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A Celebration of Audacious Live Art

November 20, 2024

A man dressed for winter stares dead ahead with piercing eyes. He sits at a snow-white table scattered with miniature trees and a few tiny houses. His arm, which rests on the table, is an extension of the landscape, with little houses and trees sprouting from him as though he were a mountain.

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. […]

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PuSh Leadership Changes

November 07, 2024

Composite photo portrait of Keltie Forsyth and Dr. Margo Kane

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 […]

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2025 Artist Walks

October 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 […]

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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – Read With Us

September 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 […]

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Identity as a queer artist & representation at PuSh

June 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 […]

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Red Dress Day 2024

May 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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Reflections: The Impact of 2024’s Festival

April 25, 2024

Keltie Forsyth, Director of Operations I’ve been feeling reflective lately. This may be because it is a literal time of looking back. Here at PuSh we are debriefing with partners and artists, writing reports on […]

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PuSh In the Community, or How Does an Arts Festival Seed a Revolution?

February 29, 2024

PuSh’s approach to community engagement—those activities that go beyond presenting performances and give you opportunities to engage differently with us and the artists we present—is driven by curiosity about the role arts institutions can play […]

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