UBC Okanagan Events
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View EventsInteractive potluck dinner theatre all about Glenmore
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 […]
Tettey new Dean of UBC's Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
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 […]
Historic firsts celebrated during UBC's Okanagan campus Convocation
Record number of graduates at ceremonies Thursday and Friday, June 9 and 10
Social Potluck serves community with interactive theatre experience
University project partners with City to unite Glenmore neighbourhood.
Students from Mexico visit UBC's Okanagan campus
UBC's Okanagan campus welcomes visiting students from Mexico's University of Quintana Roo.
UBC performers stage Dream Migrations, April 8 to 10
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 […]
UBC hosts experts on Nordic post-welfare states for April 11 public workshop
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.
UBC 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, […]