Julian Coyle Forst

Culture Editor

Julian Coyle Forst is a journalist who lives and works on the traditional, unceded territories of the Skwxwúʔmesh, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm and səlilwətaɬ peoples. He is culture section editor at The Ubyssey newspaper, dedicated to covering and platforming emerging artists, writers and organizations across the lower mainland. Reach him at culture@ubyssey.ca or juliancoyleforst@gmail.com.

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A person wearing traditional Indigenous regalia, including a feathered headdress, holds a red-and-white flag as they stand in front of a crowd at an outdoor demonstration. People behind them watch, clap, and hold signs among leafless trees and campus buildings.

As dances and songs honoured Indigenous resilience, multiple assaults took place metres away amid clashes on the grass outside IKB, and residential school denialist MLA Dallas Brodie barricaded herself inside the Aquatic Centre. Another denialist was arrested after refusing an order to leave the area.

An illustration of a monstrous mass of orange flesh with many mouths and eyes

2025’s ARTIVISM: Monsters and other(ed) bodies, curated by creative director and third-year BFA student Carmen Toledo Bores in collaboration with exposure UBC, brings together a compilation of events — some pre-existing, some planned specifically for the festival — that offer complementary angles on the central theme.

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