Youth Performance Festival

Friday, February 9 at 7:00pm

Saturday, February 10 at 7:00pm

Sunday, February 11 at 1:00pm

Sunday, February 11 at 4:00pm

Cost: $5-$25 sliding scale*, Tickets available here!

Please join us for the 2024 Youth Performance Festival (YPF), and enjoy performances and presentations by over 40 local youth artists! All work is original and created by young artists ages 8-18. You’ll see solo pieces as well as collaborations between young artists, and every field of performing art is represented! This year, we were excited to partner with Make-It Springfield to create a Springfield-based youth cohort as part of the long term goal to expand YPF in Western Mass. Now in its fifth year, YPF is an outstanding festival experience that warms hearts and inspires creativity in audience members of all ages!

The Youth Performance Festival, a collaboration between Play Incubation Collective and the Northampton Center for the Arts at 33 Hawley, is a FREE opportunity for youth artists ages 8-18 to create original performance pieces under the guidance of mentor artists in the fields of music, dance, theater, poetry/spoken word, and video. YPF centers the creative agency of young artists, and is committed to supporting them as they discover their own creative processes.

The 2024 Youth Performance Festival is sponsored in part by the Amherst, Northampton, South Hadley, and Hadley Local Cultural Councils, local agencies that are a part of the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

We are deeply grateful for our 2024 business sponsors, Art Always, A2Z Science and Learning Store, Dostal Eye Care, Greenfield Savings Bank, Renew Pilates, Wohl Family Dentistry, and Workroom Design Studio, as well our Angel Donors, Peoples Bank and the Spero Charitable Foundation. Thank you also to our media partner, Northampton Open Media.

*Attendees may pay where they can on this scale. Payments on the upper end of the scale help support our commitment to sliding scale rates, as well as our low mentor/participant ratio.