WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16 2025

Dr. Rea Beaumont | Enjoy the Journey
In-Person  |  5:00PM – 6:15PM PST  |  MORE INFO HERE
UBC Green College  |  6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver

Join Rea Beaumont as she launches her CD with a lecture-recital featuring selected works and insights into the sources of inspiration at UBC Green College.

About the Rea Beaumont
Internationally recognized composer-pianist and UBC alumna Rea Beaumont, DMA, has released her sixth album Enjoy the Journey.

The album features Green Pieces — a three-piece set (Vancouver Vibe, Mountain Morning, Western Waters) that pays tribute to Vancouver, UBC, and the natural beauty of Canada’s Pacific Northwest. UBC Green College commissioned this classically-inspired set for its 30th anniversary, which Beaumont wrote during her tenure as the inaugural John Grace Memorial Composer-in-Residence. Additional works on the album include Time Will Tell and French-Canadian Folksongs.

The CD is available for sale at Gandharva Loka Music Granville Island and Neptoon Records (Main St.) and at the launch.

THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2025

Learning from queer and trans youth in research
Hybrid  |  10:30AM to 12:00PM PST  |  MORE INFO HERE
Neville Scarfe Building, Room 1209  |  2125 Main Mall, Vancouver

About Fierce, Fabulous, and Fluid
Based on a year-long ethnographic study conducted in a Canadian high school, Fierce, Fabulous, and Fluid presents a poignant critique of educational policies aimed at supporting trans and gender-nonconforming students. Author LJ Slovin observes the experiences of gender-nonconforming youth who were often overlooked in discussions about trans issues, in part due to policies created by well-meaning educators that inadvertently perpetuated a narrow definition of trans identity. Despite their lack of recognition, these individuals persevered, navigating their own identities and striving to thrive within the education system while building more inclusive spaces that embrace a spectrum of trans identities.

By sharing these stories, Slovin emphasizes the need for educators to move away from a focus on risk and concern and instead towards fostering a celebration of trans and gender-nonconforming youth. The book urges educators to cultivate a genuine desire to understand and support trans youth, paving the way for a brighter and queerer future within educational settings.

About Going along with Trans, Queer, and Non-Binary Youth
This book recounts a series of mobile interviews—or "go-alongs"—with eleven transgender, queer, and non-binary youth to examine the everyday ways they navigated and made their lives in New York City. By telling the stories of how the go-alongs transpired and using detailed narrative description, Sam Stiegler shifts methodological attention to those parts of scholarly studies that often get left on the cutting room floor.

Going Along with Trans, Queer, and Non-Binary Youth foregrounds process, not just findings, reflecting on the complexities of embodying the position of researcher and what it was like to do research with these participants. We, as readers, are compelled not only to see how these young people express knowledge about their worlds and their understandings of race, gender, sexuality, class, and age but also to appraise how we make sense of them in the course of our reading.

This is a hybrid event. For more information, please click here.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2025

Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize 2025 | To See What He Saw
Basil Stuart-Stubbs Reception  |  MORE INFO HERE
University of British Colubmia  |  Vancouver, BC

About the book
To See What He Saw focuses on the Lake O'Hara work produced by English-Canadian artist and Group of Seven member James Edward Hervey (J.E.H.) MacDonald, R.C A. (1873-1932) between 1924 and 1932. The book documents MacDonald's seven trips to Yoho National Park in the Rocky Mountains of eastern British Columbia, Canada, and presents a detailed catalogue of the resulting en plein air sketches and the subsequent studio works completed during the last nine years of his life.

The book features more than 200 of MacDonald's western works from this period, organized geographically with en plein air sketches and studio work illustrated side by side. Each sketch is accompanied by at least one present-day photograph, many of which are taken from the exact rocky perch where MacDonald sat. Save for the forest growth since the 1920s, this pairing enables the viewer to see what MacDonald saw, and to understand how he processed the landscape before him.

The book includes full transcripts of diaries, essays, and poems from which detailed, chronological descriptions of MacDonald's seven trips have been compiled. Relevant excerpts and original research further contextualize and illuminate the artist's practices for specific sketches wherever possible.

Congratulations to Stanley Munn and Patricia Cucman! For more information, please click here.