Wellbeing Festival: Celebrating local mental and physical health

Join Vancouver Art Gallery and UBC’s Visual Research Cluster to explore multisensory art and inclusion through collaborative and tactile experiences, making them fully accessible to diverse audiences.

An exclusive documentary screening that journeys through the lives of resilient communities in Bangladesh who are bearing the brunt of climate change.

MIHCan hosts BIWOC (Black, Indigenous, and women of color) themed events with wellness-focused activities such as meditation, self-reflection, and creativity.

Join medical experts, researchers, and patient representatives who will present their community health research efforts and discuss advances in technology that ensure the sharing and security of public health data.

A panel of trans theater artists and UBC graduate students explores arts-based research to consider the affordances of theater that center trans voices, drawing on strategies from theater-as-research approaches.

Delve into the latest trends and strategies in public policy, with a particular focus on the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) and the influential role of social media.

The Canadian premiere of Floating Man, directed by Michael V. Smith, is an intimate memoir of Smith’s journey as a radical drag performer and genderqueer.

The event, which commemorates the Muslim Albanians who took in Jews during World War II, will feature a screening of the film Besa: The Promise, along with expert speakers from UBC and beyond.

Connets at Robson Square is proud to host the main showcase of the Foril Trahun (Joining Roots) festival, screening Latin American indigenous and Afro-diaspora films, followed by a film and local We will hold a dialogue to deepen our understanding of the relationship with reality.

Join us at Word Vancouver’s main festival on September 16th at UBC Robson Square. The festival will feature a special session on UBC Libraries’ Rare Books and Special Collections, looking at how its archival materials have been used in the works of poets Lina Garcia Chua and Carolyn Nakagawa.

To Speak in Community is an interactive half-day gathering that provides information on sharing Filipino traditional languages ​​and culture, featuring presentations and programs from community experts and facilitators.

UBC’s Bike Kitchen will host “The Right to Repair,” a sustainability forum targeting industry issues surrounding the sale of “back-and-forth” products across a variety of industries and the right of consumers to repair their own products.

This discussion and panel session is part of a series of French-American-Canadian climate panels on climate change (FACTS).

A day of science for all ages. It’s your chance to meet world-class researchers and innovators, participate in hands-on experiments, and see amazing scientific demonstrations at UBC’s downtown campus.

The Big Fight in Little Chinatown will be screened for free at UBC Robson Square on June 5, followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker Karen Cho and other UBC and community experts.

Water4Seasons will utilize research-based theater to examine the state of water health equity in Indigenous and rural communities in Canada, featuring live theater performances and a lecture by Dr. Stephanie Woodson.

Join us to celebrate International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia with a free public screening of the TELUS original film The Empress of Vancouver.

Passage to Freedom is a documentary film that follows the oral history of Southeast Asian refugees who came to Canada from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The screening will be followed by a discussion between UBC faculty and alumni.

The Hearts of Freedom exhibition, featuring stories of Southeast Asian refugees in Canada, will be open to the public and free to the public from May 13 to May 31 at UBC Robson Square.

Haida graphic artist Michael Nicole Yaglanas will deliver the keynote address as part of the 2023 International Comic Art Forum.

UBC’s public dialogue event focused on the importance of peer-led activism and featured speakers with lived experiences from former incarceration.

UBC experts will explore topics such as how young people can deal with things like social media and cyberbullying and develop healthier approaches.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of Hong Kong’s legendary actor, singer and performer Leslie Cheung, we are pleased to present a special exhibition entitled “Leslie Cheung – An Icon of Hong Kong” and a screening of Rouge. I feel honored.

There will be a free screening of UBC professor Antoine Bourges’ film Fail to Appear, followed by a discussion featuring the film’s director.

Join us in launching the Sue Big Oil campaign.

A free screening of Rewind and Play will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with UBC scholars and local experts.

Free screening of The Goddess (1934) followed by a discussion with Professor Christopher Wray.

An end-of-year town hall for Africans in the diaspora to come together to network, connect and discuss how they can contribute to the development of the continent.

A free screening and discussion of the documentary Mariupol, made in 2016 by Lithuanian film director Mantas Kvedaravicius, about the continuously contested Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

Join a panel of UBC Political Science faculty and alumni as we analyze the results of the state’s local elections and their implications for future policy and the future of local government.

Free screening and discussion of the 1989 film Coming Out.

Free screening of Olivier Assayas’ metacinematic masterpiece “Irma Vep” (France, 1996).

Join us for a summer pop-up concert at UBC Robson Square. Every Thursday in July, our most talented students will perform for you in the heart of downtown.

Join us for a summer pop-up concert at UBC Robson Square. Every Thursday in July, our most talented students will perform for you in the heart of downtown.

Calling all students! Join us for an evening of hands-on networking to learn how to build community and use your power to make a difference in your area.

Join us for a summer pop-up concert at UBC Robson Square. Every Thursday in July, our most talented students will perform for you in the heart of downtown.

Join us for a summer pop-up concert at UBC Robson Square. Every Thursday in July, our most talented students will perform for you in the heart of downtown.

Join us for a summer pop-up concert at UBC Robson Square. Every Thursday in July, our most talented students will perform for you in the heart of downtown.

Join us for a summer pop-up concert at UBC Robson Square. Every Thursday in July, our most talented students will perform for you in the heart of downtown.

In a special partnership with the UBC AMS Indigenous Peoples Commission, Vancouver’s Ismail Center and UBC Connect in Robson Square will host a free, exclusive screening of The Father of All, followed by interviews with Elder Larry Grant and filmmakers. A direct talkback will be held with the participants. Alejandro Yoshizawa and Sarah Lin.

A half-day symposium on the intersection of music and the brain hosted by UBC’s Faculty of Science, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Javad Mowafaghian Center for Brain Health, UBC Neuroscience Graduate Program, Faculty of Medicine, and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.