PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is Vancouver’s mid-winter performing arts festival, presenting acclaimed local, national and international artists and their work. The 6th annual PuSh Festival takes place January 20 - February 6, 2010 at venues in and around Vancouver and offers work from Canada, the United States, France, Russia, Australia, Germany and the Netherlands. The 2010 PuSh Festival boasts 14 shows in 11 venues. Tickets and PuSh Passes on sale now. See pushfestival.ca, or pick up our Program Guide at any JJ Bean location.
Readings, music, stories, poetry – Christmas Presence without the Christmas! In the tradition of Confessions, Testimony and Passion. At Sutherland Church in North Vancouver.
Wednesday, February 18, 8:30 p.m.
Cafe Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver BC
A regular monthly multi-media event featuring film, spoken word and music on the third Wednesday of the month. This is a celebration of the independent arts.
This month we feature spoken word artist and entertainer, Al Mader, The Minimalist Jug Band. We will be introducing our Short Film Slam. Film makers bring in their short (under 10 minutes) and the audience chooses a winner. This will be followed by the musical act 11 Hour Orchestra featuring Suzka, Vancouver’s versatile violin virtuoso.
Performance Works, Granville Island February 4, $20 at door, 11pm show FREE, 19+ with ID
Monopoly! Tesla, Edison, Microsoft, Wal-Mart and the War for Tomorrow - 9pm
Created and Performed by Mike Daisey. Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory
With Monopoly!, he explores the warped genius of inventor Nikola Tesla and his war with Thomas Edison over electricity, the secret history of the board game Monopoly, electrocuted elephants, Microsoft's antitrust lawsuit, and the story of Daisey's hometown and its one remaining retailer: Wal-Mart.
No latecomers
Mike Daisey has been called “one of the finest solo performers of his generation” by the New York Times for his extemporaneous monologues.
Conspiracy Playlist by DJ Buffalo Tim - 11pm
Club PuSh
January 27 - February 7
A festival within a festival featuring 12 nights of theatre, music and performances on Granville Island. Music performances include Peggy Lee and Veda Hille (Vancouver), Woodpigeon (Calgary), Robin Holcomb (Seattle), Holcombe Waller, Parenthetical Girls and Hooliganship (Portland).
Performance Works, Granville Island February 3, $20 at door, 11pm show FREE, 19+ with ID
The Amazing and Impermeable Cromoli Brothers Present: HELLO VANCOUVER! - 9pm
A Vaudeville Act for These, Our Modern Times. Written and performed by Lucas Myers with Special Guests. Fifteen vignettes including Heaven’s Gate Webcam, Dear Mary I’m in a Gang Now, Cover Song, Nude Beach, Pilot Talk, Olympic A Go Go and more! Songs performed on ukulele, melodica and glockenspiel! Warning: nude sock puppets, meta-sincerity, Jesus. Winner of the BEST COMEDY award at the New Zealand International Fringe Festival.
Gunshae - 11pm
Gunshae is the duo of dubstep pioneer James “Kuma” Graham and renowned oboist and DJ Eve Mori—an atmospheric mashup of a classically trained musician and a notorious DJ with a penchant for improvising. With off the cuff laptop and live instrumentation, Gunshae creates live ambiance at its most beguiling.
Club PuSh
January 27 - February 7
A festival within a festival featuring 12 nights of theatre, music and performances on Granville Island. Music performances include Peggy Lee and Veda Hille (Vancouver), Woodpigeon (Calgary), Robin Holcomb (Seattle), Holcombe Waller, Parenthetical Girls and Hooliganship (Portland).
Performance Works, Granville Island January 31, $20 at door, 11pm show FREE, 19+ with ID
Holcombe Waller, 7pm
Performing excerpts from Into the Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest and other works Portland's endearing singer/songwriter strips himself emotionally bare in a theatrical song cycle backed by a full band. Waller has developed a loyal fan base while performing at clubs throughout the West Coast and at Joe's Pub in NYC, and a 20-minute work-in-progress version of this show was a highlight of the 2008 NW New Works Festival.
Hooliganship, 9pm
The only “tropycal-super maryogrunge- rock-duo” in the Northwest (that we know of), Hooliganship's neon-flashing light wig-out brings dancing, costumes, cartoon videos and music together into a psychedelic soup. Portland's Peter Burr and Christopher Doulgeris combine performance art, musical mayhem and showmanship into a very weird but very fun experience.
Vincat, 11pm
This eccentric three-piece from Victoria admits musical influences including early '90s educational videos, cosmic storms, space travel, extraterrestrial activity and existential crisis. Trippy, spacey and melodic, Vincat's 2007 CD Inner Space boldly goes where no band has gone before.
Performance Works, Granville Island January 29-30, $20 at door, 11pm show FREE, 19+ with ID
Twenty-Minute Musicals Veda Hille & Geoff Berner
January 29-30, 9pm
Short-form 20-minute musicals, created by local and international artists pushing boundaries in independent, experimental music and multi-disciplinary art. Directed by Amiel Gladstone. Curated by Veda Hille. Produced by Theatre Replacement.
Do You Want What I Have Got?: A Craigslist Cantata
By musician and songwriter Veda Hille and CBC radio personality and author, Bill Richardson.
Distant Second: The Steve Fonyo Story
By nouveau klezmer accordion punk troubadour Geoff Berner.
the beige
January 29, 11pm
This understated, atmospheric, wry, jazzy quintet celebrates its rootsy,
off-kilter pop leanings—but sometimes not. Anything but bland, the beige complements most interiors with its stripped-back sound, subtle vibe and tight, moody tunes. At Club PuSh, the beige will be performing songs from 01 and the forthcoming album El Angel Exterminador.
Once again, Black Cat Productions and Ekstasis Dance present Luminance, a multimedia Winter Solstice celebration that includes film, dance performance, a Winter Solstice dance ritual, original electronic music producers, DJs, an art gallery with live visionary art, original visuals, and much more.
Now in it's fifth year, Luminance brings the most diverse Winter Solstice gathering once again to Vancouver's premiere dance space, the Scotiabank Dance Centre, and it continues to unite dance communities from across the Lower Mainland in the ages-old celebration of light, greeting the return of the sun.
When:
Saturday Dec. 20, 2008
Doors @ 8:00 pm
Film @ 8:30 pm
Winter Solstice Dance Ceremony @ 11:00 pm
Music and Dance @ 12 midnight until 5:00 am
Where:
The beautiful Faris Family Studio at the Scotiabank Dance Centre in downtown Vancouver, 677 Davie St.
Tickets:
$30 advance tickets available at:
Highlife Records, 1317 Commercial Dr., 604-251-6964
The Fall, 644 Seymour St., 604-676-3066
Online at http://www.ekstasisdance.com/luminancev/tickets.htm.
Tickets will also be available at the door for $40.
Presented by PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and
The Cultch
Jan 20 - Feb 8, 8pm
Waterfront Theatre
Billy Twinkle is a theatrical piece intended and created solely for a mature audience. Children under 14 will not be admitted.
Billy Twinkle is a middle-aged cruise ship puppeteer who dazzles audiences with his Stars in Miniature marionette niteclub act. His saucy stripper Rusty titillates the tourists, octogenarian Bunny invokes sidesplitting laughter with the inflatable balloon in his pants, Bumblebear juggles, roller-skates and steals the hearts of every audience, and society dame Biddy Bantam Brewster brings a bit of highbrow hilarity to the high seas with her drunken aria. Billy is the best in the business and on top of the world as he floats along through life.
Until he is fired by the cruiseline. Standing at the edge of the ship contemplating a watery demise, Billy is abruptly called back to reality when his dead mentor Sid Diamond appears as a hand puppet. Sid literally will not leave his side, and forces Billy to re-enact his life as a puppet show in order to remember and rekindle the passion Billy once had for puppets, people and the dream of a life that sparkles.
Presented by PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and MovEnt.
Mix fabulous contemporary dance, an intimate cabaret space and a ridiculously small stage, and find yourself at Dances for a Small Stage® 20. MovEnt celebrates 20 shows in seven years with a two-program, four-show extravaganza! Featuring eight specially commissioned Canadian dance artists as well as some of Vancouver’s best local talent, Dances for a Small Stage® 20 opens the doors on a fresh, up-close-and-personal view of the contemporary dance scene. With drinks in hand, sit back, relax and enjoy great dance theatre performed in an exhilarating, hip environment. This is new dance, made to measure.
MovEnt is a non-profit dance production/creation company devoted to developing the contemporary dance audience in Vancouver and Canada. Relentlessly searching out a physicality of strength, style and integrity, MovEnt aspires to fashion and produce new dance that encourages high expectations and discovers engaging art. Promoting live dance theatre that is accessible and artful, MovEnt showcases new and established creators who have passion, vision and an energized commitment for dance making. MovEnt events demonstrate that live dance theatre need not be for only the art connoisseur, but for anyone who enjoys expressive physicality in a dynamic, urban setting. www.movent.ca.
