December 02, 2024
Celebrating 20 years as a fully-fledged festival and building on the legacy of founders Norman Armour and Katrina Dunn, PuSh remains artist-driven. Through our festival programming, our Club PuSh nights, the Industry Week, PuSh Dramaturgy […]
Read MoreNovember 26, 2024
Since 2021, PuSh has partnered with Solid State Community Industries to introduce IBPOC youth in Surrey to careers in the performing arts. Through a unique, free-access program, participants have enjoyed curated shows and artist workshops […]
Read MoreNovember 20, 2024
By Gabrielle Martin The 20th anniversary PuSh Festival is a celebration of audacious live art. These are performances and immersive experiences that shift our paradigms for creative expression and how we relate to one another. […]
Read MoreNovember 07, 2024
The PuSh Festival Board would like to announce two senior staff departures. Effective this summer, Dr. Margo Kane stepped down from her role as Director of Indigenous Initiatives to focus on her work at Full […]
Read MoreOctober 02, 2024
We invite local artists to welcome national and international guests to Vancouver by leading small groups of up to five industry delegates on an artist-led city walk*. This opportunity allows guests to experience and appreciate […]
Read MoreSeptember 27, 2024
PuSh Festival does our work on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaɬ nations, and it is our duty to establish right relations with the […]
Read MoreJune 14, 2024
To say I grew up at PuSh may be an exaggeration in the literal sense. However, I was fortunate enough to realize a critical part of myself at the festival: my identity as a queer […]
Read MoreMay 05, 2024
Today is Red Dress Day, the day we honour and remember missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two spirit people. But it isn’t only a day to remember, it is also a day for […]
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