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, they 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.

Sarah Marcus, and Kelly Silliman, co-founders of YPF, share with us their experience creating and developing this project, and invite young artists to join for this edition that starts on December 7, 2024.

For more information, and sign ups, you can visit: https://www.nohoarts.org/youth-performance-festival