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The Art of Making Time (When You Don’t Have Any)
The Art of Making Time (When You Don’t Have Any) October feels like that part of the semester where time starts to blur. One day I’m opening fresh notebooks, the next I’m staring down midterms, looming deadlines, and an inbox exploding with workshop and event invites. Among them? The Arts Amplifier’s entrepreneurship panel on Oct […]
The Art of Making Time (When You Don’t Have Any) October feels like that part of the semester where time starts to blur. One day I’m opening fresh notebooks, the next I’m staring down midterms, looming deadlines, and an inbox exploding with workshop and event invites. Among them? The Arts Amplifier’s entrepreneurship panel on Oct […]
Plotting Possibilities (Career Curiosities Edition)
Hi! I’m Marjorie Rugunda, the new Communications & Programming Assistant at Arts Amplifier and a second-year PhD student in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice. I’m also an avid reader, professional napper, day-dreamer, and occasional “out-fit repeater.” When I began my master’s, the word career barely crossed my mind. “Career? I’m […]
Hi! I’m Marjorie Rugunda, the new Communications & Programming Assistant at Arts Amplifier and a second-year PhD student in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice. I’m also an avid reader, professional napper, day-dreamer, and occasional “out-fit repeater.” When I began my master’s, the word career barely crossed my mind. “Career? I’m […]
How Arts students are using entrepreneurial thinking
From 12pm-1pm October 21, 2025, join us at Arts Compass Hub to hear from a panel of UBC Arts students and alumni who will share their experience taking their academic training in an entrepreneurial direction and maybe you’ll leave with motivation to pursue your own projects and ideas. To be an entrepreneur means to take […]
From 12pm-1pm October 21, 2025, join us at Arts Compass Hub to hear from a panel of UBC Arts students and alumni who will share their experience taking their academic training in an entrepreneurial direction and maybe you’ll leave with motivation to pursue your own projects and ideas. To be an entrepreneur means to take […]
Fall 2025 Career Design Studio (Oct. 25)
Our next Career Design Studio for Arts Graduate Students will take place from 9am-4pm on October 25 on the UBC Vancouver campus. Those who complete the studio will gain a better understanding of a range of meaningful career options for Arts grad students beyond tenure track teaching, and practice strategies and engage with materials that can help […]
Our next Career Design Studio for Arts Graduate Students will take place from 9am-4pm on October 25 on the UBC Vancouver campus. Those who complete the studio will gain a better understanding of a range of meaningful career options for Arts grad students beyond tenure track teaching, and practice strategies and engage with materials that can help […]
Summer 2025 Collaborative Cohort Projects — Applications Open
Applications for our Summer 2025 Collaborative Cohort Projects are now open! Join an interdisciplinary cohort of Arts graduate students to work on a project with host organization for 60 hours of paid, flexible work.
Applications for our Summer 2025 Collaborative Cohort Projects are now open! Join an interdisciplinary cohort of Arts graduate students to work on a project with host organization for 60 hours of paid, flexible work.
Applying for a Mitacs as an Arts Graduate Student
Join our session with UBC Arts’ Mitacs Advisor Mahtab Nazari and PhD Candidate and Mitacs BSI alum Sydney Lines to learn about what Mitacs can offer Arts graduate students.
Join our session with UBC Arts’ Mitacs Advisor Mahtab Nazari and PhD Candidate and Mitacs BSI alum Sydney Lines to learn about what Mitacs can offer Arts graduate students.
