A writer and director realize their play isn't going as planned. But as they try to save the show, the lines between real life and theatre start to blur as the characters cross boundaries and are forced to decide how much they’re willing to sacrifice for excellence.
You saw the signs in first year. Plain white paper, large, bolded Arial, taped up in improbable places.
The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is an objectively strange place for an art exhibit. The building, more bunker than gallery, is a dense centralized archive of plastinated, taxidermied and otherwise preserved specimens kept in ordered black shelving units whose drawers are mostly locked.
Despite the name, UBC’s Women Empowerment Club isn’t just for women — the group aims to foster an inclusive and safe environment for anyone who wants to work against sexism.
AMS thrift and consignment store Get Thrifty brought their fourth annual fashion show to The Gallery on March 4, with a focus on upcycling, fashion circulation and promoting emerging designers from the UBC community.
On March 29, the central branch of the Vancouver Public Library hosted UBC classical Persian literature professor Dr. Alexandra Hoffmann for a free talk on “Bizhan and Manizheh,” a Farsi story from the Persian Shahnameh (Book of Kings).
In a Mughlai restaurant in Toronto, three lives intertwine. As Ayub, one of its employees, is cleaning up, a mysterious cab driver walks in and shatters his peace, leaving Ayub to confront reality, the family he’s left behind and the dreams long abandoned.
In response to hyper-consumerism in the fashion sphere, Germaine Koh, a Canadian artist and assistant visual art professor at UBC, started Slow Fashion Season alongside other UBC faculty leads and industry partners.
The play asks how far we would go for family, questioning how the loss of a loved one can cause idolization and how our view of those closest to us can change in the light of a loss.
Mental illness is an experience that varies drastically from person to person — but the importance of receiving and accepting help is true for perhaps everyone.
The Beauty in BIPOC may be depicted through the lens of modern cameras, but it highlights a problem that women of colour have been experiencing over many generations.
The novel follows Jessamyn St. Germain, a young aspiring actress with a passion for musical theatre who’s willing to sacrifice everything, including her health, dignity and sanity, for a standing ovation.
The Vancouver-based company has announced the intake for The Academy, a three-year, part-time, fully-subsidized performing arts training program.
The Vancouver Iranian Visual Arts (VIVA) Alliance is set to open their new Medias Res Gallery curated by UBC alum Maryam Babaei on March 27.
Hosted by Vinita Srivastava, the podcast is now entering its eighth season — it started up during the peak of the pandemic, when the Black Lives Matter movement was gaining traction on social media after the murder of George Floyd.