Take your seat, whether it be at Kingston Grand Theatre, in a park, in a car, at someone’s house, online, or even at a friendly game of basketball. Anything is possible at the Kick & Push Festival, a theatre festival that puts artists front and centre and invites audiences to enjoy the unexpected.
About the Kick & Push Festival
Established in Kingston in 2015, the Kick & Push Festival is an annual festival of innovative performances. The festival features fun, interesting, and challenging works by award-winning Canadian artists and theatre companies. It also includes the Fringe Festival, a suite of smaller, more unconventional productions that highlight many local theatre artists alongside theatre artists from across Canada and around the world.
The Festival’s unusual name pays homage to Kingston’s historic past-- specifically, the old Kingston and Pembroke Railway, affectionately referred to as the “kick and push”, which is nowadays the public pathway known as the K&P Trail. Evoking this historic rail line, the Festival echoes the effects the railway had on Kingston: to bring further development to the city and to connect people and communities.
The Kick & Push Festival is produced by the Kingston Theatre Alliance, an umbrella organization that advocates for Kingston-based theatre artists and organizations. Visit https://www.thekickandpush.com/ or https://www.kingstontheatre.ca for more information.
The Fringe Festival, which is part of the Kick & Push Festival, is produced by Theatre Kingston. Visit https://www.theatrekingston.com/ for more information.
