The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (PuSh Festival) celebrates its milestone 15th annual edition, January 17 to February 3, 2019, at various venues across the Lower Mainland. Featuring 26 works from 24 companies from 13 countries — including six world premieres — this extraordinary showcase of visionary collaboration and risk-taking is a highlight of the city’s cultural calendar.
New for the 2019 season, Club PuSh — a platform for the festival’s most edgy and experimental work — will be located in multiple spaces across the city and home to Opening and Closing Night parties. Audiences can experience the avant-garde performances at The Beaumont Studios and Vancouver Civic Theatres’ Annex. The PuSh Film Series will present movies perfectly paired to the program, and PuSh Assembly will stimulate dialogue through free talks for the public and industry networking events.
PUSH FILM SERIES
Presented with Vancouver International Film Festival
A film series to round out the PuSh Festival experience of the performing arts. The darkened cinema mirrors the darkened theatre in illuminating and surprising ways.
The Children Are Watching Us (1944) — Director: Vittorio De Sica (Italy)
Jan 20 | Vancity Theatre
Five years before Bicycle Thieves, director Vittorio De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini collaborated for the first time (along with three other writers) on this heartbreaking tale of a family breakup witnessed through the eyes of a child.
Pripyat (1999) — Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Austria)
Jan 27 | Vancity Theatre
A haunting, monochromatic vision of life in the not-entirely-abandoned radioactive “Workers’ City” of Pripyat more than a decade after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986.
A Scanner Darkly (2006) — Director: Richard Linklater (US)
Feb 3 | Vancity Theatre
Composer Graham Reynolds and director Richard Linklater’s first of four collaborations was this weirdly funny, inescapably prophetic Rotoscope-animated adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel about alternate realities, drugs, paranoia, and the surveillance state.
PUSH ASSEMBLY
The PuSh Assembly is an open invitation to industry insiders and arts aficionados alike to gather, to connect and to share ideas and perspectives around the performing arts. The 2019 PuSh Assembly is designed in two series: Ideas (free and open to the public) and Industry (accessible with a PuSh Industry Pass). The PuSh Assembly events engage audiences and industry professionals with the Festival artists through artist talks, a dialogue series and networking opportunities.
PUSH PASSES
PuSh Passes are the best way to experience the PuSh Festival. Pass holders save up to 25% off single tickets. PuSh Passes are flexible so Passholders can book tickets online at anytime. Limited quantities.
Four-Show Pass $119
Six-Show Pass $176
Industry Six-Show Pass $236
Industry Pack $60
Youth Four-Show Pass $20
MORE INFORMATION
Pick up the comprehensive 2019 program guide at any location of JJ Bean and other select locations. You can also reach us at pushfestival.ca, info@pushfestival.ca or 604.605.8284.
PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
Dates:
January 17–February 3, 2019
Ticket Prices:
From $25
Location:
Various Vancouver Venues
Audience Services:
604.449.6000 / tickets@pushfestival.ca
Website:
pushfestival.ca
Image of Vines Festival. Courtesy of Kimmortal & Immigrant Lessons.
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