Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, known as YBCA, is a multi-disciplinary arts center dedicated to developing and presenting performances, exhibitions, lectures, civic engagement activities, and festivals. YBCA also supports individual artists with funding, professional development opportunities, and opportunities to present their work. In a typical year, YBCA offers more than 120 performances, and draws audiences of more than 75,000 from around the Bay Area and nation to its theaters and galleries in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood. This grant will support the development, marketing, and presentation of artist-driven convenings that align with the Performing Arts Program’s Artists strategy.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a large, multi-disciplinary arts center located in downtown San Francisco. It produces and presents performances, exhibitions, lectures, festivals, and screenings — reaching more than 76,000 people through the roughly 120 performances it offers each year. YBCA appeals to audiences from all over the region through its adventurous commissions; community rentals of presenting space; community engagement initiatives; and YBCA 100 list, which recognizes leading artists, leaders, and activists that are using creativity to enact change.