Artist Talk – Bettina Matzkuhn presents Meteobotany

Beaty Biodiversity Centre 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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 […]

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The Floating Man: Canadian Film Premiere

UBC Robson Square 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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 as Past, Present, and Future”: Film Screening and Panel Discussion with Dr. Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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 […]

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Postcards: Trans Narratives on Stage

UBC Robson Square 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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.

The UBC Museum of Anthropology: A Collection Fit for the Nation(s)

P. A. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre (Woodward IRC) 2194 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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 […]

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