A Way to Be Happy is a composite work of new and old writing (three of the eight stories in the book have been previously published), but this mix of new and old leads one to question whether they share anything more in common than an author.
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It’s a sunny day at Great Dane. Beams of light peek through the buildings that shade the patio, creating sunny patches where students gather, laptops out and coffees in hand.
As a social justice student, I’ve had to engage with many works exploring the idea of “home.”
At Carousel Theatre for Young People’s drag camp, participants are asked to step into someone else’s shoes for the day — and in letting go of their worries and pretending to be someone else, they often find themselves emerging with more confidence.
Three years ago, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) and UBC’s Chan Centre worked in collaboration to host the first ʔəm̓i ce:p xʷiwəl (Come Toward the Fire), a free-entry festival celebrating the resilience and talent of North America/Turtle Island’s Indigenous peoples.
In this year's Vancouver Fringe Festival, Camp Goneaway follows two pre-teen campers during their last summer at their beloved camp before it shuts down due to the area becoming too polluted.
Keeping up with all the changes that come with being a teenager is hard enough. But it’s also a period where we start to realize things about ourselves that we’ll deal with our entire life.
Stay at UBC long enough and you start to recognize the little things that make autumn what it is on campus: fragrant petals in the rose garden; the oak trees’ edges turning yellow on the malls; the guy in the green ski-mask vomiting, moaning, absolutely housing two-and-a-half kilograms of frozen peas outside the Nest.
Deciding where to eat is difficult when you’re on a campus as large as UBC’s — but Campus Nutrition has created a way to save you time and money while still getting exactly what you’re craving.
Twelfth Night is William Shakespeare’s hilariously perplexing love triangle of three romantics navigating the woes of grief, unrequited love and the urges that fall in between.
As a wide-reaching and accessible platform for emerging theatre artists, Fringe is a great opportunity to get a taste for up-and-coming faces and works in the theatre world, so try to catch a show or two!
I once held dreams so close to my heart I grew intoxicated by the possibilities they offered me.
Growing up as a Filipino Catholic, I was always surrounded by faith, and have witnessed God’s presence in many forms.
By 2022, I had been a rhythmic gymnast for 15 years. I had competed for 12, of which 7 were at the national level. I was recovering from several injuries that I was pretending weren’t career-ending. I was losing love for the sport. Then Nikolova showed up and reminded me what rhythmic gymnastics could be.
Sporting his Lightning McQueen-red graduation gown and toy guitar, singer-songwriter Ethan Lyric’s infectious smile brings home the peppy, nostalgic tones of the music video for his new single “Just Like That.”