It’s not just the flowers and trees that are blooming on our campus this season.
Staff, students and residents are full of great ideas to build community on campus and many of those great projects have come to life this spring.
Mountains, maps, and a bike
Sofia Shamsunahar, a first year Arts Student, avid doodler and lover of street art, is the winner of the Beautify my Bike contest. Sofia’s winning design depicts a view of the mountains from the UBC Rose Garden. Over the upcoming months, she will be painting her mural at the AERL bike cage.
The contest, which closed on March 14, challenged current UBC students, staff, and faculty to come up with a creative design that would cover the entire wall on the AERL bike cage – a canvas that is approximately 24 feed by 11 feet.
Read more about Sofia’s winning design.
The intergenerational piano
Have you heard the sound of a colourful new addition to the Wesbrook Community Centre that brings community members from all ages together? Three groups – UBC student volunteers, the 411 Seniors Centre Society, and MOSAIC Youth – recently came together to design, paint, and install a piano to help animate the new community centre. The piano project provided students the opportunity engage in a different type of learning that focuses on how they relate to communities around them.
UTown @ UBC grant projects
And finally, $7,120 was awarded to eight great UTown@UBC grant projects this spring.
UNA resident and 8th grader, Felix Man, has put together a series of youth-produced short, instructional videos that will teach residents how to properly use the Wesbrook Community Centre’s Green Depot.
UNA resident Jessica Clasen has launched a biweekly intergenerational music program filled with singing, signing, and community building for parents and their infants, and members of the Tapestry community.
UBC student Francine Burning, the First Nations Studies Student Association and the Indigenous Students Association held a very successful UBC Powwow that brought together community members to watch traditional dancing, hear powwow singers and drummers, eat and support artisan vendors on April 4th.
Learn more about this spring’s grant projects online.