PuSh Festival
The PuSH for international arts
January 20, 2025By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer The 2025 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival will be held from January 23 to February 9 across the Lower Mainland. This year is the 20th anniversary of the festival, and to celebrate, the program will feature dozens of performances from music, dance, film, theatre, culinary, visual arts, and more. With various artists to see and shows to experience over the two-week long event, there’s something in store for every arts appreciator whether this is your first time attending the festival, or you’re a seasoned PuSher. Without further ado, here’s a list of some must-see events…
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Cancelling “The Runner” shows solidarity
February 7, 2024By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor Content warning: mentions of genocide. On January 11, Vancouver’s landmark performing arts festival, PuSh, announced that The Runner, a play by the Montreal-based group Human Cargo, would be cut from their programming. The…
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Alan Lake Factorie presents Le Cris des Méduses
February 20, 2023By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer Le Cris des Méduses is a 19th century romantic painting come to life through choreography and art direction by Alan Lake Factori(e). An interpretation of French romantic painter Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa…
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The Café takes people-watching to another level
February 13, 2023By: C Icart, staff writer The Café is a play with a unique concept that appeals to those of us that like people-watching. The event took place last week as part of this year’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Directed…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: Jan 17–23
January 18, 2022By: Gurleen Aujla, Peak Associate Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival | Runs until February 16 | FREE | PoMoArts | Online and in-person The Community Arts Council of Vancouver presents the Outsider Arts Festival as a touring exhibition. The purpose of the…
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PuSh International Performing Arts Festival 2017: Preview
January 16, 2017The 13th year of this diverse festival of performing arts from near and far is once again presenting a variety of innovative dance, theatre, and music to entertain and inspire all types of audiences. PuSh runs from January 16 to…
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CENTRE STAGE: In Review: Huff, Relative Collider, L’Immediat, Closer Than Ever
February 15, 2016HUFF I don’t think I’ve ever been so disturbed at a show or found something as difficult to watch as Huff. Cliff Cardinal’s one-man show presented as part of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival at the Firehall Arts Centre…
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CENTRE STAGE: In review: Leftovers, Seeds, Lapin blanc, lapin rouge, and Company
February 8, 2016LEFTOVERS The Cultch and the Push International Performing Arts Festival presented Neworld Theatre’s Leftovers at the York Theatre — a one man show combining politics and comedy. Charles Demers (who wrote the show along with Marcus Youssef) told the story…
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Theatre and cinema blend in Cineastas
February 13, 2015Like a mesmerizing foreign film, Cineastas is intriguing, profound, and captivating. Following four filmmakers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the show was staged on two levels, which created a very cinematic split screen effect. On the bottom level, the characters acted…
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Louise Lecavalier is So Blue
January 26, 2015Louise Lecavalier is a powerhouse. In So Blue, her pulsing, persistent choreography was mesmerizing from the moment she began to move. As she shuffled nimbly across the stage, she was totally entranced in her movements, like a runaway train gaining…
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