UBC Arts & Culture District

📻• This Is An Emergency Broadcast is on now through Saturday, August 10.

A project with artist and activist Marianne Nicolson, This Is An Emergency Broadcast occupies the Belkin space with audio recordings that clarify a history of Indigenous articulation, collective organization and opposition to colonial forces. By playing these audio recordings in the gallery – as they will be played on community radio – they are reified for audiences inside and outside remote communities. The recordings are contextualized by archival images and a reading room provides visual, audio and text sources that connect specific histories to the colonial project more widely and to a history of radio in art.

Please note the gallery will be closed on Sunday, August 11 for a community gathering.

https://belkin.ubc.ca/exhibitions/this-is-an-emergency-broadcast/

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Excited to see our First Nations House of Learning has a fantastic new website! Check it out in our bio
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From the Director’s message:
The website has been created to educate and inform First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students, staff, and faculty about our array of services and activities, including many campus partnerships, as well as the institutional leadership and representation we provide on a variety of matters.

To that end, I couldn’t be happier with our site, as it will prove to be a valuable resource for years to come.

Highlights include:

The About Us section nicely reflects the work we do, who we are, and the visionary leadership we’ve enjoyed since our inception.

The Student section concisely describes the services, activities, and opportunities we offer Indigenous students, and serves up important information on student resources across campus.

The Campus Engagement section summarizes the many ongoing activities we are involved in, some of which are student-focused while others are institutional-based, as well as further information on specific initiatives.
Finally, the Longhouse section includes a calendar that lists Longhouse events only, which will allow students and others to find them easily via that channel.

So, whether you are an Indigenous student, staff person, or faculty member, or a member of the wider UBC community, we trust you will find this site educational, informative, and, hopefully, inspiring.

Warm regards,
Joely Viveiros, Acting Director
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📣• .scientia.ubc Exciting news! 🎨✨ French artist Caroline Delétoille () has been selected for the “Quantum Studio” arts & science residency at and , in collaboration with . From October 14 to November 12, 2024, Caroline will explore the intersections of art and quantum science in Vancouver. Stay tuned for updates on her creative journey and upcoming talks!

📣• Join the Fall 2024 intake of the Indigenous Internship Program at MOA! This unique program provides training opportunities for Indigenous people working in museums, or who would like to, in the areas of Collections Management, Conservation, Library and Archives, Oral History Language Laboratory, and Curatorial work. ⁣
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This internship program was developed by six Indigenous partners: the Musqueam Indian Band, the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre, the Haida Gwaii Museum, the U’mista Cultural Society, the Nlaka’pamux Nation, the Coqualeetza Cultural Society, and the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. Funding is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.⁣

⁣👤 Who can apply? Indigenous community members from North America with a demonstrated interest in cultural heritage management.⁣

⁣🗓️ Deadline to apply: July 14, 2024⁣
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🔗 link to apply in bio⁣⁣ 👆🏼
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Pictured here: Indigenous Internship Program member Kala Hunt (Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw) prepares whale mask to safely travel home for her uncle’s potlatch. 📷: S. E. Holland⁣
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📣• June marks Indigenous History month, a moment ⁠to consider, appreciate and acknowledge the heritage, resilience, contributions and diversity of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples across the country.

At the Belkin, join us on a Decolonization Tour, which looks at public art on campus by Kayám̓ Richard Campbell, Brent Sparrow, Ellen Neel, Edgar Heap of Birds and James Hart, 7idansuu (Edenshaw).

Together, we will consider how these works raise questions around issues of place, space and identity on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.

We offer pre-scheduled tours throughout the summer from July 3 - Aug 14, to register, visit link in bio - or contact us there to pre-book your own group tour for 5 or more people 👆🏼

Image: Kayám̓ Richard Campbell (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) and James Hart 7idansuu (Edenshaw), θəʔit (2023)

📣 • We are thrilled to share UBC Opera Associate Professor J. Patrick Raftery’s () presentation of A Spanish Hour? a Q***r reimagining of Maurice Ravel’s ‘L’heure Espagnole’, a one-act comédie musicale from 1911. This rare all 2SLGBTQIA+ production is set in 21st century Toronto as a situation comedy exploring the realities of s*xual freedom in committed relationships. ⁠
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A Spanish Hour? You have one hour a week when your spouse is out of the house. What do you do? Of course! Invite your lovers and their lovers and then you are interrupted by a couple of strangers. Based on the Ravel original by the same name this re-imagining features an all-out team from of the q***r community taking charge of their own passionate selves and s*x lives. 🏳️‍🌈⁠
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📅 July 27, 2024 (2 shows - 2pm & 5pm)⁠
📍 Telus Studio Theatre ()⁠
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CAST 🎭️⁠
Directed by J. Patrick Raftery⁠
Musical Direction by Gordon Gerrard (.gerrard)⁠
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Toto - Madison Craig (MMus ‘19)⁠
Ramiro - Andrew Love⁠
Conception - David Walsh⁠
Gonzalve - Spencer Britten (BMus ’15, MMus ’17)⁠
Dawn - Simran Claire (BMus ‘18, MMus ‘20)⁠
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Free with registration! 📣 a Discussion + Reading with Comics Author/Artist Tobi Dahmen

Join us for a fun evening of chatting and diving into the world of comics with German illustrator and comics artist Tobi Dahmen, where he will present his latest graphic novel, Columbusstrasse: Eine Familiengeschichte 1935-1945 (2024).

Based on old family letters discovered after his father’s death, this family saga from World War II uses moving accounts to reconstruct the German war years, reflecting on the nation’s past and exploring political and personal responsibility.

During the event, Dahmen will discuss the inspiration and process behind the book and read selected passages while presenting the illustrations. There will be a light reception at the event.

Monday, June 17
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Pacific Time
Doors at 5:30 PM
Friends Quarters,
328 West Hastings Street
110, Vancouver
Admission is free, but registration is required. Register at link in bio 👆🏼

Tobi Dahmen, born in 1971 in Frankfurt/Main, is a German illustrator and comic artist. He has published several comic books, including Fahrradmod (2015). Dahmen has received numerous awards for his work and is currently working on a new graphic novel with a Syrian survivor as part of the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project.

Presented by The UBC Comics Studies Cluster (Public Humanities Research Cluster .humanities.hub.ubc ), Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project , and German Consulate General in Vancouver

We look forward to seeing you at this event.

📣• This Is An Emergency Broadcast
June 21-August 11, 2024

For the exhibition “This Is An Emergency Broadcast,” audio broadcasts occupy the Belkin gallery in connection to Ne’nakw (To Return Home), a project with Marianne Nicolson that supports Indigenous cultural practices that recentre the notion of home. In this largely sound-based exhibition, revoiced historical moments reveal the ongoing fight for the recognition of Aboriginal title. “This Is An Emergency Broadcast” connects political advocacy with the forms of communication offered by community radio, countering power chronicles of state and corporate media and, in its self-determination, offering space for reignited narratives.

By playing these audio recordings in the gallery – as they will be played on community radio – they are reified for audiences inside and outside remote communities. The recordings are contextualized by archival images and a reading room provides visual, audio and text sources that connect specific histories to the colonial project more widely and to a history of radio in art.

In addition, Nicolson’s 2018 video installation work “Hexsa’a̱m: To be there always” (with Althea Thauberger) will be installed in the gallery.

And on the Outdoor Screen, “Nuxalk Radio” will play daily between 9 am and 9 pm, a film written and directed by Banchi Hanuse documenting a day in the life of 91.1 Nuxalk Radio, a community radio station established in Q’umk’uts’ (Bella Coola) in 2014 with the slogan, “Lhulhamktulhs ala ts’ktaliwalh alh ti s-kulhulmcilh t’ayc n wa sulutilh ats (Broadcasting the laws of the lands and waters).”

“This Is An Emergency Broadcast” runs from June 21 to August 11, with programming with Marianne Nicolson the weekend of August 10 and 11.

For more information, visit link in bio 👆🏼

Images: Marianne Nicolson and Althea Thauberger, Hexsa’am (To be there always), 2018. Photos

Posted • 🎮👾INDIGENOUS POP-UP ARCADE👾🕹️

Join CIS and CEDaR to try out some of the best Indigenous-made games.

🗓️ Monday June 10th | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
📍CEDaR Space, Base of Buchanan Tower

📣• It’s hard to believe this is the final week of AQUEOUS NERVE: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition, featuring work by Francisco Berlanga, Alex Gibson, Tiffany Law, Jesse Ross and Morgan Sears-Williams.

Be sure to check out their work before the exhibition closes on Sunday, June 2 - and spend some time with the artists’ audio tours, available in the gallery.

The Belkin Art Gallery is located at the North end of Main Mall 🏔️🏔️ - stop in to explore this exhibition and afterwards why not take in our UBC Arts District neighborhood with a stroll through the lovely Nitobe Japanese Garden 🍃 and a stop at Koerner’s Pub for a meal on their sunny garden patio 🌳

Admission to the Belkin Gallery is always free!
Link in bio 👆🏼

📣 • Vancouver Chamber Choir set to premiere T. Patrick Carrabré’s Histoires des Métis in First Nations Longhouse (UBC) concert.

Through seven movements, the composition tells stories in a way that feels familiar to the Métis composer, conductor, and UBC music prof.

Head to Stir to read more - just click on this photo above at link in their bio.

June 8, 7:30pm
STORIES of the LAND
First Nations Longhouse (UBC)
Tickets at link above in bio 👆🏼

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Planning something special? Let us know if you’re taking part in this year’s 15th Anniversary celebration! Vote in the poll to share whether you’re organizing or registering an event for Culture Days?
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Our latest newsletter just went out. For more information about registration, review our email blast by clicking this image (above) linked in bio. BUT…before you do, make sure to click the “Newsletter” button to subscribe to our provincial mailing list.

Photo taken by Mallory Gemmel of our 2024 ambassadors Harmeet Kaur Virdee and Jesse Medrano-Ramos.

📣• Join Kôr at their season finale performance featuring an evening of choral music dedicated to diverse and wonderful ways we love. See Kôr shout their love from the rooftops with various styles, genres, time periods, and languages.⁠
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🎤 Kôr Presents: LOVE is a thing of the brave⁠
📍Roy Barnett Recital Hall ⁠
🗓️ June 15 at 7:30PM⁠
🎟️ Link in bio⁠ ⁠

📣• We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Dr. David Fung () as Associate Director, Graduate, UBC School of Music effective July 1, 2024.⁠
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“The last three years serving as an educator at the School of Music and curator at the Chan Centre have been immensely rewarding and gratifying. I have treasured my time working alongside a world-class faculty and our brilliant students. I look forward to serving our communities in Vancouver with renewed passion in this new capacity.” ~ Dr. David Fung, Associate Professor⁠
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Currently the Associate Professor, Piano and Chamber Music at the UBC School of Music, Dr. Fung is also curator at the Chan Center for Performing Arts, where he recently curated the Spirio Piano Series. He has also just accepted an appointment to the college faculty at the Manhattan School of Music!⁠
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Read more at the link in bio
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📣• If you find yourself in the Okanagan this summer check out this show by Professor Kevin McKenzie, curated by Dr. Stacey Koosel

H***y Tonk Chapel is open to the public from May 10 - August 22 in the FINA Gallery on UBC Okanagan campus. Please join us for Kevin McKenzie’s artist talk on Wednesday June 5th at 12:00 in the University Theater, and at 5:00 in the gallery for the exhibition opening event.

The exhibition is part of the Indigenous Art Intensive.

There is a great essay about H***y Tonk Chapel by Kevin McKenzie’s original collaborator curator Daina Warren

“Most interesting for this curator is having witnessed McKenzie’s art career develop over a long time, seeing the trajectory of his art practice shift while maintaining integral interests and concepts from his early career. When McKenzie was in Vancouver in the late 1990s and early 2000s he was heavily interested in an industrial aesthetic, involving early punk, rock music, and utilizing metal and organic materials that amalgamated Indigeneity and popular culture. Interested in the Lowbrow art community that was trending on the West Coast at the time, McKenzie was colleagues with folks like I, Braineater and 12 Midnite, a self-professed “Lord of Low Brow” artist. McKenzie followed their art careers closely, rubbing elbows with them at the Helen Pitt Gallery back in its early days. These artists were, and are, known for their rebellious and anarchist traits that McKenzie has embodied in his performances and works in other media throughout his career.“

Spend a fun evening with your UBC Arts Staff Choir! On Thur, May 16, the Arts Staff Choir will have a Social Night in the lobby of the Frederic Wood Theatre, and YOU are invited!

The night will feature a few songs by the UBC Arts Staff Choir, followed by performances by individual members.

⭐️ Silent auction
⭐️ Complimentary snacks
⭐️ Cash bar

All to help raise funds in support of the Peter Loeffler Student Scholarship.

Tickets are $20 and space is limited!

Grab one at the link in our bio 👆🏼

You’ll also find in our bio a link to donate to the Peter Loeffler Memorial Prize (with tax receipt):

Our Silent Auction will launch next Thursday, and be active for a week. If you have something to donate, or if you have any questions, please contact Jenn at [email protected].

Thanks, please spread the word!
The Arts Staff Choir
https://blogs.ubc.ca/artsstaffchoir/

📣• Join us for ‘Kutiyattam:, A Thousand Years of Sanskrit Theatre’, a live performance by the acclaimed Nepathya ensemble presented in collaboration with UBC Asian Studies !

Nepathya .official is a center for excellence in Kutiyattam, operating since 1998 in the village of Moozhikulam in central Kerala. Moozhikulam is one of the major sites for Kutiyattam which has flourished there for several generations

Nepathya functions as one of the prime centers of Kutiyattam which is taught, performed, and preserved in traditional format emphasizing the basic and characteristics aspects of this ancient art form 

This rare opportunity to engage with this breathing, living, ancient art form in community.

Kutiyattam Sanskrit theatre Is on the UNESCO Representative List as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

🎟: $15 (students) / $30 (general admission)

📍: Roy Barnett Recital Hall, in the UBC School of Music. 🚗: Parking: Fraser Parkade

🗓: May 21st 7 - 10 PM PST

Please find tickets on our Linktree on our Link in Bio 👆🏼

🥳• Thank you to everyone for coming out to the opening reception of Aqueous Nerve: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition - it was an amazing evening celebrating the work of Francisco Berlanga, Alex Gibson, Tiffany Law, Jesse Ross and Morgan Sears-Williams

And if you missed it, be sure to check out - in Gareth James’s words - “the best exhibition on in Vancouver right now!”

We’re open weekends at UBC from noon to 5, Tuesday through Friday from 10 to 5.

Aqueous Nerve runs at the Belkin Gallery through Sunday, June 2. Admission is free.

Just steps from the Rose Garden Parkade on NW Marine Drive.

Link for more in bio 👆🏼

📣• World Music Lecture Series presents ⁠
I AM THE DJ: A Case Study of Seven Female-Identifying, Non-Binary, and Trans DJ in Vancouver’s Local Dance Music Industry⁠

📅 May 25: 1pm - 2pm ⁠
📍Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden⁠
🎟️ Free Admission: Reserve your seat at link in bio 👆🏼
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Dr. M Gillian Carrabré (BMus, MMus, PhD) is a Musicologist, Violinist, Sessional Lecturer, Music Teacher, and Radio Personality. Her current research will be published in an upcoming book on DJ Culture in Canada. She currently lectures at UBC in the department of Journalism, Writing, and Media.⁠
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Vancouver boasts an astonishing number of female-identifying, non-binary, and trans DJs. Interviews were conducted with six local DJs spanning four decades of experience as well as diverse genders, races, and s*xualities. ⁠
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In this presentation, you will learn about the participants experiences with both discrimination and empowerment. Also covered will be a brief history of dance music and its relationship with inequality, as well as some information on subgenre differences, and previous research into female collectives within the industry.⁠
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Registration is free (link in our bio).⁠
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The World Music Lecture Series is coordinated by and Dr. Hedy Law (.law), UBC Associate Professor, Musicology.⁠
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Sponsored by the School of Music⁠
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Japanese tea ceremonies return to Nitobe Garden at UBC May 25 @ 11am, 12, 1 + 2pm!
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To deepen their understanding of the Japanese culture, visitors are encouraged to experience the Japanese tea ceremony at the Nitobe Memorial Garden themselves. The Urasenke Foundation of Vancouver hosts tea ceremonies at Nitobe throughout the summer. Visitors attending the ceremony can witness the formal preparation of tea and participate as guests. 2024 tea ceremonies will take place on:
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MAY 25 | JUNE 29 | JULY 27 | AUGUST 31 | SEPTEMBER 28
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TIMES: 11:00am, 12:00pm, 1:00pm, & 2:00pm
Tea $16
Garden Admission $7
Bookings required 1 week in advance.

Nitobe Memorial Garden
1895 Lower Mall, UBC Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Parking: Rose Garden Parkade, NW Marine Dr

Link in bio 👆🏼
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Nitobe Memorial Garden is considered one of the most authentic Japanese gardens outside of Japan. “I am in Japan. ” These words were spoken by Emperor Akihito—as he walked through the garden.
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“Chado, the “Way of Tea,” is basically concerned with activities that are a part of everyday life, yet to master these requires great cultivation. In this sense, this tradition is well described as the Art of Living. Having been nurtured on Japanese soil, it represents the quintessence of Japanese aesthetics and culture; but, over and beyond this, people far and wide have discovered that life is beautified by this Way — by the spirit that guides its practice, as well as by the objects which express that spirit and are an integral part of its practice.” - The Urasenke Foundation

📣• It’s happening! MOA reopens Thur, Jun 13 @ 5 pm, after an 18-month closure! ⁣🥳
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The Museum’s reopening in June will mark the successful completion of cutting-edge seismic upgrades to the iconic Great Hall, plus the revitalization and reinterpretation of displays of Northwest Coast Indigenous carvings, poles, weavings and other works from the past and present. Plus, visitors will enjoy two new feature exhibitions.⁣
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MOA will be hosting an extended weekend of festivities, starting with our
Reopening Night on Thursday, June 13, 5 to 9 pm (free admission for all).

Then, from Friday, June 14 through Sunday, June 16, we are hosting Reopening Weekend Celebrations full of family-friendly fun.

Visitors will be treated to performances, hands-on workshops, staff tours, plus food trucks and half-priced admission.⁣ 🎟️
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Stay tuned for more. We can’t wait to welcome you back to MOA again soon! ⁣
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🔗 link to more info in bio⁣ 👆🏼
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⁣📷: MJ Araujo. Design by Lydia Avsec, Copilot Design ()⁣
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[Image description: A graphic design with a pale blue background and the words ‘Reimagined, Reopening June 13’ at 5 pm in whi side. Three of the beams from MOA’s Great Hall jut out below and are casting a brighter blue shadow.]⁣


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OPERA THUNDERSTORM: This fusion of Western and Asian Operatic interpretation of Yu Cao’s beloved Shakespearean inspired play, tells the story of Thunderstorm.
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Enter a suspenseful world from 1930’s China. A charming woman’s heart is driven crazy by love. A young master regrets his sins but commits even greater ones without knowing it. Family secrets, life secrets, the guilty and the innocent. All of this happens against the backdrop of a thunderstorm night of destruction….
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Sung in Mandarin with English surtitles.
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Thunderstorm” Performance Schedule:
May 9th, 2024, at 7:30 PM
May 11th, 2024, at 7:30 PM
May 12th, 2024, at 2:00 PM
At UBC’s historic
Old Auditorium 6344 Memorial Rd, Vancouver, BC.
Parking: Fraserview Parkade
Tickets at link in bio 👆🏼

🎹Experience the Canadian debut of Sumino Hayato Saturday May 4th at the Chan Center in concert with the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra for the season finale!
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Also known by his legions of YouTube fans as “Cateen” Sumino Hayato is now regarded as one of the most in demand young pianist of his generation after his success at the last International Chopin Piano Competition. With over 1.29 million followers on Youtube, he is now performing with the world’s leading orchestras, including: Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Symphoniker Hamburg, Boston Pops Esplande Orchestra and others.
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Saturday May 4, 7PM
Chan Center for the Performing Arts
UBC
Tickets at link in bio 👆🏼
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Posted • It has been a year since I moved to New York. Though I’m still a beginner here, my world has expanded dramatically. Thank you to everyone around me for opening up my world... My journey has only just begun!

月日は百代の過客にして、行きかふ年もまた旅人也。ニューヨークに来て早1年が経ちました。相変わらずどこが住処なのか分からないような生活をしておりますが、そんな生活も悪くないですね。振り返ればこの1年で世界は大きく開けていました。全方面に感謝しつつ、これからも長い旅を謳歌したいと思います。

My upcoming concerts... (Please check the detail on my website!! hayatosum.com )

May 4: Vancouver w/
May 9: Toronto
May 18: Taipei w/
May 21-June 2: Japan Tour w/
June 20-23: Tokyo/Osaka
June 29: Singapore
July 14: Tokyo (Budokan)
July 21: Chicago w/
July 24: Gstaad
August 13, 17: Palermo (To be announced...)
August 23: Rheingau
August 31: Tokyo w/



Photo by my brother

Aqueous Nerve: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduating Exhibition
May 2: Opening Reception 6-8pm (yes, you’re invited)
May 3 - June 2: Exhibition Tue through Sun 10 - 5pm

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💧𝑨𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝑵𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆💧OPENING IN ONE WEEK AT THE !!!!!!!!!

It’s been two years of work/research/crying/studio hangouts and here we are! Our show will be opening on next Thursday May 2, 6-8pm and will run through June 2.

Come see our new babies and celebrate with us!❤️‍🔥





The Belkin is pleased to present an exhibition of work by the 2024 graduates of UBC’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program: Francisco Berlanga, Alex Gibson, Tiffany Law, Jesse Ross and Morgan Sears-Williams. This program in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory is limited each year to a group of four to six artists, who over the two years foster different sensibilities developed within an intimate and discursive working environment. Through interdisciplinary group critiques, weekly seminars, artist talks, open studios and advisor discussions, students develop advanced techniques and expand critical concepts to emerge with a particular direction for their studio practice.

Aqueous Nerve: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition is presented with support from the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia.

More at link in bio 👆🏼

• Tickets are now available for An Evening with ALOK presented by Indian Summer Festival. ⁠
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ALOK VAID-MENON (they/them) stands apart as a transformative force and one of the most compelling voices of our times. ⁠
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By blending poetry, comedy, lecture, and performance, ALOK challenges conformity and champions authenticity.⁠
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This event is a rare opportunity to witness an unforgettable live performance, followed by an in-depth conversation.⁠
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✨An Evening with ALOK⁠
📍Chan Shun Concert Hall⁠
🗓️ July 6 at 8 pm⁠
🎟️ Link in bio⁠ ⁠