Yerba Buena Gardens Festival on May 1, 2016 in San Francisco, CA : The 2016 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival today presents free music, theater, circus, dance, poetry, and children's programs with artists from around the Bay Area and the world. Named one of the Best Urban Green Spaces in North America by USA Today, Yerba Buena Gardens is a world-renowned cultural destination for Bay Area residents, families, workers, and tourists alike. Yerba Buena Gardens is located between Mission Street and Howard Street and 3rd and 4th Streets in downtown San Francisco. For more information, visit www.ybgfestival.org or call (415) 543-1718.
Festival highlights include the very popular Let's Go Salsa@Jessie! dance series, the family friendly Children's Garden Series, Poetry Tuesdays with Litquake, and Thursday Lunchtime Concerts. Each and every weekend, the Festival has curated a lineup of musicians, dancers, poets, and actors from around the world including the double bill of Bay Area soul with Elephantine with the visceral beats of The Seshen on May 7, Con Brio + Duniya Dance & Drum Company + Black Orpheus (A.C.T.) on May 14, Luis Valdez's storied El Teatro Campesino presents Popol Vuh: Heart of Heaven, a majestic pageant based on the sacred creation book of the Maya on May 21, JooWan Kim's dynamic 10-piece hip-hop Ensemble Mik Nawooj on May 28, Gamelan Sekar Jaya, the most celebrated gamelan ensemble outside of Indonesia, returns to Yerba Buena Gardens Festival with a breathtaking mix of traditional and contemporary music and dance works on June 4, A Tribute to Jim Pepper with Dr. Loco on June 5, The Embodiment Project: Chalk Outlines confronts lives unjustly lost by people of color due to state violence featuring all original music by Valerie Troutt performed live by her vocal ensemble MoonCandy on June 11, the ...read more