PuSh Festival Jan 21 – Feb 9, 2020

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Hi there,

I wanted to share some exciting things that are happening at PuSh and I hope you could help us spread the word. We worked with Aastrid Evensen as our Deaf consultant, she also made vlogs for all shows that are interpreted or DHH friendly.
Most exciting, we have a free event with a performance by a Deaf artist from Oregon and also a Deaf DJ, DJ Deaf wish.

I will list some potential posts below, one general one and 1 for all the shows that have ASL-interpretation or Captions, I put them in the order they happen. They all have links to the info-sheet with all the DHH friendly shows but I also attached that. Feel free to share it or print it and hang it up at any place where people might see it.
And please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
Happy Holidays!

Anika Vervecken (she, her, hers) 
Accessible PuSh Coordinator

(o) +1.604.605.8284 x204 (voice)
(c) +1.778.223.7079 (voice/text)

POST ABOUT DEAF ARTISTS AT THE FESTIVAL: JAN 25TH
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The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is back!
We are so excited to tell you about all the shows we get with the Deaf and hard of hearing community, in part thanks to the work we did with Aastrid Evensen, our Deaf consultant.
Click here for more info about the festival, including a vlog and all the Deaf and hard of hearing accessible shows.
Most exciting: We don’t have just one Deaf artist in the festival, but three!
Even better: their performance is FREE!
Myles De Bastion is a Deaf artist and curator from Oregon, his show is called: IKIGAI MACHINE and his drummer is Deaf-blind. Before and after his show DJ Deaf Wish (also from Oregon) will be getting the party going!
Jan 25th at 8PM
At the Roundhouse Community Arts Centre in Vancouver
FREE (RSVP to make sure you get in)
  • to see more about the show
  • RSVP and reserve your free ticket
  • see the vlog with info
Right before Myles & DJ Deaf wish there is the presentation of a movie called THE DEMOCRATIC SET, made with different people from the community (including some people from the Deaf community), there will be ASL-interpretation for that, it is also free.
Want to see more shows for free? Come and volunteer with us!
POST: DEAF FRIENDLY SHOWS AT THE PUSH FESTIVAL
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The Push Festival is back from January 21st till February 9th.
There is a free performance and party with Deaf artist Myles de Bastion and DJ Deaf Wish from Oregon.
There are two ASL-interpreted performances.
There are two performances with Open Captions.
But there is more!
There 3 dance shows and one purely visual show.
Want to see shows for free? Come and volunteer with us! Click here to sign up
POST ABOUT OPEN CAPTIONS FOR OLD STOCK
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On January 26th at 1:30 PM
At the Frederic Wood Theatre (at UBC)
The PuSh Festival presents: OLD STOCK: a Refugee Love Story with open captions
Wild, witty and wonderfully inventive, this fusion of concert and drama tells the true tale of Chaim and Chaya, Jewish refugees from the pogroms of Romania. They meet in 1908, while awaiting medical inspection in Halifax’s Pier 21 immigration centre; the story moves forward to their lives as a couple in Montreal and backward to the horrors of the Continent.
Click here for more info on the show and to see the vlog.
Want to see shows for free? Come and volunteer with us!
POST:  SKYBORN, A LAND RECLAMATION ODYSSEY, show with ASL interpretation
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On January 28th at 7:30PM
At The Cultch at 1959 Venables street, Vancouver
Tickets from $26
Click here to see the vlog and buy tickets
The PuSh Festival & the Cultch present:
SKYBORN: A LAND RECLAMATION ODYSSEY
with ASL-interpretation
A black hole, hungry ghosts, a Grandmother wolf—Quelemia Sparrow’s Skyborn is an epic odyssey grounded in Indigenous ancestral knowledge. Guided through the universe on a river made of stars, Sparrow makes a journey by canoe to recover her lost soul from the land of the dead. This adventure is deeply rooted in the cosmology and teachings of her Musqueam heritage. It invites the audience to bear witness to a reclamation of culture, land and self.
Want to see shows for free? Come and volunteer with us! Click here to sign up
POST: FREE ADMISSION A show with ASL-interpretation
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On February 2nd at 4PM
At the Scotiabank Dance Centre in Vancouver
Tickets are $39   (contact access@pushfestival.ca for DGAV discount)
Click here to see the vlog and buy tickets
The PuSh Festival presents:
FREE ADMISSION
with ASL-interpretation
Uncouth, uncensored and… undressed? Ursula Martinez gets personal, political and philosophical in this soul-baring solo performance. Call it a monologue with a meta twist: though it’s honest and unsparing, Free Admission comes with a commentary on its own limits, and on the politics of spectacle. As Martinez holds forth on the paradoxes of life, the absurdity of contemporary living and her own intimate feelings, she builds a wall between herself and the audience—a brick wall, to be exact.
POST: CUCKOO A show with Open Captions
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On February 5th at 8PM  (Note: there is mistake on the schedule in the program guide, it is at 8PM, not 6PM)
At the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island in Vancouver
Tickets are $39   (contact access@pushfestival.ca for DGAV discount)
Click here to see the vlog and buy tickets.
The PuSh Festival presents:
CUCKOO 
with Open Captions
Jaha Koo folds 20 years of South Korean history into this bittersweet story. An economic disaster and its ripple effects are  in a performance by the artist and some very special companions: a group of talking rice cookers. Re-programmed to speak, these devices serve as a token of Jaha’s alienation and a metaphor for the most absurd, most comical aspects of the recent past.

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