FEB 11–MAR 29
Join the joyful resistance!
Join us at The Cultch for the second annual Warrior Festival, where joy is resistance, performance is protest, and every artist is a warrior! Combining razor-sharp comedy with bold and expansive theatre, the Warrior Festival invites you to be part of something bigger than entertainment.
Six fierce and funny shows take centre stage at our York Theatre, Historic Theatre, and Vancity Culture Lab this February and March. These works strengthen acts of defiance with scenes of radical joy.
The Warrior Festival celebrates the strength of artists who are reclaiming space, rewriting narratives, and advocating for justice from the stage to the street.
Together, let’s rebuild community and envision a liberated future.
Festival Support
Charlotte + Sonya Wall Arts Fund
The success of the inaugural 2025 Warrior Festival reaffirmed what we’ve always known at The Cultch—that when artists take the stage to tell brave stories, they transform it. The overwhelming response we got from audiences was that it was some of the most meaningful live performance they had experienced.
This year, we’re thrilled to build on that momentum with six new shows—each one powerful, urgent, and unapologetically bold. These artists are pushing boundaries, telling necessary stories, and continuing to challenge the world around us with radical creativity. We can’t wait to welcome you back to Warrior Festival!
Heather Redfern,
Executive Director, The Cultch
Nicole McLuckie,
Associate Executive Director, The Cultch
Phone:604-251-1363
Email: [email protected]
Monday to Saturday: 12 – 4pm
Sunday: closed
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Festival Support
SEE MORE, SAVE MORE
Save 20% when you buy tickets to more than one show!*
*This discount is automatically applied when you add more than one show in the Warrior Festival to your cart.
Valid for Sections A+, A, B and General seats. Not applicable for Preview nights and can not be combined with other offers.
THE SHOWS
TICKETS FROM $35
Cue the rebellion.
The show is about to begin.
Leah Shelton & Quiet RIOT (Australia)
Batshit
FEB 11–15, 2026
HISTORIC THEATRE
A daring, poignant and darkly comic one-woman tour-de-force that rips the lid off the myths of female madness.
“A triumph of form and content, propelled by a powerhouse performance”—Stage Whispers
Upu Collective (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
UPU
FEB 17–21, 2026
YORK THEATRE
A journey through the heartbeat of Pacific poetry.
This acclaimed theatrical work consists of the upu (meaning ‘words’) from 23 poets, including young activists, Poet Laureates and literary prize winners.
2b theatre company (Halifax)
Red Like Fruit
FEB 18–22, 2026
HISTORIC THEATRE
Governor General’s Award-winning playwright Hannah Moscovitch crafts a gripping, provocative work about power, memory, and complicity in the post-#MeToo era.
“A bone-chilling exploration of sexuality, gender dynamics, and authority.”
—Intermission Magazine
the frank theatre company (Vancouver)
Tomboy (Chłopczyca)
MAR 04–08, 2026
VANCITY CULTURE LAB
Queer vampires and Slavic folklore converge in Tomboy (Chłopczyca), a kinetic dance-theatre performance exploring gender, memory and cultural belonging, written by Jessie Award-nominated playwright Anais Mateusz West.
The Search Party (Vancouver)
People, Places & Things
MAR 10–22, 2026
HISTORIC THEATRE
Vancouver’s award-winning company, The Search Party, brings Duncan Macmillan’s irreverent, critically acclaimed play about a struggling actress whose life spins out of control to Western Canada for the first time.
Troupe Courage (Amsterdam)
The Horse of Jenin
POSTPONED, DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED
Combining storytelling, mask and stand-up comedy, The Horse of Jenin explores the everyday life of a boy growing up in Jenin in Occupied Palestine who, like every child in the world, just wants to play and have fun.
JOYFUL WARRIOR FESTIVAL PASS
Save 30% with the all-access festival pass!
SECTION A+ SEATS
$171
SECTION A SEATS
$162
SECTION B SEATS
$140
Pass Benefits
UNLIMITED FREE TICKET EXCHANGES
for another performance of the same show.
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DISCOUNTS ON EXTRA TICKETS
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Joyful Warrior Pass
FAQ
Your Joyful Warrior Package includes one seat for each show in the Warrior Festival.
If you’d like to book more than one seat for any performance, you can! Joyful Warrior Pass holders enjoy 20% off additional tickets to the festival.
If you have any questions or would like assistance in booking your festival pass tickets please contact our Box Office at 604-251-1363.
Once you’ve purchased your Joyful Warrior Pass, you can book your seats online with the following steps:
- Sign in to your account.
- Select the shows included in the Warrior Festival.
- Book your tickets. Your tickets will be booked with the credits in your Festival Pass until all 5 shows included the festival are booked.
If you prefer, you can contact our box office at 604-251-1363 or email them at [email protected] with your show and date selections.
Joyful Warrior pass holders enjoy 20% off additional tickets to festival shows. To book additional tickets you’ll need to have purchased your ticket package and be logged into your account. The discount will automatically apply on any tickets purchased outside of your festival pass tickets.
If you need help booking discounted tickets, reach out to our Box Office at 604-251-1363 or [email protected] and we’d be happy to help!
Good news! You can save 20%* when you buy tickets to more than one show in the Warrior Festival!
This SEE MORE, SAVE MORE discount is a great option if you can’t make it to all the shows.
*This discount is automatically applied when you add more than one show in the Warriors Festival to your cart.