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From the streets to the studio, San Francisco’s Central Market Arts take center stage for 24 days of dance performances, performance art, arts walks, theater and live music.
FOUNDING ORGANIZATIONS Alonzo King LINES Dance Center
Central Market Community Benefit District
Denia Dance
Friends of Mint Plaza
The Garage
KUNST-STOFF Arts



SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund
MJM Management Group
Observe SF
San Francisco Arts Commission
San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development
San Francisco Travel
Shorenstein Company
Urban Solutions
Zellerbach Family Foundation / The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS Boxcar Theatre
People in Plazas
Bindlestiff Studios
Intersection for the Arts
Urban Solutions
SF Arts Market
Richard Perri / The Oddists
Music Events 4 Causes
EXIT Theatre/ SF Fringe Festival
Dancers' Group / little seismic dance company
LEVYdance / Studio Gracia
San Francisco Conservatory of Dance
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
Lily Cai Dance Company
CounterPULSE
Satellite66
International Art Museum of America
Epiphany Productions / San Francisco Trolley Dances
Central City Hospitality House Community Arts Program
A.C.T.
La Alternativa
Robert Moses Kin
Hope Mohr Dances
Mary Carbonara Dances
Nina Haft & Company
STEAMROLLER
Silvia Girardi Acting
Copious Dance Theatre
Push Dance Company
Liss Fain Dance
Sarah Bush Dance Project & Joshua Klipp
Mary Sano and Her Duncan Dancers
David Herrera Performance Company
Christine Bonansea
Laura Arrington
Macklin Kowal
Here Now Dance Collective
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CALI & CO
Alyce Finwall Dance Theatre
City Circus / AcroSports
FOR MEDIA INQUIRIES, CONTACT: Mary Alice Fry
Project Manager
415-920-2223
centralmarketarts@gmail.com
CENTRAL MARKET ARTS Central Market Arts is a group of organizations dedicated to a common vision of promoting San Francisco’s Central Market Neighborhood as a vital arts district. Our mission is to serve as a unified voice for arts of every discipline through promotion of arts, cooperative marketing, programming coordination, and the production of a yearly capstone event.
MEDIA For high resolution images, contact:
Mary Alice Fry
Project Manager
415-920-2223
centralmarketarts@gmail.com

The 24 Days of Central Market Arts returns to San Francisco's Central Market district, September 23-October 16. The festival kicks off on Mint Plaza with a weekend of performances by acclaimed local companies on Friday, September 23 through Sunday, September 25. The kick-off weekend includes dance, live music and family-friendly arts activities for all to enjoy the uniquely vibrant arts scene that the neighborhood offers.

The Central Market Arts Festival continues through October 16 with curated performances in dance, music and theatre at a variety of venues. Audiences are encouraged to visit the spaces where art is envisioned and created in Central Market.

Kick-Off Event: September 23-25
 Mint Plaza (Central Market: Fifth Street between Market & Mission Streets)

. Get a taste of dance, music, art and food from Central Market and South of Market neighborhoods. Open to the public.

Satellite Events: September 26-October 16. Various locations 

(Central Market/South of Market)

. Concerts, art receptions, dance performances, theater and more. Open to the public.

2 Blocks of Art: October 14
, 4-8 p.m. Various locations on Sixth Street between Market and Howard Streets (4:30 p.m. Reception at Bindlestiff Studio, 185 Sixth Street).



 Artists will be featured in galleries, retail shops, restaurants, theaters and event spaces along the first two blocks of Sixth Street. Open to the public. Visit here to learn more.