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The Victory Box examines how powerful systems enter everyday life by appearing useful, convenient, entertaining, and reassuring. Presented as a modern domestic device for safety and public information, it carries the appeal of something new: a media object families could watch, gather around, and feel proud to own.

A Fallow Year tells the story of Popa’s own fallow season, encapsulated through an intuitive skating practice and the building of an ice rink on a farm just outside Stratford, Ontario. 

The Life and Legacy of the Athabasca Glacier is an interactive exhibit that tells the story of one of Canada’s most iconic and rapidly disappearing glaciers. This series of art installations invites the audience to experience and reflect on the glacier’s fragile beauty and its role in our shared future.

Join us Saturday, May 9th for an indoor triathlon hosted by the UW Triathlon Club! Whether you're trying your first tri or gunning for a sprint, we’ve got a race for you.

The 2026/27 Staff Enhancement Experience (SEE) Canada grant supports professional development by funding short-term national travel for staff to learn from peers at other Canadian institutions and bring new insights back to Waterloo. Up to five proposals are selected each year, and staff can attend an upcoming HR info session to learn more and explore applying.

Join the Office of Indigenous Relations (OIR) and the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO) on Tuesday, May 5, 2026, for Red Dress Day, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People (MMIWG2S). 

Gen Z talent preferences have shifted over time, and it matters. Our free virtual event provides insights for HR professionals and hiring managers who want to understand where Gen Z preferences align and where they differ. We’ll spotlight how to stand out during recruitment, perceptions of AI in the workplace and how supervisor support can drive successful and impactful work experiences.

People who have excess seedlings (whether grown themselves or acquired elsewhere) can swap for other seedlings, or simply donate them. Those who are interested in getting seedlings but do not have seedlings to trade can bring a non-perishable food item as payment during the swap. The donated food will be given to WUSA’s Food Support Service. Any leftover seedlings will be donated to a community organization.

This month's talk features Susan Lindsay on Intimate Images, Deep Fakes and the Law.

When: Thursday, April 23, 2026

Where: Enterprise Theatre, East Campus 5 (Room EC5-1101/1111), 305 Phillip St., University of Waterloo

Time: 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Maddie Lychek's MFA Thesis exhibition "Could Be a Person or Multiple Hotdogs" subverts dominant narratives surrounding racialization, diaspora, and queerness by a refusal to flatten the artist’s multiple identities (Filipino, Slovak, masculine, lesbian) in ways that align with broader institutional narratives of inclusion.