This February marks two years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — a conflict that has taken the lives of over 10,000 civilians and displaced millions, resulting in Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War.
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It's finally Friday. After a day of studying, I put on my most stained clothes and head to the Life building basement. Beeping my door number into the keypad, I enter and hang my things up on the hooks and slide on my apron.
In her podcast Dreamers, Reynolds spins this concept into a coming-of-age story centring on Lily Bliss, a high school student whose nightmares and fantasies begin to blur together once the same actor starts to appear in both.
Spring is here: birds are chirping, flowers are blooming and the sun is shining — except this isn’t true.
Last year, the UBC Anime Club execs estimated there would be between 300–700 people at Pop-Up Hanami — a cherry blossom-themed event with a Sakura cosplay cafe, an artist and vendor alley, stage performances and free-play arcade games for raffle entrance.
The climate crisis is best understood from a multitude of perspectives — and what better way to do that than through different art forms?
Games are a fun way to pass the time, but they’re also arenas to unlock competitive instincts, form memories and build community. They’re practice for the real world, but they also shape it.
In an intimate corner of Granville Island’s art district, the UBC Players Club’s annual Festival Dionysia fills the Nest’s third floor auditorium, the group’s own little corner of the city’s theatre industry.
In her high school yearbook, UBC BFA + MM student Jaenna Cali wrote about how one day, she wanted to “write, direct, produce and star in a music video.” Last month, she did that, in the video for her song “Expiry Date.” You heard it here first — manifestation works.
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.
When I was 17, my nana gave me a mega-set of aluminum knitting needles. I keep them in Vancouver because they remind me of home.
“begin everything with bismillah | in the name of God”
In Dim Sum Diaries: Second Helping, Fabulist Theatre explores the diversity of Chinese Canadian experiences in a post-COVID world in their sequel to Mark Leiren-Young’s 1991 radio play Dim Sum Diaries.
What does it mean to be in love with someone when you know the relationship is doomed to end?
After what lead singer Kate Cunningham jokingly called “a divorce in the family” during the performance, the members of Nonarchy are going their separate ways with the release of their first full-length album.