Hey everybody,

Sun Dec 4 2011 @ 1pm Santa Claus Parade along W. Georgia St in downtown Vancouver. Enjoy!!!!

Click on the link below to get the details.
http://rogerssantaclausparade.com/

Hey everyone,

hope you’re all doing well with your studies. For those that came out to last Saturdays clubbing event… what a party that was. Full house!

Important: for those of you who are going on our awesome Ski Trip Getaway to BIG WHITE in January… the deadline for your full payment is due this Friday Nov 25th 2011 5pm. Please come by the JA office SUB 117 to pay for your early bird spot.

Cheers!

JA

It’s illumination time in Stanley Park, the 14th Annual Bright Nights in Stanley Park with a train ride through 2 million lights. Take that special someone on a romantic train ride and walk through the park decorated with brilliant lights and Christmas music. All donations collected at the event, and partial proceeds from the sale of tickets for the train, go to the Burn Fund to help burn survivors and their families. Dec 2 2011 – Jan 2 2012

http://vancouver.ca/parks/events/brightnights/

Also during your winter break check out Van Duesen Botanical Gardens on Oak St for the Festival of Lights 2011. Enjoy a walk in the park and watch the Dancing Lights on Livingstone Lake. Dec 9 – Dec 24

http://vancouver.ca/parks/parks/vandusen/website/events/fol.htm

Hey everybody,
the 2011 CFL Grey Cup will be held in Vancouver this Sun Nov 27th 2011 @ BC Place! There will be festivities starting this Fri. Go with your friends and have some fun.

http://www.2011greycupfestival.ca/festival_events

Lately we’ve been hearing about Movember but what the heck is it?
Well let me tell you about it… Movember is a combined word from mustache + November and in November of every year men shave their face clean on the 1st day and grow out their mustache throughout the month in support of raising awareness about prostate cancer!

If you see shaggy guys on campus now you know… they are all supporting Movember!

Click here to check it out!

Also November 11 2011 is a holiday so no classes!
But please don’t forget to pay your respects to those soldiers lost in World War I who fought for the freedom of Canadians
Imagine your life in a world riddled with war, living your childhood growing up in fear of getting attacked by the enemy, where there is no future education beyond high school for you and your future career is the Army. You would fight for your life everyday watching your friends and fellow soldiers die in battle. This is what they went through and we are all fortunate to not have to face such horror, and suffering.
We should thank all those men and women who have lost their lives on the battlefield for if it were not for them there would be no peace, no freedom, no Canada, no UBC.
Please honour Canada’s soldiers in a moment of silence on November 11th, 2011 @ 11am and wear the red remembrance poppy that symbolizes the lost soldiers of WWI and the peace we have come to enjoy in our everyday lives.

Thank you.
JA

Has the end-of-term-blues and crushing workload got you overly stressed out? Have no fear, the UBC JA has arranged a pumping clubbing event this year! Release all your stress and dance off your worries on Saturday the 19th at AuBar downtown. Avoid the crowds by purchasing your ticket through us; a mere $10 for members and $12 for non-members, and you also get a free drink! Swing by the JA office to pick yours up during our office hours today. Please note that this is a clubbing event, so you must be 19+ to join us. Tickets are valid until 11pm – please arrive at the bar by then!

With the lights out, a few drinks, good music and your close friends, we guarantee you will have the time of your life ;) Hope to see you there!

Much love,
UBC JA

xoxo

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Hope everyone enjoyed the extra hour of sleep this weekend!! In Canada  we set the clocks back one hour in the fall.

Live the REAL Canadian Experience this year at North America’s 2nd biggest Ski resort!

BIG WHITE!

We will be skiing all day and partying all night at RED BULL’s INVASION party….wild and fun times will be had!

Lessons and Rentals ARE available.

WIN PRIZES
SKI and BOARD
RED BULL’s 80s TIGHT AND BRIGHT PARTY
OKONOMIYAKI PARTY!
AWESOME HOT DOGS!

UBC JA AND ASIA BIG WHITE 2012!

Early Bird Deadline: Friday Oct 28 5pm

Price Early Bird: $302+HST
Price Regular: $352+HST

Date: Friday Jan 20- Sun Jan 22

2 Day Rental + 1 Lesson =$95
2 Day Rental = $70

Lessons and Rentals are available!

SIGN UP AT THE UBAJA OFFICE : SUB 117 (ASK IF YOU DON”T KNOW HOW TO GET THERE!)

*Early Bird requires $50 deposit. Or you can pay the full amount. You will also receive a 2 for 1 ski lift ticket coupon for Whistler/Blackcomb and an army knife (while quantities last) compliments of Destination Snow!!!!

Has the month of October got you excited for upcoming Halloween parties and events? Well it’s sure got us pumped!

Come join us on October 28th for our Halloween Matsuri at the Asian Centre. Sticking true to Japanese tradition, our Matsuri-style party will be a casual drop-in event, so please feel free to arrive and leave whenever you desire. This year we’ll be hosting this event along with UBC ASIA, so let’s dress to impress (and scare)!

Please note that this party is for JA and ASIA members only, so if you want to bring your friends along they’ll need to sign up at the front door. The fee for non-members will be $10 to sign up and join us for this amazingly frightful and fun night!

All members will be allowed entrance for FREE so don’t miss out on this amazing event!

Hope to see you there :)
xoxo

UBC JA

Friday, October 28 · 6:00pm – 8:00pm @ UBC Asian Centre

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=176893949062364

by Ishiuchi Miyako

Opening reception: Thursday, October 13, 2011, 7:00 pm (everyone welcome). Exhibition dates: Friday, October 14, 2011 through Sunday, February 12, 2012

This powerful exhibition features 48 photographs by Ishiuchi Miyako of clothing and accessories left behind by victims of the 1945 atomic bomb at Hiroshima. Unlike the black-and-white images most often associated with Hiroshima, showing devastated landscapes emptied of humanity, Ishiuchi’s colour photographs represent her own deeply personal, intimate encounters with everyday objects that, unlike the people to whom they once belonged, continue to exist in the present. Testaments to a profound trauma, they also illuminate the beauty, diversity, and complexity of individual lives in ways immediately accessible to contemporary audiences.

Ishiuchi writes: From the 19,000 items made available to me [at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum], I chose things that at one time had touched skin and bodies, and photographed them…. A flower-patterned dress colourfully dyed. A puff of gathered, shiny skirt woven of silk thread. Cool-looking, thin, georgette materials that once shed the summer heat. Used kimonos transformed into blouses and cut to make air-raid hoods…. These objects, exposed to the heat and radioactive rays of a fire ball that suddenly appeared one summer morning, and relinquished by the victims of the atomic bombing, have been on earth as long as I have. When I came to realize the coincidence, I caught my breath at their vivid hues and distinct textures, their flaws and complicated detail. These are too deeply linked to daily lives to regard as ‘historical materials.’

Born in 1947 in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, Ishiuchi began her artistic career in the late 1970s and is now one of that country’s leading contemporary photographers. Her work focuses on the representation of the human body, and her subjects are often directly related to her personal history: “1-9-4-7” documented the hands and feet of women born the same year as she; and “Mother’s 2000-2005, Traces of the Future,” explored the intimate elements of her mother’s presence and memory. Since the 1980s, she has been photographing scar tissue: indexical renderings of physical wounding and life narratives on the body. For her, photography is a medium of remembrance and monumentalizing, and an active agent in memory making. She exhibits internationally and her work is held in public collections in Canada and around the world.

Through the exhibition and a wide range of public programming, MOA will provide a forum for examining issues of war, trauma, and remembrance, and the role objects play in our collective memory.

A catalogue featuring images from the exhibit and essays in English and Japanese will be available for purchase in the MOA Shop. Also available will be a monograph edited by MOA curator Karen Duffek, featuring Ishiuchi Miyako in conversation with Professor John O’Brian, UBC Art History, Visual Art & Theory Department. Exhibition sponsored in part by Shiseido and the Japan Foundation. Media sponsor The Georgia Straight.

A note about the exhibition title:

ひろしま means Hiroshima, written in Japanese hiragana characters. Hiragana is one basic component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana. These characters were extensively used by women in former times; for Ishiuchi, using this style for the title emphasizes that this series is made from the point of view and feelings of a woman. It is the artist’s wish that that the hiragana appears before the word ‘hiroshima’ as part of MOA’s exhibition title, and that the ‘h’ in Hiroshima not be capitalized.