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. 

Plus, bring your own picnic, or walk over to Presidio Pop Up’s  to purchase delicious food celebrating the Bay Area’s diverse cuisines. 

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. 

“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. 

American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided at this event. For other accommodations, email mmanda@presidiotrust.gov or 423.704.7187 with at least seven days’ notice to help ensure availability.