Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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City: San Francisco

Website: http://www.ybca.org

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ybca.org

Twitter: @ybca

Address: 701 Mission Street

Phone: 415.978.2700

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About Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, located in San Francisco's Yerba Buena cultural district, is one of the nation's leading multidisciplinary contemporary arts centers. With a belief that contemporary art is at the heart of community life, YBCA brings audiences and artists of all backgrounds together to express and experience creativity. The organization is known for nurturing emerging artists at the forefront of their fields and presenting works that blend art forms and explore the events and ideas of our time. As part of its commitment to the San Francisco Bay Area, YBCA supports the local arts community and reflects the region's diversity of people and thought through its performing arts, visual arts, film and video programs, and public programming that are curated thematically around "big ideas;" which illustrate the connections and associations between the works.

From the ground up, YBCA was designed to embrace and celebrate a diversity of arts, cultures, and audiences. Created on the model of a European kunsthalle, with no permanent art collection, YBCA bridges the seemingly contradictory worlds of pop culture, contemporary art, and community aesthetics. Exhibitions, performance, film and video, and community engagement programs are organized thematically in an effort to connect art and community life, and a host of community engagement programs each year connect audiences with art, artists, and ideas.

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