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Cora Thomas runs the Vanwest Anarchist Bookfair, where she and other writers sell their work in the Nest’s Atrium every six months. The most recent fair took place on March 19 and 20.
When we spoke with Nardwuar the Human Serviette in the CiTR record library, we thought we were on a tight timeline. Nardwuar doesn’t think that way.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In its first exhibition of 2026, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery puts these threats to canvas, code and film with The Structure of Smoke.
As a part of ARTIVISM 2025’s lineup, the Hatch Art Gallery hosted a performance by the UBC Contemporary Players Ensemble on Oct. 24. Two of the four pieces played by the ensemble were original compositions by student composers Rebecca Adams and Kelk Jeffery.
With only enough time for four or five songs at most, the bands — Shimbashi Station, Bella Blanche with Somatone, Anteater Eater, Infidelity, Mom Cuts My Hair and Chronic Fatigue — were each up against the clock.
Marking Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30, UBC’s Faculties of Land and Food Systems (LFS) and Forestry hosted the fifth annual Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day.
Two-dozen students stand shoulder-to-shoulder against the Pride wall outside the Nest on Sept. 22. They wear flannels, overalls, denim jackets and satchel bags. This is the Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Undergraduate Society’s (GRSJUA) performative contest.
The set of Touchstone Theatre’s 2025 production of Women of the Fur Trade is a highlight. A diamond-shaped platform dominates midstage; a scaffold structure above its two back sides supports dozens of black-and-white portraits of men.
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.
This September, the UBC Library, in collaboration with the AMS, the provost’s office, the Museum of Anthropology and the Robert H. Lee Alumni centre, commemorated the Point Grey campus and its development over the past century with a pop-up exhibition Celebrating 100 Years of UBC at Point Grey.
The NYP, a summer work-learn program for Indigenous secondary students offered by the Museum of Anthropology (MOA), is the longest-running Indigenous youth program in the country.