Minghui Yu
Learning Centre featured in Open Door newsletter
An update on the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is featured on page 3 of Open Door, the newsletter of the B.C. Library Trustees’ Association.
Drippytown exhibit in Vancouver Courier
The Vancouver Courier features an article on the exhibit Drippytown: Vancouver Life Through the Eyes of Independent Cartoonists.
Patricia Logie donation, event featured in the Coast Reporter
Patricia Logie, a B.C. artist who has donated her portrait collection Chronicles of Pride to UBC Library, is featured in the Coast Reporter, a Sunshine Coast newspaper.
Pecha Kucha Style Event at IKBLC: Topic – 2010 Olympics
Inspired by the excellent work of the Pecha Kucha Vancouver, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Olympic Programming Group is hosting our first Pecha Kucha inspired Event on Thursday, January 21st starting at 7 pm.
Gallery @ IKBLC Presents *Morph* Exhibit
Visual Arts 300 students for art exhibition in Gallery at IKBLC, Morph (December 8-31st, 2009) Working within the theme of “transformation” on a personal and universal level, Morph is an exhibition of paintings that offer multiple aspects of individuals’ creative focus, academic backgrounds, personal stories and global perspectives. In preceding projects, students have researched and […]
Garth Mullins – Understanding the Olympics as Part of Corporate Culture
As part of Green Colleges The Olympic Games in Myth and Reality Series, Vancouver will soon host the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, promoted by the organizers and government as a major benefit for Vancouver, British Columbia, and Canada. Yet negative impacts of the Games are already being felt: cost overruns have become routine; the Athletes […]
Jean Barman
November 26, 2009, 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Free Film Screening of Murderball with Q&A with Ian Chan and Duncan Campbell.
November 23, 2009 at 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Jessica Tracy – The Nature of Pride
As part of Green College’s Human Evolution, Cognition and Culture Series,’ one of the major findings in the behavioral and social sciences is the discovery that a small set of basic emotions have distinct, universally recognized, nonverbal expressions. This finding promoted widespread acceptance of Darwins (1872) claim that emotions are an evolved part of human […]
The Olympics and Freedom of Speech Discussion
November 19, 2009 at 5:30 – 7:00 pm 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, […]