Celebrating 10 Years as Kelowna’s International Arts Festival
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January 20 – February 1, 2026
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2026 Festival Lineup
January 20 – February 1, 2026
An extraordinary lineup of shows, performances and experiences that inspire, entertain and provoke thought and conversation.
The 10th Annual Living Things International Arts Festival is a spectacle of live theatre, performance art, dance and more.
PINA
A sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: straight onto the stage with the legendary ensemble and follows the dancers out of the theatre into the city and the surrounding areas of Wuppertal – the place, which for 35 years was the home and...
Objects in Motion
Objects in Motion is an evening of international, animated short films curated by local artist, professor and animator Myron Campbell. The films move from hilarity to pointed social critique, taking us to new places with innovative, formal exploration.
Through My Lens
Amy is an artist with a lived experience of blindness, with a total of 2% vision in one eye. She is also a photographer with a practice that involves walking the city at twilight looking for interesting light patterns and capturing them with her camera.
Brazilian Samba Batucada - Community Workshop
Explore Samba Batucada — a percussion-driven music of Afro-Brazilian origin that pulses with rhythm, unity, and cultural pride. This introductory hands-on workshop invites participants to experience the vibrant energy and rhythms of the bateria — the powerful percus...
Through My Lens
Amy is an artist with a lived experience of blindness, with a total of 2% vision in one eye. She is also a photographer with a practice that involves walking the city at twilight looking for interesting light patterns and capturing them with her camera.
The Beanstalk Market Crash
Fairytale Satire meets David Lynch. Two performers craft a live-action low budget arthouse movie about big money and even bigger dreams. With a camcorder, live projections, shadow puppetry, original music and mind-blowing analog special effects.
The Beanstalk Market Crash
Fairytale Satire meets David Lynch. Two performers craft a live-action low budget arthouse movie about big money and even bigger dreams. With a camcorder, live projections, shadow puppetry, original music and mind-blowing analog special effects.
Play Dead
‘Play Dead’ observes the beautiful, twisted and sometimes laughable facets of the human experience. Through its dynamic hybrid of acrobatics, movement and physical theatre, the piece puts forth a surrealist chronicle of the familiar.
Bread for the World - Community Workshop
¨Bread for the World¨ is a workshop, part of Tiziano Cruz's latest artistic work, ¨Wayqeycuna¨, which seeks to intertwine art, territory and loaves of bread to present and celebrate our dead, those beings who have left this earthly plane and now inhabit the ancestra...
My Great Work
Limited to 20 spectators per performance. At a scale of 1:87, My Great Work captures the grandeur of human existence with the humblest of means. "My Great Work is what I would do if I had an unlimited budget, the largest theatre in the world, 300 actors on stage, a mili...
My Great Work
Limited to 20 spectators per performance. At a scale of 1:87, My Great Work captures the grandeur of human existence with the humblest of means. "My Great Work is what I would do if I had an unlimited budget, the largest theatre in the world, 300 actors on stage, a mili...
My Great Work
Limited to 20 spectators per performance. At a scale of 1:87, My Great Work captures the grandeur of human existence with the humblest of means. "My Great Work is what I would do if I had an unlimited budget, the largest theatre in the world, 300 actors on stage, a mili...
My Great Work
Limited to 20 spectators per performance. At a scale of 1:87, My Great Work captures the grandeur of human existence with the humblest of means. "My Great Work is what I would do if I had an unlimited budget, the largest theatre in the world, 300 actors on stage, a mili...
Punch Line
Punch Line borrows as much from the style of stand-up comedy as it does from the intimacy and depth of a confession. In the guise of an artist talk, Poulin-Denis embodies a kaleidoscope of possible characters, fragmented and intercut, meticulously choreographed and abso...
Wayqeycuna
Just as Andean women weave their Quipus [textile artefacts made of cords and knots] as memorial monuments, Argentine artist Tiziano Cruz traces a path back to his own childhood to reconnect with his community.
10th Anniversary Concert and Party!
A wicked night of music and celebration to mark 10 years of presenting bold, contemporary performing arts in Kelowna. Featuring MANTEASAH, a Kelowna-based duo crafting moody and seductive soundscapes that fuse bass, guitar, harmonicas, vocals, and synths, DJ’d into an...
Miniature Object Theatre - Community Workshop
Join Barcelona-based artist David Espinosa for an exploration of performance, play, and the boundaries of contemporary theatre. Known internationally for his intimate, innovative works that blend theatre, dance, visual art, and object manipulation, Espinosa invites part...
Contact Dance Improvisation - Community Workshop
Contact Improvisation is an improvised dance form involving physical contact between two or more dancers. CI invites us to “listen” to our partner through a variety of surfaces on our torso and limbs.
The Producer
Living Things is produced by Inner Fish Performance Co., a non-profit society that brings curated live theatre, dance and public art to Kelowna. We’re best known for our interdisciplinary performances and for producing the Living Things International Arts Festival.
Support for the 2026 Living Things Festival is generously provided by:
Funders:
Canadian Heritage
City of Kelowna
Canada Council of the Arts
BC Arts Council
UBCO
Canadian Heritage
BC Arts Council
City of Kelowna
Canada Council of the Arts
UBCO
Presenting Partners:
Rotary Centre for the Arts
Push Festival
Springworks
Festival of Animated Objects
Sponsors:
By Jove Co.
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Living Things takes place on the unceded, ancestral territory of the syilx/Okanagan people. We thank our syilx hosts for caring for this land since time immemorial and commit to bettering our own relationship with the land and each other.
