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Inspiring Community Grant Info Session

Have an idea to support social connections in your community? Join us for a grant making workshop and learn about how you can fund your community building ideas with up […]

UBC Symphony Orchestra

Join the UBC Symphony Orchestra led by director Jonathan Girard for its opening night! PROGRAM: Jean Coulthard (1908-2000) Introduction and Three Folk Songs (from Canadian Mosaic) Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Suite […]

TH’OWXIYA: THE HUNGRY FEAST DISH

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 […]

Redefining Courtliness: 17th Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society

Date: July 24-28, 2023 Location: UBC Vancouver – Buchanan Building, Block A (1866 Main Mall) Website: https://icls2023.arts.ubc.ca/ Description: Courtliness has been one of the most fundamental concepts in the study […]

Using Research-based Theatre with Post-traumatic Stress Survivors

Join Dr. George Belliveau and Christina Cook for a discussion on relational learning and the therapeutic potential of using theatre as a mode of research. This session explores an arts-based […]

What Is Welcome? exhibition

Opening Hours: Tuesday to Friday from 10 am to 5 pm / Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 pm / Closed holidays and Mondays What Is Welcome? includes works […]

Weaving Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being in Palliative Care

We are honoured to have speakers from Tsleil-Waututh Nation’s Ćećǝwǝt Lelǝm “Helping House” and Vancouver Coastal Health’s North Shore Palliative Care Program join us in circle. This session will discuss […]

[Screening+Conversation] To Be Continued 尚未完場: A Documentary about the State Theatre in Hong Kong

Date: Saturday, 13 May 2023 Time: 15:00 – 17:00 PDT Venue: Labatt Hall, Room 1700, SFU Harbour Centre (555 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, V6B 4N6) The documentary unfolds the story […]

Making Space: Asian Heritage Month

Join us in learning from four individuals and activists who are working for their communities in mindful and intersectional ways through cultural food justice. Register early as space is limited. […]

Nurse Angélique Presents….!

In 1734, a Black Portuguese-born woman Marie-Joseph Angélique was publicly executed in Montréal for setting a fire to escape enslavement. This drag-burlesque performance by local queer artists, developed by Kyra […]

UBC MAA AGM & Awards Ceremony 2023

The UBC Medical Alumni Association (MAA) is excited to invite all UBC MD alumni, current and past trainees of the UBC Residency program, and MAA members to the UBC MAA AGM […]

520 One-Act Play Project: Some Old Farce

Each year UBC Theatre’s first-year MFA directing students are given the opportunity to direct one-act plays within a course titled Theatre 520. The play, chosen by the directing student, is […]

Place as Lived in the Salish Sea – The Storied Lives of the Southern Resident Killer Whales Webinar

In this webinar, through story as pedagogical witnessing, Dr. Sandra Scott, Professor of Teaching, Science & Environmental Education, Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, UBC Sustainability Fellow, will […]

Beaty Nocturnal – Drift: from the forest to the sea

Join us for a special Beaty Nocturnal with Bettina Harvey, the artist behind the current feature exhibition, Drift: from the forest to the sea. Bettina will talk about her artistic journey, as […]

Transition Anxiety and the Art/Work of Harm Reduction

This workshop is a space to question our melancholic attachments to fossil fuels and the versions of colonial modernity that they underwrite. When we avoid or deny these attachments, we […]

“The Grizzlie Truth”: Film Screening and Q&A with Artist in Residence Kathleen Jayme

Thursday, March 30 6:45 pm – Reception 7:30 pm – Film Screening RBC Cinema at The Chan Join UBC Theatre & Film for a FREE film screening and Q&A with […]

Abolish Border Imperialism: Climate Migration, Racial Capitalism, and Empire

We are pleased to welcome writer and organizer Harsha Walia on April 6th for a talk on climate migration, racial capitalism, and border imperialism. Harsha Walia has been involved in community-based […]

UBC Art Fair

VASA and Hatch Gallery are excited to announce UBC’s first Art Fair! Mark your calendars to come checkout 60+ vendors (including some current AVAH students and alum) selling, prints, jewellery, […]

Indigenous youth: Nurturing the next generation

Community can be a cornerstone of identity and social connections can provide individuals with a sense of belonging, support, and guidance. That guidance may be influential, or even crucial, in […]

Indigenous Literatures from Coast to Coast: Round table with Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui, Nathan Adler and Sarah Henzi

Join UBC’s Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS) for a conversation on contemporary Indigenous literatures with authors Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui and Nathan Adler, and Sarah Henzi, Assistant Professor at […]

Reciting Freedom ( آزادی – Āzādī)

Reciting Freedom ( آزادی – Āzādī) consists of forty-four 22cm x14cm Lino embossments on paper as well as a one-day participatory performance on March 8th, 11 am-4 pm. This work […]

2023 UBC BizChina Forum

After 2 years of long anticipation, our UBC BizChina Forum, the largest student-run China-Canada conference in Western Canada, is back and better than EVER! This year, our forum focuses on […]

Exhibit: Longing for What Might Be

A group exhibition based on collaborative creative correspondence to the current women-led uprising happening in Iran HATCH Gallery, AMS Nest ● March 7th to March 17th ● Gallery Hours: 12PM-4PM […]