Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative: Smriti Keshari & Eric Schlosser

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Thu Jan 16 2025 6:30pm

Royal Bank Cinema

TICKETS AVAILABLE DECEMBER 19. FREE ADMISSION, TICKETS REQUIRED

The Phil Lind Initiative is presented by UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs in partnership with the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

Join Eric Schlosser and Smriti Keshari in conversation as they discuss their art exhibition, the bomb.

Eric Schlosser is a writer and filmmaker. His book Command and Control, a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in History, describes the challenges of managing America’s nuclear arsenal. His book Fast Food Nation (2001) helped to launch the modern food movement. Smriti Keshari is an acclaimed Indian-American director and is an artist-in-residence at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the National Theatre in London.

Their dynamic art exhibition, the bomb, kicks off the 2025 Phil Lind Initiative series and can be visited any time during opening hours of the AHVA Gallery 12-4pm Tue-Fri from January 7-30. The exhibition opening with the artists takes place at the AHVA Gallery January 15 at 5pm.

Presented by UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs in partnership with the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory and the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

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