UBC Okanagan Events
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View EventsUBC Creative Writing students want your stories
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 […]
Future Delta: virtual world reveals climate change consequences
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 […]
UBC Fine Arts student wins top prize for Canadian printmakers
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, […]
Annabel Lyon is 2011 Writer in Residence at UBC's Okanagan campus
Novelist Annabel Lyon (The Golden Mean) is the fourth annual writer in residence at UBC's Okanagan campus. Lyon will spend two weeks on campus from Mar. 6 to 20, 2011. Lyon is the author of Oxygen (stories, 2007), The Best Thing for You (novella, 2004), All-Season Edie (juvenile novel, 2007) and The Golden Mean (novel […]
Annual favourite fundraiser puts Art on the Line at UBC
Art lovers should act quickly to obtain tickets to the ninth annual Art on the Line gala fundraiser.
Okanagan Short Fiction Contest in its lucky 13th year
The 13th annual Okanagan Short Fiction Contest is now accepting short stories from the Okanagan region. Award-winning author Annabel Lyon (The Golden Mean) will select the best three stories to be awarded cash prizes in Spring 2011. The contest invites all Southern Interior writers east of Hope, west of the Alberta border, north of the U.S. […]
Woodhaven Nature Conservancy under border patrol
Two Master of Fine Arts students from UBC's Okanagan campus are taking over the Woodhaven Nature Conservancy from October 22 to 25 for an interactive, site-specific performance art piece. Lara Haworth and Nicole Cormaci, co-creators of the project, say visitors to Woodhaven can expect to encounter and interact with a fully functional border patrol unit, […]
Art on The Line gala fundraiser tickets now available
With only 100 tickets being sold, art enthusiasts will want to secure their spot early for the 8th annual Art on the Line gala fundraiser at UBC Okanagan. At $175 each, one ticket admits up to two people and includes appetizers and refreshments, live entertainment and one juried work of art. The Art on the […]
This Neck of the Woods Opens at Kelowna's RCA Dec. 8
A multimedia, live-art performance staged at UBC Okanagan earlier this month goes on the road – to downtown Kelowna – in December. This Neck of the Woods, created by Neil Cadger, Associate Professor of Creative Studies at UBC Okanagan, in collaboration with students and alumni, will be performed at the Rotary Centre for the Arts’ […]