Since 1959, the Fresno State Peach Blossom Festival has welcomed children from all across the Valley to our campus to share their oral interpretations of poetry and literature!
We eagerly anticipate 2026’s Festival and welcoming the stars of the festival: the students!
- Students from TK to 6th Grade are invited to participate; schools that are TK-8 can have their middle schoolers participate as well
- Each school can have up to 10 entries
- Entries can range from solo to large groups of up to 30
- Performances are limited to five minutes
- Foreign language and ASL performances are enthusiastically welcomed!
- Monday, December 15: Payment information available.
- Friday, January 30: Priority registration deadline.
- Friday, February 6: Session information will be sent to coordinators if priority registration is submitted and finalized by January 30.
- Friday, February 13: Late registration deadline.
- Friday, February 20: Session information will be sent to coordinators if registration is submitted and finalized by February 13.
- Week of February 23: Requests for performance information (performance pieces, student names, and group names) will be sent out to coordinators.
- Friday, February 27: All registration changes must be completed by end of the day.
Additions cannot be made without Peach Blossom Festival director approval and no adjustments to billing for canceled performances or a reduction in performers can be made after this date. - Friday, March 6: Performance information requests submitted to us for processing.
- Week of March 9: Room assignments finalized and remitted to all schools.
- March 19 and 20: The 68th annual Peach Blossom Festival of Oral Interpretation
We realize that every school and district have different payment policies so we don’t have a “set” due date; we do kindly request that schools attempt to have payment to us by May 1st so we can process payments by the end of the semester.
