April 28, 2025
UBC Connects at Robson Square welcomes Indigenous leaders from Canada, Mexico, and the United States for inspiring conversations on forest stewardship and climate action.
March 10, 2025
This public conversation will focus on the complexities of extending legal parentage and other challenges to existing family law, shedding light on the gap between Canadians’ lived experience of growing their family and the legal realities.
March 10, 2025
This public conversation will focus on the complexities of extending legal parentage and other challenges to existing family law, shedding light on the gap between Canadians’ lived experience of growing their family and the legal realities.
February 15, 2025
This one-day symposium, hosted in partnership with UBC Connects and the BC Black Educational Leaders Association, will bring together racialized leaders, community advocates, and allies from diverse sectors and communities to engage in impactful conversations about equity and inclusion.
February 6, 2025
Experience the 2nd annual Asian Independent Cinema Showcase with the Vancouver premiere of Kissing the Ground You Walked On. Dive into themes of queer identity, diversity, and art, and join a post-screening conversation with award-nominated Macanese director Hong Heng-fai.
November 13, 2024
This event explores migration research through a decolonial lens and aims to build mutually beneficial connections between CMS migration researchers and BC’s Settlement sector.
November 4, 2024
This event is dedicated to showcases the groundbreaking work of leading and emerging public scholars and innovators in the health equity space.
October 25, 2024
Experts will discuss a building code allowing single exit stair building design for smaller apartment buildings of up to six storeys, creating opportunities for new infill housing to meet the demand for ‘missing middle’ solutions in urban areas.
October 10, 2024
A panel discussion with experts from the UBC Political Science who will speak to the challenges in various areas of public policy in BC, how the parties propose to meet those challenges and more.
January 27, 2024
Join Vancouver Art Gallery and UBC's Vision Research Cluster in exploring multisensory art and inclusion through collaborative and tactile experiences, ensuring full accessibility for a diverse audience.
January 26, 2024
An exclusive documentary screening that takes you through a journey of the lives of resilient communities in Bangladesh, facing the brunt of climate change.
January 20, 2024
MIHCan is hosting an event centred around BIWOC (Black, Indigenous, Women of Colour) themes, with activities focusing on wellbeing including meditation, reflection, and creativity.
November 29, 2023
Engage in a discussion of sharing public health data and technological advances that assure security with health professionals, researchers, and patient representatives presenting their community health research endeavours.
November 12, 2023
A panel of trans theatre artists and UBC graduate students explore arts-based research to consider the affordances of theatre to centre trans voices, drawing on strategies from theatre-as-research approaches.
October 27, 2023
Dive into the latest trends and strategies in public policy, with a special focus on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) and the influential role of social media.
October 22, 2023
This Canadian premiere of The Floating Man by Michael V. Smith is an intimate memoir that unpacks Smith's journey as a radical drag performer and genderqueer.
October 10, 2023
To commemorate the Muslim Albanians who hosted Jewish people during World War II, this event will showcase a screening of the film, Besa: The Promise, along with expert speakers from UBC and beyond.
September 28, 2023
Connects at Robson Square is proud to host Folil Trafün (Joining Roots) Festival's main showcase, screening Indigenous and Afro-diaspora films from Latin America, followed by dialogues to deepen understanding of the films and their relationship with local realities.
September 16, 2023
Join Word Vancouver for their main festival day on September 16th at UBC Robson Square! This festival will feature a special session with UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections and look at how its archival materials were used in the work of poets Rina Garcia Chua and Carolyn Nakagawa.
August 19, 2023
To Speak in Community is an informational, interactive half-day gathering about Philippine heritage languages and cultural sharing featuring presentations and programming from community experts and facilitators.
July 29, 2023
UBC's Bike Kitchen presents "The Right to Repair", a sustainability forum targeting industry issues surrounding the sale of “built-to-fail” products and consumers’ right to repair their own products across various industries.
July 27, 2023
This discussion and panel session are part of a series of French-Ameri-Can Climate Panels (FACTS) on climate change.
June 17, 2023
A day of science for all ages and a chance to meet world-class researchers and innovators, participate in hands-on experiments, and see amazing scientific demonstrations at UBC's Downtown Campus.
June 5, 2023
Big Fight in Little Chinatown will be available for a free screening on June 5th at UBC Robson Square, followed by a panel discussion featuring filmmaker Karen Cho and other UBC and community experts.
May 24, 2023
Water4Seasons draws on Research-based Theatre to explore the status of water health equity for Indigenous and rural communities in Canada, featuring a live theatre performance and talk from Dr. Stephani Woodson.
May 17, 2023
Join us for a celebration of the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia at a free, public screening of the TELUS original film The Empress of Vancouver.
May 13, 2023
Passage to Freedom is a documentary film following the oral histories of Southeast Asian refugees coming to Canada from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The screening will be followed by a discussion from UBC faculty and alumni.
May 13, 2023
The Hearts of Freedom exhibition featuring stories of Southeast Asian refugees in Canada will be hosted at UBC Robson Square for free public viewing from May 13 to May 31.
April 21, 2023
Haida graphic artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas presents a keynote as part of the 2023 International Comic Arts Forum.
March 30, 2023
A UBC public dialogue event centered around the importance of peer-led work, with formerly incarcerated lived-experience speakers.
March 27, 2023
UBC experts explore the subject of how youths can cope with and develop healthier approaches to social media, cyberbullying, and more.
March 25, 2023
We are proud to present the screening of Rouge, accompanied by a special exhibition “Leslie Cheung—Hong Kong Icon” to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the passing of the legendary Hong Kong actor, singer, and performer, Leslie Cheung.
March 15, 2023
A free screening of Fail to Appear, a film from UBC professor Antoine Bourges, followed by a discussion featuring the filmmaker.
February 24, 2023
Join us for the launch of Sue Big Oil's campaign.
February 16, 2023
A free screening of Rewind and Play, followed by a discussion and Q&A led by UBC scholars and local experts.
January 23, 2023
A free screening of The Goddess (1934), followed by a discussion by Professor Christopher Rea.
December 17, 2022
An end-of-year townhall for Africans in the diaspora to come together to network, connect, and discuss how to give back to the development of the continent.
November 25, 2022
A free screening and discussion of Mariupolis, a documentary made in 2016 by Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius about the contested Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
October 18, 2022
Join a panel of UBC Political Science faculty and alumni as we break down the results of the province’s municipal elections and their consequences for future policy and the future of local government.
October 11, 2022
A free screening and discussion of the 1989 film, Coming Out.
September 15, 2022
A free screening of Olivier Assayas’ meta-cinematic masterpiece, Irma Vep (France, 1996).
August 25, 2022
Join us for our Summer Pop-Up Concerts at UBC Robson Square! We're bringing our most talented students to perform for you right in the heart of downtown every Thursday in July.
August 18, 2022
Join us for our Summer Pop-Up Concerts at UBC Robson Square! We're bringing our most talented students to perform for you right in the heart of downtown every Thursday in July.
August 17, 2022
Calling all students! Join us for a hands-on, social night of building community and learning how to use your power to make local change.
July 28, 2022
Join us for our Summer Pop-Up Concerts at UBC Robson Square! We're bringing our most talented students to perform for you right in the heart of downtown every Thursday in July.
July 21, 2022
Join us for our Summer Pop-Up Concerts at UBC Robson Square! We're bringing our most talented students to perform for you right in the heart of downtown every Thursday in July.
July 14, 2022
Join us for our Summer Pop-Up Concerts at UBC Robson Square! We're bringing our most talented students to perform for you right in the heart of downtown every Thursday in July.
July 7, 2022
Join us for our Summer Pop-Up Concerts at UBC Robson Square! We're bringing our most talented students to perform for you right in the heart of downtown every Thursday in July.
June 14, 2022
In a special partnership with the UBC AMS Indigenous Committee, The Ismaili Centre, Vancouver and UBC Connects at Robson Square will be hosting a FREE, exclusive screening of All Our Father’s Relations, followed by an in-person talkback with Elder Larry Grant and filmmakers, Alejandro Yoshizawa and Sarah Ling.
May 14, 2022
A half-day symposium all about the intersection of music and the brain presented by UBC Faculty of Science, Faculty of Applied Science, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, UBC Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
