The Festival runs from Tue, April 6– Sat, May 8.

The Cal State East Bay Department of Theatre and Dance is collaborating with Dandelion Dancetheater and a wildly diverse group of artists, activists, free-thinkers, and creative rabble-rousers to launch the first annual Inclusive Performance Festival (IPF) throughout April/May 2021. The IPF is a grass-roots, DIY, radically inclusive, process-oriented festival that is experimenting with sharing performance in accessible, relevant, life-affirming, and innovative ways to meet the needs of many intersecting communities in this new era for the arts.

Planned collectively by a council of Queer, BIPOC, Autistic, Disabled, Jewish, Neurodivergent, Fat, Young, Elder, Outsider, and uncategorizable artists, the festival will present virtual, in-person, and hybrid dance, music, theatre, drag, ritual, educational, and participatory performances, discussions, workshops, ceremonies, and more.

IPF is directed by Eric Kupers in collaboration with a planning council of event organizers, and will feature:

the Wandering Ensemble,
SNJV
Shapes and Shades Dance Company
Wildance
Emmaly Wiederholt & Tonya Rivera
Evangel King
Dancing Earth Creations
Us in the U.S.
the CSUEB Pilipinx American Student Association
Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers
Dandelion Dancetheater
Ultrasonic Curren
the College Link Program
Mohini Studio
Rebekah Enderle
the Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble
and more.