That which identifies them, like the eye of the cyclops
Performance with Marién Velez: March 23 @ 2pm Monique Wittig’s 1969 novel Les Guérillères envisions the aftermath of a violent war of the sexes in a future…
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Job Posting: Executive Director
Organization: Western Front Society Job Title: Executive Director Hours: Full-time (35 hrs per week, plus some evenings and weekends) Deadline: April 26, 2019 Start date:…
Goodbye to Director Caitlin Jones
The Western Front and its Board of Directors are announcing that after nearly a decade of exceptional leadership Executive Director Caitlin Jones is leaving to…
TELEPRESENCE at Western Front
PERFORMANCE / ARTIST TALK Telepresence | Virtual Reality Live Performance Luxe Hall, Western Front, 303 East 8th Ave SOLD OUT The year-long sound installation…
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…
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…
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 three prizes filled…
Javanese Gamelan Workshops with Sutrisno Hartana
WORKSHOP SERIES INTRO to Javanese Gamelan | Mondays*, 5-7pm *Except February 25 and Mar 18 Cost: $150 General / $100 WF Members Registration is now…
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…
Hildegard Westerkamp’s Kits Beach Soundwalk & Bill Frisell Solo Guitar from 1986
FREE One of the best things about touring the world as a musician is listening to music with fellow artists and learning from their combined years…
Text to Speech
Lisa Gitelman Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents
Text to Speech #21 Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents Paper Knowledge addresses what is remarkable about the mundane: the library card, the…
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 __…
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…
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…
Octophonic: Sound Immersion
Tickets for the 8PM concert are SOLD OUT. Due to high demand, we are having an encore performance of Yu Su’s 8 Channel piece. The…
Chris Lee
Chris Lee will be in residence to develop part 1 of LDM, a new project that reimagines a laser distance measurement device as a tool for converting…
Innovation from Bali: A World Premiere
FREE Indonesian Gamelan has seen an explosion of innovative and ground-breaking composers in the past decade, with young musicians experimenting with forms and instrumentation in…