Vancouver’s PuSh Festival gets a new artistic director in Franco Boni from Toronto’s Theatre Centre GlobeArts
Franco Boni, the longtime artistic director of Toronto’s Theatre Centre, has been named the next artistic director of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in Vancouver. The move follows the departure of PuSh co-founder Norman Armour last year. Boni takes over from interim artistic director Joyce Rosario on June 1.
Boni, 48, was born in Toronto, and attended York University for theatre and religious studies. He took over the Rhubarb Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre when he was 28, then moved to SummerWorks Performance Festival, where as artistic producer he brought in a major change, moving the festival from a lottery to a juried event.
He says his first order of business is to meet with as many people as possible to discuss PuSh and how the festival serves the theatre and arts community as well as the greater population of Vancouver. He is very interested in the idea of the role of civic engagement in theatre. He points out that the Theatre Centre – a live arts incubator that serves as a cultural research and development hub, as well as a performance space – is open to the public from the morning until late at night, with free WiFi. It hosts community events and people are encouraged to hang out. “You’re welcome here. And you’re welcome at any time, [which] is a huge shift because most people associate theatres as places … where you have to buy a ticket to come in and that’s how you access theatre.
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