Deanna Bowen: ON TRIAL The Long Doorway
A Black legal aide lawyer is assigned to represent a young white student who has assaulted a fellow student/rising Black athlete. ON TRIAL The Long…
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Melody McKiver
Advance Tickets: $15 General / $10 Students & WF Members Advance ticket sales have now ended. Tickets will be available for purchase at the door. Door…
Pacific Crossings: Load Na Dito
Mark Salvatus & Mayumi Hirano
Load Na Dito is an artistic and research project based in Manila, Philippines. Developed as a home made culture, currently located in Cubao, Quezon City, it uses…
cuculoris, a time machine for shadows Nicole Kelly Westman
quivering light is interrupted by fluttering darkness. filtered through the leaves of a shivering tree. shadows gyrate to the rhythm of the wind. except when…
Adults are so Last Year
FREE Western Front opens its doors and invites kids of all ages to collaborate with artists and musicians in a series of activities, games, and projects. All…
Anthony Coleman
Advance Tickets: $15 General / $10 Students & WF Members Door Tickets: $20 General / $15 Students & WF Members Pianist Anthony Coleman has appeared on…
Darius Jones
Composer and Saxophonist Darius Jones has presented several concerts in Vancouver over the past few years, each showcasing the depth of this important performer, improvisor,…
International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation’s Annual TD Jazz Festival Colloquium:
Agile Futures: Approaching Improvisation
FREE Western Front is excited to host the IICSI’s eleventh iteration of their TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival colloquium. The colloquium will feature several world-renowned…
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…
Animation Show and Tell
Join artists Howie Tsui, Lianne Zannier and artist-in-residence Yaloo for an evening of animation in the Luxe. A casual night of screening and chatting through weird and wonderful excerpts by…
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…
Félicia Atkinson improvising animals as delayed audiobooks in an ambient park
Félicia Atkinson, artist, experimental musician, and founder of the independent imprint Shelter Press, makes work that broadly thinks about improvisation, fiction, instant composition, noise, abstraction and poetry. For…
Yaloo
Korean artist Yaloo will be in residence for one month to work on a new VR-based artwork. Using candy-coated imagery of wealth and longevity that…
Deradoorian
Advanced Ticket Sales Are Now Closed. There will be a limited number of tickets available at the door at 6:30PM. Door Tickets: $20 General /…
Satoko Fujii: Kira Kira
Advance Tickets: $15 General / $10 Students & WF Members Advance ticket sales have now ended. Tickets will be available at the door! Door Tickets: $20…
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…