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City of Dreams – Curatorial Statement

December 21, 2010

by Caleb Johnston, Artistic Director, Urban Crawl The opportunity to adapt City of Dreams in Vancouver was not to be missed. I began to form a sense of this piece as my conversations with London-director […]

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100% Vancouver – Meet 6%, 79% & 29%

December 14, 2010

Name: 27% Serene Mitchell Neighbourhood: Kensington-Cedar Cottage Mother Tongue: Mandarin Background: Taiwanese & Scottish Canadian Question: What are you obsessed with? Answer: “TV: I could watch for as many hours as there are in a day.” Name: 6% Annie Low-Beer Neighbourhood:  Kerrisdale […]

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Donor Profile: Max Wyman, OC.- Curators Circle Member

December 14, 2010

By any standards, the recent growth of PuSh has been remarkable. In a bad-news arts economy, PuSh has bucked the trend, with healthy audiences, a balanced budget, organizational stability and a financial reserve that will […]

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Excerpts from Getting Textual – by Jill Margo, Geist Magazine

December 09, 2010

What does the Facebook message mean? Half-cut, we subject it to various decoding methodologies …“Hope you’re doing well, enjoying Vancouver — and of course, recovered from the puppet show.” We agree that hope is an expectation that […]

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100% Vancouver – Meet 32% & 53%!

December 08, 2010

Name: 32% JeffreyGender: MaleNeighbourhood: Kensington-Cedar CottageMother Tongue: MandarinQuestion: What would you like to ask 100 people?Answer: “What can you do to help create a good environment?” Name: 53% Aaron Gender: Male Neighbourhood: Hastings-Sunrise Mother Tongue: English Question: What is the largest group that you […]

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SFU Names Norman Armour Outstanding Alumni

December 03, 2010

PuSh is proud of Norman for his dedication, passion, leadership and more importantly for his strong sense of humanity. By Janet Smith, Georgia Straight, December 3, 2010 ‘PuSh International Performing Arts Festival executive director Norman […]

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Thoughts on Podplays

December 02, 2010

by Zaira Petruf, Outreach Coordinator Podplays is a work conceived by Adrienne Wong (Neworld Theatre) and developed in partnership with Martin Kinch and the Playwrights Theatre Centre. It involves five writer/compose teams commissioned to create […]

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Podplays – Curatorial Statement

December 02, 2010

by Associate Curator Dani Fecko I don’t have a driver’s license.  Much to the chagrin and mockery of many of my friends, I can’t drive a car. This means I take a lot of buses, […]

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