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44 Results for 2010

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    • Media Arts >
    • May 1, 2010 2PM
    • 21. Toril Johannessen Artist Presentation
    • Toril Johannessen – Artist Presentation Saturday 1 May 2010 | 2 PM Location: Western Front, Luxe Hall 303 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver Please join Bergen-based artist Toril Johannesen for a discussion of her recent work. She will be speaking about a series of drawings w…  MORE >
    • Exhibitions & Media Arts >
    • Tuesday May 4th, 7-9pm. Artist talk at 7:30.
    • 22. Sonja Ahlers Book Launch
    • Every year, when you’re a child, you become a different person — Alice Munro And I’m a million different people from one day to the next / I can’t change my mold — The Verve From these two quotes emerges a unifying motif of Sonja Ahlers’ new book *The Selves*…  MORE >
    • New Music >
    • May 5, 2010 7 & 9PM
    • 23. Idiolalla / Voxy Choir and Roundhouse Seniors Choir / Lief Ambrosia Hall
    • VENUE INFO Chan Centre for the Performing Arts University of British Columbia 6265 Crescent Road 604 822 9197 Two performances ticketed separately 7:00 & 9:00 PM IDIOLALLA Hold onto your seats as two of Canadaʼs most adventuresome vocalists Christine Duncan and D…  MORE >
    • New Music >
    • May 6, 2010 8PM
    • 24. Christian Bok / Jessika Kenney
    • CHRISTIAN BÖK Calgary-based sound poet Christian Bök renowned for his extreme vocal rigor and calculating compositions will perform from his seminal work Eunoia and a lightning speed rendition of Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate. Eunoia is a story that uses only one vowe…  MORE >
    • New Music >
    • May 7, 2010 8PM
    • 25. Shelley Hirsch / Veda Hille
    • SHELLEY HIRSCH New Yorkʼs Shelley Hirsch relentlessly mines her life experiences and embraces archetypal personas to create story songs and alchemical compositions. She pays musical respect to the eccentric American composer Jerry Hunt, some of which can be heard on Song…  MORE >
    • Media Arts & Exhibitions >
    • May 14 – May 16, 2010
    • 26. Western Front: London Edition
    • Western Front: London Bureau No Soul For Sale, 2nd Edition, 5/14 to 5/16/2010 at the Tate Modern (London, UK) www.nosoulforsale.com This May, Western Front will participate in No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents, part of the 10th anniversary celebrations of t…  MORE >
    • New Music >
    • May 16, 2010 11-1PM
    • 27. The Empty Vessel Makes The Loudest Sound - Viviane Houle
    • Attentive Gathering ~ all ears all minds Participants will engage in listening and sound making exercises guided by Viviane Houle. Deep Listening®, originated by Pauline Oliveros is a form of meditation based on experiencing heightened awareness of sound, silence and so…  MORE >
    • Exhibitions >
    • May 26, 2010 7PM
    • 28. Rethinking Curating
    • The Western Front is pleased to present Sarah Cook, co-author with Beryl Graham of the book Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media (MIT Press). Please join us for a discussion about how the participatory, immaterial, and time-based qualities of media art challenge tradit…  MORE >
    • New Music >
    • May 27, 2010 8PM
    • 29. Six
    • Ticket discounts to the first 20 people to book in advance $12 General $7 Students/WF Members contact: newmusicadmin@front.bc.ca Founded by Jacques Demierre and Urs Leimgruber in spring 2007, Six is a Swiss based ensemble that considers the architecture and acoustic potent…  MORE >
    • Front Magazine >
    • Saturday, June 5th
    • 30. Un Noche de Traducciones: De Woolf a Borges, de mi madre, a mi // A Night of Translations: From Woolf to Borges, from my mother to me
    • Front Magazine Summer issue // Launch Party In certain cases it so happens that the original work proves to be ‘unfaithful’ to its translation.—Jorge Luis Borges On Saturday, June 5, from 8pm to 11pm come and get yourself translated, live, in ten differe…  MORE >
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