Youth Performance Festival
SATurday, February 8 at 1:00pm (Cast A)
Saturday, February 8 at 4:00pm (Cast B)
Sunday, February 9 at 1:00pm (Cast B)
Sunday, February 9 at 4:00pm (Cast A)
Cost: $5-$25 sliding scale*, TicKETs Available here!
Please join us for the 2025 Youth Performance Festival (YPF), and enjoy performances and presentations by dozens of 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! YPF is an outstanding festival experience that warms hearts and inspires creativity in audience members of all ages!
The Youth Performance Festival is a collaborative program of Play Incubation Collective and the Northampton Center for the Arts at 33 Hawley, in partnership with Make-It Springfield. Now in its 6th year, YPF is a FREE opportunity for youth artists ages 8-18 to create original performance pieces with the guidance of mentor artists in the fields of music, dance, theater, poetry/spoken word, video/animation, and more. YPF centers the creative agency of young artists, and is committed to supporting them as they discover their own creative processes. For YPF 2025, we are partnering with Make-It Springfield for the second year to offer a Springfield-based youth cohort in addition to the Northampton cohort as part of the long term goal to expand YPF in Western Mass.
*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.
The 2025 Youth Performance Festival is sponsored in part by Art Always, A2Z Science and Learning, Wohl Family Dentistry, Community Classroom, Workroom Design Studio, Dostal Eye Care, Northampton Area Pediatrics, Downtown Sounds, J2Guides, Cedar Chest, Greenfield Savings Bank, and the Beveridge Foundation.
Thank you to our Angel Donors, PeoplesBank and Spero Charitable Foundation, who made a 3-year commitment in 2023.
The Youth Performance Festival is also sponsored in part by the local cultural councils of Springfield, Northampton, South Hadley, Amherst, and Hadley. These organizations are local agencies that are part of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Thank you to our media sponsor, Northampton Open Media and our food sponsor, Antonio’s Pizza!