PuSh Blog

VIOLETTE

December 17, 2020

Violette has a story to tell. This utterly unique work brings viewers one by one into her private realm; it’s an experience that mixes live theatre and Virtual Reality, making use of both physical immediacy […]

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Ikigai Machine: A Disability-Arts Vaudeville Experience / Opening Party

November 24, 2019

Myles De Bastion CymaSpace

Opening Weekend Party Deaf curator, advocate and artist Myles de Bastion is here to rock the building with a dose of music, moving images and light. Working with the CymaSpace production team, de Bastion lays […]

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The Democratic Set

November 24, 2019

The Democratic Set performance collage of images

PRESENTED WITH NEWORLD THEATRE “[M]ostly it’s full of laughter and hope, a feeling very much helped by the wide demographic of its contributors.” —RealTime This is not a performance—it’s a model for the way we […]

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Tell Me What I Can Do

November 24, 2019

Tell Me What I Can Do Exhibition woman reading on bench

Gardens Speak has had 30 showings across 5 continents, and many of them have included a special request, with El Khoury asking her audiences to write letters. Here, she offers a selection of them to […]

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Skyborn: A Land Reclamation Odyssey

November 24, 2019

Quelemia Sparrow in a black dress holding a small blue model of a house

A black hole, hungry ghosts, a Grandmother wolf—Quelemia Sparrow’s Skyborn is an epic odyssey grounded in Indigenous ancestral knowledge. Guided through the universe on a river made of stars, Sparrow makes a journey by canoe […]

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Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story

November 24, 2019

Old Stock Performance

PRESENTED WITH TOUCHSTONE THEATRE AND UBC THEATRE AND FILM “Richly humorous, wildly entertaining and deeply moving.” —Martin Morrow, The Globe and Mail Wild, witty and wonderfully inventive, this fusion of concert and drama tells the […]

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High Water

November 24, 2019

High Water performance man reaching into glass tank

PRESENTED WITH VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL In this playful, resourceful performance, one solitary soul uses consumer products to build entire worlds inside a fish tank, working on the spot against a rising horizon of water. […]

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Free Admission

November 24, 2019

Free Admission performance wall salute

“[A] full-frontal statement and demonstration of honesty, vulnerability and power.” —Time Out Uncouth, uncensored and… undressed? Ursula Martinez gets personal, political and philosophical in this soul-baring solo performance. Call it a monologue with a meta […]

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