This Thursday at 4:30 p.m., the Harvest Festival will once again pitch its tent on campus for a great outdoor banquet and night of cultured enjoyment. Not only is there a six-course meal on offer, but there are also several events to follow the meal, each offering a unique experience of UBC arts.
The meal begins with an autumn harvest salad consisting of butternut squash, pearl couscous, baby spinach, sun dried cranberries and an apple cider vinaigrette.
Following this will be a blackberry beet salad with UBC farm baby greens, manchego cheese, candied pecans and blackberry balsamic vinaigrette.
The main course comprises of both pan-seared, wild British Columbia salmon and Tuscan pumpkin penne. The first is made with soy ginger butter, toasted hemp seeds, roasted root vegetables as well as red and white cascade potatoes. The latter contains charred cherry tomatoes, swiss chard, fresh herbs and toasted coconut.
For dessert, sticky baby cakes made with port-based bosc pear, butterscotch toffee glaze and cinnamon sugar will be served, as well as fire-roasted peanut butter s’mores.
After eating, people will have their choice of eight different after-dinner activities to occupy the rest of their evening.
The Last Waves exhibit will be showing at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery until 9 p.m.
The UBC Symphony Orchestra will be conducting an open rehearsal in the Chan Centre’s Shun Concert Hall from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
At the Audain Building, there will be an opening night showcase of works by arts faculty, from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
The opera department will be rehearsing Mozart’s The Magic Flute, amongst other works, in the Old Auditorium from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s Unceded Territories exhibit will be accompanied by a presentation confronting the struggle for Indigenous rights. This will be going from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Read our review of the exhibit here.
UBC Theatre and Film will be putting on an improv show in the Chan Centre’s RBC Cinema from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
At the Museum of Anthropology Theatre, the documentary Cultures of Resistance will be screened at 7:30 p.m. It is a work which explores the relationship between artistic expression and activism towards peace and justice.
If you also fancy drinking after the meal, head over to the Chan Centre where their cash-only bar will be serving cocktails in the lobby until 9 p.m.
The night will be an excellent opportunity to eat delicious food and enjoy the wide range of cultural offerings that the UBC has to show.
Tickets to the Harvest Festival are available online and cost $22 for students, $30 for faculty, staff, UNA residents and alumni, and $35 for the general public. Sadly, wine will only be available for purchase by the bottle, so if you plan on drinking with your meal, it would be wise to bring someone to share it with. Otherwise, you might not make it to dessert.
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