PuSh Blog

La utopía de la mariposa / TIERRA

November 12, 2025

Image description: A collage of two images. First: Outdoors in a field of long grasses against a glowing dusk sky, a lone performer pours a basket of rose petals over his upturned face. His flat chest is bare, and he wears a full skirt of gold brocade and lace. Second: Light pours into the windows of an empty wooden-framed barn, illuminating the silouette of a performer dressed in the a lush dress and matching overcoat made of pale lace. Facing away, the figure holds the garment open, letting the light shine through the delicate cloth.

Queerness // Land // Resistance Two visionary films featuring Lukas Avendaño—an internationally acclaimed performance artist and leading voice of the Muxe community in Oaxaca’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec—trace the intersections of body, land, and resistance within […]

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2026 Opening Party

January 03, 2025

Celebrate // Audacious // Community Raise the curtain on PuSh 2026 with a luminous night of live electronic performance and dance. Palestinian DJ and composer Khalil Albatran merges abstract sound with collective memory in a […]

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MANUAL

November 03, 2022

Partial view of two people, shot through the shelves of a library. One person holds a device up to the ear of another.

MANUAL is a one-on-one experience that turns a public library into a space of sensory encounter and heightened awareness. Participants arrive on site with instructions to meet a guide; from there they’re silently led through […]

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People Change: Vivek Shraya in Conversation with Marsha Lederman

December 14, 2021

Directly following the Tuesday, February 1 one-woman performance of How to Fail as a Popstar at PuSH Festival, acclaimed musician and author Vivek Shraya will join Vancouver Writers Fest for a one-to-one conversation with Marsha Lederman on her new […]

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DJ Kookum with Sierra Baker & Missy D

January 18, 2021

DJ Kookum & Sierra Baker Kookum is an open format DJ but grew up listening to EDM and Hip Hop music. With club residencies, one-off gigs, and through work as the official DJ for Snotty […]

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Gordon Grdina Trio

January 13, 2021

Gordon Grdina is a JUNO Award winning oud/guitarist whose career has spanned continents, decades and constant genre exploration throughout avant-garde jazz, free form improvisation, contemporary indie rock and Arabic music. His singular approach to the […]

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Board Table Disruption

December 22, 2020

Are you bored with boards? How many times have you heard that the non-profit Board model is broken, and can it be fixed? On February 3rd, join us for a riveting roundtable on boards – […]

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Invasion Day – Foreshore Session

November 25, 2019

Person in a canoe on a lake

Please note: Details for this show were incorrectly published in our program guide. The information here is up to date. Long-time PuSh collaborator Other Sights for Artists’ Projects will present a program of sound, performance, […]

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