POV 27 is a short film festival showcasing the works of third and fourth-year students in UBC’s Department of Theatre and Film. This year's lineup had no two films that were alike, showcasing diversity in technique, character and storyline.
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A backdrop of dystopian-esque video clips and an all-too-obvious critique of the media added to the cliche – there is nothing particularly revolutionary about a group of white boys from London. It was hard for the crowd to stay excited.
I am a teenage girl. With that label come certain caveats. Some are rather trivial, like having a travelling Pollock exhibit composed of zits on my face. Whereas others are significantly more debilitating, like being agonizingly insecure.
On Saturday, March 18 volunteers exceeded their goal to create 24 new Wikipedia pages for female artists featured in the Belkin Art Gallery and edit countless more under the auspices of the Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon movement.
I’m not part of the group tight-roping at The Chief every month. I’m not the girl who worked on finding two planets that NASA couldn’t. I’m not the guy who ran as a joke candidate but ended up AMS president.
“It’s too overtly politically correct. The diversity doesn’t look right,” she said. “In fact, the crowd is so diverse, each person in the crowd tokenized to represent a specific identity, that it blurs all connection to place or movement.”
Vibes Are Dope — or VIBES ARE DOPE — is a blog that makes the claim that it’s “the most important website on the internet.” Bold words considering it has existed for just over a year, has 130 Instagram followers and twice as many Facebook likes.
If you've ever been waiting in line at the Delly and seen that strange advertisement on the television screen for the Chef's Corner special that no longer exists, you now know the tip of the tragic iceberg.
I still honestly have no idea how I — a student all the way from Vancouver — managed to weasel my way in and basically get the experience of my life. A few weeks have passed now and it still feels like a dream.
On March 26, Summit Ice opened their first outlet located at Main and Broadway — a one-day only event. If you brought in a Taiga jacket, you could trade it in for a Summit Ice jacket for free, which was something many took advantage of.
Khöömei — the long, low overtone emanating from the singers' throats — is hypnotic and calming. Anda Union brought it from their homes in Mongolia and filled the Chan Centre with a sound the likes of which it has never played host to before.
We’re one week away from April and it’s the time of the year where the semester is winding down, but we haven’t the slightest amount of courage to face the Everest-high pile of assignments that’s amassed itself throughout the semester.
Choral music is a profoundly moving auditory experience. Hearing delicate voices fill the space of a hall, chapel or theatre is a serene and unmatched musical event. On March 26, The Choir of King's College will perform at the Chan Centre.
Quinn XCII is your standard white, Midwestern blog rapper. He fit the venue of Fortune Sound Club perfectly — a small and intimate venue for primarily electronic music-backed artists with tight production.
The website “So, I had an abortion…” launched this January with the intention of de-stigmatizing the topic of, well, abortion, while also providing a forum for people to share their stories. The project is the creation of Julia Santana Parrilla.