, en...
2020-04-0925 min
Work. Shouldnt. Suck.Live with Laura Zabel!Work. Shouldn't. Suck. LIVE: The Morning(ish) Show with special guest Laura Zabel, Executive Director of Springboard for the Arts. [Live show recorded: April 1, 2020.]Lauren and Tim are hosting daily livestreamed chats in April 2020 to connect with leaders in “real time” — about their lives, their organizations, their sector, and the world — during this unprecedented time in our lives. We come together as humans, as community, to talk about the concerns, the hopes, the hurdles, and the promise this particular moment in history offers us. Find the complete list guests, previous videos, and transcripts at WorkShouldntSuck.co.LAURA...
2020-04-0526 min
Team Human with Douglas RushkoffDeborah Cullinan "From the Community"Playing for Team Human today, CEO of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, co-founder of Culture Bank, and Innovator in Residence at the Kauffman Foundation, Deborah Cullinan. Also playing for Team Human this week, New York State Assemblyman Ron Kim and Cornell Law Professor Robert Hockett. Plus, hear from Reverend Billy, who explains how Team Human supporters can be sainted at Earth Riot on Sunday, December 15.Cullinan joins Team Human to discuss what it means to place artists and creativity at the center of thriving communities, ways to think about art as an important driver to...
2019-11-1356 min
Career CurvesJust Get In There with Jonathan MosconeSome people have a passion from an early age that they want to turn into a career. In this episode, we hear from someone who successfully did this. Jon Moscone discovered as a teenager that the theater was a place where he belonged and chose to pursue this as his career. He consciously made decisions to "just get in there" and prove what he could do, decisions that ultimately allowed him to be a theater director and producer, as well as an engaged civic leader. In our conversation, Jon shares the influences that shaped his life and h...
2019-10-2436 min
DatebookSponsored Episode: The Weapon of Art, Transforming Guns into instruments of HopeDuring a time when senseless gun violence continues to plague our country, artists are transforming weapons into instruments of hope and symbols of peace. In this sponsored episode of the Datebook podcast, King Kaufman speaks with four key individuals behind the upcoming Art of Peace exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA). Pati Navalta Poblete, founder of the Robby Poblete Foundation, and Rudy Corpuz from United Playaz discuss their collaborative efforts to decrease gun violence. Artist Tsungwei Moo shares the story behind her artwork in the exhibition, and YBCA CEO Deborah Cullinan speaks on the importance of...
2019-07-1718 min
The (art)Scene PodcastEpisode 37: Marcel Pardo Ariza & The Tallest Part of the Arch
For today’s episode, Marcel Pardo Ariza returns to the podcast to discuss their inclusion in the YBCA’s Bay Area Now (BAN 8) exhibition; the Womxn* Art Handlers group they co-founded & the recent exhibition they curated at Southern Exposure titled The Tallest Part of the Arch.
The Tallest Part of the Arch closed March 30, 2019, for more info visit the Southern Exposure website.
To learn more about Womxn* Art Handlers and any upcoming programming visit http://womenarthandlers.com.
Marcela Pardo Ariz & Kaitlin Trataris (image courtesy of Womxn Art Handlers)
BAN 8 at YBCA (Image credit: Charlie Villya...
2019-03-2943 min
The (art)Scene PodcastEpisode 37: Marcela Pardo Ariza & The Tallest Part of the ArchFor today's episode Marcela Pardo Ariza returns to the podcast to discuss her inclusion in the YBCA's Bay Area Now (BAN 8) exhibition; the Womxn* Art Handlers group she cofounded & the recent exhibition she curated at Southern Exposure titled "The Tallest Part of the Arch".
"The Tallest Part of the Arch" closed March 30, 2019, for more info visit the Souther Exposure website at https://soex.org/projects-exhibitions/tallest-part-arch.
To learn more about Womxn* Art Handlers and any upcoming programming visit http://womenarthandlers.com.
2019-03-2943 min
The Kitchen SistersDJ Spooky's Quantopia: The Evolution of the InternetDJ Spooky aka Paul D. Miller aka That Subliminal Kid is a composer, a multimedia artist, a writer, a keeper, an “exchanger” who takes on big environmental and social issues in his work. We are huge fans of his music and his way of thinking. He came by our studio this week to talk about his new multimedia concert experience, Quantopia: The Evolution of the Internet, an homage to the 50th anniversary of the Internet and “a tribute to the depth and high stakes of free speech and creative expression involved in our daily use of media.”
Quantopia was commissioned by the I...
2019-01-2505 min
The Kitchen SistersValérie Sainte-Agathe, San Francisco Girls ChorusWe talked with Valérie Sainte-Agathe, Artistic Director of the San Francisco Girls Chorus about the group’s upcoming performance of DJ Spooky’s Quantopia: The Evolution of the Internet, a multimedia hip hop concert experience about the history and exponential growth of the Internet. Commissioned by the Internet Archive. Catch the world premiere at YBCA Friday, January 25 in San Francisco. Get tickets: https://tickets.ybca.org/24699/24700
2019-01-2402 minThe (art)Scene PodcastEpisode 34: Susie Kantor & BAN 8My guest for this special Thanksgiving week episode is Susie Kantor, Associate Curator of Visual Arts at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA). In our conversation today you’ll hear us discuss her journey to a career in the art world and Bay Area Now 8 (BAN 8), the latest exhibition she helped curated at the YBCA.
For more information on BAN 8 and other programming at the YBCA check out their website at www.ybca.org. Be sure to also follow the YBCA on Instagram as they feature artists in the exhibition.
2018-11-221h 08
The (art)Scene PodcastEpisode 34: Susie Kantor & BAN 8My guest for this special Thanksgiving week episode is Susie Kantor, Associate Curator of Visual Arts at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. In our conversation today you'll hear us discuss her journey to a career in the art world and Bay Area Now 8 (BAN 8), the latest exhibition she helped curated at the YBCA.
For more information on BAN 8 and other programming at the YBCA check out their website at www.ybca.org. Be sure to also follow the YBCA on Instagram as they feature artists in the exhibition.
2018-11-221h 08
Stance Podcast with Chrystal GenesisStance Takes: The Power of Culture with Tarana Burke, Janet Mock, Rafael Casal, Nnedi Okorafor & Marc Bamuthi-JosephHow can we re-imagine political power? What is the role of culture in the current political climate? These were the questions framing the YBCA 100 Summit in San Francisco - an event recognizing some of the most exciting people, organizations and movements changing society for the better. Stance caught up with this year's honorees Janet Mock; Tarana Burke; Nnedi Okorafor; Rafael Casal, as well as YBCA's Marc Bamuthi-Joseph to hear their takes. Stancepodcast.com @stancepodcast ybca.org Music Credits: Janelle Monae - I Like That Blood Orange - Jewelry ft Janet Mock J Dilla - R...
2018-11-1518 min
Breaking GlassEp. 4: The Art of Crisis: Migration, Refugees and the Creative ExperienceThe idea of home looms large in the arts, popping up as a central theme in our favorite stories. But where does it fit into opera? Paige looks at how her own work and new opera performances wrestle with what home looks like in the 21st century—whether it’s building home, losing home, or finding home in a new country
Featuring:
**Chaz'men Williams-Ali, tenor
Aleks Romano, mezzo-soprano
Lidiya Yankovskaya, music director and conductor, Chicago Opera Theater and conductor and artistic director, Refugee Orchestra Project
Michael Mori, artistic director, Tape...
2018-11-0500 min
Wanda's PicksWanda's Picks Radio ShowThis is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. Lead singer and lyricist BUTTERFLY WILLIAMS...
2018-11-022h 28Wanda's PicksWanda's Picks Radio ShowThis is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. Terah J. Lawyer, Project Coordinator, Impact...
2018-09-052h 27Wanda's PicksWanda's Picks Radio ShowThis is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. Tribute to Queen Aretha Franklin (Mar 25, 1942...
2018-08-222h 41Wanda's PicksBlack Art and CultureThis is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1.Rubie Macaraeg, June Jordan School of...
2018-05-112h 12
Performers & Creators LabAudience Alchemy: How to Take Your Crowd with YouHow do you show up for your audience? Performing art is a co-creation between you and your audience. . . which can be invigorating when you feel connected, but can be hard if you’re not. In this episode with guest composer, vocalist and cultural instigator, Meklit Hadero, you’ll learn from her extensive touring experience on how to connect with your audience, how to pick your collaborators, maintain your artistic vision and more! Holly will also share The Watermill exercise which helps you calm nervousness and keep the wheel between you and your audience turning. This episode examines your p...
2018-04-1842 minRev Left RadioBlack Feminism and Queer Theory w/ Zoe SamudziZoe Samudzi is a black feminist writer whose work has appeared in a number of spaces including The New Inquiry, Warscapes, Truthout, ROAR Magazine, Teen Vogue,BGD, Bitch Media, and Verso, among others. She is also a member of the 2017/18 Public Imagination cohort of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Fellows Program, and she is a member of the Black Aesthetic, an Oakland-based group and film series exploring the multitudes and diversities of black imagination and creativity. She is presently a Sociology PhD student at the University of California, San Francisco in the Department of...
2017-11-271h 06
Driving Participation Podcast: What Is Working in Marketing & Fundraising | Nonprofits | Schools | AssociationsBranding Gets You to the Starting LineAs Jen Martindale will say, having a brand strategy in place just the starting line—not the finish line. She helped the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts undergo a total rebranding, which doesn't mean a new logo. As Chief of Marketing, she helped the organization reach a new audience in a way that worked for them and created an image and strategy that communicates who the YBCA is. She talks to Beth about the role arts and culture play in enacting change, why you should never try to replicate what another organization does, how to create trust when yo...
2017-10-2548 minRev Left RadioCritical Race Theory and Black Liberation w/ Zoé SamudziZoe Samudzi is a black feminist writer whose work has appeared in a number of spaces including The New Inquiry, Warscapes, Truthout, ROAR Magazine, Teen Vogue, BGD, Bitch Media, and Verso, among others. She is also a member of the 2017/18 Public Imagination cohort of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Fellows Program, and she is a member of the Black Aesthetic, an Oakland-based group and film series exploring the multitudes and diversities of black imagination and creativity. She is presently a Sociology PhD student at the University of California, San Francisco in the Department of...
2017-10-121h 08The (art)Scene PodcastEpisode 20: Martin StricklandThis week I catch up with a former classmate of mine and fellow intern, Martin Strickland who now currently works at the YBCA (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) as an Exhibitions Associate, Registration and Production. An Alabama native, Martin discusses his educational background which also includes the time he spent in New Orleans working for NO/AIDS Taskforce and the New Orleans Museum of Art. We also talk about the various positions the has held at the YBCA.
The latest show opening at the YBCA is titled Space Brainz-Yerba 3000 which features two projects by Damon Rich a...
2017-06-3050 min
The (art)Scene PodcastEpisode 20: Martin StricklandThis week I catch up with a former classmate of mine and fellow intern, Martin Strickland who now currently works at the YBCA (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) as an Exhibitions Associate, Registration and Production. An Alabama native, Martin discusses his educational background which also includes the time he spent in New Orleans working for NO/AIDS Taskforce and the New Orleans Museum of Art. We also talk about the various positions the has held at the YBCA.
The latest show opening at the YBCA is titled "Space Brainz-Yerba 3000" which features two projects by Damon Rich...
2017-06-3050 minWanda's PicksWanda's Picks Radio ShowThis is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1.Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Francisco poet, speaks...
2017-02-172h 58
Wanda's PicksWanda's Picks Radio Show1. Watani Stiner, Troy Williams, Zoe Mallery: CCDA Mass Incarceration Awareness & Action Day, 7-9 p.m. at Redeemer Community Church in San Francisco. 2. Frankye Kelly-Carruthers performs Sat., Feb. 4, 8-10 p.m. at the Californa Jazz Conservatory, 2087 Addison Street, Berkeley. 3. Music Director/Performer Meklit Hadero and Choreographer Amy O'Neal about Clas/sick Hip Hop featuring Amy O'Neal's "Opposing Forces" and UnderCover Presents: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Clas/sick Hip Hop will be February 16-18 at YBCA.
2017-02-032h 06Wanda's PicksWanda's Picks Radio ShowThis is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. Aundrea Lacy, born and raised in...
2016-08-032h 24The (art)Scene PodcastEpisode 2: Emily ReynoldsEmily Reynolds talks to Louis about her roles as the Marketing Manager for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and as co-director of Bass & Reiner Gallery in San Francisco. She also discusses the various experiences she has had in her education which led her to where she is at today and where she hopes they would ultimately lead her to. To check out past, present and future shows for Bass & Reiner, visit bassandreiner.com and for the YBCA visit ybca.org. Follow the YBCA on Instagram and Twitter at @ybca.
2016-06-241h 03Wanda's PicksWanda's Picks Radio Show1. Mahealani Uchiyama, director, Mahea Uchiyama Center for International Dance in Berkeley, Kumu Hula (hula teacher) of Halau Ka Ua Tuahine. She is creator and director of the annual Kapili Polynesian dance and music workshops and Traci Bartlow, as Artistic director, Starchild Dance Company uses African, hip hop, house, praise dance, and authentic jazz dance styles in her choreography. Both choreographers are featured in the 21st Annual Collage des Cultures Africaines, Mar. 10-13, at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Art in Oakland. 2. Christian L. Frock, guest curator for Take This Hammer @ YBCA March-August, 2016. Opens tonight! Frock is an independent curator, wr...
2016-03-112h 54Wanda's PicksWanda's Picks Radio ShowGuests: 1. Echo Brown is a dynamic writer, performer, and community activist who uses story to inspire and transform, joins us to talk about her solo performance up at the Marsh SF, Black Virgins Are Not for Hipsters (through June 6). For tickets ($15-$100), the public may visit www.themarsh.org or call 415-282-3055 2. Amikaeyla joins us to speak about her music and peace work (July 26, 2014 archive). 3. Intima artist collaboarators: choreographer, Gregory Dawson and Ilyas Iliya, composer, join us to talk about the multidimensional work which looks at the epic story of King Gilgamesh. Intima is a fusion of visual art by A...
2015-05-062h 20
Bad at SportsBad at Sports Episode 456:Jacqueline Kiyomi GordonThis week: BAS west coast checks in from the YBCA for a chat with Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon.
2014-05-2659 min
Wanda's PicksWanda's Picks Radio:Mama C; Barbara Borden&David L. Brown Keeper of the BeatCharlotte Hill O'Neal, visual and spoken word artist, musician, filmmaker, long time community activist and co Director of United African Alliance Community Center UAACC based in Tanzania, East Africa, stops by the studio on her Heal the Community Tour 2014. Since we last spoke she has a new CD, a new collection of poetry and a new film. See http://mamacharlottesword2011.wordpress.com/ Tyrone Davis is a Los Angeles based actor, director, teaching artist, TCG Leadership U Grant Finalist (2012) and Resident Education Artist with American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He proudly serves as an adjunct drama professor at Contra Costa Col...
2014-03-142h 11Wanda's PicksWanda's Picks Radio: 1 Billion Rising; Nora Chipaumire's Miriam;Larry DouglasToday we speak about violence against women and the need to address this in forums like 1 Billion Rising in Oakland tonight and Love Doesn't Hurt, tomorrow afternoon, Friday & Saturday, Feb. 14 and 15, 2014. We are joined in the studio by amazing women creators and organizers: Luisah Teish, Mary Owen, Regina Y. Evans, Regina Jackson, Cheryl Chambers and Vanessa Scott. We open the show with an encore interview with actress and healer, Margaret Avery, Academy Award Nominee for her role as "Shug" in Spielberg's The Color Purple. She's in town as a special screening at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. Next we have...
2014-02-142h 34
The Long Now FoundationAdam Steltzner - Beyond Mars, Earth“Dare mighty things” concludes the most dramatic space video in years, "Seven Minutes of Terror: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.php?id=1090." Narrated by Adam Steltzner, it spelled out how the “sky crane” his team designed at JPL would have to perform an elaborate, impossible-seeming sequence to "lower" the huge Mars rover Curiosity to the planet’s surface from a hovering rocket guided totally by artificial intelligence. Humans wouldn’t know if it worked until it was all over. Hence the terror.
The actual Mars landing on August 6, 02012, went perfectly, and Steltzner found himself a TV superstar after the live cov...
2013-10-131h 30
KPFA - The Hear and NowHear & Now Live Music Special: VAK Choir and Michael Koppy – July 25, 2013After spending two hours (8 – 10 p.m.) with Bonnie Simmons and Derk Richardson during the KPFA summer fund drive, stayed tuned for live music from the studio. Ann Dyer leads a portion of her 108-person choir of “everyday voices” in a preview of the Sept. 20-21 YBCA world premiere of VAK: Song of Becoming. Then, in a change of pace, singer-songwriter Michael Koppy shares a few songs from his ambitious Ashmore’s Store album.
The post Hear & Now Live Music Special: VAK Choir and Michael Koppy – July 25, 2013 appeared first on KPFA.
2013-07-2617 min
Wanda's PicksWanda's Picks: Jerri Lange & Belva DavisThe continuing story of Jerri Lange, a former Chronicle reporter; SFSU professor and longtime television host whose groundbreaking broadcasting career spanned several decades. Now in her late 80s, Jerri is still exploring, most recently becoming the student of a Master Zen Buddhist priest. This exhibit follows not only her past work but focuses on her love for Japan and her ongoing spiritual journey. Meet Ms. Lange, Sunday, February 24, 2013, 2 PM in the Koret Auditorium, Lower Level, Main Library. http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1012883001 Belva Davis has been a fixture in Bay Area journalism for more than five decades. Since becoming t...
2013-02-222h 43
The Long Now FoundationChris Anderson - The Makers RevolutionChris Anderson’s book THE LONG TAIL chronicled how the Web revolutionized and democratized distribution. His new book MAKERS shows how the same thing is happening to manufacturing, with even wider consequences, and this time the leading revolutionaries are the young of the world. Anderson himself left his job as editor of Wired magazine to join a 22-year-old from Tijuana in running a typical Makers firm, 3D Robotics, which builds do-it-yourself drones.
Web-based collaboration tools and small-batch technology such as cheap 3D printers, 3D scanners, laser cutters, and assembly robots, Anderson points out, are transforming manufacturing. Suddenly, large-scale manufacturers are co...
2013-02-171h 30
KQED: Spark Art Video PodcastLearn more about Occupy Bay Area at YBCALearn more about the Occupy Bay Area art exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Produced by Spark for This Week in Northern California. Original air date: July 2012.
2012-07-1900 min
Bad at SportsBad at Sports Episode 159: Bay Area Now 5This week Brian and Patricia head over to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to check out Bay Area Now 5, a triennial of local contemporary art. Joining the round table discussion are curators
Berin Golonu, Valerie Imus, and Taraneh Hemami, as well as
participating artists Ian McDonalnd, Edmundo de Marcheno, and Jonn
Herschend.
YBCA's fifth triennial exhibition of Bay Area art explores
questions around how to re-imagine a regional survey in the midst of
globalization. What continues to draw artists here and makes the Bay
Area a unique place to live and work when more and more...
2008-09-141h 13Bad at SportsBad at Sports Episode 150: René de GuzmanRené de GuzmanRecorded live in front of a
studio audience at Triple Base Gallery on July 10th, 2008 as a part of
the exhibition "Open for Business". In this raw interview Brian and
Patricia talk to René de Guzman about the cultural origins of art, how
museums can be relevant in the 21st century, and Oakland's future as an
art center.
René de Guzman is the senior curator of art at the Oakland Museum of
California. Previously, he was the director of visual arts at San
Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA).
2008-07-1354 minBad at SportsBad at Sports Episode 149: Elkins on the Stone Summer Theory InstituteThis week: First we had James Elkins and the
raiders of the lost ark, then James Elkins and the temple of doom, next James
Elkins and the last crusade….now.
James Elkins and the crystal something-or-other.
No, no, But James Elkins is back to talk with Duncan about the Stone
Summer Theory Institute, the Art Phd. and why your sorry ass is going to be in
school forever.
Stone Summer Theory Institute at SAIC: What
Is an Image?
From July 13-19, the second annual Stone Summer Theory
Institute at the School of th...
2008-07-061h 01Bad at SportsBad at Sports Episode 89: The Collective Foundation/Miranda July reviewedThis week Book Reviews and West Coast News! Terri Griffith
and Joanna Topor review Miranda July's book No One Belongs Here More Than You.
Worked in to the commentary is discussion of the Mackenzie's sex life and
Oprah's use of the phrase Vah-Jay-Jay.
Brian Andrews and Marc LeBlanc talk to curator Joseph del
Pesco and artist Scott Oliver about the Collective Foundation.
The Collective Foundation (CF) is a temporary organization.
The concept of curator Joseph del Pesco and artist Scott Oliver, CF relies on
the contributions of numerous people who are working to advance art i...
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