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North American Premiere of DRIFTING PETALS and Conversation with Director Clara Law

SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts 149 West Hastings St, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Join us for the North American Premiere of DRIFTING PETALS 花果飄零, followed by a virtual conversation with Director Clara Law 羅卓瑤 and producer/writer Eddie Fong 方令正. Shot in Australia, Hong Kong and Macau, DRIFTING PETALS is the latest work by critically-acclaimed director Clara Law who won the Best Director Award in the Golden Horse International Film Festival 2021 . […]

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Decolonized Housing Futures

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

Speakers Kelly Edzerza-Bapty Obsidian Architecture, Golden, BC David Fortin David T. Fortin Architecture / University of Waterloo Simoogit Saa Bax Patrick R. Stewart Architect, Chilliwack, BC What are the relationships between colonial land dispossession and Canada’s contemporary housing crisis? What are the ways that Indigenous housing can be for all Canadians? What is architecture’s role […]

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Stories of Change: Documentary Screening + Climate Atlas

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

An exclusive documentary screening that takes you through a journey of the lives of resilient communities in Bangladesh, facing the brunt of climate change.

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Imagining Multisensory Art: Learning from Objects; Literacy and Inclusion

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

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.

[Asian Independent Cinema Showcase] Away From Home: Short Films Selection and Conversation with Filmmakers

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The short films selection “Away From Home” features three award winning short films, all produced in Hong Kong between 2022 and 2023. The three short films are Sze-wai HO’s “Before the Box Gets Emptied”, Chi-him YUEN’s “The Reticent Wave”, and Chi-yan SIU’s “About Simon Says, Simon Says”, all sharing the theme of diaspora and exploring the city’s […]

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John P. Bell Global Indigenous Rights Lecture 2024 – Dr. Kyle Whyte: Indigenous Climate Action at the Speed of Consent

First Nations Longhouse 1985 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Hosted by the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the First Nations Longhouse on UBC Campus, the 5th John P. Bell Global Indigenous Rights Lecture will feature speaker Dr. Kyle Whyte sharing on "Indigenous Climate Action at the Speed of Consent." Doors open at 5:30PM with Dr. Whyte speaking from 6PM - 7PM with a […]

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Knowledge Circles 知識界 in Colonial Hong Kong 1945-1997: From Offshore Publics to Civic Communities

C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research 1855 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Speaker: Prof. Sebastian Veg, School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris Monday, 11 March 2024, 17:30-19:00 PDT Room 120, C.K. Choi Building, UBC 1855 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada Map | Parking Join us for this in-person talk by Prof. Sebastian Veg, Professor of Intellectual History of 20th Century China at […]

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Placebo and the ethics of deception in brain research and clinical care

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

The placebo effect is powerful in many neurological and psychiatric disorders and clinical trials often use placebos when developing and testing new treatments. Some people question the ethics of including a placebo group in research, while others would argue that to not do so is ethically fraught. In some cases, estimating the placebo effect and […]

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In Search of Home: Short Films Selection and Conversation with Filmmakers

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Co-presented by South Taiwan Film Festival and Asian Independent Cinema Showcase, this short films selection presents TOH Tze Wei’s “The Darkest Night”, WU Yu-Fen’s “There”, and KWOK Zune’s “Night is Young.” Speaking in Cantonese, Hokkien, Malay, Mandarin, Taiwanese, and Indonesian, the three award-winning short films tell stories of the underrepresented in different parts of Asia […]

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SCARP Planning Studio’s 2024 Presentation

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

After months of research, community engagement, partnerships, and planning, our Planning Studio student teams present their final project findings and formal proposals to our community partners across BC. Now, at the Planning Studio's final project presentation, community partners, faculty, students, families, and friends of SCARP come to hear these impressive findings, and discuss their proposals […]

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Screening of LEAVING IN SORROW and Conversation with Director VINCENT CHUI

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Friday, 12 April 2024 18:00-20:15 PDT AERL 120, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory, UBC Direction: 2202 Main Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver | Map Parking: UBC Health Sciences Parkade, 2250 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver | Map Vincent Chui’s “Leaving in Sorrow” (2001) is the first Hong Kong production filmed in the “Dogme 95” style and will be featured […]

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