Baduwa't Festival

Dell’Arte International presents the 34th Baduwa’t Festival (formerly called the Mad River Festival), its annual summer festival of theater, entertainment, music, and performance. This year also marks the 50th Anniversary of Dell’Arte International’s home in Blue Lake. Dell’Arte has been serving Humboldt County for five decades with fresh, ensemble-created physical “theater of place,” professional training, community engagement programs, and live performance. The 2024 Festival features the first Dell’Arte Company mainstage show since the pandemic: The Poor of New York, a comic adaptation of a classic American melodrama. Other events include: A free Panel Discussion on Dell’Arte through the decades; The Prize of Hope Ceremony, a co-production with the Danish Institute of Popular Theater; the Humboldt FolkLife Festival, a jam-packed week of live music presented by Humboldt Folklife Society; the Citizen Joy Project, a nationwide interactive performance; and an alumni guest performance of Forgive Us, Gustavito by Otherland Theater Ensemble. The Festival closes with the return of String & Shadow Puppet Theater and their new show Or So It Would Seam.