Gender Equity and the Fight Against Violence Project in partnership with Redes de Solidaridad Nicaragua
UBC FHIS Spanish for Community – Redes de Solidaridad (SPAN 401_2022_W1) Overview A curriculum-integrated service-learning project on language mediation for…
English-Spanish Class Facilitators
UBC FHIS Spanish for Community – Fundación Ratón de Biblioteca SPAN 301_2022_W1 Overview 22 Students from Span 301 sections 101…
Las bibliotecas y su función social dentro de la comunidad (Vancouver Libraries and their Social Function within the Community)
UBC FHIS Spanish for Community – Fundación Ratón de Biblioteca (SPAN 301_2022_W1) Overview As part of their community-engaged learning component,…
Palabras Madre/Mother Words, Community Event: Inspira@s with Scholar and Poet, Silvia Mellado
On March 28th, SFC participated in an open community event to start the second phase of the project on bridging…
Gracie and Anshul tell us about their experience working with the children at Ratón de Biblioteca.org in Medellín
Hello Spanish for Community blog! My name is Grace. I just finished my first year at UBC, planning to…
Connecting with UBC Community: Meet Our Partners from BC Brain Wellness Program and UBC Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
Dr. Matthew Sacheli Research Program Manage, BC Brain Wellness Program Dr. Matthew Sacheli is the Research Program Manager of the…
SFC Global Engagement, Helping Communities Abroad: Meet the Translation Team 2022 (March-June)
We are delighted to welcome our new Translation Team 2022! The translation/adaptation of the procedures manual for starting teams and…
Brain Wellness Language Project: Translation and Community Health. Students’ Process Showcase
Translation and Community Health: Students’ Process Showcase As part of the pilot language project of the BC Brain Wellness Program…
Se buscan traductores! Student Translators Needed for Spanish for Community
Spanish for Community Translation Team 2018, with Dr. Mackenzie (UBC) and Adriana Bártoli (Paddlers Abreast Canada and the Breast Cancer…
Visitor Alert: In conversation with Ashli Akins, UBC scholar and founder of Mosqoy.org
“Weaving in Quechua: Women, Language and Community” Spanish for Community and Spanish 302 classes are delighted to welcome Ashli Akins…
Bridging Territories and People Through Translated Poetry of Mapuche Writers: A Student Project Spotlight
Image Kultrun Mapuche, Museo de Arte Precolombino February 28, 2022 Read the complete FHIS newsletter here As part of a…
Visitor Alert: Gabriela Montero Mejía, “New Perspectives on Community Archaeology and Social Inequality in Mexico”
We are delighted to invite you to a special presentation on “New Perspectives on Community Archaeology and Social Inequality in…
Meet our guest speaker: Julio Montero
Julio Montero FHIS alumni, Cuban born, based in Vancouver, Canada Julio Montero is a Cuban-born dance instructor who has an…
VISITOR ALERT: Black History Month “La presencia afro en la música cubana ” A conversation with Julio Montero
As we started the month of February, the FHIS offers spaces to celebrate, learn and reflect on the…
A gift of gratitude from Ratón de Biblioteca
From Organización de Ratón de biblioteca Director Sandra Zuloaga Sánchez, Project Director Yamili Ocampo Molina: Congratulations and a big big…
COMMUNITY EVENT: Tuesday, Dec. 7th 4pm (PT). “Palabras Madre/Mother Words”
Join Indigenous writers from the Araucania in Chile for an afternoon of poetry reading in the Mapuzugun and Spanish languages,…
STUDENT TESTIMONIALS: Talleres virtuales & Ratón de biblioteca (UBC-Colombia)
Students from Span 301 section 102, through Spanish for Community, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS), and in…
TALLERES VIRTUALES: SPAN 301-102 students facilitate English-Spanish synchronous sessions
Featured image: SPAN 301-102 students Jade, Grace and Benjamin Students from Span 301 section 102, through Spanish for Community, Department…