Lawrence Zbikowski – First of a Double Feature: Of Exactitude in Science:...
captions(124).sbv Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Thematic Series: Expressive Performance in Human Interactions. Lawrence Zbikowski is an...
View ArticleAsian Heritage Month National Conference
captions(81).sbv The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (VAHMS) co-hosted a webcast of a nation-wide teleconference among Asian Heritage Month societies in...
View ArticleMichael V. Smith – Robson Reading Series at IKBLC Presents “Progress”
In the lonely years following the death of her fiance, Helen is unable to move on with her life. But life itself is moving on around her literally: the building of a dam is forcing her small town and...
View ArticleDaphne Marlatt and Meredith Quartermain – Play Chthonics: New Canadian Readings
Daphne Marlatt lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is an iconic Canadian poet, novelist, theorist, little-magazine editor, and itinerant university instructor (creative writing, women’s studies,...
View ArticleKevin McNeilly – Robson Reading Series at IKBLC Presents “Embouchere”
captions(28).sbv Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Robson Reading Series at IKBLC. Kevin McNeilly is an associate professor in the Department of English at UBC....
View ArticleC.E. Gatchalian – Robson Reading Series at IKBLC Presents “Falling in Time”
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. C.E. Gatachalian will be reading from his new book, “Falling In Time.” Gatchalian is a playwright, fiction writer, poet, editor, and teacher....
View ArticleWeyman Chan – Chinese Blue
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre as part of the Robson Reading Series. Drawing on more than two thousand years of ancient Chinese tradition that present diverse philosophical...
View ArticleRobson Reading Series Presents Andrew Kaufman, Camille Martin and Barry Webster
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre as part of the Robson Reading Series. Andrew Kaufman’s Born Weird tells the tale of the Weird family who have always been a little off, but...
View ArticleRobson Reading Series Presents Al Hunter (Beautiful Razor: Love Poems and...
As part of the Robson Reading Series, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the UBC First Nations House of Learning hosted Anishinaabe writer Al Hunter to an author reading of his latest book of...
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Richard Wagamese – Reading of “Indian Horse”
“Wagamese pulls off a fine balancing act: exposing the horrors of the country’s residential schools while also celebrating Canada’s national game.” – James Grainger, Globe & Mail “Wagemese’s...
View ArticleWarren Cariou and Marie Clements – Play Chthonics: New Canadian Readings
Warren Cariou is from Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, where he grew up in a family of Métis, German, and French heritage. He has written a book of novellas, The Exalted Company of Roadside Martyrs, and a...
View ArticleMichael Park & Friends – Composers’ Collective Series – Michael Park and...
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. The Composers’ Collective is proud to offer the third annual concert of Michael Park and Friends, an evening...
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Photo-Poetics / Photo-Politics: Visualizing Social Transformation
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by by Centre A and the UBC Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies (ACAM) program. This event was held on Thursday, October 16,...
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Assert, Defend, Take Space: Aboriginal Youth Conference on Identity, Activism...
Join us for an exciting daylong conference on issues of concern to Aboriginal youth. Artists from the Claiming Space: Voices of Urban Aboriginal Youth exhibition are joined by young filmmakers and...
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Asian Canadian Studies with Terry Watada
This event took place on November 27, 2014 at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. An afternoon event with Terry Watada and Jim Wong-Chu, two pioneers of Asian Canadian writing, and moderated by Dr....
View ArticleMACL Colloquia presents: Kit Pearson, An Open Book: The Redemption of Story
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). The colloquium is sponsored by the UBC Master of Arts in...
View ArticleSteven Galloway – The Confabulist
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Creative Writing Department. Presented by the Chan Centre as part of the Beyond Words series. Multi-award winning novelist...
View ArticleWeyman Chan – Chinese Blue
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre as part of the Robson Reading Series. Drawing on more than two thousand years of ancient Chinese tradition that present diverse philosophical...
View ArticleRobson Reading Series Presents Andrew Kaufman, Camille Martin and Barry Webster
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre as part of the Robson Reading Series. Andrew Kaufman’s Born Weird tells the tale of the Weird family who have always been a little off, but...
View ArticleRobson Reading Series Presents Al Hunter (Beautiful Razor: Love Poems and...
As part of the Robson Reading Series, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the UBC First Nations House of Learning hosted Anishinaabe writer Al Hunter to an author reading of his latest book of...
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