Posts from the ‘events’ category

Artful Weekend: Eastside Cultural Crawl

If you’re in Vancouver, and you’re into art, and you’re into the eastside, then the 12th annual Eastside Cultural Crawl was made for you.  From the…

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World AIDS Day 2008 coming up: UBC hosts World AIDS Day events – Nov 17th to 21st!

World AIDS Day is rapidly approaching (December 1st), and after months of planning, hundreds of emails and a few minor breakdowns, here’s what the World AIDS…

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Saving the world by making a mixed tape. Give us your awesome song suggestion for the Terry talks conference.

If you take a gander at our “Terrytalks” speaker promo video, you’ll note that one of the sillier requests we had for the students was to…

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Introducing the 2008 Terry talks speakers…

Full roster details can be found here. Bonus marks to you if after watching, you can figure out Idette’s song choice… Don’t forget to register if…

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Stephen Lewis and Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Brendon Brazier: Panel on sustainability (Oct 29th, 1pm at the SUB)

“Students for Sustainability” are hosting a panel discussion with one of my favourite speakers (Stephen Lewis), joined by Severn Cullis-Suzuki and Brendan Brazier. Severn is David…

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Invisible Children Documentary

Invisible Children, an organization “motivated by the unseen war in Northern Uganda”, is coming to Canada for the first time ever in their fall 2008 road…

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Creating the space to be human. Dr. James Orbinski – noon, Nov 7th, Chan Centre (Tickets now available)

Just a note to say that James Orbinski tickets are now available for pick up at the Chan Centre Box Office. Currently, tickets are limited to…

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Get Learn’d Conference – a coming your way…

Mike says: “Lost or bored in lecture? Worried about midterms, finals, or both? Looking to gain an edge? Trying to juggle extracurricular, academic and social activities?…

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Margaret Atwood – 2008 Massey Lecturer – Oct 15th 8pm, Chan Centre

Also just found this out. Canada’s first lady of the word is going to be local in the upcoming weeks. Margaret Atwood herself, writer of many…

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Terry talks: applications to speak (DUE OCT 14)

(MAKE THAT OCT 14th: deadline has been extended to October 14th – woot!) THINGS TO AVOID WHEN SPEAKING PUBLICLY Egad! Is it already that close to…

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