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The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival kicked off in style yesterday!

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The PuSh Festival was written up in the most recent issue of CanPlay, the Playwright Guild of Canada's quarterly news magazine. The article was a feature on various national festivals and below is a portion of the piece, for the rest visit the PuSh blog.

PuSh City
By Alex Lazaridis Ferguson

Could this be the future of theatre in Vancouver? On one side, the glass front of the Public Library climbs several stories, leaving each floor open to view. On the other side, people stream in and out of flower shops, groceries and cafes. In the middle is a bank of seats for a few dozen spectators who watch the crowd. Hidden within this crowd are four actors from Australia’s Back to Back Theatre. They are performing small metal objects, one of the hottest tickets at this year’s PuSh Festival. Most of the passersby are unaware of the actors, but the seated spectators can trace dialogue in the headphones they are wearing straight to those actors. The whole thing takes place in the library atrium, a crescent shaped concourse that, as always, serves as social gathering place and entry to the library. For an hour, this theatrical performance serves as the nexus for converging civic elements — on the left, commerce; on the right, a center of learning; in between, art and the everyday flow of humanity . . . to read more, go to www.pushfestival.blogspot.com.