The Crucible's Fire Arts Festival®
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The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival will be back with a vengeance in the furture, celebrating creativity through fire and light with a spectacular open-air exhibition of interactive fire art, performance and the largest collection of outdoor fire sculpture on the West Coast. More Information to come...
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The Crucible's 9th Annual
2009 Fire Arts Festival®
July 15-18, 2009
The Fire Arts Festival is our major fundraising event, and proceeds benefit The Crucible’s arts education programs for youth and adults. Each July The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival celebrates creativity through fire and light with a spectacular open-air exhibition of interactive fire art, performance and the largest collection of outdoor fire sculpture on the West Coast. Check out images, artists and performers from past Fire Arts Festivals below.
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Our July 2009 Fire and Light Soiree was a fabulous success!
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The Crucible's 8th Annual
2008 Fire Arts Festival®
July 9-12, 2008
The Crucible celebrated its 8th Annual Fire Arts Festival with a fiery display of art, great music and amazing performances. Each night at 8pm the gates opened and attendees were invited in to walk around and enjoy the art pieces in full daylight, appreciating their amazing construction. Then each night we were treated to amazing sunsets and a bright orange moon. At 9pm our MC Michael Sturtz queued the fire, and the Fire Arts Arena came alive with pops, booms and whizzes.
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The Crucible's 7th Annual
2007 Fire Arts Festival®
July 11-14, 2007
The Crucible’s 7th Annual Fire Arts Festival set West Oakland ablaze and transformed the vacant lot at Kirkham and 7th Streets into a Fire Arts Arena with a four-day run in July 2007.
Ever raising the bar for “flameboyance,” this year Crucible Founder and Fire Arts Festival Producer Michael Sturtz added something new: The Fire Odyssey, an 11-act modernized interpretation of Homer’s epic poem, performed nightly. Blending industrial fire theatre with ballet, opera, hip hop, aerial dance, fire performance and more, The Fire Odyssey brought together an amazing cast of internationally recognized dancers and performers to create one of the most technically ambitious and visually stunning productions seen in the Bay Area.
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The Crucible's 6th Annual
2006 Fire Arts Festival®
July 9-12, 2006
Towering pillars of flame, cracking bolts of electricity, bodies dancing through fire – over 8,000 experienced the four-day celebration of fire & light. Attendees came during the day to learn new skills at special Crucible workshops and classes, and then returned at night as the Fire Arts Arena lit up with fire performances, music and the works of innovative fire sculptors.
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The Crucible's 5th Annual
2005 Fire Arts Festival®
July 12-17, 2005
The Fire Arts Festival took place Tuesday- Sunday, July 12-17, 2005, at The Crucible’s 48,000 square foot industrial arts facility and nearby 200,000 square foot outdoor arena in West Oakland. A full program of arts and educational events throughout six days and four evenings included lectures, classes, artist talks and arts demonstrations. The highlight was the many fire performances and fire and light sculptures featured in the outdoor exhibition arena on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
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Burning Man and The Crucible present the 4th Annual
2004 Fire Arts Festival®
July 7-11, 2004
Five days and nights were filled with awe-inspiring spectacles of fire and light at The Crucible's industrial arts facility and adjacent 100,000 square foot outdoor Fire Arts Arena in West Oakland. The festival was a wealth of workshops, classes, lectures and stimulating demonstrations showcasing innovative and thrilling artistic mediums, culminating in three different nights of mind-blowing performances, sculptures and exhibits from the best fire and light artists on the West Coast.
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The Crucible's 3rd Annual
2002 Fire Arts Festival®
June 22, 2002
Glimmer, Glow, Sparkle, Ignite! The Bay Area's only non-profit sculpture center, educational foundry, and metal fabrication studio toasted the longest day of the year with a festive celebration of creation through fire and light. This fundraising benefit invited audiences to come in and frolic in our 17,000 square foot studio, and experience first-hand the dynamic energy of creating through fire! Proceeds from the event supported The Crucible's growing arts, education and community programs, and helped keep the arts alive in the Bay Area.
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The Crucible's 2nd Annual
2000 Fire Arts Festival®
July 8, 2000
OUR EXPLOSIVE EXPANSION FUNDRAISER
We've broken through the warehouse walls, gaining an additional 16,000 square feet for new programs, classes and performance spaces - Now it's time to celebrate!
This fiery evening included demonstrations of many of our classes and fire arts techniques including: welding, blacksmithing, stonecarving, raku firing, pyrex glass beadmaking, kiln-cast glass, porcelain enameling, foundry processes, and a spectacular BRONZE POUR!
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The Crucible's 1st Annual
1999 Fire Arts Festival®
June 12, 1999
Thank you for joining us for a gallery opening, benefit and outdoor fire and light exhibit featuring live music, fire performances, and a studio open house showcasing metal casting, glass working, blacksmithing, welding, raku, and various sculpture demonstrations.
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