Street theatre is a vital art form endemic to the cultural fabric and traditional rituals of peoples worldwide. Street theatre is immediate, intimate and interactive. It is a colorful celebration which challenges the harshness of our urban landscape.
Street theatre is a reclamation of our public spaces and our community.
It is eagerly awaited by the residents, children and organizers of San Francisco's Tenderloin district as well as a growing alternative theatre going audience. In its first year, ITS offered two free days of street theatre on Ellis street as well as a temporal sculpture garden and Hands-On table. All together ITS events have included over 600 artists and have brought 13,000 people out to the Tenderloin. ITS 1999 will offer two days and one evening of performance including processions, giant puppetry, dance and youththeatre, acrobatics, visual arts and hands on areas. Our nighttime event opens the Festival Friday in a new location in the Duboce Triangle.