Event Category Archives: Arts & Culture District

UBC Outdoor Art Collection: Decolonization Tour

The Decolonization Tour highlights site-specific artworks by Indigenous artists and raises questions around issues of place, space and identity. Considering how these works address urgent social and political concerns, we’ll discuss ideas of settler colonialism, decolonization, reconciliation and the history of UBC’s Vancouver campus, which is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.

Zadie Smith in Conversation with Madeleine Thien

Zadie Smith, a highly influential English author, presents her new historical fiction, “The Fraud,” in conversation with renowned Canadian writer Madeleine Thien. This event is free and offered as a gesture of appreciation to the community during the pandemic. For those without tickets, a standby line will be available two hours before the event, allocating empty seats on a first-come, first-served basis. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event through Book Warehouse, a division of Black Bond Books.

Opera Tea In The Garden – Welcome and Welcome Back

This Opera Tea brings you closer to the performers onstage. Enjoy a concert of opera arias and song favourites performed by our new students at the stunning UBC Botanical Garden. Join us in this relaxed setting to meet and hear the talented young singers who have joined us from all over the world!