10 years of Peek Fest! Impulse Theatre’s Peek Fest is our annual festival celebrating arts workers and process. The festival celebrates creation, performance, connection, and exploration. It invites artists, arts workers, and audiences to dig in: into their process, their own experience, their community, and our ecologies. Peek Fest is reciprocity in action.
In 2026, Peek Fest has:
4 Mainstage Presentations;
2 Work-In-Progress Sharings;
4 Workshops;
5 Artists-in-Residence;
2 Admin-in-Residence;
3 Mentorship Programs with 7 participants; and
1 Community Gathering, with artist talks and a free birthday brunch.
Presentation Series
James Gnam / Plastic Orchid Factory
Entre Chien et Loup
November 5 | 7pm
The Greenhouse (1411 Quadra St)
June Fukumura
Sumiko in Nature:
Concept to Realization
November 12 & 13 | 7pm
Intrepid Studio (2-1609 Blanshard St)
Shion Skye Carter
Cobalt
November 19 & 20 | 7pm
Open Space (510 Fort St)
Presented in a Double Bill.
Kerri Flannigan
Fruit/Seed/Bear
November 19 & 20 | 7pm
Open Space (510 Fort St)
Presented in a Double Bill.
Full project and artist descriptions here:
Work-in-Progress
Amber Downie-Back, Sarah Rose Mercer & Angus Steele-Gaffney
at the end of time
November 8 | 2pm
Intrepid Studio (2-1609 Blanshard St)
PWYC
Peek Show 19
November 14 | 7pm
Intrepid Studio (2-1609 Blanshard St)
PWYC
Workshop Series
Adam Kinner
Poem / Performance
November 3 | 6pm to 9pm
Intrepid Studio (2-1609 Blanshard St)
$30
Theatre SKAM
Eco-Centric Creative Process
November 15 | 2pm to 5pm
SKAM Studio 846 (846 Broughton St)
$30
Shion Skye Carter
Folding/Unfolding
November 17 | 6pm to 8pm
SKAM Studio 846 (846 Broughton St)
$20
Leslie Ting
Orientation around an object
November 18 | 6pm to 9pm
SKAM Studio 846 (846 Broughton St)
$30
Full workshop and facilitators descriptions here:
Sunday, November 15 | 11am to 12:30pm
SKAM Studio 846 (846 Broughton St)
Peek Fest turns 10 and we want to celebrate with brunch. Join local artists, arts workers, and community members to share a free meal and a chat with a few of our festival artists.
A curated residency program that provides artists an opportunity to dive into their own process on their own terms.
2026 Artists-in-Residence include
Shion Skye Carter & danielle Mackenzie Long
N. Zoey Gauld
Luka Garvin
Theatre SKAM
Leslie Ting
A curated residency program that provides artists an opportunity to dive into the administrative part of their artistic practice.
2026 Admin-in-Residence include
Kemi Craig
Randi Edmundson
Dance Incubator
The Dance Incubator is a mentorship program that supports contemporary dance artists, providing the artists with studio space, one-on-one mentorship and technical support to explore their artistic and/or producing practice.
Mentor: Andrew Barrett
Mentee artists: Ángel Ramos & Sarah Board
Elevators Cohort
Elevators is an ongoing partnership between Impulse Theatre and Embrace Arts Foundation that hosts a cohort of neurodivergent and disabled creators to empower their artistic processes.
Facilitators: Andrew Barrett & Tiffany Tjosvold
Cohort Members: Claire Bruce, Amber Downie-Back, Kerri Flannigan, & Heather Jarvie
Performance Lab
The Performance Lab program prioritizes interdisciplinary, contemporary dance, and physical or non-traditional theatre practices. Each year participants are paired with a mentor to interrogate and expand their own creation practice.
Mentor: Leslie Ting
Mentee artist: tony adams
Accessibility at Peek Fest
Workshop Access Program
Impulse offers 3 paid spots to arts workers who identify as queer, trans, non-binary, Indigenous, Black, a person of colour, fat, neurodivergent, d/Deaf and/or disabled.
Participants are limited to 2 workshops each. Space in the Workshop Access Program is filled on a first come, first serve basis.
Accessibility
Impulse Theatre seeks to create an anti-oppressive and anti-discriminatory space for all arts workers. We had a wide variety of access options available for artists, audiences, and participants throughout the festival.
Check out the Accessibility Page for more details.
Box Office Information
Ticketing
Advanced tickets & registration for all festival events are online through Eventbrite.
Tickets will also be available at the door via cash or card, dependent on ticket availability.
While Workshops can be purchased at the door, advanced registration is preferred.
Mainstage Tickets
Impulse offers four ticket types for our mainstage presentations:
Solidarity Ticket: $40.00
Intended for those who are able to contribute a little extra to help support our other price points, and/or those who wish to share additional support for Impulse Theatre!
Regular Ticket: $25.00
Our standard ticket price.
Reduced Ticket: $20.00
Intended for students, seniors, and those who traditionally qualify for a reduced rate.
Accessible Ticket: $10.00
Intended for those who self identify as living with barriers. We don’t want money to be an issue!
Work-In-Progress
Our Work-In-Progress Series has a Pay-What-You-Can (PWYC) model. Due to the limits of our ticketing system, advanced sales are sliding scale in increments of $5. At the door we will accept any amount in cash or on card.
Eventbrite & “Incorrect” Showtimes
Due to BC’s decision to remain in Daylight Savings Time, Eventbrite may display incorrect showtimes for our events. We imagine this will be fixed as soon as we pass November 1st. Please refer to the copy of the event or on our website for correct showtimes.
Contact
If you have any questions or having any issues with our Eventbrite, you can leave a message for an Impulse representative by:
email at info@impulsetheatre.ca
text or voicemail at (778) 654-1013
One of our team will return your message as soon as they can.
Thank you to our generous sponsors & funders
