We at Asian Library are excited to welcome you and your family to campus on Sunday, February 18, from 10 am to 4 pm! Hosted by UBC Campus + Community Planning, Kids Take Over UBC brings together campus partners to host family-friendly activities in their venues and across the campus. Museums, arts and cultural amenities, faculties, and student organizations participate by coordinating activities that showcase their unique talents, skills and interests. Tickets sold out.
Schedule for events at Asian Library, Asian Centre (1871 West Mall).
| Kids Discover Asia: Discover Asian Games – Ages 5+ |
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| 10:00am-4:00pm | Lunar New Year Riddles |
| 1:00-3:00pm | Hopscotch |
| 3:00-3:40pm | Japanese karuta Card Games and Korean Board Games |
| Kids Discover Asia: Asian Language Storytimes & Kamishibai – Ages 0+ (*Storytimes are conducted in both English and Asian languages) |
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| 10:10-10:30am | Mandarin Storytime |
| 11:20-11:40am | Korean Storytime |
| 11:40am-12pm | Kamishibai Japanese Paper Theatre |
| 1:30-1:45pm | Persian Storytime with Pardis Sherkani |
| 2:15-2:30 | Urdu and Hindi Storytime with Naveena Naqvi |
| Kids Discover Asia: Get Crafty – All ages | |
| 10:40-11:20am | Origami: Discover the art of origami and make koi fish and other animals and objects with paper. |
| 12:30-1:00pm | Kite Bookmarks: Create kite bookmarks to celebrate the Lunar New Year using discarded book covers. |
| 1:00-1:30pm | Koinobori (Carp Streamers): Construct your own carp streamer, a Children’s Day tradition in Japan. |
| 2:00-3:30pm | Mehndi by Meet: Experience beautiful henna skin decorations (space limited). |
| 2:00-2:30pm | Origami: Discover the art of origami and make koi fish and other animals and objects with paper. |
| 2:30-3:00pm | Squiggly insects and flowers: Make insects and flowers with pipe cleaners. |
| Kids Discover Asia: A Japanese Garden Exploration – All ages | |
| 10:00am-4:00pm | In addition to the above activities, UBC Asian Library and UBC Botanical Garden invite you to explore the magic of Nitobe Memorial Garden. Stroll along the pathways, take in the peaceful sights, sounds and smells while completing a scavenger hunt and connecting with nature. |
We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).
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