The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC opens its season by welcoming Grammy Award-winning Mexican superstar Aida Cuevas along with the band Mariachi Juvenil Tecalitlán on September 22, 2018, at 8pm in the Chan Shun Concert Hall. Hailed as ‘The Queen of Mariachi’ and renowned for her elegance, charisma, and stunning vocal range,…
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Some Hope For The Bastards opens PuSh Festival 2018
This week, the 14th Push International Performing Arts Festival opened at Vancouver Playhouse with a performance of Some Hope For The Bastards. Montreal choreographer, dancer, musician Frédérick Gravel returns to PuSh Festival with another unique dance spectacle. A music-dance hybrid, Some Hope For The Bastards is the kind of unexpected show you expect from PuSh…
PuSh International Performing Arts Festival kicks off 2018
The 2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is fast approaching. Opening January 16, 2018, the festival brings three weeks of cutting edge, creative performing arts to stages around Vancouver. The PuSh program is packed with artistic experiences from around the world. Take a look through the listings to find what you’re interested in, here’s a…
2018 PuSh Festival Program Launches
This week, 2018 PuSh Festival debuted its program guide with a party at The Fox Cabaret, home of Club PuSh during the festival. Since 2003, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival has become one of Vancouver’s premier events, bringing life to our stages and venue through three dreary weeks each winter. From January 16 to February 4,…
The Ridiculous Darkness descends on Annex Theatre
Until November 19th, the Annex Theatre is home of The Ridiculous Darkness, an ambitious work adapted from an award-winning German radio-play. A mash up of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocolypse Now and in turn its source material The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Now set in Afghanistan, the satirical outline takes on modern racial and…
Oil Pressure Vibrator at PuSh Festival 2017
PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is known for bringing cutting edge international performances to the city. Oil Pressure Vibrator, is the type of show that only PuSh can bring to audiences. The Festival encourages patrons to take a look outside of the mainstream and allows artists to explore their creativity. Geumhyung Jeong’s Oil Pressure Vibrator from…
Picks of the Week – January 18, 2017
Mid-January and the city is bustling with arts, entertainment and food for our picks of the week; Push: The 2017 PuSh Festival is underway, filling the city’s venues with cutting edge performing arts from around the globe Stage: The Nether, delves into the darkness of the internet at Firehall Arts Centre from January 18 –…