Culture • October 31, 2020
Scary Spooky Stories: The ‘Haunted’ Zoom
Students have reported that during their lectures, they would see a dark, cloaked spectre with a Jack-o-Lantern head passing behind professors and a few other students.
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Culture • October 31, 2020
Spooky Scary Stories: The Boat Cruise
She was so ill that she hardly noticed when her coworkers stopped partying around her. Shrieks of drunken laughter turned into panicked screams and a splash as her boss fell overboard.
Culture • October 30, 2020
The Ubyssey's Spooky Halloween Playlist
Lines such as “don’t go around tonight, well it’s bound to take your life” are great reminders that quarantine is the best way to spend this Halloween.
Culture • October 29, 2020
Spooky Scary Stories: The Mall Clone
When I turned around, she looked incredibly startled. I was somewhat confused about why she was acting so oddly, suddenly she uttered words that caught me off guard;
Culture • October 29, 2020
Scary Spooky Stories: No Time for Nightmares
I flipped the page, expecting to read about a winding staircase leading to an underground dungeon, or maybe to a secret lair, but instead, I felt my head start to dip towards my chest and my eyes beginning …
Culture • October 28, 2020
Nothing on this list is scarier than 2020: Your spooky watch list for this Halloween Season.
We’ve sorted the movies into three categories based on intensity, but just in case be sure to lock your front door and sleep with one eye open!
Culture • October 27, 2020
Scary Spooky Stories: The haunted house
When I was four years old, I lived in a haunted house in the heart of Surrey. It had a pretty cherry tree in the yard with a few resident individuals who were not alive.
Culture • October 26, 2020
In Black Expressions in BC, Tonye Aganaba talks housing insecurity, prison abolition and breaking up with oil and gas
During the course of their hour-long performance, they charmed and delighted while bringing some much-needed warmth and witty political commentary.
Culture • October 23, 2020
Froshers Online: How AMS Firstweek introduced UBC to students across the world
Every September, our campus bustles with excited students waiting to see what the new academic year has in store for them. This year, UBC students experienced the first ever virtual AMS firstweek.
Culture • October 21, 2020
The Chan.com: Chan Centre hosts virtual ‘dot com’ series in wake of the pandemic
The Chan Centre is hosting a series of virtual concerts called the Dot Com Series, aimed at highlighting artists from around the world.
Culture • October 20, 2020
Wednesday Noon Hours honours late School of Music Professor with a beautiful and stirring performance
October 14’s Wednesday Noon Hours was A Tribute to Hanz-Karl Piltz featuring Marina Thibeault , as well as UBC String Division faculty duo partners David Gillham, Eric Wilson and Jasper Wood (Violin).
Culture • October 20, 2020
Monkman's Shame and Prejudice gives us a chance to re-learn history through an Indigenous perspective
Kent Monkman, an internationally renowned Cree artist, set out to share the Indigenous perspective of Canada’s colonization.
Culture • October 9, 2020
Two remaining talks for Thinking While Black to take place this November
After talks featuring Jesmyn Ward and Ibram X. Kendi were cancelled in March, the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs plans to host them virtually this November.
Culture • October 8, 2020
Art in the midst of COVID-19: How the AMS Hatch Art Gallery Will Operate This Fall
COVID-19 challenged the way everything occupies space. For the Hatch, AMS’ student-run art gallery, navigating the running of an art gallery in light of physical distancing restrictions means determining how exhibitions and collections could be displayed in a …
Culture • October 1, 2020
ARTIVISM 2020: Open mics, drag burlesque and sex activism trivia
While COVID-19 has uncovered many seismic changes in our society, ARTIVISM and its process of adjustment feels incredibly fitting for its time.
Culture • September 30, 2020
Why the UBC community needs to pay attention this Orange Shirt Day
Ultimately Orange Shirt Day is a time for all of us to educate ourselves, not just as a country but as a UBC Community. Turpel-Lafond is asking us not to forget.
Culture • September 25, 2020
Pivoting online: How Homecoming 2020 is coming together
Though we are unable to physically gather, Homecoming has figured out a way to stay connected and celebrate what it is that makes UBC’s community so great.
Culture • September 19, 2020
Entering a relay of change: In Black Artistic Expressions, Marcus Mosely gives us a reason for joy
Mosely is an artist with a talent for uplifting which he puts into his music as well as his activism. His energetic performance both as a performer and speaker made him so engaging. Yet, during his performance, he …
Culture • September 17, 2020
What 1891 can tell us about anti-Asian racism in the COVID-19 pandemic
In this unprecedented moment, many have looked to the past for solace by drawing parallels with other instances of disease throughout history. In 1891-1924, Chinese men who were suspected of having leprosy were quarantined, for little reason other …
Culture • September 17, 2020
Isolating with Our Minds explores a mélange of quarantine experiences through poetry and art
Compiled by Shyla Gheek, a second-year student at UBC, Isolating with Our Minds an anthology raising funds for the Indian relief fund of the COVID-19 hit the anthology bestsellers list on its first day.