With references to the tradition of landscape painting that captures the beauty of the land and trees, Kyung’s art pieces have a surrounding landscape that serves as a backdrop to her daily life within her adopted homeland of Canada. However, through her works, she also illustrates the darker side of the landscape. Through confronting the troubling aspects of environmental pollution that threatens nature, Kyung’s art challenges the ways how habitants should intervene on the land they live on, while still allowing the appreciation of facing these societal challenges together. (Artwork featured in IKBLC Foyer & Ike’s Café Gallery). Ilsoo’s work has been featured in a number of articles, including Senior Living Magazine, the Delta Optimist, and the Chinese Canadian Artists Federation in Vancouver.
Ilsoo Kyung McLaurin art exhibit “The Beauty of Nature” (January 5-Feb 28, 2011)
TD National Reading Summit II: Toward a Nation of Readers
Sponsored by UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and the Education Library.
Free live bilingual webcast of the Summit from Montreal
for educators, librarians, teachers and students.
No registration necessary.
Thursday January 20, 2011 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Friday 21st, 2011, 9:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Dodson Room, Room 302, Chapman Learning Commons I.K. Barber Learning
Centre, 1961 East Mall, University of British Columbia
In 2008, a group of concerned librarians, parent activists, authors,
booksellers, teachers, publishers and corporate leaders came together
with a common goal that of developing a national reading strategy for
Canada. As a first step a National Reading Summit was launched in Toronto
and plans made for a second summit in Montreal, January 2011 and for a
third in Vancouver in 2012.
The first National Reading Summit examined reading on an international
level and explored the link between reading and engaged citizenship. This
year¹s summit in Montreal will raise several questions. How are we
supporting a culture of reading? What works? What doesn¹t, and where do
we go from here?
Be sure to join with your BC colleagues to engage in this national
reading summit.
Ilsoo Kyung MacLaurin -The Beauty of Nature
Image credit: Ilsoo Kyung McLaurin
With references to the tradition of landscape painting that captures the beauty of the land and trees, Ilsoo Kyung McLaurin’s art pieces have a surrounding landscape that serves as a backdrop to her daily life within her adopted homeland of Canada. However, through her works, she also illustrates the darker side of the landscape. Through confronting the troubling aspects of environmental pollution that threatens nature, Kyung’s art challenges the ways in which habitants should intervene on the land they live on, while still allowing for the appreciation of facing these societal challenges together.
Born in Korea, Ilsoo Kyung MacLaurin emigrated to Canada in 1967. She started painting early in 1997, and continued after retiring from her nursing career in 2002, and continuing on to studying and graduating from the University of British Columbia’s Fine Art Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory. Many of her art works are part of private collections in Korea, Australia, the United States and Canada. She is member of South Delta Artists’Guild,and Delta Arts Council.
Ilsoo is a multi-media artist. She involved in numerous solo, group exhibitions, her work involve personal identity and expression, as well as themes within the context of Korea, and Canada. In recent work she addressing the question of cultural identity and in the process, a new synthesis is emerging in her own individual practice of painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, video, photography, digital imagery, performing art and installation works. Ilsoo’s works are ground in the natural world, but looks beyond the scenic to search for symbols and meaning in all that she encounters; her style is representational, with special attention to colour, texture and form. Ilsoo’s work has been featured in a number of articles, including: Senior Living Magazine, the Delta Optimist, and the Chinese Canadian Artists Federation in Vancouver.
To see more photos of this exhibition, please find here.
1759 And the Future of the Memory in Quebec Webcast Online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Education. In the summer of 2009, the battle of the Plains of Abraham was fought one more time in Quebec. The debate that stormed over the commemoration of the event proved that it is not easy to negotiate the meaning of this founding moment of Quebec’s destiny. Yet, it has been 250 years since “the English burned our farms and bombed our city”. What is to be done today with the Conquest, its history and memory?
Mexico Fest 2010 – Exquisite Corpse
Image credit: Consulate General of Mexico
In collaboration with the Mexican Consulate as part of MexicoFest, the Learning Centre presented “Exquisite Corpse” (also known as “Exquisite Cadaver” or “Cadavre exquis”), which is also a technique consisting on collectively assembling words and images. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, by being allowed to see only a small section of what the previous person contributed. Artists that had been featured at this exhibition included: Richard A. Kent, Alfonso L. Tejada, Miriam Aroeste, Claudia Segovia, Sergio Toporek, Adriana Zuñiga and Davide Merino.
The Nation and the City Webcast Online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. The Citizenship Without the Nation conference was a two day conference held at the Liu Institute for Global Issues from October 29 – 30, 2010. The conference explored how regional and local dialogues intersect with the national discourse on citizenship. There is significant work on citizenship at the national level, but the same issues take on very different meanings in the Vancouver context given the mix of residents in the city, the languages they speak, and the city’s geographic location. Sessions considered how people belong to neighbourhoods, cities, regions and nations. Participants were asked about the possibility of belonging to several communities at once and interrogated what happens when the promise of national citizenship fails to deliver locally. The counterpoint was also addressed: what happens when the local fails to live up to the national ideal?
Chair: Ellen Woodsworth, Vancouver City Councillor
Daniel Hiebert, Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia
Baldwin Wong, Social Planner, City of Vancouver
Andrew Pask, Director, Vancouver Public Space Network
Hayne Wai, Past President, Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia
Dana Claxton, Lori Blondeau and Shawn Hunt – Contemporary First Nations Art NOW
Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought is a collaboration of the UBC First Nations Studies Program, the First Nations House of Learning, the Irving. K. Barber Learning Centre and UBC Continuing Studies. This is the fifth in a series of five special dialogues: Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought. Contemporary First Nations Art NOW – An illustrated talk with Shawn Hunt, Lori Blondeau and Dana Claxton. Three First Nation artists will talk about their work in the context of form, the image and subtext. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Taunton, C. (2010). Indigenous (re)memory and resistance: Video works by Dana Claxton. Post Script, 29(3), 44-57. [Link]
Claxton, D. (2012). My best shot: “aim #1”. Blackflash, 29(2), 14-16. [Link]
Claxton, D. (2011). Going to the centre: Performance works and other thoughts. Canadian Theatre Review, 146(1), 28-31. doi:10.3138/ctr.146.28. [Link]
Tsang, H., Claxton, D., Salloum, J., Ali, K., & Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art. (2008). Edges of diversity. Kelowna, B.C: Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art.
UBC Library Research Guides
Beverley K. Jacobs – Restoring the Balance: Aboriginal Women's Issues in Canada
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC Continuing Studies. Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought is a collaboration of the UBC First Nations Studies Program, the First Nations House of Learning, the Irving. K. Barber Learning Centre and UBC Continuing Studies. This is the fourth of a series of five special dialogues: Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought. Restoring the Balance: Aboriginal Women’s Issues in Canada – Beverley K. Jacobs, LLB, LLM, PhD Student. Beverley Jacobs is an Aboriginal Canadian leader and the immediate past president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC).
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Canadian Race Relations Foundation. (2001). Critical readings: Aboriginal peoples and racism in Canada = lectures critiques : Les peuples autochtones et le racisme au canada. Toronto, Ont: Canadian Race Relations Foundation.
Jacobs, B. (2008). Response to Canada’s apology to residential school survivors. Canadian Woman Studies, 26(3/4), 223. [Link]
Canada. Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, & Canadian Government EBook Collection. (2012). Aboriginal women: Education and major fields of study. Ottawa: Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada.
Halseth, R., Canadian Public Policy Collection, & Canadian Health Research Collection. (2013). Aboriginal women in Canada: Gender, socio-economic determinants of health, and initiatives to close the wellness gap. National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health. [Link]
UBC Library Research Guides
Dora Nipp – From "Ni hao ma?" to "Hao ji le": a 2010 Asian Studies Odyssey
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Classical Chinese Garden and UBC Asian Studies Department. A descendant of a CPR labourer and head-tax payers, Dora Nipp has always had a penchant for Chinese Canadian history. UBC’s Asian Studies program was her point of departure opening up a world of Chinese language, politics and history. Dora followed her heart and was inspired to undertake graduate studies on the history of the Chinese in Canada. The voices of the Chinese pioneers she interviewed then guided her work on human rights. On November 25, 2010, the historian, lawyer and film-maker will speak on how UBC’s Asian Studies program provided the impetus for an exciting and satisfying lifelong journey.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Nipp, D. A. (1983). Canada bound: An exploratory study of pioneer Chinese women in western Canada.
Mouland, E. (1999). Under the willow tree. Resource Links, 4(5), 41. [Link]
Agnew, V. (1993). Canadian feminism and women of color. Women’s Studies International Forum, 16(3), 217-227. doi:10.1016/0277-5395(93)90052-B. [Link]
Hobnan, A. (1992). Cities and immigrants: A Canadian perspective. Journal of Urban History, 18(4), 489-497. doi:10.1177/009614429201800405. [Link]
UBC Library Research Guides