Feb 8, 2009 4pm
Performance Works

Get a no-nonsense, fresh take on the Festival with this unique awards ceremony—where the only opinions that matter are those of the kids! The Children’s Choice Awards is a decisive intervention that delves into PuSh Festival: a group of kids from Surrey’s Bridgeview Elementary are chauffeured from event to event, check out the art and offer brash, incisive and audacious opinions. And then they hand out a few awards! Watch for the young jury as they crawl all over the Festival, their tender knees protected from the evils of the world by the thinnest of red carpet. Then check out the Award Ceremony and hear their pronouncements. Follow the kids’ escapades at their blog. Mammalian Diving Reflex is a Toronto-based research-art atelier dedicated to investigating the social sphere, always on the lookout for contradictions to whip into aesthetically scintillating experiences, producing one-off events, theatre-based performance, theoretical texts and community happenings. Working with adults and children alike, Mammalian Diving Reflex creates critically-engaged participatory events including Slow Dance with Teacher, Old People Shooting Guns and the last year’s PuSh Festival hit Haircuts by Children. Mammalian Diving Reflex creates ideal entertainment for the end of the world. Conceived and directed by Darren O’Donnell Produced by Natalie De Vito www.mammlian.ca