Culture
Culture is the place to go to learn about all sorts of creative things happening on campus.
Can cultural land trusts prevent a city without art?
It’s been just over a year since a motion drew upwards of 30 speakers into a Vancouver City Council meeting, where they attempted to capture — in under three minutes each — the conditions forcing …
The UBC alumna who visualized Minnow, a 'literal Land Back love letter'
Through the story of a girl-turned-fish and her fight against pipeline expansion, author Willie Poll and illustrator Emily Graceanna Pearson inspire young readers to protect the land they live on.
Culture Queue: The August edit
When I first moved to Vancouver, I, alongside a couple thousand other first-year students, filled our group chats with the same question weekend after weekend: what are we doing tonight?
Why do we care about extra protein, anyway?
My great-grandmother didn’t care about her macros and still made food my mother extols. Where did the “meal” go?
Khatsahlano was an ephemeral Wonderland — even with a migraine
I was having the worst migraine of my life, quickly accumulating empty Triptan packaging in the middle of July, and I was going to an outdoor music festival, hoping to see as many bands as …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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, …
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.
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 …
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.
