Support Media Art History
Western Front is dedicated to the preservation and sharing of its Media Archive, that goes back over 40 years! In the past two years, we…
NOW Improvisation Workshops + Concert
Mondays from Sept 17 – Nov 12 @ 4-6pm & 6:30-8:30pm FREE. Donations are welcome. Space is limited, advance registration required. To register contact: now@nowsociety.org __…
Julian Hou
Julian Hou will undertake a residency to further develop practice-based research that is exploratory in nature. Hou’s projects often weave various media together, exploring narrative experiments with sonic…
Trading Places: Un Échange
Montréal saxophonist Ida Toninato and cellist Émilie Girard-Charest are guest artists for a ten-day residency with Vancouver improvising musicians. Stay tuned for various interfaces about…
Mouthfeel
Mouthfeel, presented by Big Rock Candy Mountain, features sticky, pliable, and oral forms that center on the mouth as a means of aesthetic perception and…
Hazel Meyer & Cait McKinney Performing Tape Condition: degraded
Meyer and McKinney’s lecture performance Tape Condition: degraded investigates the community-based work of collecting, preserving, and providing ethical forms of digital access to archives of queer porn. Their…
TOQUE: Western Front’s Annual Fundraiser & Craft Fair
Toque is Western Front’s largest annual community event and fundraiser showcasing a curated selection of designers and artists. Join us for fantastic shopping, a back deck barbecue…
TELEPRESENCE at Western Front
PERFORMANCE / ARTIST TALK Telepresence | Virtual Reality Live Performance Luxe Hall, Western Front, 303 East 8th Ave Tickets $11 The year-long sound installation…
Past is Prologue: 20 years of COSMOSQUAW
An evening with Sḵwx̱wú7mesh storyteller Salia Joseph and Cree-Metis poet Samantha Nock, who will honour, contextualize and expand on Cree/Saulteaux/Métis artist Lori Blondeau’s COSMOSQUAW (1998).…
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STSTS
Launch Event: Walk followed by a reading and a discussion with Maggie Groat Date and Time: Saturday, June 9th at 2pm ***Special Location Note: The event…
Jen Shyu Solo: Nine Doors
Tickets: Advance $15/10; Door $20/15 New New Music Curator Aram Bajakian’s first concert in the Luxe nods to DB Boyko’s 24 years of inspiring work…
Veils of a Bog
Peaty and tannic, soft and saturated with water, a bog is place brimming with life forms, yet built up on a bed of decay. Veils…
Bright Moments Series
Coastal Jazz and Blues with Western Front New Music spotlights the newest music in the jazz world with the Bright Moments Series. __ CONCERT September…
The Foreshore Listens
A special event launching a suite of multi-textured podcasts based on and inspired by The Foreshore Sessions: Vanessa Campbell thinking in and about hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and language reclamation, Stacey Ho…
TELEPRESENCE
ARTIST TALK / PRESENTATION Telepresence | Virtual Reality Experience Integrated Motion Studio @ Emily Carr University 520 East 1st Avenue, Vancouver The year-long sound…
Monologues: patriarchal traditions and the New Age
Deborah Edmeades’ lecture is a sensorial visual immersion. The Luxe has been transformed in a pink lens, an oculus, an incubator. Her research into histories of esoteric knowledge,…
lilithlithlithlithlithlith: through spiral upon spiral of the shell
Doors at 7:30pm, performance begins at dusk. As darkness falls around Western Front, lilithlithlithlithlith invites participation in the form of listening to, along, beside and around. Informed…
Feeling So Much Yet Doing So Little
We know that one is never enough and as a colour we are fluorescent pink. We play with inclusion and exclusion equally. When we say…