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c.a.f.f. (calling all friendly faces) Session 7: Ben Frost, Eli Davidovici, Bernie Arai, John Nicholson —Tuesday, May 5 —2954 West 4th Ave —Doors at 7pm —Music 7:30-9:00 (with short intermission) —$10-20 sliding scale For the seventh iteration of c.a.f.f., U/P’s monthly (e)merging and experimental jazz nite, we’re featuring our very own Ben Frost with Eli Davidovici, Bernie Arai, and John Nicholson. One band, two sets, with a little break in between. FYI: c.a.f.f. will be taking a little hiatus over the summer months to make space for our upcoming exhibition Solar Bee Garden Tea Zen REMIX. If you haven’t had a chance to make it to a c.a.f.f. yet, we recommend making this the one! Advanced tickets recommended, they go quick! Link in bio U/P members get discounts too — register for annual membership to receive a discount code. Accessibility information available at unitpitt.ca/about. Please email [email protected] if you have accessibility requirements, or if price is a barrier. #vancouverjazz #yvrmusic #yvrjazz #experimentalmusic [Image ID: 1: CAFF poster, a soft turquoise blue with loose, hand-written letters spelling “CAFF,” underneath it reads “U/P’s monthly emerging and experimental jazz nite.” 2: Ben Frost playing the trumpet, he is wearing a ballcap and spotlit. 3: John Nicholson playing the saxophone, spotlit against a black background. 4: Bernie playing drums, spotlit against a black background. 5: Eli playing bass; photo is soft yellow and a tight crop of Eli smiling to a musician in the foreground.]

Solar Bee Garden Tea Zen REMIX Lam Wong & Peter Courtemanche (Absolute Value of Noise) May 30 - August 15, 2026 Opening May 30, 1-4pm Solar Bee Garden Tea Zen REMIX is a site-responsive, multi-media collaboration between longtime friends. Among their highly varied interests and distinct practices, Peter and Lam share a dedication to tea — its cultivation, preparation, offering, and ingestion — as a medium and contemplative methodology. Moving between gallery and garden, the exhibition draws on Zen Buddhist tea ceremony, analogue audio/visual experimentation, and garden-centred practice as modes of relational and ecological inquiry. This marks Wong and Courtemanche’s first formal collaboration, a meeting of two very distinct artistic languages held together by philosophical kinship and the patient time and texture of the garden. We are also pleased to announce that T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss & Senaqwila Wyss will be joining us to facilitate an iteration of their ReciprociTea project — more details to come. A slate of special events will be also be scheduled over the summer, including Zen Buddhist tea ceremony, a film screening, an artist talk, and a special performance featuring sound artist Anna Friz. Dates to follow in a separate announcement. We look forward to celebrating summer with you! #UnitPitt #VancouverArt #ContemporaryArt #soundart #artistruncentre [Image ID: Exhibition poster. Soft-focus photograph of green garden foliage as the background, overlaid with a subtle crosshatch texture. Centred italic serif text in dark green reads title and names of artists. Funder logos appear at the bottom.]

Navel of the Möbius:::Experiments in Continuous Deformation Organized by @nondual_citizen - April 24, May 2 & 10 - 2954 West 4th Ave - Doors at 7:30 PM - Music 8-10PM - $20 Join us and witness pairs of collaborators enter into a ‘sonic topological space,’ whose limits, continuity and connectivity emerge and morph through the contingent interplay of the performers’ shared signals and take shape by way of attuned listening and response. Each person in a duo will have part of their sound sources fed into the other’s setup such that the setups generate their own responses to the signals. From the non-random but non-measurable sound that emerges, the gear becomes somewhat of a third collaborator (or... the Möbius’ navel), guiding the listening and response of improvisers through its own twisted structure of continuous deformation. Featuring performances by: Kaila Bhullar & Rafael Zen, Alfred jarry, The Goh Ensemble (Samira Banihashemi & Jack Blanco), Stefan Smulovitz & Chris Kelly, Matty Harris & Frederick Brummer, and Sense Organ. Get your tickets via 🔗link in bio 🔗. A portion of the proceeds goes directly to the performing artists. UNIT/PITT MEMBERS GET DISCOUNTS! Register for annual membership to receive a discount code. Accessibility information available at unitpitt.ca/about. Please email [email protected] if you have accessibility requirements, or if price is a barrier.

Experimental sound show with @rafaelzzzzzzzen last week 💚🎹🔊👾 Thank you to @nondual_citizen and @unitpitt for having us

Community Partnership + GIVEAWAY 🎟✨ UNIT/PITT is pleased to be a Community Partner for the presentation of the following @doxafestival screenings. More info + tickets at doxafestival.ca ----- Bella Sutra | Opening Gala screening Directed by OK Pedersen 42 min | Canada | 2025 April 30, 7:00 PM @ SFU - Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre With Live performance by: OK Pedersen (narration) Eden Glasman (violin) Jakub Tokarczyk (piano) A live cinematic performance, Bella Sutra explores the complex relationships between humans and the non-human world. Filmed on hand-processed 16mm in Bella Coola, the work combines humour, live narration and a musical ensemble to reflect on life in a remote mountain village Pedersen’s essayistic approach meditates on community and the tension between rural and urban perspectives, offering a deeply personal yet resonant portrait of human connection. This screening features a live score, immersing audiences in the rhythms of Pedersen’s cinematic world. ----- Partition / تقسیم | Screening Directed by Diana Allan 61 minutes | Canada, Lebanon, Palestine | 2025 May 2nd, 2:00 PM @ The Cinematheque May 3rd, 6:00 PM @ The Cinematheque Partition fuses archival footage from the British occupation of Palestine with audio recorded of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, tracing lines of continuity left by seismic displacement. Silent films gathered in imperial collections hold histories that have barely been told, and ways of colonial seeing that seep into the present; Partition uses dialectical montage and asynchronous sound to examine both. Recovering Palestinian presence through story, voice and song, unraveling colonial pasts through soundscapes of the precarious present, Partition is a meditation on what bodies remember and empires forget. ----- We're giving away 2 tickets to the May 2nd, 2PM screening of Partition / تقسیم!!! 🎟️ How to enter: - Follow @doxafestival & @unitpitt - Tag your friends in the comments! (one tag = one entry) One winner will receive 2 tickets to the May 2nd screening of Partition / تقسیم. The winner will be contacted via Instagram DM. Giveaway closes Monday, April 27 at 11:59 PM PDT. Good luck 🍀

Last night in Vancouver, Lebanon was not just remembered, it was felt. 🇱🇧 Through stories, faces, and voices, #LebanonCinemaDays brought us together for something bigger than film. It was about standing for one another, carrying each other, and reminding the world that Lebanon is more than headlines: it is people, culture, and resilience. Thank you to everyone who showed up, and supported.

c.a.f.f. (calling all friendly faces) Session 6: Thad Bailey-Mai, Kevin Romain, and Thomas Hoeller -Tuesday, April 7 -2954 West 4th Ave -Doors at 7pm -Music 7:30-9:00 (with short intermission) -$10-20 sliding scale Join us for the sixth iteration of c.a.f.f., U/P’s monthly (e)merging and experimental jazz nite, this time featuring Thad Bailey-Mai, Kevin Romain, and Thomas Hoeller. One band, two sets, with a little break in between. Advanced tickets recommended, they go fast! Purchase via 🔗link in bio 🔗 UNIT/PITT MEMBERS GET DISCOUNTS! Register for annual membership to receive a discount code. Accessibility information available at unitpitt.ca/about. Please email [email protected] if you have accessibility requirements, or if price is a barrier. #vancouverjazz #yvrmusic #yvrjazz #experimentalmusic [Image ID: 1: CAFF poster, a soft blue with text describing the event. 2: Thad Bailey-Mai performing.]

VANCOUVER - Join us on Saturday, April 25th @unitpitt for the launch of Xiaoxuan Huang’s book all the time: poems & traces (@Metatronpress , 2026.) Featuring Grim Beverage [@grim_beverage ,] Mateo Paredes Heidemann [@3a1e0 ,] and Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora [@yas__yas__yas__yas .] An evening of poetry, sound, image, and conversation. Tender as an endless summer night on the lake. Books, cassettes, and other ephemera will be on sale. Bar and garden will be open! $free.99 – come early as space is limited. For details visit unitpitt.ca <3

Thank you to everyone who came to my emulsion lift workshop @unitpitt celebrating 50 incredible years lifting up emerging artists and continuing to elevate Vancouver’s art scene as a whole - we love you Unit Pitt!

c.a.f.f. (calling all friendly faces) Session 5: ረብሻRebsha (Feven Kidane + Nebyu Yohannes) -Tuesday, March 3 -2954 West 4th Ave -Doors at 7pm -Music 7:30-9:00 (with short intermission) -$10-20 sliding scale Join us for the fifth iteration of c.a.f.f., U/P’s monthly (e)merging and experimental jazz nite, this time featuring ረብሻRebsha (Feven Kidane + Nebyu Yohannes). One band, two sets, with a little break in between. Advanced tickets recommended, they go fast! Purchase via 🔗link in bio 🔗 UNIT/PITT MEMBERS GET DISCOUNTS! Register for annual membership to receive a discount code. Accessibility information available at unitpitt.ca/about. Please email [email protected] if you have accessibility requirements, or if price is a barrier. #vancouverjazz #yvrmusic #yvrjazz #experimentalmusic [Image ID: 1: CAFF poster, a soft orange with text describing the event. 2: ረብሻRebsha logo, black background with abstract low fi orange globe shapes, REBSHA in yellow text, with Ge’ez script on top and English on bottom. 3: Feven and Nebyu performing, seated behind a table with instruments.]

This year we're pleased to welcome Alex Calcagno ( @nondual_citizen ) as our Winter SFU practicum student, with us from January to April 2026. Alex is completing their MFA through the SFU School of Contemporary Art, and is assisting with gallery operations and programming. Bio: Alex is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus in sound and book arts. Currently, their work looks at/listens to the realm of night as a complex system of hidden information, weird ecologies and ambiguous wisdumb (and its risk of erasure). They are an experimental musician whose projects can be found in the link in their Instagram bio. They play noise shows as Vibraphenomenology from time to time. Alex can be reached at [email protected] 🧩 [Image ID: Alex placing a microphone into the water at New Brighton beach, with the Iron Workers bridge and mountains in the background. Alex is in the foreground; they are a white person with long black hair, tattoos, wearing a navy blue jacket and headphones, recording audio onto an cassette tape field recorder.]

c.a.f.f. (calling all friendly faces) Session 4: Brad Turner + David Caballero —Tuesday, February 3 —2954 West 4th Ave —Doors at 7pm —Music 7:30-9:00 (with short intermission) —$10-20 sliding scale For the fourth iteration of c.a.f.f., U/P’s monthly merging and experimental jazz nite, we’re featuring Brad Turner and David Caballero. One band, two sets, with a little break in between. Get tix now, they go quick :) purchase via the 🔗 link in bio 🔗 UNIT/PITT MEMBERS GET DISCOUNTS! Register for annual membership to receive a discount code. Accessibility information available at unitpitt.ca/about. Please email [email protected] if you have accessibility requirements, or if price is a barrier. #vancouverjazz #localmusic #yvrjazz #experimentalmusic