UBC Farm Workshops – Summer Series
UBC Farm Community Workshops The UBC Farm offers 50+ workshops per year, on a wide range of topics, such as gardening, cooking, baking, food preservation, herbs, plant walks, foraging, arts, […]
National Geographic Live: Weird World of Frogs with Dr. Jodi Rowley
Bright colors and captivating calls are just the start with some of Earth’s most amazing species. Frogs can turn nearly invisible, leap more than 20 times their body length, and […]
Canada’s Climate Contradiction: Talking Green While Expanding Fossil Fuels
Canada and BC speak the language of climate leadership while supporting fossil fuel expansion. The federal and provincial governments are using financial and political instability to fast-track fossil fuel infrastructure […]
BranchingOUT
After some light refreshments and a welcome from Scott Ferguson (BranchingOUT co-founder and resident diva), you’ll have a chance to explore the Asian Garden. Learn something new at our Sassy Botanical Stations, […]
National Geographic Live: Wild Cats Revealed with Sandesh Kadur
Lions and tigers around the world are easily recognizable and thoroughly documented, but filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer Sandesh Kadur is on a mission to highlight his home country’s lesser-known […]
National Geographic Live: Earth After Dark with Babak Tafreshi
From the Milky Way to meteor showers to fireflies that emerge at dusk on neighborhood streets, our eyes open a little wider at the stunning photos and videos of National […]
Whale Runway: Indigenous Fashion Night
Experience a one-night-only celebration where fashion, biodiversity, and Indigenous storytelling come together beneath the skeleton of the largest animal on the planet. Join us for an evening of fashion, culture, […]
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the World Around Us
In this talk, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Ed Yong shares how he became a birder. After becoming burnt out from years of pandemic reporting, Yong turned to birdwatching […]
UBC Climb for Conservation
Rise Above the Canopy. Protect What Grows Beneath. Join the UBC Climb for Conservation at UBC Botanical Garden on June 20, 2026. Claim Your Spot in the Canopy Most people […]
The Man with 12 Brains
The Chagos brain coral, Ctenella chagius, is ostensibly the world’s rarest coral. A once common denizen of the shallow reefs around the Chagos Archipelago, recent decades have seen populations of this […]
