Jeanette Yoffe

Submissions are open for the 2026 Celia Center ARTS FEST Featuring:

ADOPTION AWARENESS MONTH … LIVE PERFORMANCES … utilizing the PERFORMING & EXPRESSIVE ARTS WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE IN ADOPTION OR FOSTER CARE…

• What does Adoption mean to you creatively?
• What does Foster Care mean to you creatively?
• What image, word, note, or story do you want to make a statement with?
• If you wrote a poem… what would you say?
• If you wrote a song… what would the lyrics be?
• If you choreographed a dance piece… what does the world need to witness?
• If you filmed something, could you make a collage of your adoptee or foster journey OR could you film an expressive dance piece or theatrical piece?

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“It’s not that you express, it’s that you explore the journey with your expression.”
~ Jeanette Yoffe, Former Foster Youth and Founder of Celia Center Arts Festival

We are Seeking Performers and Creative Artists with Adoption and/or Foster Care Lived Experience

ALL AGES

Whether you are a dancer, a singer, an actor, and/or visual artist such as a painter, a photographer, a sculptor, a filmmaker, a poet, and any other creative piece of art created by an adoptee or foster youth “showing the experience”.

Artists’ pieces will be displayed in the VIRTUAL exhibit at our LIVE EVENT this NOVEMBER 2026 in Venice Beach, California.

Submission Application

Submissions open June 1, 2026 – September 20, 2026

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    Please read these Exhibit Conditions of the Festival

    If you have a PDF of a performance to send, please send it via your local email program by clicking here. Everyone should please also continue with this online submission form. Enter the web address of a YouTube, Vimeo, or web page the clearly shows any work that you wish to submit for consideration. (optional)

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    • Completion of this submission application form is required for entry.

    • Along with the application, please provide jpegs, mp3, mp4, and a website and photos of the piece(s) of art being submitted. Please send it via Email by clicking here.

    • PHYSICAL ART will be received within 10 days of the festival.

    DEADLINE:
    September 20, 2026