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Bard on the Beach is a summertime staple for the theatre of Vancouver and this season is even more exciting for UBC theatregoers, with two alumni from the BFA Acting program, Luisa Jojic and Ashley O’Connell, featured in the performances.

To save you time and effort, we've compiled a list of every awesome concert coming to Vancouver this summer, plus a few less awesome ones which people will pay money to see anyways. Try and see them all, we dare you.

The enormous diversity of the pieces is split into two adjacent galleries. The older artifacts from the museum’s Asian Collection are found in a corner of the Multiversity Galleries next to the heart of the exhibition in the Audain Gallery.

After crying on the phone to my mum, my best friend told me to meet him in our high school’s dance studio, where all of my friends were waiting to run and hug me while “Celebration” by Kool and the Gang drowned out my sobs.

No airline is safe from controversy — when millions of people fly every day, tragedy is bound to befall someone – but that doesn't mean some aren't better than others. If you’re flying out of YVR here’s who to fly and who to avoid.

My cousin, Ryan, and I were both born in Atlanta, Georgia in the Southern US about a year apart. As kids we wrestled, caught bullfrogs, and swung on a rusty tire swing among the peachtrees at our grandparents house.

On May 6th, the Chali-Rosso Art Gallery commemorated Canada’s 150th anniversary with the unveiling of Salvador Dali’s 1979, Dance of Time, a seven-foot tall and 860 lb bronze sculpture of a dancing clock, valued at $750,000.

A lot of bands have weird and crazy stories about the way that they all met. The Cut Losses are no different. Patrick McWilliams almost gave up on music before rediscovering it through literature classes and songwriting in high school.

Mills, the film's director, sees these meet-ups — which number at over one thousand worldwide — as “a great way to build community, stop wastefulness and teach people — particularly young people — skill sets we’re starting to lose.”

POV 27 is a short film festival showcasing the works of third and fourth-year students in UBC’s Department of Theatre and Film. This year's lineup had no two films that were alike, showcasing diversity in technique, character and storyline.

A backdrop of dystopian-esque video clips and an all-too-obvious critique of the media added to the cliche – there is nothing particularly revolutionary about a group of white boys from London. It was hard for the crowd to stay excited.

On Saturday, March 18 volunteers exceeded their goal to create 24 new Wikipedia pages for female artists featured in the Belkin Art Gallery and edit countless more under the auspices of the Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon movement.

I’m not part of the group tight-roping at The Chief every month. I’m not the girl who worked on finding two planets that NASA couldn’t. I’m not the guy who ran as a joke candidate but ended up AMS president.

“It’s too overtly politically correct. The diversity doesn’t look right,” she said. “In fact, the crowd is so diverse, each person in the crowd tokenized to represent a specific identity, that it blurs all connection to place or movement.”

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