PuSh Blog

Club PuSh

November 18, 2024

Club PuSh is teaming up once again with QT Cabaret on Wednesday, January 29th! This annual party, curated by the frank theatre’s artistic director Fay Nass, will be held at the iconic Fox Cabaret—once a […]

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Dune Wars Kiki Ball

November 15, 2024

In an opulent ballroom, a performer struts down a runway lined with rows of cheering, grinning audience. Dressed in a colourful short skirt with a hand-painted fish tail, her bare back is visible as she strides away.

On February 2, the cosmic forces of Van Vogue Jam and PuSh Festival converge for a showdown of galactic proportions: Dune Wars Kiki Ball. Hosted by the Kiki Legendary Overall Mother Posh Gvasalia, this astro-glam […]

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BLEU NÉON

November 08, 2024

Bathed in luminescence that evokes the glowing urban nightscape of a distant and imagined Saigon, Châu Kim-Sanh beckons the senses through fluorescent haze to her ancestral land. At home in this intimate space, she explores […]

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Bijuriya

November 07, 2024

A south-asian drag artist wears a gold, crushed-velvet leotard with matching knee-high high-heeled boots. The artist is caught mid gesture and mid word, reaching out with a look of shock on their face. In the background, an array of wigs perch atop a small cluster of mannequin heads.

Gabriel Dharmoo is an innovative music composer and vocalist who thrives on experimentation. Bijuriya, his drag persona, channels the vibrancy of South Asian culture to touch the hearts of fellow brown queers. Together, Gabriel and […]

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Sound of the Beast

November 14, 2023

A person half-kneeling with crossed arms while holding a mic. The person is looking up at the light, There is a woman projected behind them.

“I’m not here to tell you how to feel. I’m just here to tell you what happened.”  Urgent, intimate and magnetic, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard gives a performance of profound poetic justice with storytelling, spoken word […]

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L’amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie

November 14, 2023

A man with graying hair sits on the backrest of the sofa clutching it tightly. Beside him, is a Black woman who appears to be sleeping, her feet hanging off the edge of the seat.

(Love Like a Buried Cathedral) PuSh @ SFU Woodward’s Anniversary Series With staggering subtlety and lyricism, L’amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie tells the story of exiled Haitian families through opera-theatre. Born into just such a […]

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Inheritances

November 14, 2023

A photo of a man playing the piano. The photo is slightly blurred, the man faces the camera with what appears to be a melancholic expression.

Adam Tendler, one of the most celebrated contemporary pianists in the world, didn’t expect an inheritance from his father. But, when it happened, the gift was as bizarre as it was unexpected: a wad of […]

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Selfie Concert

November 04, 2022

Imo Dimchev, who has short blonde hair, a dark moustache and tattooed torso, wears an open blue zip jacket and sings passionately into a microphone, arms in the air. He is surrounded by a cluster of audience members kneeling or sitting on the ground, who are taking selfies with the group.

Ivo Dimchev invites you to a casual, communal concert–one which blithely steps over the traditional boundary between artist and audience. The idea is wonderfully simple: there is no stage, there is no hierarchy and there […]

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