alumni UBC – Master Mind Master Class with Atom Egoyan
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by alumni UBC. One of the most respected filmmakers of his generation and a true artist, Atom Egoyan is the director behind modern classics such as Exotica, the Oscar-nominated The Sweet Hereafter, Ararat, and Chloe. A master of visual and verbal storytelling, Egoyan takes […]
Steven Galloway – The Confabulist
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Creative Writing Department. Presented by the Chan Centre as part of the Beyond Words series. Multi-award winning novelist and UBC professor Steven Galloway, author of The Cellist of Sarajevo, explores magic in his newest book The Confabulist. This beautiful, suspense-filled novel uses […]
MACL Colloquia presents: Kit Pearson, An Open Book: The Redemption of Story
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). The colloquium is sponsored by the UBC Master of Arts in Children’s Literature Program, a multidisciplinary degree Program offered by the Creative Writing Program, the English Department, and the School of Library, Archival and […]
Assert, Defend, Take Space: Aboriginal Youth Conference on Identity, Activism and Film
October 18, 2014, 9:30 am
Photo-Poetics / Photo-Politics: Visualizing Social Transformation
A panel discussion at Centre A, Thursday, October 16, 4:00 to 5:15pm
Richard Wagamese – Reading of "Indian Horse"
Join us Thursday, October 31st, 2013 at 2:00 pm in the Lillooet Room (Room 301) at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre for a reading by author Richard Wagamese from his latest novel, Indian Horse.
Robson Reading Series Presents Al Hunter (Beautiful Razor: Love Poems and Other Lies)
As part of the Robson Reading Series, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the UBC First Nations House of Learning hosted Anishinaabe writer Al Hunter to an author reading of his latest book of poetry. Hunter, who has published poetry in books and journals, has taught extensively and performed internationally. A member of Rainy […]
Weyman Chan – Chinese Blue
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre as part of the Robson Reading Series. Drawing on more than two thousand years of ancient Chinese tradition that present diverse philosophical modes of being, whether it be the spiritual teachings of Kong Zi or Lao Tzu, the military dicta of Sun Tzu or the complex […]