In her high school yearbook, UBC BFA + MM student Jaenna Cali wrote about how one day, she wanted to “write, direct, produce and star in a music video.” Last month, she did that, in the video for her song “Expiry Date.” You heard it here first — manifestation works.
In an intimate corner of Granville Island’s art district, the UBC Players Club’s annual Festival Dionysia fills the Nest’s third floor auditorium, the group’s own little corner of the city’s theatre industry.
Games are a fun way to pass the time, but they’re also arenas to unlock competitive instincts, form memories and build community. They’re practice for the real world, but they also shape it.
The climate crisis is best understood from a multitude of perspectives — and what better way to do that than through different art forms?
Last year, the UBC Anime Club execs estimated there would be between 300–700 people at Pop-Up Hanami — a cherry blossom-themed event with a Sakura cosplay cafe, an artist and vendor alley, stage performances and free-play arcade games for raffle entrance.
Spring is here: birds are chirping, flowers are blooming and the sun is shining — except this isn’t true.
In her podcast Dreamers, Reynolds spins this concept into a coming-of-age story centring on Lily Bliss, a high school student whose nightmares and fantasies begin to blur together once the same actor starts to appear in both.
It's finally Friday. After a day of studying, I put on my most stained clothes and head to the Life building basement. Beeping my door number into the keypad, I enter and hang my things up on the hooks and slide on my apron.
This February marks two years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — a conflict that has taken the lives of over 10,000 civilians and displaced millions, resulting in Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War.
When explorer and author Isabelle Eberhardt was old enough to roam Geneva’s streets, her father let her wander alone under one condition: that she wear trousers.
Has the end of winter got you down? Does midterm season have you feeling disembodied, uninspired? Perhaps your heart longs to drop that pen, close those books and spend the evening watching people absolutely slam each other down onto a padded floor.
People like to joke that lesbians never let go of their exes.
Is Vancouver's annual Hot Chocolate Festival nothing more than a very well done marketing ploy? Yes. Will I continue to happily hand over my money? Also yes.
What would you feel if you held your soul in your hands? And if you did, could you ever live without it?
A dazzling and ranged chorus, characters with pomp and vibrant textiles and scenery are just some of the ways UBC Opera is bringing Jules Massenet’s 1895 romantic opera Cendrillon — sung entirely in French — to life.