May 4 | 7-10pm | Spring Free Marathon at 8EAST (8 East Pender St. Vancouver) Co-Presented by NOW Society & Sound of Dragon Society $20/$10/XX/FREE We are hosting the visit of Taiwanese […]
May 5, 2025, 8pm, Nonlocal Entanglement 8 E. Pender Street, Vancouver, BC$10/$20/XX/FREE New York City and Vancouver based musicians get tangled up in sound. Hilliard Greene - BassClyde Reed - […]
Spring 2025 Improvisation Workshop 2pm-3:30pm Saturdays March 15 - May 10 At 8EAST FREE for up to 15 participants with NOW Membership Donations gratefully accepted (here). Workshops are drop-in! Please […]
BIG FUN ON THE CORNER A monthly series celebrating electricity in improvised music! Brought to you by JP Carter and the NOW Society, every 2nd Wednesday of the month. 15th […]
Performing on 8east's inaugural '3rd Thursday' improvised music series are - Tʼuyʼtʼtanat-Cease Wyss: Synthesized plant sounds Johanna Hauser: Clarinets Lisa Cay Miller: Keys Themba Tana: Percussion and various other instruments […]
Friday May 23 8pm Improvised music at 8EAST doors 7:45 $20/$10/XX/FREE Three sets: Set 1 ZÖJ: Gelareh Pour: kamancheh, qeychak, vocals Brian O’Dwyer: drumkit, percussion Set 2 Nebyu Yohannes: trombone […]
On the last Wednesday of every month... Come play improvised music in a collaborative setting! Open to improvising musicians of all genres and experience levels. Small ensembles will be randomly […]
The World to Come, inspired by Angela Davis on Radical Self Care “It’s very dangerous not to recognize that as we struggle, we are attempting to presage the world to […]
May 31, 2025 2pm-3:30pm At 8EAST Sequencer-based Improvisation entails the synchronizing of one or more instruments together via a “Master Clock,” then using sequencers, sound design, audio mixers, and effects […]
June 7, 2025 2pm-3:30pm At 8EAST Come explore intentional sound making with cellist Norm Adams (Halifax) and percussionist Joe Sorbara (Guelph)! This workshop is drop-in and FREE with a NOW […]