Founded in 1993 to serve as the City’s cultural hub, integrating art, film and performance in a uniquely urban environment in Downtown San Francisco’s arts district.
Now under the leadership of Deborah Culinan (speaker at previous MuseumNext conferences), YBCA has just completed establishing a new brand that aspires to define our role as a cultural center that places art in service of social change.
To do so, art no longer occupies primacy in how we define ourselves. For to achieve the impact we hope in our time as YBCA’s leaders, we have to come at changing the hearts and minds of our City to think more empathetically and act more equitably from a variety of angles that work in tandem with each other.
Jeff Chang, author and educator, who wrote the seminal book on hip-hop entitled WHO WE BE, xxxxx WE GONNA BE ALLRIGHT, and his most recent XXX
Gay Marriage
Civil Rights
Policy that encircles not only the actions of our citizenry but also their hearts andtheir minds.
That explains “WHY” we engage.
As Chief of Civic Engagement at YBCA, I shepherd YBCA’s mission beyond its walls. Working with city government, public schools, private enterprise and neighborhood and community organizations to empower soon-to-be citizens, model citizens and senior citizens to creatively engage in making a difference in the future of San Francisco.
Don’t do any of this if if doesn’t mean anything to you. Don’t chase the grants.
Board buy in essential.
But short wins are possible, and necessary to keep inspiring.