UBC BA creative writing alum Yeji Y. Ham’s debut novel The Invisible Hotel imagines a small village in rural South Korea where the urge toward morbid preservation is enshrined in local custom.
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Has the end of winter got you down? Does midterm season have you feeling disembodied, uninspired? Perhaps your heart longs to drop that pen, close those books and spend the evening watching people absolutely slam each other down onto a padded floor.
Construction sites, their towering cranes and the periodic clouds of dust that rise from them when the ground dries in the summer are a constant part of UBC Point Grey’s ever-shifting landscape.
I figured I’d gotten a decent sexual education in high school. But it’s possible there were some oversights.
For your sake and the sake of all fine artists currently displaying work at the Belkin, I hope you’ve avoided the official introductory blurb to the gallery’s latest exhibition, Aporia (Notes to a Medium).
The Black Faculty Cohort Hiring Initiative (BFCH) will recruit up to 23 Black scholars across seven faculties and schools over the next 4 years.
As a curious child, you once asked an adult where the clouds came from. They probably responded with the standard answer: from water in the atmosphere, from evaporated rain — and I’ll bet it blew your growing mind.
The club’s name is a little misleading — if you come around, you’re more likely to be screaming, howling or even smashing old cymbals and water-cooler jugs.
Kawika Guillermo’s name was chosen by his mother. It’s Hawaiian; a localization of the Hebrew David, and it meant a lot to her, the daughter of an Ilocano preacher who’d immigrated to Hawai’i.
When Lizard came to Wreck Beach for the first time in 1970, he wanted to walk into the water and swim 'til he sank.
If there’s one thing that everybody knows about me, it’s that I just love to sing - in my room, on the bus, in the residence commons — it doesn’t matter.
“[Last year] we just kind of did it and it seemed like a good idea,” said Sara Lee, an executive with UBC Rotaract’s fundraising committee.
So instead of wasting away in pre-spring limbo, why not do some stretches, find a bamboo pole, and make the limbo work for you?
All jokes aside, the difficulty that prospective potters face in gaining access to that little studio in the Life Building basement has become something of a running gag among club members and public alike
All this to say that public art matters. It’s important, then, that any efforts at redesigning and expanding UBC give public art its due consideration in the planning process.