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Top 10 Fine Arts stories of 2024

Top 10 Fine Arts stories of 2024

There’s no better time than the start of a new year for a moment of reflection on the previous year’s accomplishments. With that in mind, we're happy to present the Fine Arts Top 10 of 2024: an inspiring series of story highlights about our students, faculty and...

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Double Your Fine Arts Gift on Giving Tuesday

Double Your Fine Arts Gift on Giving Tuesday

December 3 is Giving Tuesday, a day when the entire UVic community will unite around a common cause — supporting the students and programs that make this university the very special place it is. This year, UVic's Faculty of Fine Arts is raising funds to honour and...

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Explore UVic on Nov 30

Explore UVic on Nov 30

Considering a future as a student in UVic's Faculty of Fine Arts? Join us on Saturday, Nov 30, as we open our doors as part of Explore UVic—UVic's free, all-day open house. We’ve created a fun-filled day of student panels, sample lectures, presentations, tours and...

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Indigenous Writers & Storyteller Series

Indigenous Writers & Storyteller Series

When this year's installment of the sxʷiʔe ̕m “To Tell A Story” Indigenous Writers & Storytellers Series returns to UVic on November 1, it will be the latest gift to the community by the Department of Writing and professor Gregory Scofield.“My goal is to honor the...

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Kathryn Mockler wins Victoria Book Prize

Kathryn Mockler wins Victoria Book Prize

The Writing department's 2024 Victoria Book Prize finalists (from left): Tim Lilburn, Ali Blyth, Kathryn Mockler, Arleen Paré This year, October should be renamed the “Month of Mockler”, given how much Department of Writing professor Kathryn Mockler has been popping...

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Southam Lecture:John Vaillant

Southam Lecture:John Vaillant

Humans, aided by the fossil fuel industry (AKA the “fire industry”), have altered the chemistry of our planet and its atmosphere in life-changing ways. As a result, we are now crossing a threshold into a new climate regime marked by previously unimagined extremes and...

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Orion Series presents Carleigh Baker

Orion Series presents Carleigh Baker

The Orion Lecture Series in Fine Arts Through the generous support of the Orion Fund in Fine Arts, the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, is pleased to present: Carleigh Baker  Writer "Writing Fiction in our Complicated Contemporary World" 2:30-3:50pm,...

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Orion Series presents Zehra Naqvi

Orion Series presents Zehra Naqvi

The OrionLecture Series in Fine ArtsThrough the generous support of the Orion Fund in Fine Arts, the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, is pleased to present:Zehra Naqvi Writer, poet  "Shaping Water: Finding a Form for your Writing" 11am-noon, Wed, Oct 16...

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Orion Series presents Atom Egoyan

Orion Series presents Atom Egoyan

The OrionLecture Series in Fine ArtsThrough the generous support of the Orion Fund in Fine Arts, the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, is pleased to present:Atom Egoyan Writer, Director, Producer In Conversation with Atom Egoyan (Q & A) Moderator:...

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