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Past 2010 Olympic Events

Vancouver 2010 Winter Games Related Events at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

The Olympics has come and gone, but here is an archive of the programming schedule that the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre had sponsored in 2010.

October Events

Drugs in the Olympics

Drugs in the Olympics

October 14, 2009, 7:00 – 9:00pm Check back for the video podcast
St. John’s College Olympics Lecture Series: Drugs in the Olympics.

The programming group recorded the St. John’s College Olympics Lecture Series: Drugs in the Olympics by Dr. John Hoberman, University of Texas. Dr. Hoberman is a European cultural and intellectual historian and has done extensive research on sports doping and the intersection of sports, politics, science, public opinion and the Olympics.He has taught courses on sport and politics at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and The University of Texas at Austin

November Events

The Olympics and Freedom of Speech

The Olympics and Freedom of Speech

November 19, 2009 at 5:30 pm Check back for the video podcast
Chapman Discussion Series Presents: The Olympics and Freedom of Speech Discussion featuring expert panelists and an interactive discussion.
Come and take part in this timely discussion about the Olympics and its effect on our freedom of speech.  Expert speakers include:

  • Daniel W. Burnett, UBC Graduate School of Journalism professor, media law expert;
  • Margot Young, UBC Law, constitutional law expert, and coauthor of Poverty: Human Rights, Social Citizenship and Legal Activism.
  • Robert Diab, UBC Law / Capilano University professor and author of Guantanamo north: terrorism and the administration of justice in Canada, nominated for a 2009 Ryga award.
Ian Chan

Ian Chan

November 23, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Chapman Discussion Series Presents: Free Film Screening of Murderball with Q&A with Ian Chan and Duncan Campbell.
Come and watch a screening of the film Murderball, which features the intense rivalry of the Canadian and American quad rugby teams between the 2002 World Championships in Sweden and the 2004 Paralympics in Athens. Featured speaker include Ian Chan, an Olympic Wheelchair Rugby player who appears in the film and Duncan Campbell, the “father†of the sport. Both will be available to answer questions in the post-screening Q&A session. For more information, see these reviews of Murderball or this brief backgrounder on Ian Chan and Duncan Campbell.

Jean Barman

Jean Barman

November 26, 2:00 -3:00 pm
The Robson Reading Series Presents: Jean Barman. Check back for the video podcast.
In 2008, British Columbia celebrated the founding of the Crown Colony of British Columbia and 150 years of cultural diversity, community and achievement.  As a celebration of this milestone, Jean Barman’s British Columbia: Spirit of the People captures the rich selection of archival images depicting the province’s past paired with iconic and stunning colour photographs capturing the diversity of the modern landscape.

  • When: November 26, 2-3pm
  • Where: Lillooet Room 301, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Here is a floor plan.

December Events

December 18 – March 1, 2010
Gallery Exhibit on UBC’s Unique Olympic Legacy.
Organized by the Library Olympics programming committee, the exhibit features material from University Archives, Rare Books and Special Collections, Musqueam Indian Band, cIRcle, Public Affairs, UBC Reports, and the Athletic department. Five exhibit cases cover UBC’s Olympic legacy through a look at sport – medaled athletes, athletes turned scholars, sports teams that live on forever, and multicultural sports traditions.

Some highlights include photographs of Quene Yip, a Chinese Canadian athlete; Harry Warren, a Great Trekker and Olympian; an indepth look at Rowing through the years; a look at the movers and shakers behind the scenes such as coach Tom Johnson, director Bob Osborne, and doctor Doug Clement; and photographs of Q’aysca:m, a sporting figure for the Musqueam.

  • When: December 18- March 1, 2010
  • Where: Gallery, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Here is a floor plan.

December 18- March 1, 2010
Gallery Exhibit on UBC’s Unique Olympic Legacy.

Organized by the Library Olympics programming committee, the exhibit features material from University Archives, Rare Books and Special Collections, Musqueam Indian Band, cIRcle, Public Affairs, UBC Reports, and the Athletic department. Five exhibit cases cover UBC’s Olympic legacy through a look at sport – medaled athletes, athletes turned scholars, sports teams that live on forever, and multicultural sports traditions.

Some highlights include photographs of Quene Yip, a Chinese Canadian athlete; Harry Warren, a Great Trekker and Olympian; an indepth look at Rowing through the years; a look at the movers and shakers behind the scenes such as coach Tom Johnson, director Bob Osborne, and doctor Doug Clement; and photographs of Q’aysca:m, a sporting figure for the Musqueam.

  • When: December 18 – March 1, 2010
  • Where: Gallery, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Here is a floor plan.

January Events

January 14, 2010, 2:00 – 3:00 PM, book signing 7:00PMstart.
Robson Reading Series Presents: Ian Ferguson.

Ian Ferguson is an award-winning playwright and humorist whose commentaries have been widely broadcast on radio and television. He is the creator of the live improvised soap operas Die-Nasty and Sin City and is currently writing a sitcom pilot for a major U.S. television network. With his brother Will, he is co-author of the runaway best-seller How to Be a Canadian. As a guidebook, How to Be a Canadian tackles the many humorous complexities and nuances of what it means to be Canadian.

  • When: Book reading 2-3pm, Book signing at UBC Bookstore.
  • Where: Dodson Room 302, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Here is a floor plan.
  • Book signing is at 7pm at the UBC Library/Bookstore Robson Square: Ian Ferguson and Mark Leiren-Young

January 21, 2010, 7:00 PM.
The programming group presents: PechaKucha Inspired Olympics Forum.

This event will present the many voices, ideas, and colours of the Olympics and Paralympics in Vancouver by students and staff. Usually pronounced in three syllables like “pe-chak-cha”, a Pecha Kucha is a presentation format in which content can be easily, efficiently and informally shown. Under the format, a presenter shows 20 images for 20 seconds apiece, for a total time of 6 minutes, 40 seconds. Join us for this exciting event. Attendees can enter a draw for free 2010 Games Tickets and vote on their favourite presentation. The winner will receive a prize of $500.

  • When: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 7PM start.
  • Where: Lillooet Room 301. Here is a floor plan.

Saturday, January 23, 2010, 4PM.

Olympics Games Impact (OGI) Study Researchers at IKBLC.

Rob VanWynsberghe and his research team will present on the International Olympic Committee sponsored Olympic Games Impact (OGI) Study that was developed to objectively measure and assign attribution to the potential effects of the Olympic and Paralympic Games on the host city, region and country, their environment and their citizens. For more information about the study please see http://www.ogi-ubc.ca. The OGI research team will present a short and visually engaging overview, as well as discuss their research approach, and will encourage the audience to share their opinions. Prior to this session, the OGI team will share informational posters outlining their research and preliminary findings in the IKBLC main foyer.

  • When: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 4PM start.
  • Where: Lillooet Room 301. Here is a floorplan.

Feb 1- Mar 1, 2010
The IKBLC Gallery presents: “Snow, ice and gold” an exhibit curated by the Westcoast Calligraphy Society

  • When: Feb 1- Feb 12, 2010
  • Where: Gallery, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Here is a floor plan

 

Human Orrery Astronomy Experiment

Human Orrery Astronomy Experiment

Human Orrery Astronomy Experiment

In the Human Orrery, people play the role of the moving planets. The model provides an accurate map of the orbits of the six naked-eye planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn – and shows their motions around the Sun. The exhibit also explores the Solar System beyond Saturn to Pluto, Eris and the most distant, man-made object in space. Join us in an interactive exhibit presented by the class of Astronomy 310 – Exploring the Solar System as part of the Carl Wiemen Science Education Initiative at UBC.

The public session will take place on Wednesday, Oct 12 – 2:00-3:00pm.

 

Online Resources

Newbury, Peter.  Exploring the Solar System with a Human Orrery.  The Physics Teacher — December 2010 — Volume 48, Issue 9, pp. 573

 

UBC Journals

Sky and telescope.  I.K Barber Learning Centre – QB1 .S536 [Online is also available] – 1941-Present

Timothy Taylor author reading webcast online

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and as part of the Robson Reading Series. Timothy Taylor is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. The Blue Light Project, his most recent novel, was published in 2011. Born in Venezuela, he was raised in West Vancouver, British Columbia and Edmonton, Alberta. Taylor’s short story “Doves of Townsend” won the Journey Prize in 2000. He had two other stories on the competition’s final shortlist that year, and is to date the only writer ever to have three short stories compete for the prize in the same year. His debut novel, Stanley Park, nominated for the Giller Prize and chosen to be the 2004 One Book, One Vancouver, was followed by Silent Cruise, a collection of eight stories and one novella. (September 29, 2:00-3:00pm, Chilcotin Board Room, Room 256, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre)

Worlds of Wonder: Weather and Other Phenomena by Willa Downing

The Worlds of Wonder: Weather and Other Phenomena art exhibition by artist and Emily Carr University’s instructor Willa Downing is front and centre at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.  For photography of this exhibit, please find them on our Facebook page.

The exhibit will be from October 1 to November 30, 2011.

As Willa Downing asserts of this exhibit:

To make sense of the universe, we use a combination of disparate faculties that give us different forms of insight. As a scientist and artist, Willa Downing can view the world through profoundly different lenses. A powerful way of looking at Nature, science can reveal the immense complexity and extravagant beauty of natural phenomena down to the level of atoms and molecules. However, art’s connection is more primeval and evocative. Downing’s work reflects an intellectual and visceral response to the natural world. Although different, art and science share some characteristics. Both are creative. Fed by a sense of wonder, intuition and imagination play important roles. The ‘spaciousness of wonder’ creates new possibilities for the imagination, new geographies for the creative process. This body of work, about the weather and other related phenomena, includes box assemblages and mixed media on wood panel.

The ‘boxes of curiosity’ are inspired by Cabinets of Curiosity from the16th-17th centuries. Popular before modern science became prominent, these displays of natural and man-made objects reflected the interests, whims and idiosyncrasies of the collector. This spirit of wonder, serendipity and playfulness inform this work. Other pieces in this exhibition include maps of weather phenomena such as solar wind, heat islands, and storm clouds. Downing hopes to create work that accommodates feelings and intellectual ideas, work that will enrich one’s perspective of our natural world. (Artist – Willa Downing – www.willadowning.ca)

To sign the virtual guest book, please click here

SBA Events for Small Business Month 2011

October is Small Business Month , and this year, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Small Business Accelerator will be out hosting and participating in a number of major events. Here’s a rundown of where (and how) you can connect with our program in October.

October 17
Join SBA at UBC Robson Square (Vancouver) on Monday, October 17th 2011 for two compelling speakers, Paul Cubbon: Marketing Instructor at UBC’s Sauder School of Business and George Moen: President of Blenz The Canadian Coffee Company. They will be speaking on start-up success, and will be taking audience questions. This engaging speaker event is FREE to attend – and can be attended live via webcast if you aren’t in the lower mainland – but be sure to RSVP to attend very soon (before October 13), as seating is limited. For full details on Smart Business, Small Business: An SBA Speaker Series – Vancouver follow this link: http://www.sba-bc.ca/biztalk or view the full EVENT POSTER.

October 19
Join us in Kelowna at the UBC-O campus (Arts Atrium) for Smart Business, Small Business: An SBA Speaker Series – Okanagan. This event will run from 5:30 – 7:30 and will feature two exceptional small business speakers: Norine Webster and Scott Coleman, a Q&A session and a networking session to close. More detailed information for this event will be released very shortly.

For more information, please contact Community Engagement Librarian (Business Services) Aleha McCauley.