Photographer and UBC alum Cassidy Chen has already shot shows at Paris Fashion Week and made Forbes' 30 Under 30 list, but she isn't planning on slowing down anytime soon.
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Categorizing Chopping Spree, a Vancouver band with roots at UBC, is difficult. Their new album, however, focuses on transcribing jazz onto Vancouver's underground music scene — and people can't get enough of it.
For 52 years, Dave Doroghy and his carollers have taken to the streets of West Point Grey to spread holiday cheer. But what started as nothing more than a few teenagers taking advantage of the lenient alcohol rules in the Doroghy household has become something much bigger.
It’s a regular afternoon for Nazreen Cameron as she prepares roti and chicken curry in her kitchen, when she gets the sudden urge to check her phone. She sees multiple missed messages alerting her she has received an award at UBC and asks her son for confirmation, assuming it to be a scam. “No, Mom,” he reassures her. “You got the award. $5,000.”
Emily Tang has loved governance since long before she got involved with UBC’s Graduate Student Society. She thinks her passion started in elementary school, when she was involved in student council. But politics aren't everything to the master’s student.
Carla Gillis and her sister Lynette have always been in a band. In high school, it was Plumtree: a youthful collision of the Gillis sisters’ metal influence and their classmates’ pop sensibilities.
For university athletes, the Thunderbird is more than a name. It’s something they represent. But it’s also a name with a troubling beginning.
A stifling, often ignored, silence tends to surround conversations on menstrual care.
For the first time in its 107-year history, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra saw its musicians go on strike. This, however, is just one example of a deeper issue affecting all types of creatives living and working in Vancouver.
Two weeks before Canada recognized the State of Palestine, UBC was visited by Dr. Deirdre Nunan.
The podium looks deceptively simple: a wooden block, a music stand, a conductor standing at the centre of it all. But conducting a wind ensemble is anything but simple.
A mother’s eyes glimmer with joy as her child utters the first word — three years later than expected.
Last month, Dr. Amy Parent was appointed a UNESCO Co-Chair in Transforming Indigenous Knowledge Research Governance and Rematriation.
Dr. John Paul “JP” Catungal recalls the moment he was first approached by a stranger on the topic of his own Queerness.
Second-year UBC student Allegra Kastner went viral once. For her, that was more than enough.