For the past 11 years, Inferno Theatre has presented the Contemporary Performance Diasporas Festival — a multicultural, interdisciplinary performance and arts festival, created out of Inferno’s mission to link cultures and explore human relationships.

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,” said Inferno’s Producing Artistic Director Giulio Perrone.

The 12th 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.

Inferno Theatre was founded on the premise that live theatre that leads to dynamic and positive change in the lives of all who participate in it, whether spectators or performers. The company believes that arts and education are essential parts of everyone’s daily life, that theatre can both transform reality and be an integral part of the cultural and sociological context of society. Inferno supports the centrality of the theatre art form rooted in work, research and collaborative practices that set the artists at the core of the organization; theatre that embraces the complexity and diversity of the human being; theatre that creates community (both physically present and imagined); and theatre that links humans together through a need for one another to complete a shared common interest or vision of the world.

12th Contemporary Performance Diasporas Festival (door)

The Diversity of US