United States of
Asian America Festival
The United States of Asian America Festival (USAAF) showcases artists representing a diverse range of ethnic and cultural groups across San Francisco's Pacific Islander and Asian American communities. Each year, the festival presents up to 20 different programs reflecting the artistic accomplishments of AAPI artists working in all disciplines - theater, music, dance, film, literature, visual arts, and more.
NURTURE
the next generation of visionaries
EMPOWER
community expression
SUPPORT
independent artists in their growth
Common Ground
This year’s theme, Common Ground, invites us to reflect on our relationships with each other and with the spaces we move through together as AAPIs in the diaspora by exploring what it means to take up space and practice placemaking for others. The festival will celebrate modes of thinking about solidarity through shared experiences and histories by underscoring how visibility in public spaces can cultivate belonging.
2026
How do we use these spaces to act in solidarity with other BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ communities and work towards collective liberation?
How do API communities continue to create spaces for gathering and community care through arts and culture?
April - June
What does it mean to create and hold space for healing, and how does API cultural expression inform the ways that we are able to expand reflective spaces within ourselves?
Thank you to our many partners and funders including the San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, California Arts Council, Zellerbach Family Foundation and startsmall.