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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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."
March 27
Vanwest Anarchist Bookfair platforms people over politics
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.
March 24
Brave New Play Rites brings the audience to the table read
Brave New Play Rites features an aspect of the theatre production process that audiences usually don’t get to see: the stage reading.
March 20
MEXSA and the Hatch celebrate feminism with Purple Thread
Throughout the week of March 9, the Hatch welcomed Purple Thread, a Women’s Day art exhibition featuring Latin American artists exploring their artistic forms and interpretations of feminism.
March 20
MUSA mounts musical protest against removal from Chan Centre
In early September 2025, students at the UBC School of Music found their access to the Chan Shun Concert Hall severely reduced. MUSA hosted a protest on March 12 featuring performances by musicians from UBC orchestra, choirs, opera, french horn and saxophone quartets, interspersed with speeches from students and alumni.
March 20
Hackathon coders are the heart of the machine
Hackathons like cmd-f are as computer science as electric apple pie. Each person, in groups of up to four, attempts to write a functioning computer program in 24 hours. 24 straight hours.
March 19
Cultures come together in SUBA Trio’s concert at the Chan
The audience hardly touched their chairs as they danced and clapped along to the SUBA trio’s Afro-Cuban-Venezulan jazz-fusion at the Chan Centre.
March 17
At MOA’s Coastal Dance Festival, Indigenous dance is lived practice
Throughout the week of March 3, the MOA, along with the Anvil Centre in New Westminster, hosted the 19th Coastal Dance Festival. The festival’s program brought together Indigenous artists from all over Canada — as well as Sámi guests from Norway — for a series of performances, artist sharing sessions and film screenings.
March 17
Slow Fashion Show recycles on the runway
The Museum of Anthropology was lit up and alive on March 12 with bold colours, textiles and the ambient sounds of runway music and oohs and ahhs from the crowd for the second annual Slow Fashion Show, hosted by the Slow Fashion: Circular Textiles, Sustainable Fibre Research Cluster.
March 17
Textiles on trial at the Slow Fashion Lab Exhibition
The Slow Fashion Lab Exhibition showcases the work of designers, researchers and multimedia artists who tackle questions of waste management, sustainability and textile construction, prompting viewers to consider a central theme — how can we prioritize slowness and sustainability when creating clothing?
March 16
Brazilian Student Association hosts Carnaval at the Pit
When I descended the stairs in the Nest on the night of the UBC Brazilian Students Association’s (BRASA) Carnaval party at the Pit, I was greeted by Isabel Lara Roque and Julia Sawyer, co-presidents of the UBC Brazilian Students Association. They said maintaining the Carnaval spirit outside of Brazil is central to their mission.
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.
March 12
The real best picture is the one you watch with friends
I love movies. I enjoy nothing more than escaping into someone else’s story for a couple hours, leaving it feeling a little bit stronger, smarter, better somehow. With the Academy Awards coming up on March 15, I decided, for the first time ever, to watch all 10 of the Best Picture nominees and review them.
