TD National Reading Summit II: Toward a Nation of Readers
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Dodson Room, Room 302, Chapman Learning Commons I.K. Barber Learning
Centre, 1961 East Mall, University of British Columbia
Author Judy Fong-Bates Comes to IKBLC
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.
Robson Reading Series Welcomes Lee Henderson at Vancouver Island Public Library
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 [...]
Asia Leading English Language Novelist Xu Xi at IKBLC, May 26th, 2009
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25th, 2009 Comments Off
Xu Xi (許素細), one of Asia’s leading English language novelists and author of seven books of fiction and essays, including The Unwalled City (2001), Hong Kong Rose (1997), Chinese Walls (1994), Overleaf Hong Kong (2004), History’s Fiction (2001) and Daughters of Hui (1996) performed a reading at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on May [...]
Tony Harrison: Workshop on Speaking Verse
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Tony Harrison and award-winning actress Sian Thomas lead a master class at UBC on reading poetry aloud and delivering verse in performance. Some participants will have the opportunity to continue working with Harrison and Thomas on the delivery of verse and to perform scenes from Harrison’s plays as part of his final event at UBC [...]
Gabor Mate at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on Dec 4th
Posted in Events on Oct 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
For over ten years Gabor Maté has been the staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and harm reduction facility in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. His patients are challenged by life-threatening drug addictions, schizophrenia, mental illness, Hepatitis C, HIV and, in many cases, all four. But if Dr. Maté’s patients are at the far end [...]
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