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Art and Testimony Webinar Series: Why Comics?

Why comics? Why is the graphic art medium ideally suited to represent history, memory and the process of remembering? Our comic scholars provide insights and more, into the importance of comics and graphic novels. Hosted and moderated by Dr. Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam, Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European […]

UBC Symphony Orchestra: Concerto Competition Winner

The UBC Symphony Orchestra, featuring the winner of the 2024 UBC Concerto Competition, saxophonist Harry Xie (DPMS ’24), will perform Henri Tomasi’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone. Don’t miss this exciting program led by conductor Jaelem Bhate (MMus ’19) that includes symphonic music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Edvard Grieg’s dramatic “In the Hall of the Mountain […]

Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2024

Each spring, art communities around the world come together to help correct Wikipedia’s gender biases and improve the content of under-represented persons on the tenth-most-visited site on the Internet. This year, we’ll be #EditingAF at the Belkin throughout the day on Tuesday, March 12 – come for an hour or stay for several. Bring your […]

Wednesday Noon Hours: Visions of Light and Dark

The program begins with Reena Esmail’s ethereal and tender Saans (Breath), with its Indian-inspired improvisatory writing. This is followed by Points of Light by UBC’s Dorothy Chang, commissioned by the Trio for its 20th anniversary, inspired by the image of a triangle. The program ends with Dmitri Shostakovich’s haunting and devastating Trio in E minor, […]