Best Practices

Best Practices for Submitting to K&P 2025

Submit What You Have

It can be daunting to try and make everything perfect in a submission form, but we want to see what you are working on, at whichever stage of development it is!

Our submission form has limited space for answers, so there is no need to go into exhaustive detail about an element of your project if you don’t know yet. Give us a rough outline of your timeline, a ballpark budget, a vision for the audience experience – whatever you need to get the submission sent in and done.

What is “innovative”?

The Kick & Push Festival aims to take the audience beyond being passive observers. For us, “innovative performance” pushes the boundaries of how we make, experience, and think about performance. We want the works we present at the Festival to be unbound from traditional notions of theatrical performance, either by the performance taking place in an unusual location or modality, the role of the audience being subverted, the manner of the piece’s creation representing a radical new way of working, or by pushing the boundaries in some other way that we haven’t considered.

Octavia E. Butler said, “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” We want to see as many new suns as possible.

A Broad Spectrum

We are piecing together a Festival with different types of shows of different sizes with different requirements. Don’t be discouraged if your art seems like it might not fit in with the Festival, we take all sorts!

For example, Kick & Push has previously hosted a show based around an interactive board game, a gallery display of original character designs, Shakespeare, an Indigenous futurist video game, improv shows, a show set within a basketball game, walking tours, virtual reality experiences, pop-up performances in parks around the city, a one-person show on a moving bus, puppets, a Vaudeville roadshow, and much more!

Ready to submit? Click here to go to our application form!

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