PuSh is a cornerstone of Vancouver’s arts community. It provides a vital platform for emerging artists to establish their voices and careers, for established artists to thrive and share their vision, and for patrons to […]

These are challenging times. We are learning to live with COVID-19. Our skies are smoky from the climate emergency. The reckoning with structural racism continues around the world. The arts sector faces greater instability than […]

We, the Board of the Directors of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, are deeply sorry for the distress, anger and disappointment we have caused the PuSh and broader arts communities. We hear your concern […]

To Our PuSh Family, Friends and Supporters, The COVID-19 pandemic has raised critical and unprecedented issues for arts organizations of all sizes – to which PuSh is not immune. Due to the far reaching impacts […]

Kaen has been serving as our Interim Operations Manager since the close of the festival. This week we are thrilled to announce that she is now the permanent Operations Manager on our team. Here’s her […]

The PuSh Festival team has been meeting online for a month as we continue our planning for the 2021 Festival. For the moment, we are slated to take place in some form or another from […]

1) For how long have you been involved with PuSh? Since when have you been attending the festival? I first attended the PuSh Festival in 2016 as a guest of my friend and neighbour Michael […]

1) For how long have you been involved with PuSh? Since when have you been attending the festival? Oh wow, I remember being involved with PuSh as early as 2005.  Specifically, I did a pitch […]