Posted in Events, Resources on Mar 28th, 2011 No Comments »
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and presented by the Global Civic Policy Society and the School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture at UBC.
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Posted in Events, News on Sep 14th, 2010 No Comments »
In collaboration with the Robson Reading Series and UBC Robson Square Bookstore, IKBLC presents Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Required Reading: a witness in words and drawings to the Reena Virk Trials, 1998-2000. The talk is part of the IKBLC Gallery art exhibition programming.
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Posted in Events, Resources on Jun 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. In partnership with Random House Canada, UBC Community Partners for Learning, the Chinese Canadian Historical Society (CCHSBC), the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW), the North American Association of Asian Professionals (NAAAP), and ExplorAsian
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 24th, 2010 No Comments »
Sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, with support and partnership with the UBC Community Partners for Learning (CPL), ExplorAsian, the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia (CCHSBC), and the North American Association of Asian Professionals (NAAAP), the IKBLC welcomes Judy Fong-Bates on May 28th 5-7pm, as she reads from her much anticipated Year of Finding Memory.
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Posted in Events on Apr 1st, 2010 No Comments »
View Larger Map On April 1, 2010, 7-8pm author Lee Henderson will be reading in Courtenay, British Columbia’s Vancouver Island Public Library. Sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Robson Reading Series, Lee will be reading from ‘The Man Game‘. On a recent Vancouver Sunday afternoon, a young man stumbles upon a secret sport [...]
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Posted in Events on Jan 7th, 2010 No Comments »
Ian Ferguson is an award-winning playwright and humorist whose commentaries have been widely broadcast on radio and television. He is the creator of the live improvised soap operas Die-Nasty and Sin City and is currently writing a sitcom pilot for a major U.S. television network.
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Posted in Events on Oct 28th, 2009 No Comments »
In collaboration with the the UBC Bookstore, UBC Library, the International Canadian Studies Centre, Alumni Affairs, and Learning Exchange, the Learning Centre welcomes author Jean Barman’s reading of the British Columbia: Spirit of the People. In 2008, British Columbia celebrated the founding of the Crown Colony of British Columbia and 150 years of cultural diversity, [...]
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Posted in Events on Oct 14th, 2009 No Comments »
Patti Gully – October 22, 2009, 2:00pm – 3:00pm In the late 1930s, as the world moved closer to war, three vivacious females defied gender perceptions by becoming pilots. Driven by a fierce independent spirit, they realized their dream of flying, completed barnstorming goodwill missions across the Western Hemisphere, and captured the imagination of all [...]
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