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2019 Festival

The Immediacy of the Silence in Muted: A curatorial statement by David Pay

December 04, 2018

You know when you walk into a darkened room?  It takes a moment for your eyes to adjust, but then you’re able to see all the details. Muted is the aural equivalent of that. Everything […]

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Defying Gender, Race, and Ability in Prince Hamlet – A curatorial statement by Ravi Jain

December 04, 2018

I started Why Not Theatre in Toronto after 10 years of living abroad. I built the company on 3 core values: innovation, community, and collaboration. Over the past 11 years Why Not Theatre has evolved into […]

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A Place of Listening and Responsiveness in Fragile Forms – A curatorial statement by Delia Brett

December 04, 2018

For a collaborative company like MACHiNENOiSY inspiration is something one arrives at through shared play and struggle. With Fragile Forms inspiration came very differently. At the end of 2015, after producing 7 shows in one […]

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The Intellect and Resilience of Race Cards – A curatorial statement by Hannah Bellamy

December 04, 2018

I went to Selina Thompson’s Race Cards on a surreal day. I had the opportunity to fly to Austin, Texas to meet my colleague, PuSh Interim Artistic Director Joyce Rosario at Fusebox Festival. A contemporary […]

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Celebrating 10 Years of Club PuSh – A curatorial statement by Cameron Mackenzie

December 03, 2018

Club PuSh 2019—here we are in a very different world than when we started the Club in 2009. 2009: Obama is sworn in as POTUS, Iceland appoints the worlds first lesbian Prime Minister, and BC […]

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Pitch Your Show at the 2019 PuSh Assembly

September 24, 2018

  If you’re an artist or artistic producing company, this is an opportunity to pitch your new and upcoming work at the PuSh Assembly during the 2019 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Pitch to an […]

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