Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Recurring shows are placed on their next date. Every listing was read off the venue's own page by a person; prices are the printed ones.

• Oct21Free Art Workshop: Halloween GarlandWednesday, 2:00 PMA drop-in craft session in YBCA's Grand Lobby where you design and build a Halloween garland of characters and symbols, inspired by the artist-made haunt The Haunt; materials are provided and you take it home. It runs 2–4 p.m. at 701 Mission St, near Montgomery St BART. Free with registration and open to all ages. A follow-up session on Oct 28 builds a pop-up mini haunted house.Free with registration
• Oct21Artificial Intimacy: Sherry Turkle and AIWednesday, 6:30 PMAdvance tickets sold out · limited walk-ins
• Oct24Silent Shorts ProgramSaturday, 2:00 PM$15 · free for YBCA members
• Oct24The World of Black Film: RevolutionsSATURDAYS · 2 PM · next Sat, Oct 24, 2:00 PM$15 (includes snacks and gallery admission) · free for members
• Oct28Free Art Workshop: Pop-up Mini Haunted HouseWednesday, 2:00 PMAn all-ages drop-in workshop building a small pop-up haunted house, choosing your own objects and mood, with materials provided and artwork to take home, in the Grand Lobby at YBCA, 701 Mission St (near Montgomery St BART). It runs 2–4 pm on Wednesday, Oct 28; free with registration. It's a warm-up for YBCA's ticketed artist-built haunt, The Haunt, which opens the next night.Free with registration
• Oct29The Haunt: A Halloween Hangout Crafted by ArtistsOct 29 – Oct 31$25 · YBCA members $15 · kids 12 and under free
• Oct31The Red ShoesSaturday, 2:00 PM$15 (film, snacks and gallery admission) · free for YBCA members
• Nov4Gallery Tour & Sketching Activity: Dread Scott & Rael San FratelloWednesday, 4:00 PMYBCA teaching artists lead a tour of Dread Scott: The Body Politic and Rael San Fratello: Prototypes and Provocations, with a sketching activity, meeting in the Grand Lobby at YBCA, 701 Mission St (near Montgomery St BART). It runs 4–5:30 pm on Wednesday, Nov 4; the page doesn't list a price. Stay on for Ryli's free in-gallery performance at 7 pm the same evening, already on our calendar.No price listed
• Nov4Ryli: In-Gallery PerformanceWednesday, 7:00 PMSan Francisco jangle-pop band Ryli plays a set inside Gallery 3 among GaHee Park's moody paintings in Behind the Curtain, with time to see the work before and after. Music starts promptly at 7 p.m. at YBCA, 701 Mission St, near Montgomery St BART. Free with RSVP; seating is limited, and drinks from the lobby bar stay out of the gallery. It is a low-key, free way to catch a local band in an unusual room.Free with RSVP
• Nov6Jam Session with Creativity ExploredFriday, 12:00 PMArtists from Creativity Explored, the San Francisco nonprofit studio for artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities, bring their handmade instruments for an open jam the public can join, in the Front Door Gallery at YBCA, 701 Mission St (near Montgomery St BART). It starts at noon on Friday, Nov 6; free with RSVP. Cléa Massiani's Nov 18 lecture on progressive art studios, also at YBCA, gives the background.Free with RSVP
• Nov18Progressive Art Studio Models: A Lecture by Cléa MassianiWednesday, 6:30 PMCléa Massiani traces progressive art studios, spaces supporting artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities, from art brut and 1960s deinstitutionalization to their funding and governance models, citing YBCA's 1997 show Whipper Snapper Nerd, in the Front Door Gallery at YBCA, 701 Mission St (near Montgomery St BART). It starts at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, Nov 18; the page links to tickets but doesn't print a price. It follows the Nov 6 jam session with Creativity Explored artists.No price listed
• Dec9Mud Frontier: Film Screening and Talkback with Rael San FratelloWednesday, 6:30 PMYBCA screens Mud Frontier: Architecture at the Borderlands (2022, 63 min), about Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello 3D-printing earthen buildings in Colorado's San Luis Valley, followed by a talkback moderated by UC Berkeley architectural historian Andrew Shanken. It starts at 6:30 p.m. in the Screening Room, 701 Mission St, near Montgomery St BART. Free with registration. It ties in with the duo's exhibition Prototypes and Provocations, on view in the galleries through Jan 31.Free with registration

The last 1 of 1 past event we listed here — useful for a sense of what this venue actually programmes.

1. Let Her Sing: A Celebration of Female VoicesOct 17, 2026