The Coastal Dance Festival (CDF) returns for its 19th annual celebration from March 3–8, 2026 at the Museum of Anthropology, bringing together powerful stories, songs, and dances from Indigenous peoples of BC, Yukon, Alaska, and Washington State, alongside guest Sami artists from Norway. Through a range of events, including family friendly performances, ticketed evening shows, artist talks, and film screenings, CDF […]
UBC Symphony Orchestra Welcome to an evening of orchestral brilliance as the UBC Symphony Orchestra performs Mozart’s sparkling overture from The Magic Flute and Beethoven’s boldly expressive LeonoreOverture and Eroica […]
UBC Opera Ensemble’s offers a sneak peek into their upcoming performance of Giulio Cesare. Join us for a sneak peek into the world of Giulio Cesare at our final Opera Tea of the Season! Murder, grief, revenge, lust, loyalty, deception, passion and true love make this story based on two real people something you will not want to […]
The third event of the ‘Living Archives’ series explores the presence of archives as records of individuals and communities. Absences across archives, marginalized spaces, and attitudes towards languages will be explored. Poet, novelist, and memoirist Marilyn Bowering’s More Richly on Earth: A Poet’s Search for Mary MacLeod traces the life of the obscure 17th-century Gaelic poet who […]
A new style of expressive musical pictorialism marked the dawn of the Baroque in Italy, where composers sought above all to transport the listener to a state of intensified emotion by means of musical rhetoric and narrative. Gradually, composers such as Girolamo Frescobaldi brought these ideals to the context of instrumental music, printing their virtuosic […]
UBC Jazz Ensemble Director Jim Hopson leads the UBC Jazz Ensemble through a fabulous program of big band classics to contemporary jazz pieces. Program ranges from the early works of Duke Ellington to contemporary jazz-rock fusion and even elements of free jazz.
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