by Charlie Smith on January 16th, 2021 at 8:18 AM 1 of 1 2 of 1
An arts community backlash appears to explain why two high-profile theatre directors have decided to back away from a series of events at this year s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.
PuSh Rally curators Marcus Youssef and Maiko Yamamoto, along with producer Dani Fecko, said in a statement that they are stepping down from our contracts , effective immediately.
They acknowledged that since they released the PuSh Rally program, they ve received a lot of feedback from people we respect about what we planned and how we framed it . This included artists withdrawing from the Rally program, they stated. While we understand this information might be out of context for those who are not local arts workers, we have come to believe that what we programmed is actually hindering attempts to resolve conflict.