At The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA.
A waterfall located at the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in San Francisco, CA. Which is near The Metreon Center on 4th Street.
At The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA.
A waterfall located at the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in San Francisco, CA. Which is near The Metreon Center on 4th Street.
At The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA.
A water feature located at the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in San Francisco, CA. Which is near The Metreon Center on 4th Street.
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Awesome landscaping of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. It also provides a splendid view of downtown San Francisco and SF MoMA designed by Mario Botta.
At The Yerba Buena Center of the Arts in San Francisco, CA.
A water feature located at the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in San Francisco, CA. Which is near The Metreon Center on 4th Street.
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Visiting the Yerba Buena Gardens | San Francisco
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Planning a trip to San Francisco? Learn about the Yerba Buena Gardens, one of the city's nicest parks, in this travel video.
San Franciscans love their parks, and Yerba Buena Gardens is a local favorite. This park covers two city blocks with open space and carefully tended gardens. It’s an escape from the city within the city and it’s also a good destination for those travelling with children.
The park has many kid-friendly amenities, including a vintage carousel, an ice-skating rink, and the Children’s Creativity Museum.
The gardens are also a place to experience local arts. Public art can be found throughout the park. The most notable piece of artwork is the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Fountain. This awe-inspiring monument is made up of shining slabs of glass with excerpts from Dr. King’s speeches inscribed upon them, water flowing over the words.
Yerba Buena Gardens doesn’t limit itself to public art. The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, located right in the park, welcomes all kinds of contemporary artists.
The fine arts are well represented in the Center’s museum, while musicians and dancers take the stage. Independent films of all genres are also given screenings here.
Many of San Francisco’s best museums are also in the vicinity of the park. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Cartoon Art Museum, the Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Museum of the African Diaspora are all minutes away.
The Yerba Buena Gardens’ location and amenities make it a cultural oasis in the middle of the city.
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Fountain outside the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts along 3rd Street across from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the South of Market District.
Yerba Buena Center For The Arts Presents 'Transform'
Marc Bahmuthi Joseph from the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts talks to host Kenny Choi about 'Transform,' a festival celebrating the power of performance, ideas and action.
San Francisco - Yerba Buena - Neighborhood Video
Yerba Buena is one of San Francisco’s newest neighborhoods, home to some of the most modern and innovative developments. Thanks to the dedicated, specific and patient planning behind it, Yerba Buena has become the ultimate urban cultural center.
The neighborhood boasts over two dozen museums and galleries, infinite shopping and dining options, state-of-the-art recreational and entertainment facilities, and activities that attract an immensely diverse spectrum of people.
San Francisco - Yerba Buena - Neighborhood Video
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Five acres of shade trees and murmuring fountains which adjoin the Moscone Convention Center.
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- ... We passed the Convention Centre and the Yerba Buena Gardens before driving through the Civic Centre and seeing City Hall (which looks just like the Capitol building in Denver ...
- ... hope this changes soon althouhg its quite nice to do what i wzant went to yerba buena gardens, chinatown, cable car museum and coit tower today, then on to alactraz what a craaazy place!!! quite scary if going to ...
- ... It was just nice to walk around but then I decided to go down to the Yerba Buena gardens ( San Francisco was Yerba Buena by the natives, which means Good Grasses or Good Earth which is kind of ironic) ...
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Kamala Harris with Farai Chideya @ YBCA
California Attorney General Kamala Harris in discussion with acclaimed journalist Farai Chideya at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, April 18, 2012.
The Forum: Conversations at YBCA is a new quarterly series of moderated conversations with policy makers, activists, cultural figures, and innovators of national prominence. The series exemplifies YBCA's ongoing commitment to serving as a communal meeting place for the discussion and dissemination of contemporary ideas.
In this debut program, YBCA welcomes Kamala Harris, the Attorney General of the State of California. Harris is the first female, the first African-American and the first Asian-American elected to this office. She has gained widespread recognition for her role in negotiating a nationwide settlement with major American banks over home foreclosure abuses and for her views on the death penalty, internet privacy and same-sex marriage. Harris will be joined on stage by award-winning, nationally-known journalist Farai Chideya, whose reporting has been featured in Newsweek, The New York Times, and on National Public Radio.
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THE ART OF HEALTH SYMPOSIUM | YBCA & Blue Shield of California
The Art of Health Symposium celebrates the new Blue Shield of California Theater at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, featuring special performances from local artists and presentations from inspiring health practitioners incorporating art into health care. See more at
The event included performances by:
Dohee Lee
Dohee Lee is a Korean American performance artist, musician, ritualist and educator who is born on Jeju Island in South Korea, Dohee Lee is a creative visionary trained at the master level in traditional Korean music, singing, drumming and dance which is rooted in Korean Shamanism. Since her arrival in the United States, she has been a vital contributor to both the traditional and contemporary arts landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. She has performed in venues and festivals around the world and has collaborated with a wide range of artists such as dancers/choreographers Anna Halprin, Kronos Quartet, Amara Tabor-Smith, Donald Swearingen, the Degenerate Art Ensemble and more. She is a recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship 2018, Hewlett 50 Arts Commission 2018, Doris Duke Impact Award, Herb Alpert Award, Creative Capital Award, the Isadora Duncan Special Award, and other numerous artist residencies.
AXIS Dance Company
Founded in 1987, AXIS is the nation’s most acclaimed contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled performers. In 1998 Judith Smith took over artistic direction, and a commission soon after by Bill T. Jones propelled the company into the national spotlight. Other past AXIS collaborators have included Stephen Petronio, Yvonne Rainer, Ann Carlson, Joe Goode, Marc Brew, Meredith Monk, and Joan Jeanrenaud. AXIS has toured more than one hundred cities in the United States, Europe, and Russia. It celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2017, and appointed as its new artistic director the internationally renowned choreographer Marc Brew. The company has received eight Isadora Duncan Dance Awards and has appeared twice on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance. AXIS hosted the first national and regional convenings on “The Future of Physically Integrated Dance” in 2016. AXIS provides unparalleled dance education and outreach programs that empower disabled and nondisabled people to access dance opportunities.
Keynote Speaker: Music Therapist Matthew Logan, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
Matt Logan is a Peterson Family Foundation Music Therapist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in San Francisco. He creates musical experiences with children to help them relearn how to walk and talk after brain injuries, express and work through the traumas and frustrations of hospitalization, and connect with the healthy self that exists within them. Logan believes that experiencing transcendence and connection through the arts promotes wellness in all of us. When away from the hospital, he can be found lecturing at universities, speaking at conferences, and playing lead guitar in rock venues up and down the West Coast.
San Francisco: Yerba Buena Gardens
Yerba Buena Gardens is the name for two blocks of public parks located between Third and Fourth, Mission and Folsom Streets in downtown San Francisco. The area includes the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Yerba Buena was the name of the town in the Mexican territory of Alta California that became the city of San Francisco, California, after it was claimed by the United States in 1846.
In 1999 the Yerba Buena Gardens received the Gold Medal of the biannual Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence. In praising the design of the work, the jury noted the process that led to the creation of the gardens, as well as its inclusiveness in terms of the population it serves and its neighborhood.
The original block opened in 1993 contains several public art installations. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is located behind a waterfall, which is the largest fountain on the West Coast. The King memorial consists of large, etched glass excerpts of King's speeches in the languages of San Francisco's sister cities, and also includes a large green space where performance arts events are held throughout the year. The entire memorial was a collaborative project between Sculptor Houston Conwill, Poet Estella Majoza and Architect Joseph De Pace.
Located in the Gardens proper are the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, a contemporary arts center in the North block, and the Children's Creativity Museum (Zeum), a children's media and technology museum in the South block. An ice skating rink, a bowling alley, and a restored 1905 carousel originally located at Playland-at-the-Beach can also be found in the South block. Eateries within the gardens include the B Restaurant and Grill and the Samovar Tea Lounge on the North block's terrace, Mo's Grill on the South block's upper walkway, and a snack shop by the carousel.
Nearby museums include: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Museum of the African Diaspora, Children's Creativity Museum (Zeum), and formerly the Cartoon Art Museum. Other exhibiting institutions nearby include SF Planning and Urban Research Association and California Historical Society.
The Mexican Museum is (as of 2015) planned to be built across Mission Street as part the 53-story Yerba Buena tower, which will consist mostly of luxury condominiums. The project is planned to cost $500 million ($30 million of which for the museum) and will complete the Yerba Buena district redevelopment area, which apart from the Yerba Buena Gardens includes the Metreon and Moscone Center.
Located within two blocks of Yerba Buena Gardens are many hotels, museums, and retail centers. The St. Regis Museum Tower, W Hotel San Francisco, San Francisco Marriott, Four Seasons, and InterContinental Hotel San Francisco are some of the largest hotels in the area. Retail in the area include the Metreon bordering the North block, and the Westfield San Francisco Centre one block away in the old Emporium building, featuring San Francisco's first Bloomingdale's.