In support of their Food is for Everyone campaign, which seeks to reinstate UBC staff access to the AMS Food Bank, Sulong UBC and UBC Kababayan organized a Swagapino contest outside the Nest on Feb. 24.
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A set of two shows co-organized by five local production companies including the Vancouver Fringe, the event challenged 10 acting companies to write, produce and stage a 15-minute play over the course of 48 hours based on a set of prompts provided to them.
A political satire boldly ridiculing religion and questioning optimism, Candide became the 11th most performed opera in the world in 2018. The 1988 Scottish Opera version performed by UBC Opera on Feb. 5-8 was bold, explicit and confidently satirical.
Numbers took up residency on Davie Street in 1980, becoming the oldest continually-operating gay-owned business in the West End. For most of its tenure, it acted as an underground space for people trying not to be associated with the taboo of their identity.
The department of art history, visual art and theory held their Undergraduate Exhibition at the AHVA Gallery in the Audain Art Centre Jan. 22 through Feb. 13. The exhibition is an annual event showcasing second and third-year student work from across the department.
I have done things in performance: I have smiled pearly white at corporate luncheons, dyed my hair orange, thinned my brows and discovered the music I love in performance. I don’t regret momentary inauthenticity, especially when it comes from an earnest desire to better myself.
Months after the Performative Male contest hosted by the Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Undergraduate Society (GRSJUA), event organizers Nayis Majumder and friends decided to throw their second event on their own. This time, it aimed to get a little less family-friendly.
When you see women as friends your whole life, it’s jarring to suddenly be holding hands, and not in the platonic way you do with your close girl friends. You begin to romanticize a connection that feels wrong, as if you’ve broken the girl code and are teetering somewhere colourfully unknown.
Running for the first time this term, MUSC 403G, Queer Music: Music and the 2SLGBTQIA+ Imagination, spotlights queer voices across history, tracing its DNA from Tyler, the Creator to Queen to George Frideric Handel.
For me, feminism has always been a conscious commitment. But a small revelation, brought into the limelight by a clue in a crossword, illuminated an unconscious thought process that lurked beneath the surface.
Shut Up and Smile was one of several works they showcased during their Artist in Residence talk at Green College on Feb. 4.
Set in a small prairie town in 1940s Saskatchewan, Wild People Quiet follows Florence, a Métis woman who hides her identity and passes as white. She bleaches her hair with peroxide and works for an insurance company while keeping others at a distance — that is until someone from her past wanders back into her life.
On Jan. 17 and 18, BC esports organization Galint Gaming hosted the second Pataka Esports Festival at Surrey City Hall. Welcoming about 300 attendees from across the Pacific Northwest, the festival allowed participants to compete in six fighting game tournaments and was focused on representing and celebrating South Asian culture.
Vancouver — the birthplace of global brands like Lululemon, Aritzia and Herschel — throws away 22,000 tonnes of apparel each year, even though 95% of it could be repaired, reused, or recycled. At UBC, the Slow Fashion Research Cluster aims to adjust social attitudes and the demand for fast fashion to confront this urgent problem.
After a frantic but narrowly successful first season and a full year of planning for the next, Unreal City Festival is now in its second year with three nights of live music at the Rickshaw and Russian Hall on Jan. 15, 16 and 17.
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