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Healthy Workplace Initiatives Funding Applications: Registration now open

UBC’s favourite staff and faculty healthy activity funding program is back!  Apply today to bring healthy activities and initiatives into your department.  Applications close on April 22, 2016.

Staff and Faculty Sports Day: Registration open

Sports Day returns on May 6, 2016! This free event is designed for staff and faculty to build teamwork and celebrate the end of the school year. With your team of 4-6 people, you will take part in four physical or intellectual challenges and enjoy a free lunch!

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UBC Ripple Effect 2016: March 14-18

Participate in the UBC Ripple Effect campaign and ignite learning, conversation, and action on sustainability. This year, events include Grounds for Change, and Love Your Leftovers at the a Zero Waste Food Truck Festival.

CIS Men’s Basketball National Championships: March 17-20

The UBC Thunderbirds will welcome the country’s best teams when UBC hosts the CIS Men’s Basketball National Championship.  This marks the first time in 33 years that UBC has hosted Canada’s national basketball championships.

Storm The Wall Community & Kids Festival: March 20

Storm The Wall is one of UBC’s biggest and most iconic events! Celebrate a UBC tradition at the second annual Community & Kids Festival! Race, watch, or simply enjoy as the festival has something for everyone.

This year’s festival is a celebration of UBC’s 100th anniversary and will feature a performance stage with local performing artists. There will be lots of fun activities for kids, including face painting, crafts, and games.

Make sure not to miss Storm The Wall either! From March 20-23 experience Storm The Wall through individual and team participation, spectating or attending festivals!

It’s My Life! Cancer Prevention Blog: March

Did you know that there are many steps you can take to lower your risk factors of getting some cancers? “It’s My Life” is an online tool from the Canadian Cancer Society that aims to make cancer prevention information more engaging. The Centre of Excellence in Cancer Prevention’s March blog post looks the tool’s effectiveness.

Off Campus Events and Activities

alive@work: March 2016

Another great healthy learning tool geared toward the workplace.  This month’s issue features men’s health, kidney care, the benefits of crying, healthy dinner loaves, and more!

Vancouver Celtic Festival: March 10-17

Western Canada’s largest Celtic celebration offers the best of traditional and contemporary Celtic culture in all its diversity and vitality –everyone is invited to join in!

Museum Spring Break – Surrey 911: March 15-24

Drop everything to celebrate the firefighters, police and paramedics who come to our rescue. Make your own ambulance or police cruiser and flex your firefighter muscles as you put out a mock fire.

Celebrate Earth Hour: March 19, 8:30-9:30pm

Celebrate your commitment to the planet with your friends, family, community or at work – in your own way. A simple event can be just turning off all non-essential lights from 8:30pm-9:30pm.

Pop Up Medicine-Sugar Coated: March 20

This is not a clinic, this is pop up medicine!  Join Stretch Vancouver and local health care professionals for a screening of Sugar Coated, a documentary on the food industry.  The film will be followed by a Q & A to explore the impacts of refined sugar on our diets, our hormones, our waistlines & our brains.  Register here.

Workout to Conquer Cancer: April 2

Join the most meaningful workout of your life. Hundreds of participants will come together a full day of upbeat group exercise classes to raise funds for breakthrough cancer research at the BC Cancer Agency.

Walk Richmond-London Farm: April 2

Begin at the historic London Farm House, which includes a fully restored heritage house, barn and old farm equipment that illustrates Richmond’s rural history, and continue on towards and through the Britannia Shipyards.  For all ages.

Climate Change Denial-Where Do We Go From Here? (Free lecture): April 5

The Spring 2016 Wall Exchange lecture features Naomi Oreskes, climate change activist and historian of science.  Admission is free, but space is limited so register early.