10 Arts events not to miss in September
From Japanese tea ceremonies, to the 6th annual Harvest Feastival, check out 10 Arts events not to miss in September.
At Vancouver’s MOA, puppets that make you feel (not freak out)
The Tyee
Tue Jun 18 2019
By: Carol Eugene Park
The Tyee reported on an exhibition of puppetry at UBC’s Museum of Anthropology.
Celebrate International Women’s Day with UBC Arts & Culture District
A collaboration of events for International Women’s Day.
MOA’s new gallery will “tell the stories First Nations want and need to tell”
In November 2016, UBC’s Museum of Anthropology received an anonymous donation of more 200 pieces of Indigenous art, worth an estimated $7 million. MOA director Anthony Shelton shares two objects from the collection he is most excited by.
Meet Nimisha Mukerji: Director of “Tempest Storm”
UBC T&F SUCCEED: ALUMNA NIMISHA MUKERJI’S TEMPEST STORM AT HOT DOCS 2016! Film Production Alumna Nimisha Mukerji’s feature documentary Tempest Storm was chosen to premiere at Hot Docs 2016, North America’s largest documentary festival, offers an outstanding selection of over 200 films from Canada and around the world to Toronto audiences of more than 200,000 […]
Meet Shaheed Jiwa: Joining the Arts Internship Program
By Kaavya Lakshmanan If you ask Shaheed Jiwa for one of his most memorable experiences at UBC, he’ll tell you that it’s participating in the Arts Internship Program. “Learning outside of the classroom is so important to me,” said Jiwa. The Arts Internship Program, which offers unpaid internships for 8-12 hours a week in the […]
Meet Alan Morrison: Creating UBC’s first improv course
Allen Morrison is a UBC Fine Arts alumnus, an actor with Vancouver TheatreSports, and the instructor of UBC’s first-ever improv course, THTR 440. ArtsWIRE spoke with Morrison and one of his students, Ivanna Besenovsky, about the challenges of performing improv, and what improv has taught them about life.
Meet Elle-Maija Tailfeathers: Her film “Bloodland” accepted into international festivals
Bloodland, directed by Film Production student Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, has been accepted into the Riddu Riddu International Indigenous Festival in Norway and the Tulsa International Film Festival in Oklahoma. The film addresses the global impact of gas and oil exploration with a focus on the hydraulic fracturing in Kainaiwa, otherwise known as the Blood Reserve, in Southern Alberta.
Undergrad curators showcase Inuit art market at MOA
An exhibit on the Inuit art market at the Museum of Anthropology was curated by 17 undergraduate students. The exhibit “Faces and Voices of the Inuit Art Market” examines how the authenticity and value of Inuit art is determined as it moves through Canadian and International markets.
Meet Dr. Ernest Mathijs: Giving cult cinema a second look
What springs to mind when you think of cult cinema? Reruns of The Rocky Horror Picture Show during Halloween? Or perhaps the iconic “I’m with Pedro” shirts, courtesy of Napoleon Dynamite? Ernest Mathijs’ new book, Cult Cinema, examines this wildly popular, yet hard-to-define genre of film.