With assistance from the BC Arts Council and the BC Museums Association, the Western Front has expanded its online archive of events, images, sound recordings, and other information intended to assist researchers interested in the programming and activities of the Western Front Society.

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7 Results for 2012

    • Exhibitions >
    • January 10 – February 10, 2012
    • 1. New Exhibitions Curator
    • We are pleased to welcome Jesse Birch as the new Exhibitions Curator at the Western Front. Birch brings a wealth of local and international experience to the position. He has produced exhibitions in Canada, the Netherlands, Australia and Japan, and he was Co-Director/Curato…  MORE >
    • New Music >
    • January 20 – January 21, 2012
    • 2. Circle of Sleep
    • Two performances: Friday January 20 & Saturday January 21, 10pm to 6am Circle of Sleep is an overnight concert, a meditation on sleep and dreaming that’s also a marathon of cutting-edge Canadian electronic music. Featuring nine artists from ambient music, new media, c…  MORE >
    • Media Arts >
    • January 26, 2012 6.30PM
    • 3. Jeremy Bailey: Artist Talk + Performance
    • Jeremy Bailey
    • Thursday, January 26 – 6.30PM Western Front Media Arts is pleased to present a performance by Toronto based media artist Jeremy Bailey. Bailey will present an talk and performance in the Grande Luxe Hall, as part of Western Front Media Arts ongoing engagement with n…  MORE >
    • Exhibitions & Media Arts >
    • February 17 – March 31, 2012
    • 4. Instant Coffee: Feeling So Much & Doing So Little
    • As any good collective would, in 2005 the members of Instant Coffee drafted a “manifesto” of sorts. In it, they define themselves and their objectives in terms of their caffeinated namesake: Instant Coffee “mimics the real thing without the pretense of being better. I…  MORE >
    • New Music >
    • March 11, 2012 8PM
    • 5. suddenlyLISTEN: Lee / Adams / Donovan
    • Halifax-based suddenlyLISTEN’s mission is to bring new and improvised chamber music to a wide variety of intimate settings. Pianist Lee Pui Ming, cellist Norman Adams, and percussionist Erin Donovan present collaborative improvisation and original composition in rich,…  MORE >
    • New Music >
    • April 15, 2012 3:30PM
    • 6. Acoustic Cartographies
    • The result of dynamic collaboration between the undergrads of UBC geography and the sonic environment of Vancouver, Acoustic Cartographies is a geographic inquiry into art as spatial practice. One group is listening to the relationship between gender and public space. On…  MORE >
    • New Music >
    • June 30 – July 1, 2012
    • 7. Sonic Playground returns!
    • Sound Installations, Instruments, and Performances Roundhouse Community Centre and David Lam Park Hands on! Ears wide open! Re-imagine spatulas, pop cans, and other everyday objects and how they make music and sound. Sound artists, musicians and children from lower mainlan…  MORE >