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Movies and TV Shows Filmed at UBC

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We all know that our university is one of the best for a variety of reasons and one of those is that many of our favourite movies and TV shows were filmed on campus!

Location 1: Iona Building

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UBC’s Iona building is disguised as a building at Harvard University the popular TV show Fringe, as seen in the picture above. Another TV show filmed in Iona building is Psych where the the building acts as a mental health facility.

Location 2: Chemistry Building D-Block

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You’ve probably noticed that the Chemistry Building is a popular film location, but what exactly are they filming? TV shows Psych, Fringe, Supernatural, Caprica, Stargate Universe, and movie Kingdom Hospital are just a few. The image above is a shot of two characters of Caprica on their way to court.

Location 3: Chan Centre

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UBC’s beautiful Chan Centre was featured in several movies such as Battlestar Galactica, seen in the image above. Other movies include, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Kyle XY, Antitrust, Human Target, Bionic Woman, and more!

Location 4: Walter C. Koerner Library

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Walter C. Koerner library was featured in both TV shows and movies! Some examples are The L Word, Smallville, Battlestar Galactica (seen above), The Butterfly Effect, and 88 minutes. So the next time you find yourself studying away in Koerner, just know that you may be sitting on the same chair that Ashton Kutcher sat on.

Location 5: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

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Irving has been featured in the hit TV show Fringe as a Boston Federal Building, Massachusetts Port Authority, and a part of Harvard University. It’s also features in Emily Owens, M.D. as the exterior of Dever Memorial Hospital. You might also have recognized the foyer of the library in Human Target, as seen in the image above.

 

Location 6: The Buchanan Towers

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The Buchanan Towers have also been a popular film site in the recent years. X-Men Origins: Wolverine, seen above, along with Supernatural, Fringe, The 4400, and the Exorcism of Emily Rose were all filmed in or outside Buchanan!

 

Location 7: Rose Gardens

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The UBC Rose Gardens have been a popular site for filming in both the summer and the winter. For example, lat summer Tomorrowland, featuring George Clooney was being filmed by the Rose Gardens. Other movies and TV shows include The 4400, Battlestar Galactica featured in the image above, Martian Child, Stargate Universe, and The King of Fighters.

by Shazia Damji

The Clothesline Project

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T-shirt donations are being sought for Clothesline 2014. Please bring donations to The SASC – SUB #249M during centre hours.

Bearing witness to the impacts of violence

What is the Clothesline Project?

The Clothesline Project was started by a group of women in the United States in 1990. Historically, it was a vehicle for survivors of violence to express their emotions by decorating a shirt. They then hung the shirts on a clothesline to be viewed by others as testimony to the problems of violence against women.

As The AMS Sexual Assault Support Centre (SASC) supports male, female, and trans* survivors, our clothesline is not restricted to only women’s experiences of violence. Through the project, survivors are invited to express their feelings about the physical, emotional, and/or sexual violence that they have survived.

Friends/family/loved ones of survivors, and anyone concerned by the levels of violence in our society are also invited to decorate a shirt.

Clothesline 2014 will be hosted during the week of March 3rd-8th between the hours of 11-3 outside in the space between The SUB and Brock Hall. Please join us and bring your friends!

Creating a shirt. We would like each shirt to reflect an individual’s personal experience or sentiment. You may include memorabilia, dates, or images. The AMS Sexual Assault Support Centre will provide paint, shirts, and other materials. Shirts will be hung on the clothesline to be displayed and to bear witness.

Upcoming self-defense class at UBC

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Following last semester’s on-campus attacks, ensuring student safety is more crucial than ever.
Join Hillel at UBC for weekly Monday krav maga sessions starting February 3rd, 5-6pm, running until the end of the semester. Led by Jonathan Fader, an expert krav maga instructor and the founder of Urban Tactics Krav Maga, these sessions are with the collaboration of Israel On Campus and the UBC Sexual Assault Support Centre. Students of all levels are welcome!

To reserve your spot, follow the link to: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aghub-TERrTWdGhrMkIwS2FFS2FUTDc1dnBjSVh4bFE&usp=sharing#gid=0

$5/session, or sign up for 4 sessions and pay only $4/session. Bottles, pens, and more freebies for the earlybirds!