Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2003 Press Highlights
2003 Press Releases
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Yerba Buena Arts & Events Announce Highlights of the
2003 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
San Francisco, CA. February 10, 2003. Mario Garcia Durham, Executive Director of Yerba Buena Arts & Events, today announced highlights of the programming for The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2003 at The Esplanade of Yerba Buena Gardens.
The Festival, which takes place from May through October, features over 200 events, including classical and jazz concerts, opera, performance art, international music events, dance performances, children's programs, theater, visual arts, puppet shows, festivals, and special events.
Kicking off the season will be an exhibition in the Gardens throughout May of photos by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, one of Latin America's greatest and most influential photographers. The exhibition is co-sponsored by The Mexican Museum.
New to the Festival this year will be a performance by the world-famous Smuin Ballet and a performance by the San Francisco Ballet School. There will be a weeklong celebration of Italian culture starting with Italian marble mosaic art and ending with Infiorate - Italian flower petal art. This year, along with traditional San Francisco arts groups such as the San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Symphony, there will be performances and events such as an International Music Festival with musicians from 10 countries, Gilbert and Sullivan performances by the Lamplighters, a Choreographers Festival, a concert performed by the SF Chamber Orchestra, Lit Quake, a San Francisco Labor Festival, and much more. The cultures of Filipino-Americans, Native-Americans, and African-Americans will be celebrated in special festivals and concerts. And the children will be treated to puppet shows and to the popular annual Gardens Ghoullery Walk.
Concluding the season in October there will be a series of performances and events to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Yerba Buena Gardens, which opened to the public in October 1993.
All performances and events are free and open to the public, drawing an audience of San Francisco and Bay Area residents, tourists, and convention attendees that numbers more than 80,000 each year.
Free artistic and cultural programming in Yerba Buena Gardens is made possible through the generous support of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, Arts International, the San Francisco Marriott, KTB Management Group, the Four Seasons Hotel, the San Francisco Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Fund, the Fleishhacker Foundation, and other sponsors.
Yerba Buena Arts & Events is located at 760 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Phone (415) 543-1718; Fax (415) 543-1755; e-mail: ybgf@ybgf.org
http://ybgf.org
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