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PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
PuSh’s work mostly takes place on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish First Nations, including:
- xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Musqueam
- Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Squamish
- səlilwətaɬ Tsleil-Waututh
2026 Festival: Jan 22 – Feb 8
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PuSh Play Podcast
In conversation with PuSh artists who are pushing boundaries and playing with form.
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Accessibility
Removing physical, social and financial barriers to the arts.
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Support Live Art
Community donations have always brought PuSh to life.
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Newsletter
Festival happenings and connections to art in Vancouver and beyond.
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In the Community
Workshops that amplify connection between local and visiting artists
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PuSh In Development
Supporting the creation of new artistic projects for touring markets
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In Dialogue
A free creative intensive for artists and arts critics aged 25-35
Shows
Completed Shows
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2021
- Memory
- Simulation
- Afterlife
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2026 Opening Party
- Celebrate
- Audacious
- Community
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askîwan ᐊᐢᑮᐊᐧᐣ
- Land
- Memory
- Future
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Bardaje
- Embodiment
- Resistance
- Ancestry
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Catching Up to the Future of Our Past
- Time
- Memory
- Motion
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Eight Short Compositions on the Lives of Ukrainians for a Western Audience
- Empathy
- Resilience
- Fragility
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Everything Has Disappeared
- Illusion
- Labour
- Visibility
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JEZEBEL
- Reclamation
- Gaze
- Remix
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Kamwe Kamwe
- Presence
- Resistance
- Remembrance
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Khalil Khalil
- Memory
- Inheritance
- Individuality
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Kiuryaq
- Light
- Ancestry
- Connection
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La utopía de la mariposa / TIERRA
- Queerness
- Land
- Resistance
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Le Beau Monde
- Ritual
- Nostalgia
- Absurdity
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Orpheus
- Descent
- Transformation
- Dream
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Rainbow Chan Live at the Dream Factory
- Cantopop
- Migration
- Identity
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Remember that time we met in the future?
- Heart
- Time
- Becoming
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SKIN
- Touch
- Transformation
- Relation
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SLUGS
- Anarchic
- Absurdist
- Cathartic
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Split Tooth: Saputjiji
- Voice
- Mythic
- Futurism
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The Brutal Joy
- Lineage
- Style
- Liberation
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The Motha’ Kiki Ball
- Origin
- Creation
- Legacy
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Trouble Score
- Magic Realism
- Myth
- Ritual
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WAIL
- Resonance
- Ecology
- Joy
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Wayqeycuna
- Memory
- Ancestry
- Resistance
Thanking Our Partners
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Vancouver Civic Theatres is owned and operated by the City of Vancouver, and includes the VCT Board, which advises City Council on the operation, use, and improvement of the theatres. We are committed to developing, enhancing and promoting the city’s vibrant arts scene, sharing with the world the astonishing breadth and depth of Vancouver’s creative community and cultural entrepreneurs.
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