From September 4 to November 1, UBC ARTIVISM experienced love as a revolutionary force at ARTIVISM: Heart On Fire. The festival theme for the 8th annual UBC ARTIVISM festival celebrated existing cultures of care, and invited new realities centred on compassion. Through radically creative spaces and bringing marginalized artistic expressions centre stage, audiences were invited to join in igniting love towards liberation and setting oppressive systems ablaze.
Presented by UBC Arts and Culture District 2024 festival Artistic Director Jesse Ramos in partnership with the Exposure UBC student club team, this annual festival highlighted stories of resilience and student activist art that challenges dominant narratives through live performances, poetry, music and more.
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Producing Partners and Sponsors
UBC ARTIVISM: Madness in the Masses is a student programmed and run festival created by festival Artistic Director Jesse Ramos and the UBC Exposure team with the support of Festival General Manager Deb Pickman, Special Projects, UBC Arts & Culture District.
The 2024 ARTIVSM Festival could not have happened without the support of UBC Wellbeing, UBC Equity and Inclusion and the Faculty of Arts.
Thank you also to our wonderful Community Partners including Vancouver Playback Theatre, Great Dane Coffee as well as UBC Partners: The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts + Musqueam, AMS Hatch Gallery, UBC Drag, Koerner’s Pub, UBC Film Society, Sprouts and the AUS Equity and Inclusion Department.
