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Western Front will be closed over the summer. We will be back mid September with our slate of fall events including exhibition openings, music shows,…
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It takes $5 to preserve one minute of tape. Make a donation to preserve Western Front Media history. The Western Front Media Archive contains over 1700…
The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy
Screening of Campbell’s 2013 film It For Others and dialogue with Jordan Wilson: May 13 @ 2pm Duncan Campbell is known for his films, which…
Gabi Dao
Vancouver-based artist Gabi Dao will undertake a media residency throughout the spring and summer of 2017. Gabi Dao questions the conditions of aesthetic experience through…
A Conversation with Bill Young on “Archipelagio”
Composer Bill Young sits down with New Music Director/Curator DB Boyko to talk about the genesis of his composition Archipelagio premiered on March 9, 2017…
Housing of Society
Join us at the Western Front for a talk with German architect and theorist Andreas Rumpfhuber—in conjunction with The Vienna Model: Housing for the Twenty-First…
Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes presenting Peter Watkins’ The Journey
Friday June 9 @ 7pm Saturday, June 10 and and Sunday, June 11 @ 1pm *Free child care will be provided for the 1pm screening…
World Listening Day: Listening to the Ground
SOUND WALK Meeting Place: Western Front, 303 East 8th Avenue FREE Pre-registration required: newmusicadmin@front.bc.ca “Can we find ground to walk on and can we…
Electro-pythagorus
Special Location: SFU Woodward’s, Cinema 149 W Hastings St. Electro-pythagorus is a portrait of computer music pioneer and Western Front co-founder Martin Bartlett. Created largely from…
Raymond Boisjoly Listening to Fugazi’s In On The Kill Taker
“I like to walk around it. I’m paid to stand around it.” –Fugazi, “Public Witness Program” Demonstrating an idea of “discrepant” reading, Boisjoly uses In…
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. Shop for locally made products ranging from bags, bowls…
Holiday Membership Drive
Our Holiday Membership Drive is on now! Join or renew before or at TOQUE and we’ll enter you in a draw to win one of four…
Jeneen Frei Njootli
During this residency Jeneen Frei Njootli will be working within the ReMatriate collective to research Indigenous women’s activism while furthering the collective’s goals of community outreach via online avenues for…
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…
New Ways of Having
What does it mean to have? In a system that prioritizes private ownership, does having necessitate an imbalance, an unequal exchange? The artists in this…
Call for Works for ISCM – Installations
Sound artists and composers are invited to submit proposals for an installation or design for an immersive sound environment employing acoustic, electroacoustic, or electronic sound…
TERMINAL 2.0
TERMINAL 2.0 Graphical User Interface Barry Doupé, Amy Lockhart, Marisa Olson, Mark Pellegrino November 10 – January 7 TERMINAL is a four-part installation project that examines single…
Text To Speech:
Artie Vierkant, The Image Object Post-Internet
READING 4: Artie Vierkant, The Image Object Post-Internet Text to Speech is a collaborative reading group co-organized by Western Front, Cineworks and VIVO Media Arts Centre. The next…