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Chart Your Degree: Degree Navigator – September 16

Who this is for: All BA students. In this interactive workshop, you will learn how to access Degree Navigator and use it for course planning. Through a case study, you will understand how to interpret a Degree Navigator report and use it to make informed decisions. Time will be set aside for a live Q&A. […]

Choosing Your Major workshop – September 21

Recommended for BA students who do not yet have a major. In this interactive session you will have an opportunity to explore program options guided by an Academic Advisor and a Peer Advisor with a student perspective who can relate! We will discuss common misconceptions about choosing a major, how to explore your program options […]

ARTIVISM 2022: Art Connects – Outsider Art

In conjunction with the annual Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival (Oct 14 – 16), the VAG invites you to an online conversation about the festival, the artists it serves, the complex history of “Outsider Art” and its place within the Vancouver community. Hosts Kristin Cheung, Executive Director of the Community Arts Council of Vancouver, and Shannon […]

Film: Joyland (Online Screening)

ARTIVISM is proud to yet again partner with the 41st Vancouver International Film Festival with a ground breaking, award-winning new film from Pakistan addressing politics of the body as they are strained under expectations of tradition. In Joyland, a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, while […]

Keynote: “Materializing Multilingualism in Comics from Haida Gwaii to Beirut” via Zoom

How might the visual grammar of comics be drawn upon to highlight the labour, theory, and practice of translation? At the intersection between the world republic of letters and the domain of images, comics necessitate techniques and physical spaces for reading that challenge assumptions of linguistic–and cultural–equivalence. Examining Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’ A Tale […]

Ask Arts Career Experts Anything

From 12:30 to 2pm on November 29, Arts Career Strategist Carli Fink will be answering all your career questions on r/UBC, along with ​​student, staff and alumni experts.