The Oaklash Festival is the premier celebration of Drag and queer performance in the Bay Area.

Our ninth annual festival will feature a full day of nonstop queer art including live performances, DJs, vendors, and more! Kings, queens, and queers from all over the Bay Area and beyond will join together for this annual celebration of queer culture and art.

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All pre-sale registrations are suggested donations that come with perks such as expedited entry to our festival events. All events are No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds (NOTAFLOF), though limited entry may be available at the door!

Oaklash aims to make our events accessible to all! All events will take place at ADA-compliant venues and feature ASL interpretation during performances.

For questions, concerns, or access needs, email us at oaklashtickets@gmail.com

WE DO NOT TOLERATE HATE, VIOLENCE, OR DISCRIMINATION OF ANY KIND. CONSENT IS MANDATORY. IF IN VIOLATION, YOU MAY BE ASKED TO LEAVE OUR​ EVENT AT ANY TIME WITHOUT REFUND.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation Provided

Ticket price(s): Free - Optional $20 donation

Event Information Link: https://www.oaklash.com/

"Air Between Us" is a landmark vertical dance performance, where aerial performers scale walls, soar across open spaces, and cascade down a building facade—turning the architecture of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts into an uncommon dance partner. In this new site-specific work from Megan Lowe Dances, performers climb, float, and fall in a choreography shaped by gravity, trust, and interdependence. What unfolds is both breathtaking and intimate: bodies moving through air, gathering and separating, revealing how the space between us can hold tension, tenderness, and connection. The work features the performance of Gabriele Christian, B Dean, Rose Huey, Megan Lowe, Roel Seeber, and Saharla Vetsch​, with music be William Cenoté.

This venue is ADA accessible.

Live ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $30-$40

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Palo Alto Players presents Disney’s Frozen at the Lucie Stern Theater, April 24–May 10, 2026. Tickets: paplayers.org. Based on the Academy Award-winning film, the musical features songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez plus new stage music. In Arendelle, sisters Anna and Elsa grow apart as Elsa struggles with her powers. When she flees, bringing endless winter, Anna sets out with Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf on a journey of sisterhood, acceptance, and true love.

This venue is ADA accessible.

Live ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): Starts at $20 - Use code FROZASL10 for $10 off tickets

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Box Office Info: 650.329.0891

An exhibition of Maya Mam backstrap weaving textiles where the act of weaving is also an act of storytelling, resisting erasure, and preserving ancestral knowledge.

This venue is ADA accessible.

ASL Interpretation and Haptic Tour available for Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 2 pm & Closing Reception: Saturday, May 9, 2 pm.

Access Service Provider and Contact Info:
NAKA Dance Theater, info@nakadancetheater.com

Ticket price(s): free

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Savor the thrill of the unexpected in Jacklean (Jacklean). Governed by play and collaborative improvisation, New York powerhouse choreographer and dancer Mariana Valencia’s improvised gestures are prompted by transmissions from Jazmin Romero’s vocal and instrumental repertoire of cumbia, punk, jazz, and electronic music. Can an everlasting process frame a final performance?

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation Provided

Ticket price(s): $0-$100

Event Information Link: https://odc.dance/marianavalencia

Return to Forever is an intimate, music-driven work-in-progress by Zaccho Dance Theatre featuring contemporary and aerial dancers in a series of solos and duets to a curated playlist of jazz, blues, and soul from the 1930s–1970s. Inspired by Artistic Director Joanna Haigood’s rediscovery of a handwritten song log from her teenage years, the piece reflects on how memory shapes present choices and future paths. It revisits songs that shaped Haigood’s early creative life while reconstructing decades of work created at Zaccho Studio.

This venue is NOT ADA accessible.

Live ASL Interpretation, Haptic Tour and Audio Description.
Contact michael@gravity-sf.org for Haptic Tour details

Ticket price(s): free

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Get swept up in The Waves, an expansive, intimate, surreal, and impressionistic contemporary dance about sound waves, light waves, brain waves, and intersubjectivity. The piece considers how individuals experience and craft their own sense of reality. The Waves is conceived and directed by Charlie Slender-White, and utilizes Virginia Woolf’s novel of the same name as a primary source text.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation Provided

Ticket price(s): $0-$100

Event Information Link: https://odc.dance/factsf

The Weight of Thread is a dance ritual rooted in Jewish mourning, supplication and resistance traditions, to reckon with grief, rupture, and solidarity in the shadow of genocide. The work challenges Zionist definitions of Jewishness while affirming Judaism’s anti-genocidal, humanitarian values and expressing kinship with Palestinian liberation. Audiences are welcomed into an intimate, intergenerational community built through dance, music, food, and shared presence.

This venue is ADA accessible.

ASL Interpretation provided.

Tickets: $25+

Event Information Link: http://mollylevy.com/the-weight-of-thread

Box Office Link, telephone, TTY etc.: https://www.viewcy.com/event/theweightofthread

LIVE ARTS IN RESISTANCE (LAIR) is a dynamic series of performance showcases, artist residencies, and community town halls that address racial inequity and white supremacy in popular culture. Collectively, we contribute to a new cultural consciousness of self-determination and indigenous knowledge as integral to our resistance to systemic oppression and imperialism.

This venue is ADA accessible.

ASL Interpretation provided.

Ticket price(s): General Admission $25; Students and Seniors $10; No one turned away for lack of funds

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How Do I Look? - the most vain, mundane and loaded question. Fauxnique, the drag queen guise of multi-faceted artist Monique Jenkinson, wields her unique combination of precise physicality, irreverent humor and gutsy vulnerability, to dig past glossy platitudes and flattering exaggerations into the hot mess of perception, subjectivity, identity and taste.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Provided

Ticket price(s): $0-$100

Event Information Link: https://odc.dance/fauxnique

An exhibition of Maya Mam backstrap weaving textiles where the act of weaving is also an act of storytelling, resisting erasure, and preserving ancestral knowledge.

This venue is ADA accessible.

ASL Interpretation and Haptic Tour available for Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 2 pm & Closing Reception: Saturday, May 9, 2 pm.

Access Service Provider and Contact Info:
NAKA Dance Theater, info@nakadancetheater.com

Ticket price(s): free

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FROLIC! with the Queering Dance Festival at our annual celebration of new dance works by Queer and Trans Bay Area choreographers, Thurs-Sat April 2-4 at Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St, San Francisco. ASL Interpretation & Audio Description available, Masks required.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL interpretation provided.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.
Haptic Tour beings at 4 pm, performance begins at 5 pm.

Ticket price(s): $0 - $40

Event information.

FROLIC! with the Queering Dance Festival at our annual celebration of new dance works by Queer and Trans Bay Area choreographers, Thurs-Sat April 2-4 at Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St, San Francisco. ASL Interpretation & Audio Description available, Masks required.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation Provided

Ticket price(s): $0 - $40

Event information.

Every body carries patterns of movement, habit, culture, identity, and history. These patterns shape how we navigate the world—they repeat, evolve, and at times constrain us. Through a series of live dance performances and a short film from AXIS Dance Company and acclaimed choreographers Nadia Adame, Sonya Delwaide, Christopher Unpezverde Nunez, Kayla Hamilton, and Natasha Adorlee, Patterns explores how individuality are expressions of the infinite ways we move and connect. Witness this celebration of humanity in motion, and experience the new possibilities that emerge.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation Provided

Ticket price(s): $20 - $44

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ODC/Dance returns to the Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA for Dance Downtown, March 5-8, 2026. An exhilarating program of adventuresome works invites audiences into the visceral, uplifting and provocative power of dance as the next chapter for ODC unfolds. Thrill to the world premiere of After the Deluge from Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way, Theories of Time by Co-Artistic Director Mia J. Chong, and Caught in the Act, a world premiere from guest choreographer Gypsy Snider, Co-Founder of The 7 Fingers and Dear San Francisco.

On Friday, March 6, enjoy a special one-night-only Gala Night program featuring the world premiere of After the Deluge as well as the celebrated return of Investigating Grace by Brenda Way, named an American Masterpiece by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2011.

"The dancing is always excellent: full-bodied and expansive." – THE NEW YORKER

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation provided

Ticket price(s): $30-$125

Event Information Link: https://odc.dance/dance-downtown

Based on Dan Brown’s bestselling international phenomenon, Professor Robert Langdon is called to the Louvre in the dead of night, where he unwittingly becomes the center of a murder investigation. Soon he is in a race against time to clear Robert’s name and decipher a labyrinthine code before a shocking historical secret is lost forever. Don’t miss the chance to experience The Da Vinci Code like never before in its Bay Area Regional Premiere!

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $20-63

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Audiences are in for a dazzling treat as award-winning magician Xavier Mortimer, the most followed magician on social media with more than 15 billion video views, brings his acclaimed production Master of Magic to
San Francisco.

Known for blending humour, storytelling and breathtaking illusions, Mortimer has captivated global audiences, starred in Cirque du Soleil’s Michael Jackson One and made history as the first Cirque performer to headline his own Las Vegas residency. Directed by Alex Goude and Michael Goudeau, the show features stunning visuals, physical comedy and intricate illusions and has earned top international honours including First Place at the Albano International Congress, a Gold Star at the L’Eau d’Olle Magic Festival and back-to-back wins for Best Magic Show in Las Vegas from the Las Vegas Review Journal.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation provided

Ticket price(s): $59.99- $199.99

Michael Smuin’s wonderfully adaptable toast to the holidays features new works this year by Julia Adam Dance director Julia Adam, Artistic Director Amy Seiwert, and San Francisco Ballet Soloist Myles Thatcher. In addition to beloved Michael Smuin classics, look for favorite numbers by Val Caniparoli, Nicole Haskins, Ben Needham-Wood, and Rex Wheeler. And, of course, Santa Baby will be there too, sauntering across the stage and inviting you to join her—and us—in celebrating everything magical about the season.

Run time is approximately 2 hours, including 1 intermission.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpreted performance

Ticket price(s): $25-$105

Event Information Link: http://www.smuinballet.org/audio-described-performances-2/

Box Office telephone: 510 647-2949 Tue–Sun, noon–7 pm

Inspired by French painter Georges Seurat and his iconic 1884 masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, this groundbreaking musical brings the artist’s world to life, as the figures of Seurat’s park step out of the canvas and into the theater, moving, singing, and breathing in color and light. In Act I, George revolutionizes painting with an avant-garde technique. In Act II, his great-grandson attempts to push his art into the age of technology. Across a century, both wrestle with creation, connection, and what we leave behind when everything else changes. Epic in scale, daring, and abstract, this Stephen Sondheim classic is an unflinching and deeply human look at the art of making art.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL provided by Velvet hands

Ticket price(s): $25-$90

Event Information Link: http://www.shotgunplayers.org/show/sunday/
Box Office number: 628-207-2006

“ ...a trip down memory lane that children of all ages will find hard to resist.”
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Voted San Francisco Magazine's Best Dance Experience, ODC/Dance returns to the stage with the 39th anniversary of the beloved Bay Area holiday tradition, The Velveteen Rabbit, choreographed by KT Nelson and featuring students from ODC’s Youth & Teen Program. Based on the beloved classic children’s book by Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit brims with wit, festive costumes, madcap characters, and the perfect amount of holiday cheer! Featuring captivating narration, a delightful musical score by Benjamin Britten, and larger-than-life storybook characters portrayed by the world-class dancers of ODC/Dance.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $30 - $150

Event Information Link: https://odc.dance/velveteenrabbit

Come see ANNIE, the musical all about optimism and joy in the face of hardships! An American Sign Language interpreter will be located near the stage at House Left for patrons who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing. Seats marked with an “i” symbol provide the best sight lines to follow the interpretation and the action on stage. This performance is supported by Silicon Valley Creates, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Provided
Relaxed Performance

Ticket price(s): $20-63

Event Information Link: http://paplayers.org/event/annie/

NAKA Dance Theater’s Fugitivity is an interdisciplinary performance project exploring the theme of fugitivity: Who has lost the ability to move freely? Who is forced to flee? How can we respond creatively to xenophobia and the threat of mass deportations? What underground networks are keeping people safe?

This venue is ADA accessible

Audio Description Provided
Haptic tour begins at 4 pm, Live Audio Described performance begins at 4:30 pm

Ticket price(s): $25-$35

Mx. Antoine Hunter and Urban Jazz Dance Company invite you to our home season October 24 - 26, 2025 with three amazing programs at CounterPulse!
Program A – Friday, October. 24th, 7:30pm
The Power of Shuffling Through Deaf Education
Followed by Post-Show Panel
Program B – Saturday, October 25th, 7:30pm
The Power of Shuffling Through Deaf Education
Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible
Program C – Sunday, October 26th, 3:00pm
Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible only

“The Power of Shuffling Through Deaf Education” full-length work addresses the ongoing lack of access to education for Deaf, BIPOC, and disabled children. The piece is inspired by true stories shared by parents, educators, lawyers, and others who have fought for equity in schools. There will be a post-show panel discussion on Friday October 24th moderated by Julie Rems-Smario that includes parents of Deaf child(ren) and Deaf community leaders who have lived these experiences firsthand.
Urban Jazz Dance Company is collaborating with Guerilla Opera to present the San Francisco premiere of Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible on Saturday October 25th and Sunday October 26th. This chamber opera, composed by Elisabet Curbelo, is a groundbreaking work that blends experimental music, contemporary dance, and American Sign Language. The leading star is the spectacular Zahna Simon, and Artists with UJDC’s dancers!

This venue is ADA accessible

10/26 has ASL Interpreters.

Ticket price(s): $15-$35

Event Information Link: https://www.realurbanjazzdance.com/2025-home-season-show.html

Mx. Antoine Hunter and Urban Jazz Dance Company invite you to our home season October 24 - 26, 2025 with three amazing programs at CounterPulse!
Program A – Friday, October. 24th, 7:30pm
The Power of Shuffling Through Deaf Education
Followed by Post-Show Panel
Program B – Saturday, October 25th, 7:30pm
The Power of Shuffling Through Deaf Education
Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible
Program C – Sunday, October 26th, 3:00pm
Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible only

“The Power of Shuffling Through Deaf Education” full-length work addresses the ongoing lack of access to education for Deaf, BIPOC, and disabled children. The piece is inspired by true stories shared by parents, educators, lawyers, and others who have fought for equity in schools. There will be a post-show panel discussion on Friday October 24th moderated by Julie Rems-Smario that includes parents of Deaf child(ren) and Deaf community leaders who have lived these experiences firsthand.
Urban Jazz Dance Company is collaborating with Guerilla Opera to present the San Francisco premiere of Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible on Saturday October 25th and Sunday October 26th. This chamber opera, composed by Elisabet Curbelo, is a groundbreaking work that blends experimental music, contemporary dance, and American Sign Language. The leading star is the spectacular Zahna Simon, and Artists with UJDC’s dancers!

This venue is ADA accessible

10/25 performance has AD and ASL interpreters

Ticket price(s): $15-$35

Event Information Link: https://www.realurbanjazzdance.com/2025-home-season-show.html

NAKA Dance Theater’s Fugitivity is an interdisciplinary performance project exploring the theme of fugitivity: Who has lost the ability to move freely? Who is forced to flee? How can we respond creatively to xenophobia and the threat of mass deportations? What underground networks are keeping people safe?

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation Provided

Ticket price(s): $25-$35

Mx. Antoine Hunter and Urban Jazz Dance Company invite you to our home season October 24 - 26, 2025 with three amazing programs at CounterPulse!
Program A – Friday, October. 24th, 7:30pm
The Power of Shuffling Through Deaf Education
Followed by Post-Show Panel
Program B – Saturday, October 25th, 7:30pm
The Power of Shuffling Through Deaf Education
Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible
Program C – Sunday, October 26th, 3:00pm
Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible only

“The Power of Shuffling Through Deaf Education” full-length work addresses the ongoing lack of access to education for Deaf, BIPOC, and disabled children. The piece is inspired by true stories shared by parents, educators, lawyers, and others who have fought for equity in schools. There will be a post-show panel discussion on Friday October 24th moderated by Julie Rems-Smario that includes parents of Deaf child(ren) and Deaf community leaders who have lived these experiences firsthand.
Urban Jazz Dance Company is collaborating with Guerilla Opera to present the San Francisco premiere of Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible on Saturday October 25th and Sunday October 26th. This chamber opera, composed by Elisabet Curbelo, is a groundbreaking work that blends experimental music, contemporary dance, and American Sign Language. The leading star is the spectacular Zahna Simon, and Artists with UJDC’s dancers!

This venue is ADA accessible

10/24 performance has Live Captions, ASL interpreters and Spanish interpretation

Ticket price(s): $15-$35

Event Information Link: https://www.realurbanjazzdance.com/2025-home-season-show.html

LIVE ARTS IN RESISTANCE (LAIR) is a dynamic series of performance showcases, artist residencies, and community town halls that address racial inequity and white supremacy in popular culture. Diana Lara, Audrey Johnson, and Kim Ip w/ABG will be showcasing their pieces in this dynamic series of performances.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation provided

Ticket price(s): Free, registration required

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Extremely Close by Alejandro Cerrudo - Company Premiere
Partita by Justin Peck - Company Premiere
A Long Night by Amy Seiwert - Company Premiere
A trio of Smuin premieres by three award-winning choreographers featuring the music of Caroline Shaw, Phillip Glass, a Tom Waits cover, and more.
September 26 – October 5, San Francisco.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL provided

Ticket price(s): $25+

*Snap snap* Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family—a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia.

Everything will change for the entire family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents. Inspired by the popular TV and film series, The Addams Family musical is a spooky good time for all ages and a hilarious send-up of family quirks, being true to oneself, and celebrating love in all its forms.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation Provided

The Box Office will open at 1pm.
Concessions will be available before the show starting at 1:30pm
Run time is about 2 hours and 45 minutes (including one 15-minute intermission)

Ticket price(s): Tickets: $25.00 (plus $3.95 handling fee)

For more tickets and more info, click here.