“I Hear A Butterfly” trailer Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2023-06-09 | As part of Dohee Lee’s “MU–Connector/When the land stands alone,” we invite you to experience Asian Refugees United’s new film “I Hear A Butterfly” featuring the vibrant stories of resilience from immigrant community members. Learn more about the powerful documentary films screening at #YBCA on Sunday, June 25, 2023: bit.ly/425NUbO
طراوت | TARAVAT Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2023-06-08 | In her own words: Taravat Talepasand reflects on how artwork in “ طراوت | TARAVAT” advocates for women’s rights and uplifts artists amplifying the #WomanLifeFreedom movement. Experience the exhibition at #YBCA before it closes July 23, 2023.
Dohee Lee | MU-Connector/When the land stands alone Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2023-06-08 | On June 23 and June 24 from 7-9:30 pm join us for the multi-part ritual theater performance “MU–Connector/When the land stands alone” from artist Dohee Lee. Through dance, singing, drumming, and more Lee delves into the story of our ancestral lands and the wounds inflicted through systemic oppression in the U.S.Save your spot for this community ritual performance: bit.ly/3BYbZXs
Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action | Final Week Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2023-06-08 | It’s the last chance to experience “Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action” before it closes this Sunday, June 11! Immerse yourself in their work that weaves together dance, painting, and other participatory works to inspire our own creative power and enact change in the world.🎥 by Rapt Productions
Announcing the Grand Prize winner of the spring 2023 San Francisco Dream House Raffle Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2023-06-07 | Charles Ward, Chief of Raffle Operations at YBCA, announces the fall 2022 winner of the San Francisco Spring Dream House Raffle.sfraffle.com/prizewinners
Living Label: People, always | Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2023-05-08 | People embody creative power. 💪Through collective inspiration and transformation, visual artist Brett Cook and choreographer Liz Lerman build opportunities for everyone to find their place in art-making. Throughout their current exhibition “Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action,” the work highlights how they’ve forged new pathways for artists and individuals to build the world in which we want to live. Experience their collaborative creations with communities in “Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action” on view through Sunday, June 11, 2023. #ReflectionAndActionYBCADirector/Producer: Juan TopeteDP/Editor: David TopeteGaffer: Tehan Davis2nd Camera Operator: MJ VallejoPA/Swing: Benjamin Levine
Living Label: Art as a Verb | Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2023-05-08 | Process is often invisible to the final artwork–the action of making art is a creative endeavor in itself, one of growth, collaboration, and discovery. For Brett Cook and Liz Lerman, the process of creating work is never finished, and the experience of making and contemplation becomes a feedback loop for action and reflection. Recognizing art as a verb–a kinesthetic experience–has led to growth and learning for these artists around community, culture, and themselves. Take a deep dive into these artists’ process with “Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action” on view through Sunday, June 11, 2023 #ReflectionAndActionYBCADirector/Producer: Juan TopeteDP/Editor: David TopeteGaffer: Tehan Davis2nd Camera Operator: MJ VallejoPA/Swing: Benjamin Levine
Living Label: Retrospective in Forward Motion | Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2023-05-08 | “Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action” is a retrospective in forward motion–a deep dive into the past, present, and future of these artists’ revolutionary practices. In our gallery spaces you can explore how their practice continues to manifest after decades of expanding the boundaries of their respective fields. Explore the artworks from these artists in action, right now at “Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action” on view through Sunday, June 11, 2023. #ReflectionAndActionYBCADirector/Producer: Juan TopeteDP/Editor: David TopeteGaffer: Tehan Davis2nd Camera Operator: MJ VallejoPA/Swing: Benjamin Levine
Living Label: When Spirit Shows Up | Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2023-05-08 | Embracing spirituality nurtures a diversion from the individualistic myth of the artist as a singular genius.Artists Brett Cook and Liz Lerman open themselves to the wisdoms and possibilities of others through art-making and collaboration, allowing for a transformative artistic practice marked by constantly shifting process, learning, and collectivity. In the development of their own artistic practices, they each came to the realization that they needed to acknowledge and nurture their personal spirituality for the benefit of their work and for themselves. Go on a spiritual journey with these artists in “Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action” on view through Sunday, June 11 #ReflectionAndActionYBCADirector/Producer: Juan TopeteDP/Editor: David TopeteGaffer: Tehan Davis2nd Camera Operator: MJ VallejoPA/Swing: Benjamin Levine
Living Label: Alchemy of Relationship | Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2023-05-08 | The ways we work, live, and communicate with one another matters. Artists Brett Cook and Liz Lerman embed relationships into every part of their creative process. Trusting others’ experiences, expertise, and emotions has led to artworks that exist beyond the stage or canvas. Their works simultaneously exist in individuals, memories, and lasting relationships for all who have touched them. Immerse yourself in the stories of their connections with others in “Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action” on view through Sunday, June 11, 2023. #ReflectionAndActionYBCADirector/Producer: Juan TopeteDP/Editor: David TopeteGaffer: Tehan Davis2nd Camera Operator: MJ VallejoPA/Swing: Benjamin Levine
Announcing the Grand Prize winner of the fall 2022 San Francisco Dream House Raffle Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-12-21 | Charles Ward, Chief of Raffle Operations at YBCA, announces the fall 2022 winner of the San Francisco Spring Dream House Raffle.sfraffle.com/prizewinners
YBCA 10: Ayodele Nzinga’s “The Offering: MegaVerses” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-11-15 | Who is looking? Who is seen? Where is the power in watching/gaze/seeing? Part performance, part online catalog, part installation, #YBCA10 artist Ayodele Nzinga’s “The Offering: MegaVerses” asked us to consider perspective by deconstructing institutional narratives.🎥: Visual Street Films
YBCA 10: Deanna Van Burens “Soul Tree Forest” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-11-15 | What drives you to create? For #YBCA10 artist Deanna Van Buren, crafting spaces where folks can be in community is essential to her work. With her installation “Soul Tree Forest” at YBCA, she provides a natural space for gathering that inspires us to think about how we can build infrastructure that allows us to go further together.🎥 edited by: Visual Street Films
YBCA 10: Dorothy Santos’ “Mahiwagang Libros (Magical Books)” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-11-15 | Did you know #YBCA10 artist Dorothy Santos is also a part of the Five and Nine podcast released every full moon? Join us in welcoming tonight’s full moon by going back in time to revisit Santos’ “Mahiwagang Libros (Magical Books).” Watch the magic of spellbooks come to life through the recipes, incantations, and images contained within each one for visitors to take with them.🎥: Visual Street Films
YBCA 10: Hasain Rasheeds Too Experienced to be Taken for a Stroll Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-11-15 | The pandemic quickly changed our world, but it didn’t stop creative and imaginative minds from approaching new ways to storytelling and problem-solving. For #YBCA10 artist Hasain Rasheed, tintype photography provided a way for him to explore stories of immigrants and their families. With each image, he pieced together their stories and daily practices for visitors to explore in our galleries this past summer.🎥 edited by: Visual Street Films
YBCA 10: Leticia Hernández-Linares “Sala de Deseos (Wishing Room)” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-11-15 | After bringing the stories and culture of Central America to our visitors, “Sala de Deseos (Wishing Room)” has made its way to Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts! Revisit this interactive installation from #YBCA10 artist Leticia Hernández-Linares that grew from her desire to create a homeland and dialogue for immigrants within our gallery spaces.🎥 edited by: Visual Street Films
YBCA 10: My-Linh Les Anima Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-11-15 | When gallery spaces are open to artists, they provide a canvas for possibilities and connection. That’s what #YBCA10 artist My-Linh Le discovered when developing “Anima,” an interactive space for people to dance with one another on view in our galleries last summer. Through movement, nature, video, and sound, Le’s installation gave visitors the opportunity to reconnect with one another after emerging from isolation during the pandemic.🎥 edited by: Visual Street Films
YBCA 10: Nikiko Masumoto & Darryl Ratcliffs Plant Library Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-11-15 | Plants are a part of our lives no matter the season. Go back in time with us this #ThrowbackThursday to hear how #YBCA10 artists Nikiko Masumoto and Darryl Ratcliff collaborated on an installation that connected visitors to the natural world with a gathering of plants that can be “checked out” by anyone.🎥 edited by: Visual Street Films
YBCA 10: Alex J. Bledsoes “Reroot, Reroute Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-11-15 | #YBCA10 artist Alex Bledsoe was recently awarded a grant for the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund for her film “OAKLEAD.” Celebrate with Bledsoe by taking a look back on how her installation “Reroot, Reroute,” provided a space for BIPOC folks to fully express their pain and forge a pathway for healing.🎥 edited by: Visual Street Films
Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-11-07 | Since 2019, Senior Fellows Brett Cook and Liz Lerman have shown us the impact artists have when they are at the center of organizations and the communities they serve. Hear from #YBCA leaders on the ways our current exhibition “Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action” reflects these artists’ commitment to personal and collective transformation.Director/Producer: Juan TopeteDP/Editor: David TopeteGaffer: Tehan Davis
Wicked Bodies Trailer Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-10-04 | Everybody needs protecting. Every witch has a story.On October 28-30, join us for "Wicked Bodies," an immersive dance performance from MacArthur "Genius Grant" recipient and choreographer Liz Lerman. Save your spot for this powerful experience: bit.ly/3BQ43bzRehearsal photos by Jamie Kraus for Nel Shelby ProductionsPerformance photos and videos by Nel Shelby Productions, courtesy of Jacob's PillowDirector/Producer: Juan TopeteDP/Editor David TopeteGaffer: Tehan Davis2nd Camera Operator: MJ VallejoPA/Swing: Benjamin Levine
YBCA 10: Darryl Ratcliff, Nikiko Masumoto, Hasain Rasheed, and Leticia Hernandez Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-08-11 | If we want to make changes in our world, artists need to be at the table.Here's how the YBCA 10 are driving those changes and coming together to explore possibilities for healing and collective imagining. Learn about the prototypes by artists Darryl Ratcliff, Nikiko Masumoto, Hasain Rasheed, and Leticia Hernandez.On Friday, August 26 from 5–8pm experience the impact they've made in their communities and celebrate their work. → ybca.org/event/dreamseeds-closing-celebration
YBCA 10: Ayodele Nzinga, Alex J. Bledsoe and Dorothy Santos Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-08-11 | If we want to make changes in our world, artists need to be at the table.Here's how the YBCA 10 are driving those changes and coming together to explore possibilities for healing and collective imagining. Learn about the prototypes by artists Ayodele Nzinga, Alex J. Bledsoe and Dorothy Santos.On Friday, August 26 from 5–8pm experience the impact they've made in their communities and celebrate their work. → ybca.org/event/dreamseeds-closing-celebration
YBCA 10: Introduction Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-08-11 | If we want to make changes in our world, artists need to be at the table.Here's how the YBCA 10 are driving those changes and coming together to explore possibilities for healing and collective imagining.On Friday, August 26 from 5–8pm experience the impact they've made in their communities and celebrate their work. → ybca.org/event/dreamseeds-closing-celebration
The Healing Project: Nico Cary & Eli Marienthal Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-06-14 | Watch artists Nico Cary and Eli Marienthal discuss "The Prayer is in the Gathering," the altar they created for The Healing Project. The work forms part of the installation "Tree of Life," which calls upon both the life-giving trees in forests and the street altars built around light poles commonly found in neighborhoods across the United States. "Tree of Life" is a portal for visitors, who are invited to make offerings to the tree with words, flowers, rituals, prayers, or simply their breath.
Caravan For The Children - Community Report Back Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-06-02 | Caravan for the Children is hosting a virtual community report back highlighting key moments over the past two years of the campaign. More details to be announced soon!
Lunada Literary Lounge - May 2022 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-05-17 | Galería de la Raza is excited to announce a special edition of Lunada Literary Lounge in partnership with YBCA! Join us under the full moon on Monday, May 16 at 6:30pm PST, hosted live in person at YBCA and virtually livestreaming on Facebook and YouTube Live! Lunada Literary Lounge is a bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word, música, song, and story held on the full moon. Now hosted both in person and in virtual space, Lunada is guest curated by dynamic literary artists featuring national and local community poets, artists, performers, and legends of the written word. This month’s Lunada will feature work inspired by Galería’s current exhibition at YBCA, Pedagogy of Hope: Uncage, Reunify, Heal, that is in partnership with the Caravan for The Children Campaign.
Caravan for the Children – D.C. Press Rally | Postcard Drop Off Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-05-03 | On Monday, May 2 at 7am PST in La Fayette Square in Washington, DC, The Caravan for the Children campaign and allies will host a press conference and rally to demand the reunification of the remaining 1,703 children who are still separated from their families due to the Zero Tolerance policy established by the 45th President of the United States. The Caravan for the Children campaign also plans to deliver more than 2,000 signed postcards demanding justice for these children to the Task Force on Reunification of Families assigned by President Biden.
Caravan For The Children - May Day March 2022 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-05-02 | Galeria de la Raza and The Caravan for the Children campaign are in Washington, DC to take part in the May Day March on May 1, 2022 to demand the reunification of all separated children from their families, an end to Title 42 and MPP, demand true immigration reform and a path to permanent status for all DACA, TPS, and all undocumented workers. Join the live stream at 8am PST!
The Healing Project: Jack DeBoe Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-04-21 | Meet Jack DeBoe, the Chief Sound Designer and Co-Music Producer for The Healing Project. Watch the video and learn more about the sonic components of The Healing Project including the Sound Room: Voices from The Healing Project, a collaboration between DeBoe and Samora Pinderhughes at YBCA.ybca.org/event/the-healing-project
Caleb Duarte | The Monument as Living Memory Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-04-13 | A Collective Architectural Intervention led by Caleb Duarte.This work illustrates the closure, dismantling, and restructuring of institutions, the toppling of monuments, and the uprising of a palpable collective spirit across our country.Learn more: ybca.org/event/caleb-duarte-the-monument-as-living-memory
The Healing Project: Nnaemeka Ekwelum Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-03-23 | Meet "The Healing Project" collaborator Nnaemeka Ekwelum, a weaving and fiber artist whose work is centered around the power of weaving to connect communities and heal past trauma. Watch to learn how he sculpts his site-specific woven pieces and how he sees weaving as a form of healing.ybca.org/event/the-healing-project
Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2022-03-21 | The artists are here. The lights are on. Join us as we come together to bring art to life at the Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA. → bit.ly/3pYvkSE
Year in Review: 2021 at YBCA Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2021-12-24 | We're building a better tomorrow, one experience at a time. 👏 for our artists and supporters who drive the changes we want to see in the world and share art in groundbreaking ways. We’re stoked to build and #ImagineTheFuture with you in the new year! #ArtAndActivism #YBCA
Cheyenne Concepcion: Triumph of a Woman as part of The Monument As Living Memory Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2021-12-21 | What if our public monuments honored intimate and personal stories? For her contribution to Caleb Duarte’s “The Monument as Living Memory” in June 2021, Cheyenne Concepcion chose to honor the story of her grandmother’s childhood in the Philippines. Titled “Triumph of a Woman,” Concepcion encouraged us to platform our own stories as a form of resistance and activism, and to change the narrative.ybca.org/event/caleb-duarte-the-monument-as-living-memory
Jerome Reyes: Abeyance (Draves y Robles y Vargas) Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2021-12-21 | Like the tides and seasons, the Bay Area’s social landscape has ebbed and flowed over time. To honor the stories of those impacted by migration, displacement, and resilience, Jerome Reyes brought their voices together in an artful landscape installed at YBCA from 2017–2021.Part memoir, part activist project, “Abeyance (Draves y Robles y Vargas)” traced the stories of three Filipinx Americans.ybca.org/event/abeyance-public-art
Anna Sergeeva: love @ first line Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2021-12-21 | Serendipitously weaving together the openings of six hundred love poems drawn from the Poetry Foundation’s archive, Anna Sergeeva’s multilingual, generative installation “love @ first line” creates a living poem of its own. See how this site-specific artwork is a beautiful reminder that language has the power to reflect our community and help us connect to one another.ybca.org/event/love-at-first-line
Meet the YBCA 10: Alex J. Bledsoe Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2021-12-08 | Alex J. Bledsoe is a member of the YBCA 10 artist cohort. Learn more about her work with YBCA here: ybca.org/honoree/alex-j-bledsoe
Announcing the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 San Francisco Dream House Raffle Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2021-12-07 | Charles Ward, Chief of Raffle Operations at YBCA, announces the 2021 winner of the Annual San Francisco Dream House Raffle.sfraffle.com
The Healing Project: Introducing Roosevelt “Bliss” Arrington, Part 3 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2021-11-30 | Roosevelt “Bliss” Arrington was raised by his grandparents until their passing. After six years of service and an Honorable Discharge from the US Army, Bliss returned home to live with his mother, who was suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Taking on the responsibility as caregiver and provider, Bliss found it difficult to obtain employment. Falling into negative situations, Bliss was arrested in 1985, and incarcerated for various cases until the 2000s. While in prison, Bliss became a hugely influential and important mentor to younger people incarcerated at the same place. When released in October 2017, he began working and enrolled in Columbia University’s Justice in Education program. Today, Bliss is a mentor and a speaker at New Dawn Charter School and other mentoring spaces, impressing the importance of education. However as he seeks a full-time mentoring job, He continues to be blocked by background checks from NY’s ironically named Justice Center. His deep and urgent hope is that the centers and policies that do background checks stop blocking people like him who are trying to move on with their lives and contribute. Additionally, he is planning to start his own mentoring organization for youth and for returning citizens. Learn more about The Healing Project at YBCA at ybca.org/event/the-healing-project
The Healing Project: Introducing Roosevelt “Bliss” Arrington, Part 2 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2021-11-30 | Roosevelt “Bliss” Arrington was raised by his grandparents until their passing. After six years of service and an Honorable Discharge from the US Army, Bliss returned home to live with his mother, who was suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Taking on the responsibility as caregiver and provider, Bliss found it difficult to obtain employment. Falling into negative situations, Bliss was arrested in 1985, and incarcerated for various cases until the 2000s. While in prison, Bliss became a hugely influential and important mentor to younger people incarcerated at the same place. When released in October 2017, he began working and enrolled in Columbia University’s Justice in Education program. Today, Bliss is a mentor and a speaker at New Dawn Charter School and other mentoring spaces, impressing the importance of education. However as he seeks a full-time mentoring job, He continues to be blocked by background checks from NY’s ironically named Justice Center. His deep and urgent hope is that the centers and policies that do background checks stop blocking people like him who are trying to move on with their lives and contribute. Additionally, he is planning to start his own mentoring organization for youth and for returning citizens. Learn more about The Healing Project at YBCA at ybca.org/event/the-healing-project
The Healing Project: Introducing Roosevelt “Bliss” Arrington, Part 1 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2021-11-30 | Roosevelt “Bliss” Arrington was raised by his grandparents until their passing. After six years of service and an Honorable Discharge from the US Army, Bliss returned home to live with his mother, who was suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Taking on the responsibility as caregiver and provider, Bliss found it difficult to obtain employment. Falling into negative situations, Bliss was arrested in 1985, and incarcerated for various cases until the 2000s. While in prison, Bliss became a hugely influential and important mentor to younger people incarcerated at the same place. When released in October 2017, he began working and enrolled in Columbia University’s Justice in Education program. Today, Bliss is a mentor and a speaker at New Dawn Charter School and other mentoring spaces, impressing the importance of education. However as he seeks a full-time mentoring job, He continues to be blocked by background checks from NY’s ironically named Justice Center. His deep and urgent hope is that the centers and policies that do background checks stop blocking people like him who are trying to move on with their lives and contribute. Additionally, he is planning to start his own mentoring organization for youth and for returning citizens. Learn more about The Healing Project at YBCA at ybca.org/event/the-healing-project
The Healing Project: Introducing Keith LaMar, Part 4 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2021-11-22 | Keith LaMar is a death row prisoner in the state of Ohio. After a prison uprising in 1993, LaMar was falsely accused, sentenced to death based solely on the uncorroborated testimony of jailhouse informants, and placed in solitary confinement, where he has been for the last three decades. In two years, on November 16, 2023, LaMar is scheduled to be executed. LaMar comes to The Healing Project as an activist, artist, and human being; someone who is deeply engaged in the act of living. A survivor of decades of sensory deprivation, LaMar’s goal is to share the soul-healing effects of literature and music, both of which rescued his time and talents from the devastating reality of being thrown away. LaMar’s literacy project, NATIVE SONS, centers around bringing light to young people who live in dark places. In collaboration with musicians like Samora Pinderhughes, Brian Jackson, Albert Marquez, Caroline Davis, and Adam O’Farrill, LaMar publicizes the injustice of his plight, carrying forth the fight for redemption, freedom, and peace.Find out more and advocate for LaMar’s freedom at keithlamar.org and sign his petition at actionnetwork.org/petitions/free-keith-lamarLearn more about The Healing Project at YBCA at ybca.org/event/the-healing-project
The Healing Project: Introducing Keith LaMar, Part 1 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2021-11-22 | Keith LaMar is a death row prisoner in the state of Ohio. After a prison uprising in 1993, LaMar was falsely accused, sentenced to death based solely on the uncorroborated testimony of jailhouse informants, and placed in solitary confinement, where he has been for the last three decades. In two years, on November 16, 2023, LaMar is scheduled to be executed. LaMar comes to The Healing Project as an activist, artist, and human being; someone who is deeply engaged in the act of living. A survivor of decades of sensory deprivation, LaMar’s goal is to share the soul-healing effects of literature and music, both of which rescued his time and talents from the devastating reality of being thrown away. LaMar’s literacy project, NATIVE SONS, centers around bringing light to young people who live in dark places. In collaboration with musicians like Samora Pinderhughes, Brian Jackson, Albert Marquez, Caroline Davis, and Adam O’Farrill, LaMar publicizes the injustice of his plight, carrying forth the fight for redemption, freedom, and peace.Find out more and advocate for LaMar’s freedom at keithlamar.org and sign his petition at actionnetwork.org/petitions/free-keith-lamarLearn more about The Healing Project at YBCA at ybca.org/event/the-healing-project
The Healing Project: Introducing Keith LaMar, Part 3 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2021-11-22 | Keith LaMar is a death row prisoner in the state of Ohio. After a prison uprising in 1993, LaMar was falsely accused, sentenced to death based solely on the uncorroborated testimony of jailhouse informants, and placed in solitary confinement, where he has been for the last three decades. In two years, on November 16, 2023, LaMar is scheduled to be executed. LaMar comes to The Healing Project as an activist, artist, and human being; someone who is deeply engaged in the act of living. A survivor of decades of sensory deprivation, LaMar’s goal is to share the soul-healing effects of literature and music, both of which rescued his time and talents from the devastating reality of being thrown away. LaMar’s literacy project, NATIVE SONS, centers around bringing light to young people who live in dark places. In collaboration with musicians like Samora Pinderhughes, Brian Jackson, Albert Marquez, Caroline Davis, and Adam O’Farrill, LaMar publicizes the injustice of his plight, carrying forth the fight for redemption, freedom, and peace.Find out more and advocate for LaMar’s freedom at keithlamar.org and sign his petition at actionnetwork.org/petitions/free-keith-lamarLearn more about The Healing Project at YBCA at ybca.org/event/the-healing-project
The Healing Project: Introducing Keith LaMar, Part 2 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2021-11-22 | Keith LaMar is a death row prisoner in the state of Ohio. After a prison uprising in 1993, LaMar was falsely accused, sentenced to death based solely on the uncorroborated testimony of jailhouse informants, and placed in solitary confinement, where he has been for the last three decades. In two years, on November 16, 2023, LaMar is scheduled to be executed. LaMar comes to The Healing Project as an activist, artist, and human being; someone who is deeply engaged in the act of living. A survivor of decades of sensory deprivation, LaMar’s goal is to share the soul-healing effects of literature and music, both of which rescued his time and talents from the devastating reality of being thrown away. LaMar’s literacy project, NATIVE SONS, centers around bringing light to young people who live in dark places. In collaboration with musicians like Samora Pinderhughes, Brian Jackson, Albert Marquez, Caroline Davis, and Adam O’Farrill, LaMar publicizes the injustice of his plight, carrying forth the fight for redemption, freedom, and peace.Find out more and advocate for LaMar’s freedom at keithlamar.org and sign his petition at actionnetwork.org/petitions/free-keith-lamarLearn more about The Healing Project at YBCA at ybca.org/event/the-healing-project
The Healing Project trailer: Losses Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2021-11-02 | YBCA welcomes you to a preview of The Healing Project, a forthcoming digital archive, music album, and physical exhibition from composer and artist Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes that uses music, visual arts, film, and language as abolitionist action.Experience The Healing Project in full at YBCA starting Thursday, February 17, 2022This track features: Quincy, Dante Clark, and Sam Vaughn.
The Healing Project trailer: Healing Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2021-11-02 | YBCA welcomes you to a preview of "The Healing Project," a forthcoming digital archive, music album, and physical exhibition from composer and artist Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes that uses music, visual arts, film, and language as abolitionist action.Experience "The Healing Project" in full at YBCA starting Thursday, February 17, 2022.This track features: Sam Vaughn, Ginale Garcia, and Sharen Hewitt.
