The Scene: Imagine Day


DATE
Tuesday September 3, 2013
TIME
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

A free performing and visual arts event held as part of UBC’s campus-wide Imagine Day

THE SCENE

Tuesday, September 3rd, 10am-1pm FREE!

Norman MacKenzie Fine Arts Plaza (beside the Belkin Gallery, 1825 Main Mall). A free performing & visual arts event held as part of UBC’s campus-wide Imagine Day.

Enjoy outdoor mini performances and get your hands dirty with in interactive art installations. Visit advising tables to learn about UBC’s remarkable study options in the performing, creative and visual arts. Find out how to get low and no-cost student tickets to amazing cultural events on campus. Want to get in on the arts scene at UBC? Our student clubs are open to all, so come meet our cool club reps. Rub elbows with our returning students over free coffee, tea and snacks in our Artists Cafés. Don’t miss our Dean of Arts, Gage Averill, who performs at 11 am.

OUTDOOR STAGES at THE SCENE:

School of Music & Chan Centre: South Korean Traditional Percussion Performance – followed by drumming procession (Nathan Hesselink)

Theatre at UBC: Traditional Poi, Theatre at UBC alumna Barbara Kozicki spins fire pots

Theatre at UBC: Monologue by BFA Acting student from Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle

11:00 Faculty of Arts: Dean of Arts Gage Averill performs

11:15 Art History, Visual Art and Theory: Assistant Professor Dana Claxton raises awareness about the West Coast National Event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission with an original performance piece.

School of Music & Chan Centre: South Korean Traditional Percussion Performance – followed by drumming procession (Nathan Hesselink).

UBC Opera: Opera flash mob #1

Theatre at UBC: TheatreSports led by BFA actors & UBC Improv Club

UBC Player’s Club: UBC’s presents an original stage adaptation of a videogame The Legend of Zelda

UBC Opera: Opera flash mob #2

OTHER ACTIVITIES INCLUDE: Interactive Painting Installation on Main Mall run by the Visual Art Students’ Association | Advising: UBC Theatre & Film, School of Music, UBC Opera as well as Art History, Visual Art and Theory + related student clubs | Info. Booth/Ticket contests: Museum of Anthropology, Belkin Gallery and Chan Centre.

THE SCENE: Join us outdoors in the Norman MacKenzie Fine Arts Plaza, beside the Belkin Gallery at 1825 Main Mall WHEN: Tue. Sept. 3, 2013 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | More at www.thesceneubc.ca

Media Contact: Deb Pickman deb.pickman@ubc.ca | 604.319.7656



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