The last time I had my grandfather’s congee was a few years ago. He quietly stopped making it one day, as standing for hours in a sweltering kitchen grew to be too taxing. Although my dorm-room concoction will never be the same as his, it’s enough to remind me of home.
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Through her pieces critiquing societal conventions of beauty and physicality to those linking the new to the old, award-winning Sheila Pree Bright led the audience of What Do Pictures Want through her beginnings as a photographer and to her current role as a social activist.
Reading Bounce House was like re-discovering a favorite childhood playground; it is an overwhelmingly nostalgic yet reflexive process of discovery, but ultimately you feel as if you don’t belong.
Have you ever been in a course and thought, if only I could do all this learning but in one day? Well, UBC Extended Learning has the solution to that predicament, with their One Day @ UBC program.
While the play featured exceptional acting by UBC BFA students and excellent use of sound, the choice to perform this play made me leave the theatre feeling more confused than enchanted by the storytelling.
What is Blackness? The Phil Lind Initiative, a speaker series organized from January to April 2020, will deconstruct this question by addressing the themes of “Thinking While Black.”
We’ve compiled a list of some courses that discuss Blackness, race or African cultures. This is by no means an exhaustive list, think of it more as a sampling of courses across the faculty of arts you could take to educate yourself. Caveat: some of these classes are not offered every year, so plan your worklist accordingly.
On February 6, the UBC School of Information held a colloquium entitled (De)Colonial Spaces of Memory Activism, featuring speaker Dr. Tricia Logan. Logan discussed the place of Indigenous histories and voices in memory institutions in the West, such as museums and archives, and the necessary role of activism within these Indigenous communities.
Blank Vinyl Project (BVP)’s Versus event on March 20 will see up-and-coming bands duke it out for a chance to win a spot at BVP’s annual music festival, Goosehunt.
On July 9, founders of the Black at UBC community began sharing Instagram posts detailing the reflections of Black students at UBC on Instagram. Since then, the page has posted over 80 testimonies sharing the lived experiences and thoughts of Black students at UBC.
The Blue Hour, her new podcast, marries academia with art.
The TV was running, but I opted for the window, self-centred songstress, monsoon sister.
The three months I have spent at UBC have been the most defining three months of my life.