UBC creative writing professor Keith Maillard’s 2023 book, In the Defense of Liberty, is a new entry in a growing field of historical fiction that challenges the retrograde idea that Trans and genderfluid identities are something new.
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When the lights dimmed, a silence settled over the crowd, all of us bound by the promise of the theatre: a place where, like the titular Woods, anything can happen if you listen, and nobody leaves unscathed.
Some may search out an iced strawberry oat matcha latte from one of the abundant Starbucks locations in Vancouver, but if you’re a fan of the concept but not the execution, you might be looking for something else to fill that 16oz, caffeine-craving hole in your heart.
UBC alum Jason Karman, director of 2022 film Golden Delicious, explores this struggle for happiness through Asian-Canadian teenager Jake, who struggles with his basketball skills, sexuality and commitments to his loved ones
The podcast explores “the many challenges disabled academics deal with inside academic institutions.”
Though we both live in Canada, I think of my parents with a pang, sending me a box at the peak of lockdown filled with masks, Lysol spray and cans of food (Spam of course being chief among them).
“[Last year] we just kind of did it and it seemed like a good idea,” said Sara Lee, an executive with UBC Rotaract’s fundraising committee.
On March 8, International Women’s Day, the Belkin Gallery hosted its seventh annual Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, an event dedicated to filling digital information gaps about underrepresented artists.
Linda Greenhouse has spent over four decades watching the United States Supreme Court.
On March 18, cosplayers, J-pop fans and all flavours of anime enthusiasts transformed the Nest's Great Hall into a celebration of Japanese culture. Enter UBC Anime Club’s Pop-Up Hanami: one of the biggest events of the year by one of the biggest clubs on campus.
Filmmaker and UBC professor Antoine Bourges’ first feature film, Fail to Appear, is an striking commentary on the shortcomings of Canadian legal systems’ dehumanizing and disempowering approaches to the mental health crisis.
So instead of wasting away in pre-spring limbo, why not do some stretches, find a bamboo pole, and make the limbo work for you?
The Birds took flight on March 16, with performances until March 25. Tickets are available through the theatre and film department’s website.
With materials from sarees to plants, the end products are as diverse as they are fascinating.
Author and UBC creative writing alum Lindsay Wong started writing her new book, Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality, by accident.