An exploration of art and science through Star Trek clips, appearances by both a famous throat singer and fado star, and a video and performance ode to Andy Warhol’s Factory heyday: they’re just some of the media-mashing highlights of the just-announced PuSh International Performing Arts Festival lineup.

The interdisciplinary fest, which runs from January 14 to February 2, 2014, spans 150 performances in its 10th annual edition, with shows from as far away as Ireland, Lebanon, and Germany.

The celebrations kick off opening night with Berlin and Nottingham’s Gob Squad Arts Collective and its Super Night Shot at the Vancouver Playhouse—the screening of a film performance made in the city’s nighttime streets only an hour beforehand. The same troupe reappears January 16 to 18 at SFU Woodward’s at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts with its Warhol tribute, Kitchen (You’ve Never Had It So Good).

Among the other offerings, Beirut’s Rabih Mroué presents The Pixelated Revolution, a performance-lecture about social media during the Syrian crisis, at the Goldcorp Centre January 15 to 18; Toronto’s Why Not Theatre brings its real-life South Asian marriage story A Brimful of Asha to the Arts Club Theatre from January 16 to February 8; Danse Lhasa Danse celebrates the music of the title songstress on January 18 at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts; New York’s Phil Soltanoff melds video and performance with the story of a vegan gone wild double-billed with a salute to trekkies and the wisdom of James T. Kirk in his L.A. Party/An Evening With William Shatner Asterisk January 21 to 25 at the Goldcorp Centre; Dublin’s Brokentalkers bring Have I No Mouth to the Waterfront Theatre from January 30 to February 1; and Vancouver’s 605 Collective remounts its hit Inheritor Album at the Scotiabank Dance Centre from January 30 to February 1.

Montreal sends out a strong contingent, including the French-Canadian classic The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi at the Goldcorp January 22 to 25; Porte Parole’s Monsanto-battle story Seeds at the Freddie Wood Theatre at UBC on January 22 and 25; Grouped’ArtGravel’s rock-concert-dance-meld Usually Beauty Fails at the Goldcorp from January 28 to 30; and Orange Noyée’s One at the Cultch from January 28 to February 8.

Musical highlights include Tanya Tagaq’s Inuit throat-singing January 31 to February 1 at Commercial Drive’s New York Theatre and Portuguese fado star António Zambujo at the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts on February 2.

In addition, two shows take residence at Vancouver Public Library’s Central Branch throughout PuSh: Zee Zee Theatre and Copenhagen’s Stop the Violence mount the return of The Human Library, and England’s Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells’s The Quiet Volume sends pairs of people on a recorded tour about the magic of reading.

Meanwhile, the wildly creative cabaret that is Club PuSh runs January 16 to February 1 at Performance Works on Granville Island. The roster includes the Eye of Newt ensemble accompanying a Japanese cult film; indie-rock collective Woodpigeon paired with a youth choir; and writer/storyteller Ivan Coyote and musician Rae Spoon exploring their “failed attempts to fit into the gender binary”.

Full programs are at JJ Bean and via pushfestival.ca/, where there is also info on PuSh passes and single tickets.