Events - 2021

Join us for a Q&A session with Elizabeth Monier-Williams

Liz Gilbert writes in her book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, that it’s irresponsible to immediately expect your art to pay for your life. Doing so puts undue pressure on efforts that need time, practice and luck to flourish.

But many of us feel called to live a life outside the lines of corporate culture. Is it possible to do both?

Silicon Valley companies have brought digital technology into every sphere of modern life. But while Big Tech garners unprecedented power and profits, everyday existence becomes ever more deeply enmeshed in the circuits of capital. To what end? What are the limits of the digital frontier?

Are you interested in working in Tech?

Join us as we chat with Arts alumni, about how they turned their Arts degree into a career in Tech.

Being a techie, and an Arts student is not mutually exclusive. Hear from Arts alumni about how they've been able to navigate the tech industry as an Arts degree holder. Collectively, our alumni speakers have worked for the likes of: Blackberry, IBM, Rogers, Point Click Care, Facebook, and many other startup and established tech companies. 

Do you think you have the next big idea?

Thousands of UWaterloo students have been behind the hundreds of startups, making Waterloo region the second highest density of startups in the world, according to Communitech.

Join us in an interesting discussion with a couple of entrepreneurs who have secured funding for their startups, an angel investor who has invested in multiple startups internationally, and public servant tasked to support underrepresented entrepreneurs in improving their economic participation.

Are you curious about career opportunities in Marketing and Communications?

Join us in a conversation with Arts alumni who are leading the way in the Marketing and Communication sector.

Don’t know what kind of career you want after graduating? Wondering what you can do with a BA? Curious about working abroad?

Congratulations to ALL the prize winners of Grad Class Send-Off 2021

Photo Submission Winners ($10 Starbucks gift cards)

Are you in need of a pep talk as you approach the end of the semester? Are you curious about what you can do with your Arts degree?  Do you need early professional career advice?