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Shoah: How was it Humanly Possible?
Hillel House - Diamond Foundation Centre for Jewish Campus Life 6145 Student Union Boulevard, VancouverIf We Had Followed the Rules, I Wouldn’t Be Here
Hillel House - Diamond Foundation Centre for Jewish Campus Life 6145 Student Union Boulevard, VancouverShoah: How was it Humanly Possible?
Hillel House - Diamond Foundation Centre for Jewish Campus Life 6145 Student Union Boulevard, VancouverIntergenerational Trauma: The Everlasting Impact of the Holocaust
Hillel House - Diamond Foundation Centre for Jewish Campus Life 6145 Student Union Boulevard, VancouverShoah: How was it Humanly Possible?
Hillel House - Diamond Foundation Centre for Jewish Campus Life 6145 Student Union Boulevard, VancouverWednesday Noon Hours: Duo Concertante
Roy Barnett Recital Hall (Music Building) 6361 Memorial Road, VancouverPlanning a Sustainable Campus: Balancing Growth and Climate Action at UBC
Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre 6163 University Boulevard, VancouverAEPI Reading of the names
Hillel House - Diamond Foundation Centre for Jewish Campus Life 6145 Student Union Boulevard, VancouverShoah: How was it Humanly Possible?
Hillel House - Diamond Foundation Centre for Jewish Campus Life 6145 Student Union Boulevard, VancouverCompleting the Circle: A Path Towards Nutrient Circularity in Food Systems
Online/Virtual EventShoah: How was it Humanly Possible?
Hillel House - Diamond Foundation Centre for Jewish Campus Life 6145 Student Union Boulevard, VancouverShabbat Dinner With Honoured Guests: Holocaust Survivors
Hillel House - Diamond Foundation Centre for Jewish Campus Life 6145 Student Union Boulevard, VancouverMoving and Grooving: Musical Rhythm’s Effects on the Brain
P. A. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre (Woodward IRC) 2194 Health Sciences Mall, VancouverWeek of Events
The Willful Plot exhibition
The Willful Plot exhibition
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is open from Tuesday to Friday 10 am to 5 pm; Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 pm; and closed Mondays and holidays. Derya Akay and Vivienne Bessette, Gabi Dao, Derek Jarman, Charmian Johnson, Glenn Lewis, Mike MacDonald, Rehab Nazzal, Dana Qaddah The Willful Plot brings together […]
Shoah: How was it Humanly Possible?
Shoah: How was it Humanly Possible?
Visit Hillel BC from January 23-27, 2023 to visit the Yad Vashem Exhibit, Shoa: How Was It Humanly Possible?. The exhibition deals with major historical aspects of the Holocaust, beginning with Jewish life in pre-Holocaust Europe and ending with the liberation of Nazi concentration and extermination camps across the continent and the remarkable return to […]
Cinema Thinks the World: The Goddess (1934)
Cinema Thinks the World: The Goddess (1934)
A free screening of The Goddess (1934), followed by a discussion by Professor Christopher Rea.
If We Had Followed the Rules, I Wouldn’t Be Here
If We Had Followed the Rules, I Wouldn’t Be Here
Join Hillel BC for a discussion of But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust with author-survivor David Schaffer, artist Miriam Libicki, and project co-director Andrea Webb (UBC Education), moderated by Richard Menkis (UBC History) and followed by a reception co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel and UBC Public Humanities Hub. Location: […]
Map production with QGIS
Map production with QGIS
This is an introductory workshop focusing on the fundamental concepts and skills needed to begin using QGIS to explore and analyze spatial data. It is also meant to help you understand how to get started composing a map document for print production. By the end of this workshop, attendees will have a basic understanding of […]
Drop-in financial advising with the Indigenous Student Support Team (ES Advisors)
Drop-in financial advising with the Indigenous Student Support Team (ES Advisors)
Drop into the UBC First Nations Longhouse to speak with an Enrolment Services Advisor and member of the Indigenous Student Support Team to chat about any questions around the various financial pathways at UBC.
Intergenerational Trauma: The Everlasting Impact of the Holocaust
Intergenerational Trauma: The Everlasting Impact of the Holocaust
Marsha Lederman is a columnist with The Globe and Mail, based in Vancouver. An award-winning journalist, she was previously The Globe’s Western Arts Correspondent. Prior to joining The Globe, she worked for CBC Radio, mostly in Toronto. Her memoir Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed was published in May and was an instant […]
Drop-in financial advising with the Indigenous Student Support Team (ES Advisors)
Drop-in financial advising with the Indigenous Student Support Team (ES Advisors)
Drop into the UBC First Nations Longhouse to speak with an Enrolment Services Advisor and member of the Indigenous Student Support Team to chat about any questions around the various financial pathways at UBC.
Wednesday Noon Hours: Duo Concertante
Wednesday Noon Hours: Duo Concertante
Outstanding musicians, champions of new Canadian music, visionary artistic directors, and inspiring mentors, Duo Concertante have forged a musical legacy and strive to provoke thought and engagement through music in innovative ways. Violinist Nancy Dahn and pianist Timothy Steeves have built an international career with Duo Concertante. The duo’s name comes from the inscription over Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” sonata, “in stilo […]
Planning a Sustainable Campus: Balancing Growth and Climate Action at UBC
Planning a Sustainable Campus: Balancing Growth and Climate Action at UBC
How can UBC lead as a model for climate action in the context of a growing urban campus and neighbourhoods? Join Simon Donner, an interdisciplinary climate scientist and Professor at the University of British Columbia, for a presentation and moderated Q&A session on how UBC can take bold and courageous steps to balance growth with […]
AEPI Reading of the names
AEPI Reading of the names
Join Hillel and the Brothers of The AEPi chapter of Vancouver on January 25th at 6pm for The Reading of the Names (Names of those who were murdered in the Holocaust will be read out loud). The reading will happen at Hillel BC on the first floor. You can also join us online, live on […]
Completing the Circle: A Path Towards Nutrient Circularity in Food Systems
Completing the Circle: A Path Towards Nutrient Circularity in Food Systems
Can we achieve balance in the nutrient cycle? In an ideal world the nutrients in soil, such as phosphorus and nitrogen, flow through the entire food system, growing into plants, which animals and humans eat, and eventually those same nutrients return back to the soil, beginning the cycle once again. But in our food system, […]
The Phil Lind Initiative: Masha Gessen
The Phil Lind Initiative: Masha Gessen
The 2023 Phil Lind Initiative kicks off with Masha Gessen, award-winning author of eleven books and staff writer for The New Yorker bearing insightful and searing commentary on Russia, LGBTQ2+ rights, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and the rise of autocracy. The Phil Lind Initiative is an annual, donor-driven, high profile speaker series hosted by the […]
Shabbat Dinner With Honoured Guests: Holocaust Survivors
Shabbat Dinner With Honoured Guests: Holocaust Survivors
This special Shabbat dinner will feature a candle-lighting ceremony and Survivors spread out among the dining tables with students. January 27 @ 5:45* *Please note earlier start time Hillel BC - 6145 Student Union Blvd. Register: https://forms.office.com/r/pd2Zc52S8M
UBC Windfest!
UBC Windfest!
UBC School of Music WindFest returns! We are thrilled to present clarinettist, Chad Burrow (University of Michigan) as our featured artist. ALSO FEATURING UBC WOODWIND FACULTY: Brenda Fedoruk flute Christie Reside flute Paolo Bortolussi flute Geronimo Mendoza oboe Jose Franch-Ballester clarinet Michelle Anderson clarinet Ingrid Chiang bassoon Julia Nolan saxophone Join us this year as we celebrate our annual festival, with masterclasses, workshops and performances […]
Moving and Grooving: Musical Rhythm’s Effects on the Brain
Moving and Grooving: Musical Rhythm’s Effects on the Brain
Dr. Jessica Grahn, Director, Human Cognitive and Sensorimotor Core of the Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario Dr. Grahn was the first researcher to establish the neural link between hearing musical rhythm and spontaneous activation of the brain’s motor control system by asking the question why do humans move to rhythm? Her contributions […]