December 2, 2021

Michelle Good: UBC Connects Speaker Series

Michelle Good is a Cree writer and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. After working for Indigenous organizations for twenty-five years, she obtained a law degree and advocated for residential school survivors for over fourteen years. Good earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia while still practising law and managing her own law firm.

December 6-9, 2021

CTLT Winter Institute

This annual week-long initiative focuses on showcasing teaching and learning practices and resources to support a sustainable, inclusive and thriving community at UBC. Faculty and staff are invited to attend sessions from December 6–9, 2021.

December 11-12

iCON Chinese Health Forum: Take Charge of Your Health

Delivered in Cantonese, Mandarin and English, this forum is designed to help patients, their families and caregivers optimize their quality of life by empowering them with knowledge and resources to manage dementia. Through a series of presentations and discussions, health experts from the community will educate and engage with the audience on health topics

December 16

Festive Cantatas: Bach’s Christmas Oratorio

EMV’s Festive Cantatas features some of the most popular Christmas music of Germany in the 18th century by Johann Kuhanu and J.S. Bach. This cantata contains some of the earliest orchestral writing for natural horns and this may have inspired Bach to do the same in his cantata by the same name as well as in Cantata V of the Christmas Oratorio.