Culture

Five women standing in a line and smiling.

April 6

Getting angry with the Women Empowerment Club

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.

Olivia Vos

A woman walking down a runway in a dark blue translucent shirt and lighter blue skirt. Her head and arms are covered by a white shawl, and her hands are raised to eye level.

April 6

Get Thrifty hosts student-led fashion show Zeitgeist at The Gallery

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.

Julian Forst

A man sits beside text projected on a wall, holding a tar. He is looking at someone speaking animatedly.

April 1

Talk of kings: UBC professor brings Iranian medieval poetry to the Vancouver Public Library

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).

Julian Forst

Three stern-looking men stand on a staircase at the back entrance of a building.

March 27

Anosh Irani's Behind the Moon honours the characters that haunt him

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.

Avery Nowicki

Blue and orange event graphic listing the time and location of the fashion show, with a drawing of two girls in the bottom left corner.

March 23

Germaine Koh and Slow Fashion Season are styling sustainably

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.

Stella Griffin

Six people in a living room decorated with pink wallpaper and framed art, five of them seated and facing a person who is standing and speaking.

March 22

UBC Theatre's The Last of the Pelican Daughters combines loss, family, prosecco and birthday cake

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.

Natalie Vakulin

March 20

Honest and moving, Léa Taranto’s debut YA novel A Drop in the Ocean is a story of adolescent mental illness

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.

Natalie Vakulin

Photos and sheets of paper with text on them stuck to a window and white wall.

March 18

The Beauty in BIPOC exhibit is by women of colour, for women of colour

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.

Tiana Khandelwal

A red book cover with an illustration of a shocked blond woman with her hands on the sides of her face. There are large block letters reading "She's a Lamb."

March 17

She’s a Lamb! details the unapologetic lengths one performer will go to claim the stage

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.

Sophia Samilski

March 9

Realwheels Theatre accepting artists to disability-led performance arts training program

The Vancouver-based company has announced the intake for The Academy, a three-year, part-time, fully-subsidized performing arts training program.

Thorn Austin

A quilted piece hung on a white wall depicting henna designs being drawn onto a hand. There's a thin white curtain with red flower designs beside it.

March 8

In the middle of things — Medias Res Gallery platforms Farsi-speaking artists

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.

Julian Forst

Graphic of four hands with different skin colours holding a title card that reads "Don't Call Me Resilient." There are purple and green tiles in the background.

March 4

Don't Call Me Resilient podcast holds live recording at UBC

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.

Elena Massing

Two girls smiling and sitting in front of a movie screen, one of them cupping the other's face with her hands. Their faces are slightly blurred from movement.

February 27

The lesbian masterdoc (UBC edition)

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?

Gloria Klein, Aisha Chaudhry and Elena Massing, Photos by Saumya Kamra

A girl with blonde hair lights a cigarette in the mouth of a girl with dark hair, both of them leaning against a pole

February 27

Google, how do I untie the knots in my heart?

In my first year of college, I decided to go to a drag show for the first time.

Tiana Khandelwal, Photos by Saumya Kamra

Two people about to kiss and holding each other's faces. There's a glass brick wall behind them.

February 27

First steps

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.

Anonymous, Photos by Saumya Kamra

Culture

Talk of kings: UBC professor brings Iranian medieval poetry to the Vancouver Public Library

All in Culture

Getting angry with the Women Empowerment Club

Get Thrifty hosts student-led fashion show Zeitgeist at The Gallery

Talk of kings: UBC professor brings Iranian medieval poetry to the Vancouver Public Library

Anosh Irani's Behind the Moon honours the characters that haunt him

Germaine Koh and Slow Fashion Season are styling sustainably

UBC Theatre's The Last of the Pelican Daughters combines loss, family, prosecco and birthday cake

Honest and moving, Léa Taranto’s debut YA novel A Drop in the Ocean is a story of adolescent mental illness

The Beauty in BIPOC exhibit is by women of colour, for women of colour

She’s a Lamb! details the unapologetic lengths one performer will go to claim the stage

Realwheels Theatre accepting artists to disability-led performance arts training program

In the middle of things — Medias Res Gallery platforms Farsi-speaking artists

Don't Call Me Resilient podcast holds live recording at UBC

The lesbian masterdoc (UBC edition)

Google, how do I untie the knots in my heart?

First steps

firsts

Feb. 14, 2025

femme

Nov. 5, 2024