As a part of ARTIVISM 2025’s lineup, the Hatch Art Gallery hosted a performance by the UBC Contemporary Players Ensemble on Oct. 24. Two of the four pieces played by the ensemble were original compositions by student composers Rebecca Adams and Kelk Jeffery.
UBC Clinical Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry Bill Koch puts the mystery novel’s conception of justice under a microscope in Hired Gun: Uncovering Buried Secrets.
A Welcome Distraction, part of the Vancouver International Film Festival’s “Northern Lights” lineup, is the story of Ernest Prinze “doing whatever he can to avoid his family.”
On UBC’s campus, the separation of disciplines manifests not only in the words on a diploma, but geographically as well. I feel this separation in my own legs as they strain to carry me from Buchanan to the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS) building every Wednesday afternoon.
In the moments before I was awarded my black belt in aikido, I realized that, despite more than a decade of experience in the martial art, I was about to become a beginner all over again.
What if you could not only take a university course on zombies, online dating, or Disney fandom — but create it yourself? At UBC, upper-year undergraduates can do exactly that through the Student Directed Seminars (SDS) program.
With only enough time for four or five songs at most, the bands — Shimbashi Station, Bella Blanche with Somatone, Anteater Eater, Infidelity, Mom Cuts My Hair and Chronic Fatigue — were each up against the clock.
Kawika Guillermo’s memoir Of Floating Isles opens to the setting of a video game: The Path, a psychological horror experience that subverts the tale of Little Red Riding Hood. In the game, players guide young girls through a dark, open forest, where straying from the path is the only way forward.
Two-dozen students stand shoulder-to-shoulder against the Pride wall outside the Nest on Sept. 22. They wear flannels, overalls, denim jackets and satchel bags. This is the Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Undergraduate Society’s (GRSJUA) performative contest.
Brought back by acclaimed pianist, UBC professor and Chan Centre Piano Spirio Series curator David Fung, the concert series is making its return after many requests from the UBC community.
Joanna Rannelli’s range spanned nine unique characters during her one-woman performance, comedically switching between long rants as various clients (with various personalities) to shorter monologues as a hairstylist and building up back-and-forth conversations with herself.
UBC MFA alumnus Abbas Akhavan’s exhibit, One Hundred Years, invites the audience to pause and exist in his enveloping displays. Akhavan is set to represent Canada at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Interestingly, despite its consistently intentional use of space, this exhibition is not one of Akhavan’s site-specific works.
At the Rio Theatre on the nights of Sept. 21 and 22, friends and family of students in UBC’s Film Production Program gathered to celebrate the screening of 20 short films. The festival is named Persistence of Vision, and this year was its 35th anniversary.
Reconciling is presented as fragments of conversations between Larry Grant and Scott Steedman, most of them rooted in different geographical locations that hold weight in Grant’s life.
The set of Touchstone Theatre’s 2025 production of Women of the Fur Trade is a highlight. A diamond-shaped platform dominates midstage; a scaffold structure above its two back sides supports dozens of black-and-white portraits of men.