We are Nashville's home for radically unique, independent artists.
Founded in 2018, Kindling Arts develops innovative new works by Nashville’s experimental artists, empowering diverse creators with the resources required to explore challenging ideas in a multidisciplinary context. By providing local artists with space, resources, and practical support, Kindling promotes underrepresented voices and aesthetics, making space for boundary-pushing work that would otherwise be impossible. Kindling’s core programming includes the annual Kindling Arts Festival, a multi-day celebration of local artists that showcases more than a dozen diverse performances and events in various venues throughout Nashville, as well as unique arts events year-round.
UPCOMING
The Disco Ball: Wildest Dreams
A Benefit for Kindling Arts Festival 2026
Saturday, April 25 | Eastside Bowl
Step into a night of fantasy and surrealism at The Disco Ball: Wildest Dreams, using the power of disco to transform the vibrant space at Eastside Bowl into a phantasmogoric dreamscape. Be swept away by lively activations, hidden scenes, and inclusive community, all topped off with an otherworldly disco dance party with beats by DJ RAIDEN. Engage with whimsical performances from some of Nashville's finest talent, and even get a sneak peek at what's in store for Kindling Arts Festival 2026: Utopias this summer.
Don your most fantastical garment, celebrate the impossible, revel in the hallucinatory. Unleash your most fabulous self at The Disco Ball.
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Kindling Arts Festival 2026:
U T O P I A S
July 23-26 | West Nashville
Kindling Arts Festival 2026 invites you to explore the theme of Utopias: an invitation to imagine what's possible if we let ourselves dream beyond the limits of what is. For our 9th year of radically unique arts programming, we will again feature more than a dozen performances and events from July 23-26, 2026 (Thursday - Sunday) at multiple venues across West Nashville.
The 2026 Festival celebrates the audacity of imagination. We ask: What does it mean to create in the direction of a world that isn’t here yet? How might artists model systems of belonging, justice, and joy that stretch our shared sense of what’s possible? Together, we can make something better, not someday, but here and now.
