Kick and Push Festival Kingston 2025

Kick and Push Festival Kingston 2025
July 24 – August 17, 2025
The Kick & Push is a performance festival that aims to take the audience beyond being passive observers.
The Kick & Push Festival is an annual innovative performance festival that takes place in Kingston, Ontario. It is a professionally run month-long summer festival featuring award-winning Canadian performers and original, internationally award-winning work across alternative and traditional venues in Kingston.

Artistic Producer Liam Karry and the Kingston Theatre Alliance strive to offer something for everyone and ensure that it is always, always unconventional.

What Is Innovative Theatre?
The Kick & Push aims to push the traditional concept of what theatre is, or could be. As an audience member you may take your seat in someone’s living room instead of an auditorium, or you may be invited to get out of your seat to join in a friendly game of basketball on stage (up to you!). Whatever happens at a K&P show, it won’t be what you have come to expect from a night at the theatre.

History
In 2015, a new summer attraction launched in Kingston promising to be no ordinary theatre festival. With productions exploring the secrets hidden inside of historic downtown landmarks, audience members joining performers on stage and plays inside cars, The Kick & Push Festival demonstrated the power of immersive and site-specific theatre by engaging audiences with innovative performances.

The Festival’s unusual name pays homage to Kingston’s historic past, in particular the old Kingston and Pembroke railway. Known as the K&P line, it is affectionately remembered as the Kick and Push trail. By re-purposing the namesake, the Festival echoes the effects that the railway had on Kingston: to bring further development to the city, and connect people and communities.

The productions produced by K&P continue the Kingston connection by telling the stories of the city and using unique spaces that can only be found here, created by local artists, or artists who have a strong connection to the community. The Kick & Push Festival tells old stories in new ways and new stories in old places, giving audiences a glimpse into cultural and historical spaces. This Festival is bound to be a unique, one-of-a-kind theatre-going experience, only to be had in Kingston.

Recurring Event: Yes

Start: 07/24/2025 / End: 08/17/2025
Website: Kick and Push Festival Kingston 2025

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