Performances, Installations, Web-Casting and On-line Activities. On Christmas Day 1906, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden transmitted music and voice across the Atlantic in the first radio broadcast…
admission: FREE For over 15 years, the New Orchestra Workshop Society has presented an annual series of workshops aimed at educating musicians at all levels…
Tickets: $27 (available through the Coastal Jazz website) Guitarist/composer Tony Wilson is one of the most important figures in Canadian Jazz, and has been a…
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. V, no. 5, p. 8, Spring/Summer 1994: This exhibition by D.I.R.T., entitled Commedietta, will be a video/installation/propaganda piece dealing…
This piece is part of the special project, Progression, curated by Dana Claxton in 1993. The following text is taken from Front Magazine vol. IV, no. 5, p. 10,…
Admission: FREE Roberto Paci Dalo’ / Giardini Pensili > Artist in Residence June 11 – June 30 Western Front 30th Anniversary Neighbourhood Block Party Saturday June…
The Western Front 35th Anniversary Annual Gala Dinner & Auction Saturday, March 8th, 2008, at 6:00 p.m. Featuring works by: Abbas Akhavan, Alex Grewal, Alex Morrison,…
Features include new drawings by Roberto Paci Dalo, and two special projects, Digi-tele-burger, a flipbook by Stu Hughes and Mark Feddes and Four Pancontinental Favours by…
This elaborate and ambitious performance utilized every person and piece of gear available. The audience sat around the edge of the room while two grand…
Screening of the Rotterdam Edition of Infermental edited by Lydia Schouten, Leonie Bodeving and Rob Perree, with work by 40 artists from 12 countries. Infermental, the…
Due to the high volume of material in the Western Front Archive, information on this project is currently unavailable.
A composer’s forum organized by Iain Macanulty. Co-sponsored by Pro Musica.
An exhibition of artifacts culled from the back alleys and trash cans of Tinsel Town. The centre piece was a marble sign reading THIS IS…
Organized by Eric Metcalfe as “a massive image fix of the man, his many enterprises and the people who surround him.” Eric Metcalfe was a…
admission: Tickets: $12/10 A collaboration spanning two cities over 13,000 km apart, Telephone puts a modern technological twist on a classic campfire game. Navigating through…
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VI, no. 5, pp. 10-12, May/June 1995: – George E. Lewis: Improvisors Forum 06/23/95 Multi-talented George Lewis, an original member of…
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VII, no. 4, p. 9, March/April 1996: Performances: 8 pm dates: 18, 19 Lectures/Workshops: 12 pm –…
Freude Bartlett, Serious Business Co. (USA) 04/23/74 – Freude Bartlett visited from San Francisco to screen her films, also films by Scott Bartlett, Bruce Conner,…