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Exhibition by Rosamunde Bordo
Opening reception: May 2, 2026, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Western Front is pleased to present 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘸, a solo exhibition by Vancouver-based artist Rosamunde Bordo. The exhibition brings together new metal-cast, woodworked, glass blown, and sewn objects, alongside video. These forms resemble clues or magical instruments, positioning the figures of the detective, the magician, and the artist as corresponding frameworks for making meaning through intuition and association, iteration and sleight of hand.

@rrosa_moon
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Image: Rosamunde Bordo, 𝘛𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘋-𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘳 (2026), video still. Courtesy of the artist.

Exhibition by Rosamunde Bordo
Opening reception: May 2, 2026, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Western Front is pleased to present 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘸, a solo exhibition by Vancouver-based artist Rosamunde Bordo. The exhibition brings together new metal-cast, woodworked, glass blown, and sewn objects, alongside video. These forms resemble clues or magical instruments, positioning the figures of the detective, the magician, and the artist as corresponding frameworks for making meaning through intuition and association, iteration and sleight of hand.

@rrosa_moon
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Image: Rosamunde Bordo, 𝘛𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘋-𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘳 (2026), video still. Courtesy of the artist.

ANGEL JAM!

@angeltheoracle is a Black American Composer, Improviser, Clarinetist, Pianist, Vocalist, Educator and DJ. In 2019 she released her debut album The Oracle with Chicago label International Anthem Recording Co.. Recorded using only her cell phone in various locations, the album received wide-spread critical-acclaim with Pitchfork declaring it, “a vibrant, spiritual, free-jazz document of black life as it stands today.”

She will be working on a show with @western_front in July and we are honoured to help Angel become acquainted with the Vancouver Black artist community.

This gathering is not just for musicians who wish to play, but also for Black community to come through, help make Angel feel at home, and enjoy an evening together! (With respect and attention to the performers who we’ll be lucky to hear from once the music starts)

Jam generously curated by the inimitable @thehabeshaman if you’d like to play please DM us or Feven

Introducing Anakana Schofield, who will launch her latest novel 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘭 on Jun 13, 2026 at 3:00 p.m., including a reading and a conversation with cultural worker, curator, writer, and consultant Caitlin Jones.

Anakana Schofield is a Vancouver-based Irish-Canadian writer. She is the author of four novels: 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘭 (Knopf Canada, 2026), 𝘉𝘪𝘯𝘢: 𝘈 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 (Knopf Canada, 2019), 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 (Biblioasis, 2015) and 𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘺 (Biblioasis, 2012). Her novels have won numerous literary awards including the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and the Amazon.ca Debut Novel Award. She’s been twice shortlisted for the UK Goldsmiths Prize for innovative fiction and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 was also shortlisted for the Giller Prize in 2015. Her essays and columns appear regularly in𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘭, and the 𝘛𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳. She’s written for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 and 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵.

Link in bio for more details.

@anakanaschofieldwriter
@ca_jones
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Image: Portrait of Anakana Schofield. Photo by Arabella Campbell.

Applications for the New Improvisers Studio close soon! 🎶 Presented with @western_front this unique program for musicians ages 17–24 returns for its third year after rave reviews and an overwhelmingly successful run. Following last year’s inspiring cohort led by Pulitzer Prize-winning percussionist @susie.ibarra, Los Angeles-based Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist and composer @patrickshiroishi will guide the next group of emerging artists.

Applications close Saturday, May 23 at 11:59pm – hit our 🔗 in bio for more information on how to apply!

📷 by @racheltophamphotography
#VanJazzFest

Applications for the New Improvisers Studio close soon! 🎶 Presented with @western_front this unique program for musicians ages 17–24 returns for its third year after rave reviews and an overwhelmingly successful run. Following last year’s inspiring cohort led by Pulitzer Prize-winning percussionist @susie.ibarra, Los Angeles-based Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist and composer @patrickshiroishi will guide the next group of emerging artists.

Applications close Saturday, May 23 at 11:59pm – hit our 🔗 in bio for more information on how to apply!

📷 by @racheltophamphotography
#VanJazzFest

Applications for the New Improvisers Studio close soon! 🎶 Presented with @western_front this unique program for musicians ages 17–24 returns for its third year after rave reviews and an overwhelmingly successful run. Following last year’s inspiring cohort led by Pulitzer Prize-winning percussionist @susie.ibarra, Los Angeles-based Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist and composer @patrickshiroishi will guide the next group of emerging artists.

Applications close Saturday, May 23 at 11:59pm – hit our 🔗 in bio for more information on how to apply!

📷 by @racheltophamphotography
#VanJazzFest

Applications for the New Improvisers Studio close soon! 🎶 Presented with @western_front this unique program for musicians ages 17–24 returns for its third year after rave reviews and an overwhelmingly successful run. Following last year’s inspiring cohort led by Pulitzer Prize-winning percussionist @susie.ibarra, Los Angeles-based Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist and composer @patrickshiroishi will guide the next group of emerging artists.

Applications close Saturday, May 23 at 11:59pm – hit our 🔗 in bio for more information on how to apply!

📷 by @racheltophamphotography
#VanJazzFest

Applications for the New Improvisers Studio close soon! 🎶 Presented with @western_front this unique program for musicians ages 17–24 returns for its third year after rave reviews and an overwhelmingly successful run. Following last year’s inspiring cohort led by Pulitzer Prize-winning percussionist @susie.ibarra, Los Angeles-based Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist and composer @patrickshiroishi will guide the next group of emerging artists.

Applications close Saturday, May 23 at 11:59pm – hit our 🔗 in bio for more information on how to apply!

📷 by @racheltophamphotography
#VanJazzFest

Applications for the New Improvisers Studio close soon! 🎶 Presented with @western_front this unique program for musicians ages 17–24 returns for its third year after rave reviews and an overwhelmingly successful run. Following last year’s inspiring cohort led by Pulitzer Prize-winning percussionist @susie.ibarra, Los Angeles-based Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist and composer @patrickshiroishi will guide the next group of emerging artists.

Applications close Saturday, May 23 at 11:59pm – hit our 🔗 in bio for more information on how to apply!

📷 by @racheltophamphotography
#VanJazzFest

Reading and talk by Anakana Schofield
Jun 13, 2026, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Free admission. Register via link in bio.

Western Front is pleased to present an afternoon with the writer Anakana Schofield to launch her latest novel 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘭 (Knopf Canada, 2026). Loosely inspired by the architecture and atmosphere of Western Front’s own building, the novel imagines a precarious and unruly space shaped by labour, care, and collective survival.

The event will begin with a conversation with curator, cultural worker, and writer Caitlin Jones, and will be followed by a reading from the book by Schofield.

Copies of 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘭 will be available for purchase at the event from Pulpfiction Books. Tea, coffee, and light refreshments will be available.

@anakanaschofieldwriter
@ca_jones
@knopfca
@pfbvan

Reading and talk by Anakana Schofield
Jun 13, 2026, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Free admission. Register via link in bio.

Western Front is pleased to present an afternoon with the writer Anakana Schofield to launch her latest novel 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘭 (Knopf Canada, 2026). Loosely inspired by the architecture and atmosphere of Western Front’s own building, the novel imagines a precarious and unruly space shaped by labour, care, and collective survival.

The event will begin with a conversation with curator, cultural worker, and writer Caitlin Jones, and will be followed by a reading from the book by Schofield.

Copies of 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘭 will be available for purchase at the event from Pulpfiction Books. Tea, coffee, and light refreshments will be available.

@anakanaschofieldwriter
@ca_jones
@knopfca
@pfbvan

Missed the launch of 𝘙𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘝é𝘳𝘪𝘵é: 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢? Here’s another chance to pick up Western Front’s latest publication at the @vancouverartbookfair this weekend.

A Maior’s second novella emerged from a series of workshops led at Western Front in February 2025, where participants collectively built a supernatural murder mystery through improvisation, LARPing, speed dating, and exquisite corpse-style writing exercises. Set in a fictional strip mall in Marpole, the novella drifts through commerce, fashion, and popular culture to conjure a portrait of contemporary retail life.

Featuring contributions from James Albers, Kathy Feng, Manon Fraser, Fiona Glen, Tiziana La Melia, Ben Lickerman, Trey Le, August Mesic, Nina Ortiz, Paige Smid, Kiel Torres, and Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora.

Visit Western Front at the Vancouver Art Book Fair at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre to get your copy!

📚 Retail Vérité: Vancouverama — $25

Western Front is pleased to participate in the 2026 @vancouverartbookfair, a free multi-day celebration of artists’ publishing. Bringing together more than one hundred local, national, and international publishers, VABF features a dynamic program of talks, workshops, and artists’ projects.

Visit our table at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre to browse and purchase a selection of Western Front publications.

Fair Hours
Friday, May 15: 5–9 p.m.
Saturday, May 16: 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Sunday, May 17: 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

Link in bio for more info.

“Magic Show,” now on view at Western Front presents a solo exhibition of works by 2019 Audain Travel Award recipient, Rosamunde Bordo. In “Magic Show,”Bordo continues her ongoing interdisciplinary project “The Denise File,” a work of serial detective fiction shaped through objects, installations, and material encounters. Since 2018, the project has evolved from a collection of found postcards addressed to a woman named Denise, inspiring a body of work that blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality.

Through ritual, investigation, and hands-on experimentation, “Magic Show” transforms the gallery into a space of correspondence and conjuring. Talismans, found objects, and carefully constructed forms act simultaneously as evidence, symbols, and vessels of supernatural resonance. As Denise becomes more vividly imagined, she also becomes increasingly elusive in her real construction, revealing how meaning, belief, and identity are constructed through relationships to objects and stories.

“Magic Show,” curated by Kiel Torres @kielllingmesoftly is on view until July 25, 2026.

Images:
Rosamunde Bordo
“Magic Show” at Western Front
Installation shots
Courtesy of the artist and Western Front
Photo credits to Dennis Ha

@western_front
@audainartmuseum
@rrosa_moon

#AudainTravelAward #RosamundeBordo

“Magic Show,” now on view at Western Front presents a solo exhibition of works by 2019 Audain Travel Award recipient, Rosamunde Bordo. In “Magic Show,”Bordo continues her ongoing interdisciplinary project “The Denise File,” a work of serial detective fiction shaped through objects, installations, and material encounters. Since 2018, the project has evolved from a collection of found postcards addressed to a woman named Denise, inspiring a body of work that blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality.

Through ritual, investigation, and hands-on experimentation, “Magic Show” transforms the gallery into a space of correspondence and conjuring. Talismans, found objects, and carefully constructed forms act simultaneously as evidence, symbols, and vessels of supernatural resonance. As Denise becomes more vividly imagined, she also becomes increasingly elusive in her real construction, revealing how meaning, belief, and identity are constructed through relationships to objects and stories.

“Magic Show,” curated by Kiel Torres @kielllingmesoftly is on view until July 25, 2026.

Images:
Rosamunde Bordo
“Magic Show” at Western Front
Installation shots
Courtesy of the artist and Western Front
Photo credits to Dennis Ha

@western_front
@audainartmuseum
@rrosa_moon

#AudainTravelAward #RosamundeBordo

“Magic Show,” now on view at Western Front presents a solo exhibition of works by 2019 Audain Travel Award recipient, Rosamunde Bordo. In “Magic Show,”Bordo continues her ongoing interdisciplinary project “The Denise File,” a work of serial detective fiction shaped through objects, installations, and material encounters. Since 2018, the project has evolved from a collection of found postcards addressed to a woman named Denise, inspiring a body of work that blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality.

Through ritual, investigation, and hands-on experimentation, “Magic Show” transforms the gallery into a space of correspondence and conjuring. Talismans, found objects, and carefully constructed forms act simultaneously as evidence, symbols, and vessels of supernatural resonance. As Denise becomes more vividly imagined, she also becomes increasingly elusive in her real construction, revealing how meaning, belief, and identity are constructed through relationships to objects and stories.

“Magic Show,” curated by Kiel Torres @kielllingmesoftly is on view until July 25, 2026.

Images:
Rosamunde Bordo
“Magic Show” at Western Front
Installation shots
Courtesy of the artist and Western Front
Photo credits to Dennis Ha

@western_front
@audainartmuseum
@rrosa_moon

#AudainTravelAward #RosamundeBordo

“Magic Show,” now on view at Western Front presents a solo exhibition of works by 2019 Audain Travel Award recipient, Rosamunde Bordo. In “Magic Show,”Bordo continues her ongoing interdisciplinary project “The Denise File,” a work of serial detective fiction shaped through objects, installations, and material encounters. Since 2018, the project has evolved from a collection of found postcards addressed to a woman named Denise, inspiring a body of work that blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality.

Through ritual, investigation, and hands-on experimentation, “Magic Show” transforms the gallery into a space of correspondence and conjuring. Talismans, found objects, and carefully constructed forms act simultaneously as evidence, symbols, and vessels of supernatural resonance. As Denise becomes more vividly imagined, she also becomes increasingly elusive in her real construction, revealing how meaning, belief, and identity are constructed through relationships to objects and stories.

“Magic Show,” curated by Kiel Torres @kielllingmesoftly is on view until July 25, 2026.

Images:
Rosamunde Bordo
“Magic Show” at Western Front
Installation shots
Courtesy of the artist and Western Front
Photo credits to Dennis Ha

@western_front
@audainartmuseum
@rrosa_moon

#AudainTravelAward #RosamundeBordo

Thank you to Zeena Parkins and William Winant for an extraordinary evening at Western Front on Saturday. Their performance of 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 and 𝘓𝘈𝘊𝘌 2 was deeply memorable, and a powerful reminder of the possibilities of experimental music and live performance.

We’re also incredibly grateful to everyone who joined us and filled the Grand Luxe Hall with such warmth, attention, and curiosity. Thank you for supporting adventurous artistic practices and for being part of this community.

@zpribbon
@steakatto
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Image: Zeena Parkins and William Winant performing 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, photo documentation, May 9, 2026. Photo by @racheltophamphotography

Introducing our current artist-in-residence Ami Xherro, who will present an open rehearsal of material from her work-in-progress 𝘉𝘦𝘥 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳 on Thursday, May 14, 2026 from 5:00 –9:00 p.m.

Ami Xherro works across poetry, performance, sound, and video to examine how the self is transcribed and shared. She is the author of 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬, 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 (Guernica Editions, 2023), which won the 2024 Nelson Ball Prize, and the chapbooks 𝘕𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 / 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 co-written with Benjamin de Boer (Solipcyst, 2025), and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦 (Swimmers Group, 2017). She is a co-founder of the Toronto Experimental Translation Collective, which seeks to renegotiate relationships within and across languages and media via collaborative seminars, workshops, and performances.
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Image: Portrait of Ami Xherro. Photo by Raymond Tran (@raymondtra).

Open Rehearsal by Ami Xherro
May 14, 2026, 5:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Free Admission

Join our current artist-in-residence Ami Xherro for an open exploration of material from her work-in-progress 𝘉𝘦𝘥 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳.

Of the work, Xherro says:

𝘉𝘦𝘥 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳 is a multi-surface project about lying down and splaying out. 𝘉𝘦𝘥 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳 dwells in the pleasures of suspension, taking up those infoldings in the flesh where I stretches out languorously. Using altered writing states to collapse the encyclopedic form with the diary entry, 𝘉𝘦𝘥 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳 demands overtime for the unemployed dreamer.

For this session, visitors are invited into a shared, informal reading and performance space. A bed will be installed in the middle of the Grand Luxe Hall as a gathering point, where those present are invited to speak, sing, or read from printed pages of 𝘉𝘦𝘥 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳, which will be loosely arranged throughout the space.

Visitors are welcome to come and go as they wish over the course of the evening.

Link in bio for more info.

@amixherro

Open Rehearsal by Ami Xherro
May 14, 2026, 5:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Free Admission

Join our current artist-in-residence Ami Xherro for an open exploration of material from her work-in-progress 𝘉𝘦𝘥 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳.

Of the work, Xherro says:

𝘉𝘦𝘥 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳 is a multi-surface project about lying down and splaying out. 𝘉𝘦𝘥 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳 dwells in the pleasures of suspension, taking up those infoldings in the flesh where I stretches out languorously. Using altered writing states to collapse the encyclopedic form with the diary entry, 𝘉𝘦𝘥 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳 demands overtime for the unemployed dreamer.

For this session, visitors are invited into a shared, informal reading and performance space. A bed will be installed in the middle of the Grand Luxe Hall as a gathering point, where those present are invited to speak, sing, or read from printed pages of 𝘉𝘦𝘥 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳, which will be loosely arranged throughout the space.

Visitors are welcome to come and go as they wish over the course of the evening.

Link in bio for more info.

@amixherro

This Saturday, May 9, 2026 at 7:30 p.m., don’t miss a special performance by composer, harpist, and improviser Zeena Parkins with longtime collaborator percussionist William Winant.

Together, they will perform works from Parkins’s release 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 (Tzadik Records, 2025), written for harp, percussion, and electronics.

The album is inspired by American artist Jay DeFeo and her series 𝘚𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘥𝘰𝘮 (1989)—drawings that evolve a seven-sided form derived from a pink cup gifted by sculptor Ron Nagle. This central shape becomes the structural and conceptual foundation for Parkins’s music, shaping its rhythm, texture, and form.

Tickets are selling fast, get yours via the link in bio.

@zpribbon
@steakatto
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Images: Zeena Parkins with William Winant performing 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 at Roulette, New York, photo documentation, March 22, 2026. Photos by @peter.gannushkin / downtownmusic.net

This Saturday, May 9, 2026 at 7:30 p.m., don’t miss a special performance by composer, harpist, and improviser Zeena Parkins with longtime collaborator percussionist William Winant.

Together, they will perform works from Parkins’s release 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 (Tzadik Records, 2025), written for harp, percussion, and electronics.

The album is inspired by American artist Jay DeFeo and her series 𝘚𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘥𝘰𝘮 (1989)—drawings that evolve a seven-sided form derived from a pink cup gifted by sculptor Ron Nagle. This central shape becomes the structural and conceptual foundation for Parkins’s music, shaping its rhythm, texture, and form.

Tickets are selling fast, get yours via the link in bio.

@zpribbon
@steakatto
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Images: Zeena Parkins with William Winant performing 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 at Roulette, New York, photo documentation, March 22, 2026. Photos by @peter.gannushkin / downtownmusic.net

This Saturday, May 9, 2026 at 7:30 p.m., don’t miss a special performance by composer, harpist, and improviser Zeena Parkins with longtime collaborator percussionist William Winant.

Together, they will perform works from Parkins’s release 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 (Tzadik Records, 2025), written for harp, percussion, and electronics.

The album is inspired by American artist Jay DeFeo and her series 𝘚𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘥𝘰𝘮 (1989)—drawings that evolve a seven-sided form derived from a pink cup gifted by sculptor Ron Nagle. This central shape becomes the structural and conceptual foundation for Parkins’s music, shaping its rhythm, texture, and form.

Tickets are selling fast, get yours via the link in bio.

@zpribbon
@steakatto
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Images: Zeena Parkins with William Winant performing 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 at Roulette, New York, photo documentation, March 22, 2026. Photos by @peter.gannushkin / downtownmusic.net

This Saturday, May 9, 2026 at 7:30 p.m., don’t miss a special performance by composer, harpist, and improviser Zeena Parkins with longtime collaborator percussionist William Winant.

Together, they will perform works from Parkins’s release 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 (Tzadik Records, 2025), written for harp, percussion, and electronics.

The album is inspired by American artist Jay DeFeo and her series 𝘚𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘥𝘰𝘮 (1989)—drawings that evolve a seven-sided form derived from a pink cup gifted by sculptor Ron Nagle. This central shape becomes the structural and conceptual foundation for Parkins’s music, shaping its rhythm, texture, and form.

Tickets are selling fast, get yours via the link in bio.

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Images: Zeena Parkins with William Winant performing 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 at Roulette, New York, photo documentation, March 22, 2026. Photos by @peter.gannushkin / downtownmusic.net

This Saturday, May 9, 2026 at 7:30 p.m., don’t miss a special performance by composer, harpist, and improviser Zeena Parkins with longtime collaborator percussionist William Winant.

Together, they will perform works from Parkins’s release 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 (Tzadik Records, 2025), written for harp, percussion, and electronics.

The album is inspired by American artist Jay DeFeo and her series 𝘚𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘥𝘰𝘮 (1989)—drawings that evolve a seven-sided form derived from a pink cup gifted by sculptor Ron Nagle. This central shape becomes the structural and conceptual foundation for Parkins’s music, shaping its rhythm, texture, and form.

Tickets are selling fast, get yours via the link in bio.

@zpribbon
@steakatto
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Images: Zeena Parkins with William Winant performing 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 at Roulette, New York, photo documentation, March 22, 2026. Photos by @peter.gannushkin / downtownmusic.net