This virtual event brings together five artists with African origins—Rikki Wemega-Kwawu, Laiwan, Linda Mvusi, Shaheen Merali, and Zainub Verjee—for an active engagement about the panellists practices’, experiences of resistance,…
Join us for an online screening and discussion surrounding a performance by choreographer and performer Deborah Hay at Western Front on August 18, 1977, filmed…
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).…
Please join us at the Western Front for a public panel discussion among four international curators as part of a Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies…
Conversation series: October 24, 7pm & November 21, 7pm In collaboration with the Hogan’s Alley Society, the Western Front is hosting a series of events in…
A performance in which TBA TV discusses their interaction with television, followed by shots of buildings on one television and shots of a man speaking…
Talk by Erin Gleeson Luxe Hall A guest of the Pacific Crossings series, curator Erin Gleeson will speak about affinitive artistic and curatorial strategies at…
Join us at the Western Front for a talk with German architect and theorist Andreas Rumpfhuber—in conjunction with The Vienna Model: Housing for the Twenty-First…
“I have the kind of imagination that hears. I think of it as radio imagination.” -Octavia E. Butler Radio Imagination is a project initiated by…
In collaboration with Pleasure and Protest, Sometimes Simultaneously! free school and the Belkin Art Gallery’s Reactivating: Art and Archives, Randy Lee Cutler and Magnolia Pauker will…
Western Front is pleased to present a talk by New York-based artist Kevin Beasley in conjunction with the 14th Annual New Forms Festival. The physicality…
Join John G. Hanhardt, Senior Curator for Media Arts, Smithsonian Museum for American Art, for a critical discussion about the history of the moving image in…
Western Front is pleased to present an artist talk by New York based artist, curator and publisher Matthew Higgs. Since 2004 Matthew Higgs (New York,…
Montréal-based media artist Christian Calon visits Vancouver to premiere a new audio work for Western Front’s production of Music from the New Wilderness. Calon discusses his recent film-installation Continental Divide, an…
Western Front Exhibitions is pleased to present a public presentation by LA based artist and writer Margaret Haines on Tuesday, May 28th at 8pm at the…
Western Front Media Arts is pleased to present a lecture by Copenhagen based art historian Lars Bang Larsen, in conjunction with the 13th Annual New…
All are welcome and admission is free, but please RSVP to admin@front.bc.ca Please join us for a panel discussion between six French curators and three…
Project Rainbow (Heidi Nutley, Sydney Vermont, Jesse Birch, and Jade Boyd) will present research and work-in-progress produced during their recent Past is Prologue residency. Past…