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World Arts West Dance Festival
Join us for the 2025 World Arts West Dance Festival as it wraps up its third and final weekend at Presidio Tunnel Tops! This year’s festival features dance workshops, artist dialogues, communal activities and more in venues across the city emphasizing the theme of “Dance as Health and Healing.”
The Final Weekend Lineup Includes:
Lakbai Diwa – A powerful Filipino Diasporic Spirit Cultural Ceremony
Dimensions Dance Theater – A live presentation from one of Oakland’s most iconic Black dance companies
Haitian Dance Workshop with Laurie Fleurentin – A community-centered, high-energy movement session honoring Haitian tradition.
In addition to the presentations at the Presidio, the 3-weekend festival includes community activations rooted in this year’s theme, such as Hawaiian lei making, Kalimba music workshops, Afro-Cuban healing rituals, Indigenous flower bundling and meditative movement, grief songwriting workshop, Persian Mystical dance and Sufi whirling and more.
Plus, bring your own picnic, or walk over to Presidio Pop Up’s to purchase delicious food celebrating the Bay Area’s diverse cuisines.
“Dance as Health and Healing,” explores how dance is essential to a healthy community. It aims to showcase dance and art forms rooted in cultural traditions, including sacred, social, and contemporary. See all the World Arts West Dance Festival activations this year
Please contact Miriam Manda with any accessibility needs or questions at [email protected] or 423.704.7187.
Event Links
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3196814-0
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/3196814-2
