June 5 Public Salon "Inspiring Ideas"
May 07, 2013
The Global Civic Policy Society presents a Public Salon on Wednesday, June 5 from 7:30-9pm at the Vancouver Playhouse. A diverse range of speakers from very different walks of life will each spend 7 minutes speaking about something they are passionate about.
Green College Principal Mark Vessey a co-applicant on successful $4 million SSHRC Partnership Grant
May 01, 2013
Applicant Paul Yachnin (McGill University) and fifteen co-applicants including Green College Principal Mark Vessey received funding to begin their multi-disciplinary project entitled "Forms of conversion: religion, culture, and cognitive ecologies in early modern Europe and its worlds."

Life Lessons Learned from The Tempest
April 26, 2013
Green College resident Brittany Welsh describes how the daunting task of mounting four shows of Shakespeare's The Tempest helped and inspired her and her colleagues in ways she hadn't envisioned when she started down the Bard's path five months earlier.
Green College Mentorship Program at Lord Strathcona Elementary
January 04, 2013
Seven Green College students volunteered at Lord Strathcona Elementary School in East Vancouver as part of UBC’s Community Learning Initiative TREK program, matching groups UBC students with elementary schools in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, and helping with reading and writing lessons and tutoring students on a one-on-one basis.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Principal Mark Vessey invited to give Bristol-Blackwell 2013 lectures
Mark Vessey has been invited to the University of Bristol to give the Blackwell-Bristol Lectures 2013 at the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition.
Award-winning cultural anthropologist at UBC
Dame Anne Salmond will give three talks on how different cultures define and communicate ways of being.

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