Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies

Upcoming film screening of EDDY'S KINGDOM at the RCA.

In this stranger-than-fiction documentary, Eddy Haymour's obsessive dream of developing Rattlesnake Island in to Middle Eastern-themed amusement park leads to a spiralling path of legal turmoil and financial ruin, with a hostage-taking and bomb plots along the way. This is Okanagan history like you've never heard it! The director will be at the screening for a Q and A.

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Last week we celebrated the class of 2026! We were so proud to watch our students cross the stage and receive their degrees. Our FCCS graduates, their guests, our faculty and staff continued the celebrations of the day at a reception held in the Creative and Critical Studies building after the ceremony.

Dean Bryce Traister raised a glass to toast this year’s graduates and their families: “You have all done a great thing completing your degrees. And will continue to do amazing things, not just for yourself, but for the rest of us. We need to continue to work in the spaces of creative and critical studies, it is important to retain the human as something that we need to care about for our future. I thank all of the people who helped get you here today. It is a community of the willing that helps us to think about this future that we all to keep building together.”

Congratulations to all of our graduates in the BFA, BMS, BA, MFA, MA and IGS programs in FCCS!

Congratulations to visual arts prof Samuel Roy-Bois who made the 2026 Sobey Art Award shortlist!

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UBC Okanagan professor shortlisted for Canada's top art prize - UBC's Okanagan News UBC Okanagan visual arts professor Samuel Roy-Bois has been shortlisted […]