The idea to put on a play over one weekend began as a joke among friends. Pre: Vent, written by Lola Peverley and put on by Ghost Light Productions (GLP) at the Frederic Wood Theatre, was a labour of love and the culmination of much hard work by a group of UBC students.
Tupananchiskama features Andean art and artifacts collected by former UBC Professor Alan R. Sawyer.
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery has hosted Wikipedia edit-a-thons — events where participants contribute edits and writing to expand Wikipedia’s coverage — for nearly a decade. This year’s edit-a-thon took place at the gallery on March 5.
Unlike usual Thursday night shows, the performances at the Indigenous song and poetry night organized by Blank Vinyl Project and the Indigenous Student Society included not only music but also spoken-word readings.
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.
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.
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! is a Russian romantic comedy that is equal parts silly drunken misunderstandings, reflections on how deeply the transitory nature of time is felt on New Year’s Eve and the reminder of how fate can change our lives suddenly when we need it most.
Jaad Kuujus: Everyone Says I Look Like My Mother is the Museum of Anthropology’s latest exhibition featuring work from artist Jaad Kuujus–Meghann O’Brien, a weaver of Haida, Kwakwaka’wakw and Irish descent.
UBC Opera’s performance of The Magic Flute was delightful entirely due to the amazing performances of the UBC Opera Ensemble accompanied by the Vancouver Opera Orchestra.
Eight new bombshells enter the Nest. Will they find love or rejection at the Love Island-inspired blind dating event presented by the Sri Lankan Students Association (SLSA) in collaboration with Students of the Caribbean (SOCA) at UBC?
UBC Clinical Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry Bill Koch puts the mystery novel’s conception of justice under a microscope in Hired Gun: Uncovering Buried Secrets.
In the moments before I was awarded my black belt in aikido, I realized that, despite more than a decade of experience in the martial art, I was about to become a beginner all over again.
At the Rio Theatre on the nights of Sept. 21 and 22, friends and family of students in UBC’s Film Production Program gathered to celebrate the screening of 20 short films. The festival is named Persistence of Vision, and this year was its 35th anniversary.
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.