PuSh Blog

Wayqeycuna

November 12, 2025

Image description: Outdoors against a backdrop of the misty mountains, two Indigenous men stare forwards with serious, engaging expressions. Both wrap bright blankets, embroidered exquisitely with bold colourful flowers, around their shoulders, covering their bodies and further emphasizing their serious faces.

Presenting Supporter: The McGrane-Pearson Endowment Fund Memory // Ancestry // Resistance Like a quipu—the intricate system of knotted cords used by Andean peoples to record memory and knowledge—Wayqeycuna traces Argentinean artist Tiziano Cruz’s path back […]

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Split Tooth: Saputjiji

November 12, 2025

Image description: Outdoors, an Indigenous woman looks proudly into the distance. She wears an embroidered headband, an ornate red coat, and a Palestinian keffiyeh tucked neatly around her shoulders under the oppulent folds of her coat's collar. Behind her is a cloudless blue sky.

Thur Feb 5 // 8PM Voice // Mythic // Futurism Split Tooth: Saputjiji is a new performance of Tanya Tagaq’s, drawing from her acclaimed book Split Tooth and her new album Saputjiji. Tagaq’s vocal power […]

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Remember that time we met in the future?

November 12, 2025

Image description: A performer with dark curly hair wears a leather jacket backwards and a single yellow glove. Their lower half is blocked by the strange things they carry, seemingly chosen as much for their colours and textures more as for their actual purppse: a blue water jug, a bunch of curly gold ribbon, a pink cord, and a crate full of folded clear plastic.

Heart // Time // Becoming Remember that time we met in the future? moves through a world in transformation—where land, light, sound, and memory converge. Within a shifting terrain of salvaged materials and spectral landscapes, […]

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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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Kiuryaq

November 12, 2025

Image description: Two figures are silouetted on a ridge against the bright background of the northern lights, which fills the sky with glowing greens and pinks.

Wed Jan 28 // 8PM7PM Pre-Show Artist Talk & Reception Light // Ancestry // Connection The Northern Lights have always carried stories—frightening, spiritual, epic, and playful. Kiuryaq is a circumpolar performance exploring our relationship with […]

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Bardaje

November 06, 2025

Image description: A solo performer is caught mid-movement, his head turned sideways and body curved. His striking attire leaves much of his tan skin exposed. He wears sleeves adorned with ayoyotes, which are ancestral seeds that rattle, a long beaded turquoise necklace looped many times around his neck, and a white loin cloth. His long hair, worn in a ponytail that streams forward from the top of his head, as well as his skin and attire, are covered with an uneven layer of pale ash.

Embodiment // Resistance // Ancestry Rooted in Zapotec understandings of muxheidad, Bardaje reanimates a word used to enforce difference with the gestures, memories, and cosmologies it once pushed to the margins. The work emerges from […]

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askîwan ᐊᐢᑮᐊᐧᐣ

November 06, 2025

Image description: A performer crouches on a dim stage amidst a complex array of technical equipment, like monitors, projectors and microphone stands. Behind them, an image of a mountainous horizon superimposed over itself creates misty blue layers.

Land // Memory // Future Part live cinema, part ecological opera, askîwan ᐊᐢᑮᐊᐧᐣ conjures a cosmology of land, memory, and time. This operatic multimedia performance transforms a miniature film set—complete with cameras, mylar, mirrors, and […]

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Club PuSh

November 04, 2022

A DJ with long hair wearing a wide-brimmed hat and hoodie performs. The background is a projection of blue, red, and purple abstract shapes with rays beaming out from the centre. Silhouettes of people with raised hands line the bottom.

If you’re looking to keep the festival vibes going into the night, this is the place to be. Club PuSh is a spot where you can enjoy drinks, connect with our artists, and party with […]

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