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Interactive potluck dinner theatre all about Glenmore

By Darren Handschuh on July 13, 2011

Cultural event offers look at community through stories from residents An interactive evening of stories, food and getting to know your community are all on the menu at the Social Potluck event this weekend. The dinner and show will take place July 16 and is the work of storyteller Gabriel Newman. Newman, a Master of […]

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Performance

Wisdom Tettey

Tettey new Dean of UBC's Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies

By Darren Handschuh on June 23, 2011

University of Calgary professor is an accomplished global education consultant Wisdom Tettey has been appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus. Tettey holds a bachelor’s degree (Honors) in Political Science and Russian and a Graduate Diploma in Communication Studies from the University of […]

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Historic firsts celebrated during UBC's Okanagan campus Convocation

By Patty Wellborn on June 9, 2011

Record number of graduates at ceremonies Thursday and Friday, June 9 and 10

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged College of Graduate Studies, Convocation, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Health and Social Development, Faculty of Management, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering

Social Potluck serves community with interactive theatre experience

By Patty Wellborn on May 27, 2011

University project partners with City to unite Glenmore neighbourhood.

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Students from Mexico's University of Quintana Roo joined their counterparts from UBC's Okanagan campus at a welcome get-together on campus Thursday afternoon. Six UBC students will visit the University of Quintana Roo in July.

Students from Mexico visit UBC's Okanagan campus

By Bud Mortenson on May 20, 2011

UBC's Okanagan campus welcomes visiting students from Mexico's University of Quintana Roo.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Aboriginal, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, Mexico, Spanish

UBC performers stage Dream Migrations, April 8 to 10

By Bud Mortenson on April 1, 2011

Dream Migrations, a devised performance co-created by 28 theatre students at UBC's Okanagan campus, will open April 8 at the Kelowna Art Gallery, before moving to the UBC campus for two more performances April 9 and 10. Virginie Magnat, professor with the Interdisciplinary Performance Program, describes the devised public performance as, "a high-spirited balancing act […]

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UBC hosts experts on Nordic post-welfare states for April 11 public workshop

By Bud Mortenson on March 21, 2011

The campus community and the public are invited to participate in a day of discussion at UBC’s Okanagan campus about neoliberalism and post-welfare Nordic states.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged CSSEJ, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Institute for Community Engaged Research, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences

UBC Creative Writing students want your stories

By Bud Mortenson on March 18, 2011

New website to share Okanagan “literacy narratives” A group of eight Creative Writing students at UBC’s Okanagan campus are working on a series of promotional and creative activities for Project Literacy Kelowna Society (PLKS), and are seeking stories from the community about the important of literacy in our lives. They’re collaborating with Computer Science professor […]

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Arts, Creative Studies, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies

The Future Delta simulation software being developed at UBC will offer an interactive way to see how communities are affected by climate change.

Future Delta: virtual world reveals climate change consequences

By Jody Jacob on March 4, 2011

A team of UBC researchers, students, designers and artists are creating an interactive 3D game simulation that enables players to walk through their digitally recreated community and see how the day-to-day choices they make could impact their actual environment. With detailed neighborhood visualization and animation, it predicts alternative climate scenarios that are focused on the […]

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Celebrate Research Week, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies

Printmaker Laura Widmer

UBC Fine Arts student wins top prize for Canadian printmakers

By Jody Jacob on February 3, 2011

UBC Fine Arts student Laura Widmer has won the Muskat Studios Materials Award at the Boston Printmakers 2011 North American Print Biennial. The award consists of one week printing at Muskat Studios in Boston with Tamarind Institute Master Printer Carolyn Muskat. Widmer will travel to Boston for the Feb. 27 opening reception of the exhibition, […]

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Learning

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