Presented by UBC Sustainability Hub, come down to the Student Sustainability FEST! to find out about sustainability learning opportunities at UBC. Featuring music from the Blank Vinyl Project, giveaways, free snacks, and much more!
Visit one of UBC's underrated spots to connect with students, staff and faculty, who will share how UBC students can integrate sustainability into their studies and extra-curricular activities at UBC.
Register in advance to attend as a VIP ticket holder to receive a limited edition custom FEST! graphic sticker, free snack vouchers, and enter our prize draw.
EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Sustainability Scholars Conference
BC Hydro Theatre, Policy Labs A/B (Floor 1)
12.00pm-3.00pm
Learn how UBC Graduate Students are informing what local governments, institutions and NGOs are doing to future-proof people, cities, and urban spaces through their applied research as part of the UBC Sustainability Scholars program. Featuring a keynote presentation by George P.R. Benson (Senior Manager of Economic Development and Market Transformation, Zero Emissions Innovation Centre) to kick off the afternoon.
Visit the conference page for topics, speakers, and registration link to attend.
Student Booths
Food Hub Market (Floor 1)
2.00pm-5.00pm
Find out how to get involved with student groups who are pushing the dial on sustainability at UBC. Featuring: Agora Café, AMS Sustainability, Bike Kitchen, Climate Justice UBC, and UBC Botany Enthusiasts Club.
Live music! Blank Vinyl Project Presents
Patio (Floor 2)
2.00pm-5.00pm
Take a breath of fresh air, slow down, and enjoy acoustic sets from some of your favourite student performers throughout the afternoon! Featuring:
2.30-2.50pm – Zoë Clementine • @zoegelleralford
3.00-3.20pm – Amélie Preville • @a.preville
3.30-3.50pm – Shane Garner • @shanegarner_
4.00-4.20pm – Nolan • @nolesy__
Sustainability Hub: Take Action Workshops!
Wellbeing Design Lab (Floor 2)
2.30pm-5.00pm
Join students and staff from the Sustainability Hub to learn more about how students can join free programs to engage with sustainability at UBC and beyond. Featuring presentations and hand-on activities from Sustainability Ambassadors, the Catalyst program, and Climate Emergency Week.
Green Oracle
2.15pm-3.15pm
Climate Emergency Week
4.00pm-5.00pm
Staff and Faculty Booths
Atrium (Floor 2)
2.00pm-5.00pm
Take advantage of this opportunity to connect with UBC Vancouver staff units who are dedicated to connecting students to curricular and co-curricular sustainable learning opportunities. Featuring: Campus + Community Planning, Centre for Climate Justice, Centre for Community Engaged Learning, Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning, Slow Fashion Season, UBC Career Centre, and UBC Library Climate Action Committee.
Free Hot Honey Popcorn!
Atrium (Floor 3)
2.00pm-5.00pm
Need something sweet and spicy to keep you energized for the afternoon? VIP ticket holders will be eligible to pick up a bag of fresh popcorn, hot off the CIRS popcorn cart! Served up by your friends at the Sustainability Hub, don't forget to register to receive this delicious treat.
Low Sensory Lounge
Atrium (Floor 4)
2.00pm-5.00pm
Take a quiet break from the festivities on our low sensory floor with comfy seating and sustainable word poetry.
Student Exhibitors
Visit our student exhibitors to learn about their programs and form connections, and to find out how to enrich your studies through co-curricular sustainability opportunities. Review our full list of student exhibitors to help plan your visit:
Agora Café
Agora Café is a student volunteer-run, non-for-profit café at the UBC campus. Their goal is to provide affordable, accessible, healthy, local and organic food choices to students and faculty members while training volunteers in food service and business management.
AMS Sustainability
AMS Sustainability strives to make measurable reductions in their environmental footprint through the administration of initiatives, projects, and funding opportunities.
Bike Kitchen
The Bike Kitchen provides students and the wider community with an accessible environment where they can learn to fix bicycles, share resources, and work together. They engage in cycling education, outreach and advocacy to promote biking as a safe and sustainable means of transportation.
Climate Justice UBC
Climate Justice UBC, formerly called UBCC350, is a group of students who organize to tackle climate change and its root causes.
Food Hub Market
The Food Hub Market aims to provide at-cost groceries for the UBC Vancouver campus in a welcoming community space, using a student-led governance model with staff support. This student-led not-for-profit community space promotes social connection, cultural diversity, and access to affordable food basics at UBC Vancouver.
UBC Botany Enthusiast Club
The UBC Botanical Enthusiast Club aims to teach students gardening and botany skills through workshops and tutorials, to encourage students to be more sustainable, to collaborate with gardening and sustainability groups on campus, and to give UBC students— of all faculties, backgrounds and experiences— a space to share their appreciation for the botanical world.
Staff and Faculty Exhibitors
No matter what your degree, staff and faculty will be able to share curricular and co-curricular learning opportunities to integrate sustainability into your experience at UBC. Review our full list of unit exhibitors to help plan your visit:
Campus + Community Planning
Campus + Community Planning works collaboratively to create a vibrant and resilient campus for an engaged community on the traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.
SEEDS creates applied research and interdisciplinary partnerships between students, faculty, staff and community partners to advance sustainability ideas, policies, and practices and create societal impacts by using the Campus as a Living Laboratory.
Sustainability Planning and Engagement Team
The Sustainability Planning and Engagement Team works to empower UBC’s community for sustainable impact through leadership, social change, and resource conservation, while leading the development and implementation of climate, waste and water operational sustainability plans on the Vancouver campus.
UBC Inspired funds and delivers community programs and services for all ages, supports community capacity and empowerment, creates fun events, and designs creative ways to for people to connect with one another.
Centre for Climate Justice
The Centre for Climate Justice at UBC advances the urgent social, political, and economic changes necessary to address the climate crisis. By supporting collaborative, interdisciplinary, and intersectional research across diverse knowledge systems, the Centre is a place of mobilization – connecting critical research and community engagement to meet the demands for climate justice.
Centre for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL)
The Centre for Community Engaged Learning catalyzes, designs, and implements opportunities for students to apply their knowledge and skills to help address the most critical social and environmental issues by collaborating with diverse university and community partners and stakeholders.
Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning (CALP)
The Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning is an interdisciplinary research group focusing on innovative solutions that bridge research and practice, bringing visualization, science, modeling, land-use and landscape planning, and participatory processes to community engagement and capacity building on sustainability issues.
Slow Fashion Season
Slow Fashion Season is an accessible annual forum for exchanging research, building skills, and presenting inspiring initiatives and creative production in the realm of sustainable textiles and apparel. It is an initiative of the new Circular Textiles, Sustainable Fibre, Slow Fashion interdisciplinary research cluster in the UBC Humanities Hub that includes faculty, staff and students aiming to address the complex problems of textile waste and consumption by researching alternative textile systems and fibre materials.
UBC Career Centre
The UBC Career Centre helps UBC Vancouver students and recent graduates explore possibilities, gain confidence, and take the first or next step in their career.
UBC Sustainability Hub
the UBC Sustainability Hub, a staff unit in the Provost’s portfolio, that builds on UBC's sustainability leadership record, and works to reinforce the University's goals to inspire action for a better world.
The Catalyst Program offers recognition and validation to participants in existing and emerging leadership experiences on- and off-campus for their sustainability and climate action work, to empower participants to develop and demonstrate sustainability leadership through education, mentorship, experiential learning, and multidisciplinary collaboration.
Climate Emergency Week at UBC seeks to convene and energize communities of climate action at UBC. Join our events, workshops and activities, and take transformative action for justice, people, and our planet.
Sustainability Ambassadors Program
The UBC Sustainability Ambassadors Program offers an enriching learning and leadership experience for students passionate about sustainability. By participating in this program, students have the opportunity to engage in experiential learning and develop core sustainability competencies through sustainability education and experiential learning projects.
UBC Library Climate Action Committee
The UBC Library Climate Action Committee brings together resources for students to connect to climate action research at the university and leads UBC Library's participation in BC Library Climate Action Week.
UBC Zero Waste Market
The UBC Zero Waste Market resells second hand items originating from UBC Faculties and departments, to divert waste from disposal. The market helps UBC transition towards a circular economy and sustainable future.
Presented By
The Student Sustainability FEST! is presented by the UBC Sustainability Hub, a staff unit in the Provost’s portfolio, that builds on UBC's sustainability leadership record, and works to reinforce the University's goals to inspire action for a better world.
The FEST! takes place at the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS). Located on the unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), CIRS operates as an interdisciplinary hub for sustainability research, teaching, planning and operations, as well as a sustainable building research subject.