The Western Front Society is one of Canada’s first artist-run-centres. For over 30 years, it has developed an international reputation as a centre for experimental art practice and performance. Five programs focus on the production and presentation of exhibitions, performance art, new music, media art, and an arts magazine.
Currently at the Front
- Exhibitions >
- August 30 – August 30, 2012
- Website Launch: A Small Gathering for the Healing of Our Aboriginal Languages
- A Small Gathering for the Healing of Our Aboriginal Languages is a website by Tahltan artist and curator Peter Morin. An extension of his 2009 exhibition projects Speaking in Landscape Tongues / Speaking to the Old Ones, the website is a collection of new texts that build on conversations initiated through the two exhibitions at the Western Front and Museum of Anthropology. Morin has commissio… MORE >
- Exhibitions >
- February 17 – March 31, 2012
Opening: February 16, 2012 7PM - Instant Coffee: Feeling So Much & Doing So Little
- As any good collective would, in 2005 the members of Instant Coffee drafted a “manif… MORE >
- New Music >
- October 3 – December 5, 2011
- NOW Improvisation Workshops
- Workshop Info For nearly 20 years, the New Orchestra Workshop Society has presented an annual series of workshops aimed at educating musicians at all levels of ability in the varied techniques of improvised music. Each week, a different facilitator will present his or her own approaches to this music. Artists from around the world bring their… MORE >
- Media Arts >
- April 26 – August 26, 2011
- Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events now Available Online
- Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events, Western Front’s latest publication is available in its entirety online at http://front.bc.ca/momentarily/momentarily.pdf and for download at the right of the screen. Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events Strategic, simplified, spotless, homogenizing representations require a pluralistic response which engages the visual tactically. Unlike the ima… MORE >
- Exhibitions >
- January 10 – February 10, 2012
- 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 t… MORE >