Arts

Participants at last year’s Art on the Line browse the large selection of art work before the auction begins.

UBC hosts gala evening of fun, art and entertainment

By Patty Wellborn on January 18, 2019

It’s an event that’s been on display for 17 years now.

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Actors Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas act out a scene during Palmyra, their play about the destruction of historical sites in Syria. Palmyra runs February 1 and 2 at the Rotary Centre for the Arts.

Living Things International Arts Festival returns to Kelowna

By Patty Wellborn on January 7, 2019

Get set for a month of visual art, live theatre and music as the Living Things International Arts Festival takes the stage.

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Submission deadline approaching for UBC’s Okanagan Short Story Contest

Submissions welcome for UBC Okanagan’s annual fiction competition

By Patty Wellborn on December 12, 2018

Budding writers are urged to submit their entries for the annual Okanagan Short Story Contest.

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UBC Okanagan professor hosts international bee symposium

By Patty Wellborn on October 4, 2018

An international symposium on bees—with topics ranging from their health to their importance—takes place in Kelowna this month.

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An estimated 800 concert-goers enjoy Opera Under the Stars at UBC Okanagan

Hundreds gather for Opera Kelowna’s Carmen at UBC Okanagan

By Nathan Skolski on August 2, 2018

The drama of one of opera’s most famous love stories, Carmen, will come to life at UBC Okanagan’s courtyard on August 1 as Opera Under the Stars returns to the university.

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Leafcutters are part of the third largest family, Megachilidae, along with the “super pollinators” of fruit trees, mason bees. Photo by Bob Lalonde.

UBC research project hosts bee-friendly family event

By Patty Wellborn on July 9, 2018

There is plenty of buzz around Kelowna’s bee ambassador program as more than 250 Kelowna residents have planted bee-friendly gardens this spring.

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UBC Associate Professor Allison Hargreaves, centre, receives her Gabrielle Roy Prize, pictured here with WLU Press senior editor Siobhan McMenemy (left) and director Lisa Quinn.

UBC’s Hargreaves wins prestigious Gabrielle Roy writing award

By Patty Wellborn on June 13, 2018

UBC Okanagan Associate Professor Allison Hargreaves is the winner of the 2017 Gabrielle Roy Prize writing award.

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Finalists in the 2018 Okanagan Short Story Contest, from left: Assoc. Prof. Michael V. Smith, MFA student Victoria Alvarez (second place), MA IGS student Brittni MacKenzie-Dale (first place), Bethany Pardoe (winner, high-school category), Samantha Macpherson (third place) and contest judge Karen Hofmann.

Kelowna writer wins UBC Okanagan’s annual short story contest

By Patty Wellborn on April 18, 2018

Kelowna’s Brittni MacKenzie-Dale is the winner of this year’s Okanagan Short Story Contest. Organized and partially-sponsored by UBC Okanagan, the contest is an annual writing competition open to fiction writers in British Columbia’s Southern Interior.

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