Non-UBC Event

A Theatrical Journey Through Memory, Climate, and Resilience

August 21, 2026, 2:45 pm to 4:30 pm

The NEST (housed on the third floor of Festival House) | Granville Island | 1398 Cartwright Street

This summer, the Lifelong Health and Wellbeing Lab will present an original dramatic production created and performed by older adults, bringing their personal experiences of extreme heat and climate change to the stage. This production is the culmination of our “Promoting Heat Resilience among Older Adults through Group-Based Arts” project—an arts-based exploration of how storytelling, creativity, and connection can support communities in adapting to a changing climate. Through theatre, movement, and lived experience, this intimate performance invites audiences to witness the realities of aging in a warming world while celebrating the wisdom, creativity, and resilience of older adults.

Please note that refreshments won't be on sale at the venue, but we encourage attendees to bring their water to stay hydrated. Eating and drinking during the play is prohibited, but attendees can do so outside of the theatre.

  • Non-UBC Event

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

Climate Solutions Research Collective

UBC receives support for managing its research enterprise from the federal Research Support Fund.

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