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Underground rappers on the grind repping UBC and SFU present a night LIT with fire rhymes and bust-your-chest-open beats. Bring two friends, flame resistant clothing and a towel for these rappers’ molten flows.

UBC MHAC is working with UBC Recreation (UBC REC) and Vancouver Defeat Depression to host another Defeat Depression 5km Run/Walk at the UBC Vancouver Campus!

The monthly Cocoa Chats series is an Alpha Phi Omega UBC initiative that believes in the power of dialogue and discussion in furthering personal leadership skills and fostering growth in youth.

We have entered a period of rapid environmental change, and ecological responses to this change are beginning to outpace our ability to understand and predict them.

An analysis of the way smugglers working in the lowest ranks of the drug economy in northern Mexico engage with and manipulate the built environment. In order to move and temporarily store drugs and drug-money, they use warehouses, indigenous trade routes, clandestine landing sites, environmental reserves and other structures and pathways.

The ladies of Alpha Phi will be hosting our annual DATING GAME, based on the hit show from the 60s which will have a series of bachelors and bachelorettes ask contestants questions in order to select one to go on a real date with conveniently before Valentines Day! All proceeds will be donated to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of BC.

Come by and learn about resources that are available to you! YouthCo, SASC, and more will be tabling at this fair! Come on by and check out the booths.

This workshop will be a space to explore styles of writing particularly tailored to the queer community, with tips for writing for different identities in any medium, from poetry to prose. The workshop will be facilitated by the wonderfully talented Claire Robson. The workshop will look into how we write to make space for narratives outside of the cis heteronormative ones so commonly found. Snacks provided!

Queer U is an interdisciplinary student academic conference happening during OUTweek! Taking place on Saturday, Feb 6th, Queer U will be followed by a short reception in the same space. It is a space in which students and all academics can present their work on queer and trans subjects in relation to other disciplines and studies and to our communities.

“How to Love a Child”, the Janusz Korczak Lecture Series, is devoted to key issues crucial to the well-being and rights of children and young people today, with the hope that the lectures and panel discussions will provide fertile ground for a fruitful exchange of ideas and approaches to improving the situation of young people in all spheres of society.

Haunting, evocative, and minimalist; this contemporary American retelling of the Ancient Greek Orpheus and Eurydice myth is a fairytale for those who still believe in them. Eurydice’s father has been writing her letters from Hades, but when a dangerous stranger tempts Eurydice with the details, she is soon sent tumbling after him. Orpheus goes to get his girl but both must follow the underworld’s rules in order to find their way home.

MURC is a conference for UBC undergraduate students to showcase their research in front of their fellow UBC students, family, and friends. Researchers may choose one of two formats to showcase their research: presentation or poster.

Award winning author, activist, and academic Raj Patel shares some of the best and most surprising innovations to address the future of food. With stories from the world’s poorest people – from Peru to Malawi, there’s a great deal of innovation to help us imagine how the world can feed itself by 2050.