C.E. Gatchalian – Robson Reading Series at IKBLC Presents "Falling in Time"
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. C.E. Gatachalian will be reading from his new book, “Falling In Time.” Gatchalian is a playwright, fiction writer, poet, editor, and teacher. He is an alumnus of the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing program, and the author of three books: Motifs & Repetitions & Other […]
Michael Park & Friends – Composers' Collective Series – Michael Park and Friends III
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. The Composers’ Collective is proud to offer the third annual concert of Michael Park and Friends, an evening featuring contemporary works performed by the pianist Michael Park and accompanying guests. Michael Park is currently a third-year DMA student in Music Composition at […]
Warren Cariou and Marie Clements – Play Chthonics: New Canadian Readings
Warren Cariou is from Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, where he grew up in a family of Métis, German, and French heritage. He has written a book of novellas, The Exalted Company of Roadside Martyrs, and a memoir/cultural history entitled Lake of the Prairies, and he has also edited several texts by Aboriginal writers including Marvin Francis’s […]
Kevin McNeilly – Robson Reading Series at IKBLC Presents "Embouchere"
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Robson Reading Series at IKBLC. Kevin McNeilly is an associate professor in the Department of English at UBC. He has been interested in poetics and philosophy since graduate school: he wrote his Master’s thesis on the poetry of Robert Bringhurst, and his doctoral […]
Daphne Marlatt and Meredith Quartermain – Play Chthonics: New Canadian Readings
Daphne Marlatt lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is an iconic Canadian poet, novelist, theorist, little-magazine editor, and itinerant university instructor (creative writing, women’s studies, and contemporary literature). She is the founding co-editor of Tessera, the bilingual journal of feminist theory, and has co-edited several other magazines. Since the 1980s, she has served as writer-in-residence […]
Michael V. Smith – Robson Reading Series at IKBLC Presents "Progress"
In the lonely years following the death of her fiance, Helen is unable to move on with her life. But life itself is moving on around her literally: the building of a dam is forcing her small town and her family home to relocate. But the construction project means more than the loss of a […]
Asian Heritage Month National Conference
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (VAHMS) co-hosted a webcast of a nation-wide teleconference among Asian Heritage Month societies in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto to share expert speakers’ experiences in integrating Asian-Canadian content into Canada’s education system. This Vancouver panel features Dr. Ray Hsu, Tetsuro Shigematsu, Anna […]
Borealis Quartet – Sam Sullivan Public Salon Series
The Borealis Quartet is Vancouver’s only resident string quartet. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. UBC Library Research Guides Music
Lawrence Zbikowski – First of a Double Feature: Of Exactitude in Science: Music and Analogy
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Thematic Series: Expressive Performance in Human Interactions. Lawrence Zbikowski is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1993. His principal research interests involve applying recent work in cognitive science (especially that done by […]