UBC Reads Sustainability at IKBLC, Sept 28, 2012
Ozzie Zehner author of Green Illusions: September 28, 2012, 12-1pm at Irving Barber Learning Centre, Room 182.
Film Screening and Discussion: Spring River Flows East 一江春水向东流
Lilloet Room (301) of the I.K. Barber Learning Centre
iFormations Exhibition Featured at Hamburg
Its 2011 month-long exhibition, iFormations, from Canada to DH 2012 in Hamburg.
Raminder Sidhu – Tears of Mehndi, Lillooet Room, IKBLC on Sept 28, 3PM
A courageous and timely novel, Tears of Mehndi explores the rich, complex and often heartbreaking lives of a tight-knit community in Vancouver’s Little India. Through the perspectives of several women whose lives intertwine over a generation, Raminder Sidhu deftly exposes the shrouded violence within the Indo-Canadian community, a difficult and often dissembled subject. Sidhu’s characters […]
Telling Stories with Data – SLAIS Presentations (June 15, 2012, 2-3pm)
What good is open data if we don’t know how to find and use it? The digital age has ushered in new opportunities to better understand our communities and demand accountability from our governments. In an intensive two-day master class, digital publishing expert Phillip Smith introduced some of the “working with data” tricks he has learned […]
Aboriginal Unhistory Month: Cultivating Conversations
June 1 to June 29, 2012
The Indigitization Tool Kit for First Nations Community Digitization Projects (June 25, 1.30pm)
For more information: http://about.library.ubc.ca/2012/05/30/aboriginal-unhistory-month-cultivating-conversations/