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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
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
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/Artwaves – June 13, 2024: Colm Tóibín – Ayodele NzingaBookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Links to assorted local theater & book venues
Colm Tóibín discusses his latest novel, “Long Island,” which follows characters from his earlier best-seller, “Brooklyn” twenty years later. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Ireland, in 1955. He is the author of 11 novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, Nora Webster, House of Names and The Magician. His work has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize three times, has won the Costa Novel Award and the IMPAC Award...2024-06-1359 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 min
KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat BrooksPro-Palestine Artists Alter Own Works at YBCA w/ Leila Weefur & Sholeh AsgaryOn February 15th, a group of eight artists whose pieces were featured in a Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) exhibition protested the organizations attempt to silence political conversation on Palestine by altering their own exhibited works, adding pro-Palestine messages to their pieces. Since the protest, the YBCA gallery has remained closed. Eight artists participated in the protest, and we have two of them joining us in conversation. Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland, and Sholeh Asgary is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary sound artist.
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Subscribe to...2024-02-2620 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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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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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...2022-12-2949 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/subscribe2022-12-2239 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
KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat BrooksSamora Pinderhughes on The Healing Project @ YBCA and his album GriefBerkeley-raised, Julliard-trained pianist Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes has designed and curated an exhibit at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts entitled The Healing Project. Fundamentally an abolitionist project, The Healing Project explores particularly the prison industrial complex through music, visual arts, film, a digital library of audio interviews. The works are rooted in interviews and relationships that Pinderhughes has fostered since 2011 and have been formed by over 100 storytelling and artistic collaborators. At the center of the project are the intergenerational voices of individuals across the country, including folks incarcerated in prisons and detention centers. Their stories, experiences, and ideas s...2022-08-3134 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 14
KPFA - UpFrontJanuary 6 capitol riot investigations; Public transit mask mandate; Plus Samora Pinderhughes on his YBCA exhibit
On today’s show:
0:08 – John Nichols (@NicholsUprising), national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine discusses the latest developments on the January 6th capitol riot investigations.
0:33 – We discuss controversy surrounding the public transit mask mandate with Raia Small, a community organizer and educator with Senior and Disability Action (@sdaction1), Rebecca Saltzman (@RebeccaForBART), BART Board President and Director for District 3, and Jovanka Beckles (@JovankaBeckles), a member of the AC Transit District Board of Directors, representing Ward 1.
1:08 – Kim Kelly (@GrimKim), a labor journalist and labor organizer on her book Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American...2022-04-281h 59YBCA 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...2022-01-1344 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
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 min