Kindling Arts Festival 2025

Search for your greatest fortune and test your fates at Kindling Arts Festival 2025, featuring a spellbinding array of 19 original performance projects created by Nashville's most daring artists. From the dark and mysterious to the buoyant and sexy, our Fortunes & Fates festival line-up offers something for every adventurous art-lover: a feminist, electro-pop reimagining of the Salem witch trials, timely theatrical works wrestling with our present times, a fantastical drug-induced queer journey into a fictional land, interactive events exploring communal power and alternative economies, and so much more.

Gravity defying-aerial feats, hilarious new plays, high-voltage performance art, and bad stripping — it's all on the table at Kindling Arts Festival 2025.

Explore the full line-up with an all-access Festival Pass, available in a standard option for just $98, or VIP upgrade for $138 including reserved seating at some of our most in-demand events. Grab your pass before prices increase at the end of June!