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A queer, multidisciplinary evening-length double-bill program with a full queer/BIPOC creative team exploring asianfuturist performance that engages with the riskiness of hope so that we may enact change.

A raw and compelling interdisciplinary work by UJDC and Choreographer Antoine Hunter exploring the experiences of Deaf children navigating the education system, pulling from interviews with Deaf students, educators and families.

A one-person show using theater, sample-based sounds, video and found text to explore the historic, economic and cultural relationship connecting the Bay Area and Panama through the lens of one Black Panamanian-American family’s story of forced displacement, world building and (dreams of) return.

A fully immersive production exploring the displacement of QTBIPOC communities from San Francisco, the preservation of our legacies and the rebuilding of our sanctuaries. “Pompeii” will be a celebration of our community’s boundless potential through contemporary dance, devised theater and drag.

An immersive performance-exhibit exploring and exploding gender, race and spirituality through a Black Queer and Trans lens. “Suga’” will spark vital conversations within the SF Bay Area LGBTQIA+ communities and beyond, empowering folks to envision a gender-liberated future powered by Black joy.

A devised theater piece that brings together local community members across generational and cultural divides to theatrically explore critical questions about our existence and provide a space for the community to courageously exchange their thoughts and creative explorations.

A multicultural cabaret that explores the commonalities between traditional presentations of South Asian art in the court and salon setting, the cabaret of Europe and the Americas, and the queer balls of the United States and now the world.

A community-engaged dance-theater project highlighting the stories of Indian immigrant women, created through a collaboration with Bharatnatyam artists and domestic violence recovery nonprofit, Narika.

A community-engaged dance project that combines the traditional practices of Daoist internal arts with inkBoat’s theater and performance-devising traditions, rooted in Japanese avant-garde performing arts.