Mathabo Tsepa - Keynote Opening Speech to Africa Awareness Week 2012

Health Information Series Presents Dr. Roger Wong of UBC Faculty of Medicine

Live Webcast Link: http://tiny.cc/ikblcwong 

“Managing Dementia, Alzheimer’s and  Acute Care for Elders Units:” UBC Health Information Series Presents Dr. Roger Wong”

March 1, 2012 – 7:00-8:30pm at Richmond Public Library’s Brighouse Branch Library

Presented by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and Woodward Library, the Health Information Series is an ongoing public lecture series that take place in the Lower Mainland community.  Who is a geriatrician? Someone who is dedicated to the health and well-being of our nation’s elders; someone who is dedicated to medically complex patient care involving interacting medical, neurological, psychiatric and social problems; someone who is on the front lines in coping with the changes associated with the graying of our society…and more!   Dr. Wong is Clinical Professsor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine of the Department of Medicine, and is also President of the Canadian Geriatrics Society (CGS) — the first British Columbian to lead the organization in 20 years. As an expert on aging and geriatrics support, please join us as Dr. Roger Wong will bring a lively presentation and discussion to the community of Richmond, BC at the Brighouse Branch Library of the Richmond Public Library.

Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Mathabo Tsepa completed her PhD in Environmental Education with Dr. Nashon in the Dept of Curriculum & Pedagogy. Her work connected the National University of Lesotho and UBC to promote the exchange of cutting edge best practice research and policies about learning regions. She was also involved in the UBC Go Global program. By stressing Africa’s impact on western higher education, the Africa Awareness Initiative (AAI) hopes that the university realizes the necessity of a stable African Studies Program. The presence of such notable speakers on campus shows that the University of British Columbia shows its continued dedication to follow through with the complete and justified ‘creation of global citizens.’

The next concert in the Dodson Music Series will take place on Friday January 27^th at 12:00 pm in the Dodson Room of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

“Entartete Musik – music suppressed under Nazism” will consist of music by composers who were suppressed during the Third Reich.  “Entartete Musik” was a term used by the Nazis to defame atonal music, jazz, and works by Jewish composers as “degenerate”.

The targeted composers included Schoenberg, Webern, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Weill, Goldschmidt, and Waxman.  Many of them emigrated to the United States, and some had illustrious careers as film music composers in Hollywood.

Students of the UBC School of Music will present a varied programme of vocal and instrumental music by Messiaen, Zemlinsky, and Schulhoff.  They will offer a view into the musical world of Weimar Germany, and the artistry in defiance of oppression that was the musical world of Nazi concentration camps.

The concert series is directed by Leah Giselle Field.  Admission is free.

Watch this webcast from Huddle 2011, as it features presenters who work and volunteer in the environmental sector in Vancouver, BC. This panel discussion, which featured experts from local media, political leaders, NGO and non-profit representatives and academics, engaged in roundtable discussion on their experiences engaging a diverse public in their work in the environmental sector. In addition, this discussion also explored how different sectors might better work together to further engagement.

Panelists include:

Arzeena Hamir, Richmond Food Security Society (Coordinator)
Claudia Li, SharkTruth (Founder)
Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega, Department of Political Science UBC (Instructor)
Tricia Sedgwick, World in a Garden (Founder)
Audrea Chan, Fairchild Television (Senior Reporter)

We are excited to announce that Kevin McNeilly and percussionist Nicholas Jacques will be performing from McNeilly’s latest work, Embouchere on January 26, 2012 – 2.00pm to 3.00pm at the Lillooet Room (Rm 301) of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

Kevin McNeilly’s debut poetry collection, Embouchure, compiles the intertwined lineages of trumpet players who came to prominence in the States during the “pre-bop” era, loosely defined as the period between 1890 and 1939. This series of vignettes betrays a broad and detailed knowledge of the players’ lives and work, yet reads like a collection of conversational anecdotes shared between the musicians and those around them. Rather than focusing on the solid facts of their lives, McNeilly brings to life the characters they inhabited and stories that surrounded them, all in a vibrant, slangy dialect that adeptly reproduces the feel of the period.

Within the course of Embouchure’s thirty-seven portraits, Buddy, Satch, Bix, Jabbo, Cootie, Cat and the rest are resurrected in their smoky, brassy, sepia-toned glory as figures deeply steeped in their own mythos. Despite embracing the fictional aspects of their lives, however, McNeilly styles these remarkable men and women with pure love and admiration, not only for their shared history and contribution to the evolution of jazz, but also for the pure, loud, messy beauty of the music itself. In this stunning and highly readable debut, McNeilly boasts finely honed poetic chops, proving that heart remains the first and finest ingredient in any truly virtuosic solo.

To register for this event, please go to: http://kevinmcneilly.eventbrite.com/