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Embrace Live Art at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

by Rick Chung in Entertainment, Events on January 4, 2024

Ramanenjana, Photo: Adi Bulboaca/PuSh Festival

The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival returns to the city with a theme of “A Manifesto for Live Art” across theatres and venues from January 18 to February 4. For two decades, PuSh has been Vancouver’s signature mid-winter cultural event, delivering innovative and thought-provoking works of theatre, dance, music, and multimedia by acclaimed local, national, and international artists.

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Embrace Live Art at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

Latinx Culture and Hip Hop Take Centre Stage in the Vancouver Premiere of Anywhere But Here

by Tara Lee in Entertainment on February 5, 2020

Image of Alexandra Lainfiesta by Emily Cooper

Vancouver’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival embraces and showcases work that is original, boldly provocative, and genre defying.

One such upcoming show promises to be exactly that in its melding of Canadian hip hop, Latinx theatre, and social/political commentary on the current border crisis in North America.

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Latinx Culture and Hip Hop Take Centre Stage in the Vancouver Premiere of Anywhere But Here

Vancouver’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and Pi Theatre Present a Moving Play about Violence and Forgiveness

by Tara Lee in Entertainment on January 4, 2018

Image of Luisa Jojic and Douglas Ennenberg by Emily Cooper

A work of theatre is truly exemplary if audience members can leave the performance transformed and inspired to think more deeply about themselves and the world they take for granted.

The Events, a play presented by Pi Theatre and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, is particularly timely in the new year, a period characterized by reflection and taking stock of the past.

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Vancouver’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and Pi Theatre Present a Moving Play about Violence and Forgiveness