PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

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A touch of magic at the 2026 PuSh Festival

Everything Has Disappeared is onstage Jan 29–Feb 1

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PuSh’s work mostly takes place on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish First Nations, including:

  • xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Musqueam
  • Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Squamish
  • səlilwətaɬ Tsleil-Waututh

PuSh at the Playhouse

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2026 Festival: Jan 22 – Feb 8

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Beyond the Festival

Shows

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    • Land
    • Memory
    • Future
    • Embodiment
    • Resistance
    • Ancestry
    • Time
    • Memory
    • Motion
    • Illusion
    • Labour
    • Visibility
    • Presence
    • Resistance
    • Remembrance

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    • Light
    • Ancestry
    • Connection
    • Queerness
    • Land
    • Resistance
    • Descent
    • Transformation
    • Dream
    • Cantopop
    • Migration
    • Identity

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    • Heart
    • Time
    • Becoming
    • Touch
    • Transformation
    • Relation
    • Anarchic
    • Absurdist
    • Cathartic
    • Voice
    • Mythic
    • Futurism
    • Mess
    • Desire
    • Becoming
    TESTO: A trans-masculine drag artist stands on a dark stage, holding an LED-sign where the word "now" glows red. Their bald head is turned in profile, with a checkerboard smile painted across their face. They wear a billowing white coat made of luxuriously gauzy material, which hangs open, exposing a flat, muscular chest.
    • Lineage
    • Style
    • Liberation
    • Origin
    • Creation
    • Legacy
    • Magic Realism
    • Myth
    • Ritual
    • Memory
    • Ancestry
    • Resistance

Completed Shows

    • Memory
    • Simulation
    • Afterlife
    • Celebrate
    • Audacious
    • Community
    • Empathy
    • Resilience
    • Fragility
    Eight Short Compositions on the Lives of Ukrainians for a Western Audience
    • Reclamation
    • Gaze
    • Remix
    • Memory
    • Inheritance
    • Individuality
    • Ritual
    • Nostalgia
    • Absurdity
    • Resonance
    • Ecology
    • Joy

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