Event Category Archives: Arts & Culture District

VMO 22nd Season Classics and Pops Concert

VMO returns with the annual Pops & Classics concert with a fascinating programme including: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Symphony No. 40, K.550, G Minor, 1st Movement only; Chopin’s Concerto, Piano, No. 1, Op. 11, E-minor; Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides, Op. 26, (Fingal’s Cave); Dvorak’s Romance, Violin and Orchestra, Op. 11, F-minor; Haydn’s Symphony No. […]

Adventures in Anime: Vancouver Pops Orchestra

Vancouver Pops is delighted to present to you a moving concert featuring music from Japanese anime films including Kiki’s Delivery, Castle in the Sky, Princess Mononoke, Violet Evergarden, and more. Relive the charming stories from renowned anime films with this one-of-a-kind performance featuring a 60-piece symphonic orchestra. A short and sweet 60-minute presentation without intermission. […]

Student Art and Animation Fund

Campus + Community Planning is pleased to announce the second year of the pilot Student Art and Animation Fund, a new initiative for students to help shape UBC’s outdoor spaces through public art! Through the generous support of Giving Day Donors, up to $2,500 is available to fund project costs for student artists, performers, and […]

The Very Book Indeed

It is 1621. Shakespeare’s been dead for seven years. Two passionate thespians struggle to assemble and print the First Folio, the original anthology of Shakespeare’s plays. In this referential work, pinnacle scenes from Shakespearean classics, such as As You Like It, Macbeth, and King Lear, are woven into the birth of the First Folio with charm, wit, and misadventure.

Visual + Material Culture Research Seminar Series – Fall 2024

This interdisciplinary seminar series is for anyone with interests in visual and material culture across different departments at UBC and beyond. The seminar provides an opportunity to share research and exchange ideas, usually followed by conversations over a drink at Koerner’s Pub. Open to students, staff, faculty and community members in and around UBC. The […]

The Very Book Indeed

It is 1621. Shakespeare’s been dead for seven years. Two passionate thespians struggle to assemble and print the First Folio, the original anthology of Shakespeare’s plays. In this referential work, pinnacle scenes from Shakespearean classics, such as As You Like It, Macbeth, and King Lear, are woven into the birth of the First Folio with charm, wit, and misadventure.

The Very Book Indeed

It is 1621. Shakespeare’s been dead for seven years. Two passionate thespians struggle to assemble and print the First Folio, the original anthology of Shakespeare’s plays. In this referential work, pinnacle scenes from Shakespearean classics, such as As You Like It, Macbeth, and King Lear, are woven into the birth of the First Folio with charm, wit, and misadventure.

Chan EXP: Nicolás Jaar and Ali Sethi – Intiha

Join us for the world premiere of Ali Sethi and Nicolás Jaar’s collaborative album Intiha, live at the Chan Centre. Though the two artists seem to be from disparate worlds—Sethi is best known for his innovative takes on Hindustani classical music while Jaar produces electronic music—Intiha has been praised as a “moving tribute to the multiplicity of […]