We welcome you to an evening of stargazing and entertainment, to combine science and wellness for a beautiful evening to end the summer! Get ready to be mesmerized by the wonders of the night sky as Saturn and the Moon are visible at the same time, while enjoying special acoustic performances from Fionn and LÉRAL! […]
Axis Theatre presents the Kwantlen First Nation tale of Th’owxiya: The Hungry Feast Dish. Immerse yourself in the legend of the basket ogress, Th’owxiya, an old hungry spirit that inhabits a feast dish full of bountiful delicious foods. The tale follows a sly Mouse (Kw’at’el) who is caught stealing cheese from this feast dish. To […]
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.
Celebrate food sustainability on campus. Meet the people behind the food you eat. Samples, give-aways and learn the stories of local businesses and partners of UBC Food Services and UBC Vancouver Campus. UBC Farm Wednesday Market, Ethical Bean Coffee, Milano Coffee Roaster, Snowcrest frozen berries, Bonus Bakery, Susgrainable, Phoenix Tents, UpMeals, Kindred Cultures Kefir water, […]
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.
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.
Join Bettina Matzkuhn, the multimedia artist behind Meteobotany, at the next Beaty Biodiversity Museum Nocturnal on October 19th, 2023. Bettina will talk about the process of making her textile works featuring embroidered lichen specimens over BC weather patterns, including iteration and experimentation to combine a range of materials with a scientific and creative perspective. Admission by […]
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.
Archives shape the past, they shape the way in which we access the past and write for the future. But archives are connected to colonial pasts, erasures, and harm, relegating marginalized communities and racialized communities invisible. We know this is untrue – we know archives of these communities exist and there are many, many stories […]
Since the opening of the War Memorial Gym in 1951, The University of British Columbia has held a ceremony commemorating November 11. This year, 2023 will mark seventy-three years that The University of British Columbia has hosted a Remembrance Day ceremony. This special ceremony is an opportunity for faculty, staff, students and members of the […]
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.
Dr. Anthony Shelton is Professor of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory; and former Director of the Museum of Anthropology. Dr. Shelton’s interests include Latin American, Iberian and African visual cultures, Surrealism, the history of collecting, and critical museology. He has published extensively in the areas of visual culture, museology, the history of collecting, and […]
