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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…
the-possible-impossible-thing-of-sound: A Dialogue between Dr. Salomé Voegelin & Juliet Palmer
There possibly is impossible impossibility -things that are really impossible. I felt there was another bit -and that’s where we get to the possible impossible…
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).…
I Don’t Get it
Free to the public The final stop on a three-part exhibition tour, I Don’t Get It is a new body of work by Aleesa Cohene. The…
Sound as a Space—an interview with Aki Onda and Akio Suzuki
Media artist-in-residence Elisa Ferrari joined sound artists Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda for a conversation about listening and sound collaboration a few hours before their…
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…
Walking so Slowly that the Bottoms of our Feet Become Ears
Essay by Jorma Kujala On July 18, 2017, the Western Front joined the global chorus honoring the life and legacy of Pauline Oliveros by…
Demo Model
Entry from Acts of Transfer: Duration: 21 min 26 sec Format: ¾” Umatic SP “…Demo Model is…a demonstration of varieties of communication (an inventory of codes,…
Acts of Transfer: Women’s Performance in the Western Front Archive
Announcing the web launch of more than 50 newly digitized videos from the Western Front Archive. Focused on women in performance, the documents span from…
On Trial The Long Doorway
Through July Deanna Bowen will visit Western Front to undertake the post-production of her newest work On Trial The Long Doorway. Combining historical research with…
The Headless Woman
Entry from Acts of Transfer: Duration: 30 min Format: ¾” Umatic SP The Headless Woman is a 30-minute monologue by Shawna Dempsey that recounts a revelatory…