Club PuSh is a dynamic space that is all about experimentation—cutting-edge performance suited for a less traditional, more informal venue. It’s also the social hub of the Festival and the best place to grab a drink, hang out with other festival goers and brush shoulders with PuSh Festival artists.
Most Friday and Saturday nights at 10PM, Club PuSh showcases live music and other cutting-edge entertainment with Late Nights at Club PuSh.
Some of the highlights include:
THE GOD THAT COMES: WITH HAWKSLEY WORKMAN
January 16 – 18, 8PM
Club PuSh at Performance Works on Granville Island
1218 Cartwright Street, 19+
The God that Comes is an original one-man-band cabaret-rock-&-roll hybrid show featuring Juno award-winner Hawksley Workman. Hailed in the Toronto Star for its “incredible instrumental virtuosity” and “slashing sardonic wit,” it tells the story of a king whose subjects revolt against his oppressive rule to worship the Greco-Roman god of wine Bacchus (aka Dionysus) in a hedonistic spiritual revolution. This concept album for the stage, created with 2b Theatre Company’s Christian Barry is a work-in-progress that fuses the chaotic revelry of a rock concert with the intimacy of theatrical storytelling.
January 23, 24 & 25, 8PM
Club PuSh at Performance Works on Granville Island
1218 Cartwright Street, 19+
Sixty-four-year-old Belgium theatre artist Vanessa Van Durme tells her extraordinary true story in Look Mummy, I’m Dancing—a candid and honest account of her life that started as a little boy, and the journey she underwent as one of the pioneering transsexuals of her time. Equal parts hilarious and touching, Vanessa’s story speaks to acceptance, humility, and having the strength to stay true to yourself against all odds.
January 27, 7PM
Club PuSh at Performance Works on Granville Island
1218 Cartwright Street, 19+
Hailed by the Globe and Mail for its fascinating ability to “illuminate both the art and the critic,” the Canadian online magazine Ryeberg Curated Video has been publishing modern essays that incorporate YouTube videos since its launch in 2009. Ryeberg Live is what happens when Ryeberg.com goes offline and on stage in a lively “show and tell.” Join authors Kevin Chong, Steven Galloway, Caroline Adderson and theatre artist Maiko Bae Yamamoto as they each present and appraise their own curated galleries of YouTube videos that inspire them. With an introduction by Geist publisher and editor-in-chief Stephen Osborne and hosted by Erik Rutherford—editor-in-chief of Ryeberg.com.
Full schedule at pushfestival.ca.
