Celebrating its 20th festival, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival returns January 23, to February 9, 2025. Over the last two decades, PuSh Festival has grown to become the Lower Mainland’s signature, mid-winter cultural event delivering audacious, innovative, contemporary works of live art by acclaimed local, national, and international artists.
Tickets are on sale now for this year’s festival, promising another line-up of dynamic and radical genre-bending works in dance, theatre, multimedia and music at venues across the city.
PuSh 20 by the numbers:
25+ : Presentations in total
20 : Original performance-based productions
18 : Days of events
13 : Countries including Canada, USA, Brazil, Uruguay, Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy,
Sweden, United Kingdom, South Korea, Taiwan, and Democratic Republic of Congo
8 : Canadian debuts
5 : Parties and cabaret-style events
2 : Films events
2 : Artists in residence
1 : Amazing festival
“The 2025 PuSh Festival is a celebration of audacious live art. These are performances and immersive experiences that shift our paradigms for creative expression and how we relate to one another,” says PuSh’s Director of Programming Gabrielle Martin, who has curated and co-curated the past 4 festivals. “In a world increasingly dominated by generative AI, they underscore live performance as a sanctuary of authenticity in an age that risks losing touch with the real. They invite us into the wilds of untethered imaginations and the liberatory spaces of play. Accept the invitation and be transported from the brutalist landscape and inherited mythologies of Bogota, to the astro-glam extravaganza of a dune wars kiki ball, to the 8-kilometers passage between Güzelçamliand Samos, to the neon luminescence of an imagined Saigon nightscape, and beyond.”
At a teaser event on November 20th at Fox Cabaret, PuSh Festival launched its 2025 program guide, not available with details about each show, production and other events, programs and series, including the PuSh Industry Series, the PuSh Youth Program community partnerships and more.
For tickets and more details visit pushfestival.ca or call the PuSh Festival Audience Services info line at 604.449.6000.