If you’re the kind of person who can spend your entire Thursday cruising the arts and cultural institutions of the Yerba Buena district, have I got a deal for you! (And for those of us with a 9-to-5, start thinking of ways you can ditch work early and head to downtown San Francisco in a few days.)
On Thursday, March 21, for an event that’s being called “Culture for Community,” 11 Yerba Buena arts and culture institutions, including the Museum of the African Diaspora, the California Historical Society, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and (drum roll please) SFMOMA are offering free admission all day (some with extended hours) and special programming in honor of Women’s History Month.
Mark Sabb, MoAD’s senior director for innovation and engagement says the coordinated theme (and SFMOMA’s participation, they usually sit out 3rd Thursdays) came out of the institutions’ collaboration during the Global Climate Action Summit last September. There was a desire in the wake of that gathering, he says, to reboot the 3rd Thursdays initiative with a more cohesive set of events. A second Culture for Community day is planned (theme TBA) for Sept. 19.
This time around, the thematic programs range from opportune to a stretch to not really there. MoAD, which Sabb says is interpreting “women’s history” more along the lines of “women’s empowerment,” hosts its regular 3rd Thursday open mic night (6–8pm) with special poet guests ASHA and Nazelah Jamison.
