March 16
The Fugitives fill St. James Community Square with nostalgia and fireflies
The Fugitives are one of the best bands I have ever seen. When I saw they were performing with the RFC, I jumped at the chance to get a ticket.
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July 4
Stick ‘Em Up: A Roundup of Vancouver’s 3 x 3 Artwork
Mount Pleasant’s City Centre Motor Hotel, now the City Centre Artist Lodge, housed the One More Life Gallery and the fifth annual STICKY show this past weekend. The space was small, and the close-set walls were populated with sticky notes in grid-like patterns, each with unique illustrations.
July 1
Summertime sadness at the Park Theatre’s Bleak Week
As the air thickens with heat and once-grey Vancouver blossoms into vibrant greens, it becomes clear that summer is upon us. I love nature as much as the next person, but there is nothing as cathartic as bawling my eyes out in a half-empty theatre in the middle of June.
June 29
Natalia Lafourcade’s concert was feel-good, if not much else
As people bustled to their seats, music by some of Latin America’s eminent songwriters played softly in the Chan Shun Concert Hall in preparation for musician Natalia Lafourcade’s arrival.
June 26
Queer Arts Festival's Skátne put sound and script in focus
I had never truly seen the inside of The Birdhouse before. I saw the venue in a different light on June 18 at Skátne.
June 24
Off Campus, as seen from this campus
UBC is undeniably one of the most scenic campuses in Canada. As the summer months approach, this picturesque setting is often borrowed by the motion picture industry, being transformed into fictional campuses for films like Fifty Shades of Grey and She’s the Man.
June 9
Music Waste’s ‘rebuilding year’ was a work-in-progress
The WISE Hall, an unassuming brown structure in a quiet area of East Van, was the new home of this year’s iteration of a long-standing independent music festival.
June 9
The Vancouver Heritage Fair brings the past to life on UBC campus
On May 28, UBC’s Neville Scarfe Building was brimming with excitement, filled with a crowd of chattering, energetic children.
June 5
On breakups, narratives and falling out of love with Sex and the City
In January, I went through my first real, adult breakup. It was the culmination of problems boiling to an unceremonious conclusion at the end of a biblically terrible week. It was a numbing surprise, if anything.
June 3
Feeding UBC with the Sikh Student Association’s langars
Jashan Chacal, a sixth-year engineering student and a prominent SSA member and organizer, told me Sikhs look at langar as the great equalizer.
May 15
Seeing MOA’s newest exhibit with Haida Eyes
Behind the curtained-off entrance down one of the Museum of Anthropology’s long hallways, dozens of robes, beautifully designed, detail the life and history of a Haida woman and her family.
May 13
Ghost Light Productions produced a play in just one weekend
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.
May 13
Stitching together community at the Woven Grove art installation
A community-led yarn installation, the Woven Grove will be installed in early September 2026, infusing vibrant hues into our natural environment through yarn bombing.
April 15
Commerce and Engineering undergraduate societies test "rivalry" on the ice
Hundreds of students poured into the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre on a sunny afternoon in mid-March, filling almost an entire side of the arena in anticipation of the first-ever Ice Cup, where Engineering and Commerce students laced up to battle out a rivalry years in the making.
April 11
Student designers burn up the catwalk at the UBC Fashion Club
With a focus on personal stories, identity exploration and unabashed creativity, the UBC Fashion Club's annual catwalk at the Cecil Green House showcased six collections from designers both in and beyond the UBC community.
April 11
Black Box Diaries is a film memoir of assault, neglect and perseverance
Premièring at the Sundance Film Festival three years after her memoir, her debut feature documentary, Black Box Diaries, went on to win a Peabody award and received Oscar and BAFTA nominations.
April 8
United Players’s Network is a good retelling of a great story
An adaptation of the 1976 film of the same name, Network was written for the stage by English writer Lee Hall in 2017 and directed for the Jericho Arts Centre by UBC’s own Kathleen Duborg.
April 7
Analogue Revolution documents feminism before the digital age
In intimate interviews with the women who pioneered the movement from the 1970s to the ‘90s, Analogue Revolution documents the truly transformative and revolutionary power media creation held and still holds in the fight for gender equality.
April 7
Student composers and musicians perform work at School of Music concert
As part of its composer concert series, the UBC School of Music held a concert at Roy Barnett Recital Hall to spotlight new contemporary works by UBC composition students. The composers presented four original works which varied in instrumentation, technique and theme.
April 2
MOA’s new exhibition explores life and afterlife in the ancient Andes
Tupananchiskama features Andean art and artifacts collected by former UBC Professor Alan R. Sawyer.
March 28
UBC Theatre's Pyper electrifies folklore
With a brief yet intriguing plot description — “ten AI-Cyborg teens make a time capsule to prove their existence."
