2026 Lineup

Living Things

January 20 – February 1, 2026

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This is Kelowna’s International Arts Festival.

It’s groundbreaking theatre, art and performances that will leave you feeling exhilarated. These are the shows that get big cities buzzing… and they’re coming here.

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20
January

PINA

7:30 pm Mary Irwin Theatre at Rotary Centre for the Arts

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...

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22
January

Objects in Motion

7:00 pm Mary Irwin Theatre at Rotary Centre for the Arts

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.

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23
January

Through My Lens

7:30 pm Kelowna Community Theatre

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.

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24
January

Brazilian Samba Batucada - Community Workshop

10:00 am Black Box Theatre

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...

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24
January

Through My Lens

7:00 pm Kelowna Community Theatre

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.

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25
January

The Beanstalk Market Crash

4:30 pm Kelowna Community Theatre

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.

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25
January

The Beanstalk Market Crash

7:00 pm Kelowna Community Theatre

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.

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27
January

Play Dead

7:30 pm Mary Irwin Theatre at Rotary Centre for the Arts

‘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.

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28
January

Bread for the World - Community Workshop

6:30 pm Soul de Cuba Cafe

¨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...

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28
January

My Great Work

7:00 pm Black Box Theatre

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...

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28
January

My Great Work

9:00 pm Black Box Theatre

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...

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29
January

My Great Work

7:00 pm Black Box Theatre

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...

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29
January

My Great Work

9:00 pm Black Box Theatre

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...

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30
January

Punch Line

7:30 pm Mary Irwin Theatre at Rotary Centre for the Arts

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...

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30
January

Wayqeycuna

9:00 pm Kelowna Community Theatre

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.

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31
January

10th Anniversary Concert and Party!

5:45 pm Black Box Theatre

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...

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01
February

Miniature Object Theatre - Community Workshop

10:00 am Black Box Theatre

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...

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01
February

Contact Dance Improvisation - Community Workshop

3:00 pm Rotary Centre for the Arts

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.

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