2025 Comparsa Stage Application

Name: 2025 Carnaval San Francisco Festival
Start: 2025-05-24T11:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-25T18:00-07:00
Location: 24th Street

Deadline: Apr 15, 2025 11:59 pm (GMT-07:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

2025 Carnaval San Francisco Festival

Date: May 24, 2025 11:00 am - May 25, 2025 6:00 pm (PDT)

Harrison Street Between 16th And 24th Streets, San Francisco, California 94110, United States

Free

About the event

Carnaval San Francisco, the largest multicultural festival in the West Coast, is a project that CANA organizes, with the goal of educating people on the Latino, Caribbean and African Diasporic traditions of the Mission District and the San Francisco Bay Area. We accomplish our mission through dance, music, the visual arts and by creating spaces for community learning, school–based education, and advocacy. Our free, two–day Festival covers 17 blocks in the Mission District, with five main stages, 50 local performing artists, and 400 vendors. The festival includes international food, dancing, sampling sites and entertainment for families, couples and friends of all ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

Cultura Y Arte Nativa de las Americas

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Cultura Y Arte Nativa de las Americas

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About the application

Photo by Daniel Beck

This application is ONLY for comparsas and dance groups interested in performing on the Comparsa Stage on Saturday, May 25 or Sunday, May 26, 2024 on 21st Street between Harrison and Alabama Streets.

Definition of a comparsa:
A comparsa is an artistic, street theater performance group with its own theme, cast of dancers, musicians, other performers, with choreography, costumes, props, and floats. A comparsa creates a new theme for each annual Carnaval San Francisco. To express this theme a comparsa builds a new float, choreographs new dances, performs new music, and sews/buys new costumes. Comparsas must have at least 30 dance performers, not including volunteers. A community organization, local business, company, government agency, or political entity is not a comparsa.

Stage Dimensions: 20' x 20'

Questions on the application

User information

First name
Last name
Email

Business information

Business name
Legal business name
Contact name
Address
Email
Phone
Website (Optional)
Logo (Optional)

Additional information

Name of comparsa/dance group
What day do you prefer to perform?
How many total performers will your comparsa/dance group have?
Will your performance require pre-recorded music ?
Will you need amplified sound for your performance?
If using amplified sound, what kind of instruments?
How many minutes will your performance be?
Facebook URL
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2025 Comparsa Stage Application

2025 Carnaval San Francisco Festival

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