7th Annual PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

And so begins my 2011 coverage of theatre, dance, film and arts in general in Vancouver, the Lower Mainland and British Columbia. Actually, I had been contacted by the PR folks of PuSh about a month and a half ago, but I was in the throes of grading final research papers so my life was insanely busy.

I feel remiss that I hadn’t written about the upcoming 7th Annual PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. I’m really happy to see that the PuSh Festival has embraced social platforms so much, with a blog, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube channels.

The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is Vancouver’s mid-winter festival presenting acclaimed local, national and international artists. The 7th annual PuSh Festival takes place January 18 – February 6, 2011 at venues in and around Vancouver and offers work from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Poland and Germany.

The PuSh Festival presents groundbreaking work in the live performing arts with theatre, dance, music, and various forms of multimedia and hybrid performance. The 2011 Festival boasts 17 Main Series shows, a mapping symposium, and the triumphant return of Club PuSh and the PuSh Assembly networking event.

I can’t wait to check out some of these extraordinary performances. I’ll be starting a new term at the university teaching 2 courses (both courses I’ve taught before, but with definite changes to the syllabus), so I’m not sure how much of the festival I’ll be able to see, but at least I hope I will be able to capture some of it.

You can buy individual tickets and PuSh Passes here. I’m really excited about the PuSh Festival, to be quite honest.

The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is one of Vancouver’s signature events. Produced over three weeks each January, the PuSh Festival presents groundbreaking work in the live performing arts.
The PuSh Festival expands the horizons of Vancouver artists and audiences with work that is visionary, genre-bending, multi-disciplined, startling and original. The Festival showcases acclaimed international, Canadian and local artists and mixes them together with an alchemy that inspires audiences, rejuvenates artists, stimulates the industry and forges productive relationships around the globe.

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