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/
Nursery Rhymes and Calligraphy : when poetry meets art
July 26, 5.00-6.00pm at the Lillooet Room (Rm #301) of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
