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Douglas Coupland speaks at the Learning Centre for Media Studies conference
The upcoming Media Transatlantic conference, which focuses on the topic of media studies, runs from Thursday, April 8 – Saturday, April 10 at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Registration is required for the conference, but all are welcome to attend the keynote address by B.C. writer and artist Douglas Coupland, which takes place at […]
Colourism Exhibition at IKBLC Gallery, April 1 to April 30, 2010
By exploring the diversity of shades and hues, the photographers attempt to express the vitality of COLOURS that saturate our life.
Carl Köhler – Beyond the Words
April 1, 2010 – August 31, 2010
Literature Etc. – Colourism
April 1 – 30, 2010
“Beyond the Words” Swedish Artist Carl Kohler Exhibit (April 1 – August 31, 2010)
“Beyond the Words” Swedish Artist Carl Kohler Exhibit (May 1 – August 31, 2010)
Robson Reading Series Welcomes Lee Henderson at Vancouver Island Public Library
View Larger Map On April 1, 2010, 7-8pm author Lee Henderson will be reading in Courtenay, British Columbia’s Vancouver Island Public Library. Sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Robson Reading Series, Lee will be reading from ‘The Man Game‘. On a recent Vancouver Sunday afternoon, a young man stumbles upon a secret sport […]
RBSC's Alice in Wonderland collection featured on CBC TV
UBC Library’s exceptional Alice in Wonderland collection, housed in Rare Books and Special Collections, is featured on CBC TV news. The reporter, Bob Nixon, features some thoughts and a video clip of the story here.
Lee Henderson
Lee Henderson’s highly anticipated first novel The Man Game (Penguin Canada, 2008) was published to rave reviews in the National Post, Quill & Quire and CBC Radio and went on to win the 2009 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the City of Vancouver Book Award. Lee’s debut short story collection The Broken Record Technique (Penguin Canada, 2002) won the 2003 Danuta Gleed Literary […]
Jack Zipes' Utopian Tendencies of Oddly Modern Fairy Tales Webcast
Jack Zipes is one of the world’s leading authorities on fairy tales, writing about and translating them. An internationally renowned scholar and author of more than 50 books on many subjects, he has through his writings transformed research on fairy tales, particularly with respect to how they function in the socialization of readers.
Jack Zipes – Utopian Tendencies of Oddly Modern Fairy Tales
Jack Zipes is one of the worlds leading authorities on fairy tales, writing about and translating them. An internationally renowned scholar and author of more than 50 books on many subjects, he has through his writings transformed research on fairy tales, particularly with respect to how they function in the socialization of readers. Jack Zipes […]