PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
| PuSh International Performing Arts Festival | |
|---|---|
| Location(s) | Vancouver, Canada |
| Foundation | 2003 |
| Founded by | Katrina Dunn, Norman Armour |
| Date(s) | January–February |
| Type of play(s) | Multidisciplinary (theatre, dance, music) |
| Website | |
The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is a mid-winter performing arts festival held over 20 days in Vancouver, British Columbia each January. The Festival attracts local, national and international artists to Vancouver audiences, presented through theatre, dance, music, various forms of multimedia and hybrid performance at venues in and around Vancouver.
The PuSh Festival was named by Board member, Lainé Slater, in 2003 to describe the festival's credo to deliver unconventional boundary-pushing work to local Vancouver audiences.
Club PuSh is PuSh Festival's "Festival within the Festival", presented by Theatre Conspiracy. It is a less formal, less traditional space at Performance Works designed as the intimate and dynamic social hub of the festival. Club PuSh features experimental marquee acts, as well as a social gathering space for festival attendees to mingle and network. On Friday nights during the PuSh Festival, Marquee Acts are followed by Late Nights at Club PuSh. Late Nights at Club PuSh feature live music, dj sets and other acts.
Established in 2009, the 2014 PuSh Festival's Club PuSh was co-curated by Norman Armour, Tim Carlson and Veda Hille.
Norman Armour is the Artistic & Executive director of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. He is the co-founder of the PuSh Festival, as well Rumble Productions, an interdisciplinary theatre company that continues to be a mainstay Vancouver’s independent theatre scene. Armour graduated from Simon Fraser University (SFU)’s School for the Contemporary Arts in 1986 and in 2010, he was the receipt of SFU's Outstanding Alumni Award. He has collaborated on over 120 works for the stage and other media. His career includes producer, director, actor and producer, covering a range of creative interests: devised works and new writing for the stage; contemporary and classical adaptations; site-specific endeavours; large-scale interdisciplinary events; dance/theatre collaborations; and live-remote radio broadcasts. He recently directed the premiere of Pauline, an opera by Tobin Stokes and Margaret Atwood on the life and art of Métis poet Pauline Johnson.
The PuSh Festival was co-founded in 2003 by Katrina Dunn of Touchstone Theatre and Norman Armour of Rumble Productions.
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