Third Thursdays in Yerba Buena

01/10/2020

California Historical Society is looking forward to hosting its first public docent-led tour of it's current exhibition, "From the Gold Rush to the Earthquake: Selections from the Collection," during January's Third Thursday on 1/16! Join for free gallery entry between 5pm and 8pm, and stay for the tour at 6:30pm!

12/20/2019

Open mic at MoAD! Join us

02/21/2019

Tonight California Historical Society please experience Boomtowns: How Photography Shaped Los Angeles and San Francisco, Selections from the California Historical Society Collections for free.

From 6:00PM-7:00PM enjoy a special docent-led tour of the exhibition. Pose questions and engage in conversation as you walk through California Historical Society's rare photographic collections. https://my.californiahistoricalsociety.org/single/EventDetail.aspx?p=1485&mc_cid=20c18eef32&mc_eid=[UNIQID]

The California Historical Society (CHS) is a membership-based non-profit organization that offers free access to its archives of manuscripts, photographs, books and artwork, as well as diverse exhibitions, programs and events. The California Historical Society also publishes the distinguished Califo...

02/21/2019

Tonight for Contemporary Jewish Museum the museum will not be part of the festivities but check back next month for more exciting details for Yerba Buena 3rd Thursdays which is a new rebranded effort for Culture for Community

02/21/2019

Tonight for Yerba Buena Third Thursday Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) They are having Open Mic Night!

When: February 21, 2019 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Enjoy Free Admission to our exhibitions, Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Sadie Barnette: Phone Home as MoAD joins the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the California Historical Society f...

12/21/2018

Open Mic Poetry night at MoAD from 6-7pm

08/15/2018

This week for Third Thursday at Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) open mike night, don't miss it!

When: August 16, 2018 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm OPEN MIC THIRD THURSDAYS continue. We are hosting an evening of spoken word, featuring amazing poets throughout the Bay Area. Sign up for your chance to read some of your poetry at the museum in[...]

08/14/2018

Join us at Museum of the African Diaspora to see our current exhibitions: After the Thrill is Gone: Fashion Politics and Culture in Contemporary South African Art and Digitalia: Art & The Economy of Ideas. From 6-8pm we will be celebrating the culmination of our Community Voices: Poets Speak series with a group reading and wine reception in the MoAD Salon.

08/14/2018

The next Third Thursday is August 16th, this week! Enjoy what is going on with the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival with live salsa dancing in Jessie Square

Nicaraguan-American percussionist, educator, producer, and bandleader Annette Aguilar is a bona fide product of the Mission District, and she’s got the mural to prove it. Portrayed in the Chata Mural in memory of KPOO radio host Micaela “Chata” Gutierrez at 24th and South Van Ness Streets, Agu...

11/16/2017

Join us at MoAD for free admission from 5-8pm. View our current exhibitions En Mas': Carnival and Performance Art in the Caribbean, Otra Mas': Celebrating 40 Years of Carnaval in San Francisco, and MoAD Emerging Artists presents Ebitenyefa Baralaye: Many Rooms.

At 6:30pm in the MoAD Salon, We’re Staying: Poetry with Sounds of Resistance and Celebration is part of Teju Adisa-Farrat’s “We’re Staying” series via her work through World Unwrapped. This evening of poetry and sounds focuses on resistance and celebration across the African Diaspora. Featuring the songstress Tsedal Tesfahun, Teju explores the importance of staying as it is manifested in the historical and contemporary reality of the African diaspora.