12th Contemporary Performance

Diasporas Festival: The Diversity of US

For the past eleven years, Inferno Theatre has presented a multicultural, interdisciplinary performance and arts festival as a natural outgrowth of Inferno’s mission to link cultures and explore human relationships.

Historically, this Berkeley festival has featured performance pieces with international cultural roots, developed, primarily, in the Bay Area.

This year, Inferno Theatre is celebrating the power of The Diversity of US - those of us who reside in United States of America. The two-day event will premiere bold, fierce performance pieces with love, kindness, and peaceful rebellion, while offering a healing antidote for these difficult times.

The festival celebrates and supports the diversity of our community through the artistic talents of local musicians, dancers, and theater artists. Now in its twelfth year, the festival showcases the communities that make up our unique, ever-changing American mosaic. This year the Festival will present ensemble and solo theater performances, dance, music, and performance art that will tell our stories, reveal our inventions and tackle contemporary issues such as gender, race, sex, religion, politics and the environment.

As always, we welcome the give and take between old and new friends in our community. We will commit as artists, follow our hearts, and simply create, create, create.
— Inferno’s Producing Artistic Director Giulio Perrone

DATES
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Sunday, April 27, 2025

TIME
Performances start at 6 pm
Doors open at 5:30 pm

LOCATION
STUDIO 12
2525 Eighth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

ADMISSION $20 in Advance
$25 at the Door

The 11th Annual Contemporary Performance Diasporas Festival - The Diversity of US is made possible in part thanks to the Civic Arts Grant Program of the City of Berkeley.

FREE BONUS EVENT

Sunday, April 27 only at 3-4 p
Making a Mask Come Alive - a hands-on workshop

Reservations required.
30 person limit.

Learn More About This Year’s Festival Artists by Visiting the Meet the Artists Page!

The 11th Annual Contemporary Performance Diasporas Festival
is made possible in part thanks to the City of Berkeley.

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