February 3-7, 2026
Russian Hall
600 Campbell Avenue
VANCOUVER
Thank you for joining us at HOLD ON LET GO 2026.
This year’s program celebrates the persistence and imagination of independent theatre, dance and performance at a moment when the very possibility of making this kind of work is under pressure. This is the fragile, necessary space that experimental artists and gatherings like HOLD ON LET GO have always protected: a space for contemporary performance that asks artists and audiences to lean into uncertainty, stay with complexity, and dream new possibilities for a world in visible collapse.
From February 3-7, over five days and nights, the Russian Hall will become a shared studio — a porous setting to test forms, reach across disciplines and witness work that refuses easy categorization. The artists in this year’s program speak from where they stand while also reaching toward larger, messier questions: works that examine our intimate ecosystems even as they hold wider systems to account.
These visionary works will move us — zooming out and in and out again, drawing attention to what is right here and what still feels impossibly far away in this current cycle of reconstruction. Seen through the eyes of the artists in the program, collapse can reveal many things — transformation, connection and renewal. Our festival gatherings make room for reflection, agitation and states of newness and building. And…there will be music!
Please join us in holding on, letting go and staying with each other inside all that is shifting.
Maiko, Josh & Lisa
Join us for HOLD ON LET GO!
The best way to experience HOLD ON LET GO is through our ALL ACCESS Pass. For only $55 you can choose to join us for as many events as you wish; if you join us for all 11 that works out to be less than $5 per event! We also offer an ALL ACCESS Pass for Emerging Artists for $35, which includes access to our Emerging Artist Series, curated and hosted by Amanda Sum.
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HOLD ON LET GO gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council and the Province of British Columbia. Thank you also to our Media Partners — the City of Vancouver through the Transit Shelter Advertising Program.
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