Despite the name, UBC’s Women Empowerment Club isn’t just for women — the group aims to foster an inclusive and safe environment for anyone who wants to work against sexism.
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AMS thrift and consignment store Get Thrifty brought their fourth annual fashion show to The Gallery on March 4, with a focus on upcycling, fashion circulation and promoting emerging designers from the UBC community.
On March 29, the central branch of the Vancouver Public Library hosted UBC classical Persian literature professor Dr. Alexandra Hoffmann for a free talk on “Bizhan and Manizheh,” a Farsi story from the Persian Shahnameh (Book of Kings).
In a Mughlai restaurant in Toronto, three lives intertwine. As Ayub, one of its employees, is cleaning up, a mysterious cab driver walks in and shatters his peace, leaving Ayub to confront reality, the family he’s left behind and the dreams long abandoned.
In response to hyper-consumerism in the fashion sphere, Germaine Koh, a Canadian artist and assistant visual art professor at UBC, started Slow Fashion Season alongside other UBC faculty leads and industry partners.
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.
The Beauty in BIPOC may be depicted through the lens of modern cameras, but it highlights a problem that women of colour have been experiencing over many generations.
The novel follows Jessamyn St. Germain, a young aspiring actress with a passion for musical theatre who’s willing to sacrifice everything, including her health, dignity and sanity, for a standing ovation.
The Vancouver-based company has announced the intake for The Academy, a three-year, part-time, fully-subsidized performing arts training program.
The Vancouver Iranian Visual Arts (VIVA) Alliance is set to open their new Medias Res Gallery curated by UBC alum Maryam Babaei on March 27.
Hosted by Vinita Srivastava, the podcast is now entering its eighth season — it started up during the peak of the pandemic, when the Black Lives Matter movement was gaining traction on social media after the murder of George Floyd.
Generations of confused teenagers have turned to the lesbian masterdoc, a scripture for the women-loving-women community, to answer one of the world’s greatest mysteries: am I a lesbian?
In my first year of college, I decided to go to a drag show for the first time.
For as long as I can remember, the idea of ‘family’ has been an entanglement of comfort and tension — years of feeling torn between what I thought a family should be and what it actually felt like.