As the central hub for interdisciplinary dialogue and learning at UBC, all listed events at Green College are free, open to the general public, and do not require advanced registration (unless otherwise indicated on the event page).
Featured upcoming events
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January 21, 2026Imagined Histories
In the first event of the series ‘Living Archives,’ Green College writer in residence Theresa Muñoz will be in conversation with novelist Madeleine Thien, discussing how to weave archives and research materials into poetry and fiction. Theresa Muñoz’s latest poetry collection Archivum explores…
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January 27, 2026Indigenous Relationality in the Grind of the Shitty Future
Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession (Duke University Press, 2025), Jodi A Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing…
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January 28, 2026Kayla Czaga Reads "Midway"
“I feel like the crud / I accidentally touch sometimes, whatever it is / that collects under cushions on my couch,” writes Kayla Czaga in her third collection, Midway, an exploration of grief. In her search for meaning in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths, Czaga visits the underworld (at least…
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January 21, 2026Imagined Histories
In the first event of the series ‘Living Archives,’ Green College writer in residence Theresa Muñoz will be in conversation with novelist Madeleine Thien, discussing how to weave archives and research materials into poetry and fiction. Theresa Muñoz’s latest poetry collection Archivum explores…
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January 27, 2026Indigenous Relationality in the Grind of the Shitty Future
Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession (Duke University Press, 2025), Jodi A Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing…
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January 28, 2026Kayla Czaga Reads "Midway"
“I feel like the crud / I accidentally touch sometimes, whatever it is / that collects under cushions on my couch,” writes Kayla Czaga in her third collection, Midway, an exploration of grief. In her search for meaning in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths, Czaga visits the underworld (at least…
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February 10, 2026"Heaven Has Eyes": Canadian Book Launch
Philip Holden’s short story collection Heaven Has Eyes spans three cities—Singapore, Vancouver, and London—exploring belonging across space, language, culture, and time. Its new North American edition contains new stories that consider the place of the past in the present, and which are also…
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February 11, 2026Lives of Archivists and Scholars
This second event of the ‘Living Archives’ series looks at how archives are a vehicle for historical and personal discoveries, and how we can creatively engage with scholarly texts in fiction and poetry. Aislinn Hunter’s novel The World Before Us features an archivist in a small London museum…
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February 26, 2026Can a Trombone Weep as Well as a Voice?
More information on this event will be posted closer to the event date. This event is open to the general public and does not require registration (but please note that our seating is limited). Co-organized with Early Music Vancouver.
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March 12, 2026Frescobaldi in the North: Transmission of the Stilo Nuovo by Keyboardists in Amsterdam and Hamburg
More information on this event and performer will be posted shortly. This event is open to the general public and does not require registration (but please note that our seating is limited). Co-organized with Early Music Vancouver. This event will be followed by a reception in the Piano Lounge…
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April 8, 2026A Community Reading
More information on this final Whole Cloth Reading Series event will be posted closer to the event date.This event is open to the general public and does not require registration (but please note that our seating is limited).