Kids Take Over UBC

Step aside, grown-ups – the kids are back in business at this awesome arts festival. Buy your Family Pass here!

Celebrate Family Day weekend by bringing your entire family to UBC on Sunday, February 17. Kids and youth will take on adult-sized roles, working alongside staff and volunteers to participate and promote arts and culture at UBC. Takeover Day, first launched in the UK, is a celebration of children and young people’s contributions to museums, galleries, arts organizations, archives and heritage sites.

Fredric Wood Theatre: Theatre Lab

First Nations House of Learning: Longhouse Adventure

Museum of Anthropology: Culture Kids – discussions, music and movement, hands-on workshops

Old Auditorium: Fairytale characters + stage tours + dress-up

Belkin Art Gallery: When First there was Light in the World. The Story of Two Wolves.

School of Music: Instrument Petting Zoo and Family Friendly Concert

Doug Mitchell Arena: Family hockey and public skate

Kid-friendly food trucks, photobooths, Thunderbird marching band, crafts, prizes and more!