I Know What I Want
This summer the Western Front is collaborating with Other Sights and 221A on a publicly-sited research intensive that seeks to evaluate the cultural capacity of…
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The Tent Shop Hosting Readings and Screenings
Scrivener’s Monthly is pleased to present Jacob Gleeson’s Tent Shop Hosting Readings and Screenings on Saturday June 16th from 1 till 6pm. The Tent Shop…
Musician in Residence: Leslie Ross
Canadian bassoonist, instrument builder, and sound artist Leslie Ross, whose work combines historical organology with contemporary compositional techniques, will be our musician in residence for…
Western Front 40th Anniversary Open House
The Western Front is 40! Join us on June 16 for a day of anniversary celebrations. League, a project by Germaine Koh, with Cedric Bomford,…
Properties
The artists in the group show Properties tarry with the thoughts and histories that live and breathe in the walls and objects that surround us.…
Artist in Residence: Shana Moulton
Performance by Shana Moulton on June 7 @ 7pm Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front FREE New York based artist Shana Moulton will produce a new…
Western Front needs a new piano!
Since 1990, over 1000 fingers have graced the keys of the Western Front’s Disklavier. Pianists have included jazz greats like Horace Tapscott and Paul Plimley,…
Artist in Residence: Una Knox
Western Front is pleased to welcome Vancouver/London UK based artist Una Knox as media artist in residence. Continuing her investigation into human perception, during the…
Acoustic Cartographies | Audio Works | 2013
This year’s Acoustic Cartographies event featured new audio works by UBC Geography and SFU Communications students, generated from field recordings throughout the Lower Mainland. Audio…
Prop Talk
Western Front Exhibitions is pleased to present a public presentation by LA based artist and writer Margaret Haines on Tuesday, May 28th at 8pm at the…
One Thing Follows Another
More information on Evan Parker’s LP ‘Vaincu.Va! Live at Western Front 1978′ can be found HERE. By Alex Varty The first impulse, on revisiting this…
Radio Free Stein
General $5 / FREE for Western Front members Composer Dorothy Chang and director Adam Henderson create a re-imagining of Gertrude Stein’s “For the Country Entirely.…
Artist in Residence: Zain Burgess
Vancouver-based artist Zain Burgess is Western Front’s inaugural emerging artist in residence. Zain Burgess is making a new body of work based on a research and interviews…
Western Front New Music wins Rio Tinto Alcan Performing Arts Award
Western Front New Music Director/Curator DB Boyko accepted the prestigious Rio Tinto Alcan Performing Arts Award Music 2014 for a new music production to be presented at the Vancouver East…
Dr. Paul Verhaeghe Speaking About The Diaries of Louise Bourgeois
Scrivener’s Monthly is pleased to present Dr. Paul Verhaeghe Speaking About The Diaries of Louise Bourgeois on June 1st at 8pm at the Western Front. “Last…
Acoustic Cartographies
Free Admission Join us for an evening of audio works created by Geography and Communications students generated from field recordings throughout the Lower Mainland. Speakers…
Urban Sprawl: Orkestra Futura with the Vancouver Electronic Ensemble
Tickets available at www.noworchestra.com Part of Vancouver’s dynamic creative music scene for over 35 years, Orkestra Futura teams up with the Vancouver Electronic Ensemble for…
Yann Chateigné Tytelman discussing Xenochronies
Scrivener’s Monthly is pleased to present Yann Chateigné Tytelman discussing Xenochronies on Tuesday April 23rd at 8pm in the Grand Luxe Hall at the Western Front. Xenochrony,…
green house
A solo exhibition by Abbas Akhavan. Travelling flora, an absent tamer, a fine layer of dust and a visitor remains. Abbas Akhavan currently lives and…
Evan Parker: Concert/LP Launch with Gordon Grdina & Kenton Loewen
Door: $15 General / $10 Students & WF Members LPs are available for sale now in person at the Western Front and online. Read Alexander Varty’s…
Michael Taussig drawing as talking About Peasant Tree Farms as A Mode of Thought and Beauty in The Age of Agri-Terrorism
Scrivener’s Monthly is pleased to present Michael Taussig drawing as talking about Peasant Tree Farms as A Mode of Thought and Beauty in The Age…
The Gentle Animation (word/image) Show
As Nations read his stories, Amos animated them in the form of drawings that, by the end of the show, covered the entire backdrop.
Daphne Marlatt reading from Liquidities
Scrivener’s Monthly is pleased to present Daphne Marlatt reading from her new book of poems Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now. This publication gathers many of the…
The Working Move
Western Front Media Arts is pleased to present The Working Move, a new work by Brendan Fernandes. Developed over a six-week production residency, Fernandes worked collaboratively with…