Events

Trio Improbable!
2025-11-24 19:30 (America/Winnipeg) | Lorne Watson Recital Hall, QEII Music Building, Room 1-60, 270 18th Street, Brandon, MB, R7A 6A9, Canada
A concert of music for the improbable combination of clarinet, horn and piano featuring:
Colin Mehmel, clarinet
Callie Siverson, horn
Danielle Guina, piano
No admission charge. All are welcome!

5 à 7 franco
2025-11-23 17:00 - 19:00 | Westman Immigrant Services multicultural centre, 403 13th Street, Brandon, Manitoba, R7A 4P9, Canada
La communauté francophone de Westman organise un 5 à 7 auquel vous êtes tous.tes invité.es à vous joindre! Évènement gratuit, des breuvages et des bouchées seront servis sur place. Venez nombreux-ses!
À l’horaire :

Présentation
Rétroaction avec la communauté
Discussion des étapes à venir

Une inscription est recommandée pour y participer : https://form.jotform.com/253107484146052
Pour toute question, veuillez contacter community@westmanimmigrantsevices.ca

Amy Brown, violin
2025-11-22 17:00 | Lorne Watson Recital Hall, QEII Music Building, Room 1-60, 270 18th Street, Brandon, MB, R7A 6A9, Canada
Graduate Student Recital.
No admission charge. All are welcome!

Canada Music Week Concert
2025-11-22 15:00 - 17:00 | QEII Music Building, 270-18th Street, Brandon, Manitoba, R7A 6A9, Canada
The Brandon and Westman Registered Music Teachers’ Association proudly presents the annual Canada Music Week Concert, celebrating the creativity and talent of Canadian composers. This event showcases the diversity and richness of Canadian music and encourages students to explore and perform works by Canadian composers.
Location: R.D. Bell Hall, Rm. 1-57, School of music
Admission: By donation.
2025 CMW – Brandon Westman (2)
All students are warmly invited to register and participate in this celebration of Canadian music.

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Campus Manitoba - 35th birthday celebration
2025-11-21 10:00 - 14:00 | Mingling Area, Knowles-Douglas Building, 270-18th Street, Brandon, MB, R7A 6A9, Canada
Hey there, Brandon University students, staff, and faculty!
Campus Manitoba is turning another year older (and wiser), and what better way to celebrate than with cake?
Friday, November 21, 2025
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Brandon University | Mingling Area
Drop by, grab a slice (while supplies last), and help us celebrate this special milestone, because anniversaries are better with friends and frosting!

The Accessibility Exchange
2025-11-20 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom, Brandon, MB, Canada
Join us once a month on Zoom for a relaxed, student-led conversation about accessibility, disability, and navigating university life. This is a safe, open space where you can share your experiences, celebrate successes, and exchange strategies with fellow students. Cameras and microphones are completely optional, and you can simply listen in if that is what’s most comfortable.
Facilitated by Student Accessibility Specialists, Erica Brown and Morganna Malyon, the sessions are shaped by you, the students! We’ll help guide the conversation, but this is your space to connect. After each session, we’ll share a compiled list of the strategies and resources discussed so you can keep the conversation going.
Open to all students on campus. Register now!

Transgender Day of Remembrance
2025-11-20 11:30 - 13:00 | Kavanagh Courtyard, 270 18th Street, Brandon, Manitoba, R7A 6A9, Canada
The BU Queer Committee will be hosting a walk from the BU Courtyard to Knox United Church on Thursday November 20, to attend the Transgender Day of Remembrance Ceremony, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm. Light lunch, community booths, and reception to follow the service. BU Queer Committee reps and any interested students, faculty or staff will depart from the Kavanagh Courtyard at 11:40 am.
Knox United Church will also hold a candlelight vigil service 6:00-7:00 pm.

Long Night Against Procrastination 2025
2025-11-19 19:00 - 2025-11-20 02:00 | John E. Robbins Library
Long Night Against Procrastination is the Library’s flagship event, where students can study and access academic services late into the night. Food, drinks, and different activities are provided free of charge.
This semester’s Long Night Against Procrastination will take place Wednesday November 19, 7:00 pm-2:00 am. Please stay tuned for details!

Refund deadline (50%) - Full-Year Courses
2025-11-19 | Brandon University, 270 18th Street, Brandon, MB, Canada
Refund deadline (50%) for full-year (both-term) courses.

Voluntary Withdrawal (VW) Deadline - Fall Courses
2025-11-19 | Brandon University, 270 18th Street, Brandon, MB, Canada
Voluntary Withdrawal (VW) deadline for Fall courses (except Education: BEd (AD); BEd (IP) Yr 5; BMus/BEd Yr 5).

Level 9: The Forge of Focus
2025-11-18 16:45 - 17:15 | Zoom, Brandon, MB, Canada
Distractions can derail even the best plans. In this level, you’ll learn simple habits and strategies to build focus, stay motivated, and keep your momentum strong throughout the rest of the semester. Complete the quest to become a Focus Guardian.
Open to all students. Register Now!
Level Up Your Learning Series
Ready to embark on an adventure? Level Up Your Learning is a gamified workshop series where each session is a new quest designed to help you unlock powerful skills for success at university. From mastering time and organization, to collecting legendary notes, to battling test anxiety, each level brings you closer to academic victory
You don’t need to attend previous sessions to join the next one, just jump in wherever you’d like! Students who attend four sessions will automatically be entered to win a $100 campus bookstore gift card at the end of the semester.

BU Queer Lunch and Learn
2025-11-18 12:40 - 13:30 | John E. Robbins Library
Tuesday, November 18 a Lunch and Learn will be held from 12:40 to 1:30 in the Library Gathering Space. Please join us for a conversation about the history, meaning, and ongoing importance of Transgender Day of Remembrance with guest speakers Dr. Nora Wilson, and Rev. Craig Miller from Knox United Church.

BU Queer Lunch and Learn: Transgender Day of Remembrance
2025-11-18 12:30 - 13:30 | Gathering Space, John E. Robbins Library, Canada
Join us for a thoughtful and compassionate Lunch & Learn to help understand Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) lather in the week.
We’re pleased to welcome Craig Miller from Knox United Church, who will share reflections on remembrance, resilience, and community support for trans and gender-diverse individuals.
This session offers space to learn, reflect, and discuss how we can foster greater understanding and inclusion on campus and beyond.

Bobcats Volleyball
2025-11-15 17:00 - 21:00 | Healthy Living Centre, 2010 Louise Avenue, Brandon, MB, R7B 0L4, Canada
BU Men’s Volleyball vs Manitoba
Game start: October 31, 2025 5:00 pm

BU Women’s Volleyball vs Manitoba
Game start: January 31, 2025 6:45 pm

Bobcats Volleyball
2025-11-14 18:00 - 22:00 | Healthy Living Centre, 2010 Louise Avenue, Brandon, MB, R7B 0L4, Canada
BU Men’s Volleyball vs Manitoba
Game start: October 31, 2025 6:00 pm

BU Women’s Volleyball vs Manitoba
Game start: January 31, 2025 7:45 pm

Level 8: The Hourglass Trials
2025-11-13 16:00 - 16:30 | Zoom, Brandon, MB, Canada
Time can feel like it’s always slipping away. In this level, you’ll explore time-management strategies like time blocking and focus techniques to defeat procrastination and take control of your schedule. Complete this quest and become a Time Tactician.
Open to all students. Register Now!
Level Up Your Learning Series
Ready to embark on an adventure? Level Up Your Learning is a gamified workshop series where each session is a new quest designed to help you unlock powerful skills for success at university. From mastering time and organization, to collecting legendary notes, to battling test anxiety, each level brings you closer to academic victory
You don’t need to attend previous sessions to join the next one, just jump in wherever you’d like! Students who attend four sessions will automatically be entered to win a $100 campus bookstore gift card at the end of the semester.

Remembrance Day 2025 - University Closed
2025-11-11 | Brandon University, 270 18th Street, Brandon, MB, Canada
Lest we forget.
Brandon University will be closed on Tuesday, November 11 to remember the sacrifices made. No classes are scheduled. The university will reopen on Wednesday, November 12.
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
– Lt-Col. John McCrae

Fall Study Break 2025
2025-11-10 - 2025-11-14 | Brandon University, 270 18th Street, Brandon, MB, Canada
Fall study break runs from Monday, Nov. 10 through Friday, Nov. 14. The university is open, and office support is available regular business hours. However, no classes are scheduled except for Education: BEd (AD); BEd (IP) Yr 5; Bmus/BEd Yr 5. Regular classes will resume on Monday, Nov. 17.

Bobcats Basketball
2025-11-08 17:00 - 21:00 | Healthy Living Centre, 2010 Louise Avenue, Brandon, MB, R7B 0L4, Canada
BU MEN’S BASKETBALL VS CALGARY
Game start: November 8, 2025 7:00 pm
BU WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS MANITOBA
Game start: November 8, 2025 5:00 pm

Bobcats Basketball
2025-11-07 18:00 - 22:00 | Healthy Living Centre, 2010 Louise Avenue, Brandon, MB, R7B 0L4, Canada
BU MEN’S BASKETBALL VS CALGARY
Game start: November 7, 2025 8 pm
BU WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS CALGARY
Game start: November 7, 2025 6:00 pm

YuJa Panorama: Making Digital Course Content Accessible
2025-11-06 11:00 - 11:30 | Convergys Learning Centre, Main Floor – BU Library, 270 18th Street, Brandon, MB, R7A 6A9, Canada
Do scanned PDFs or messy handouts make studying frustrating? Do you take in information more effectively by listening? Do you find dense readings overwhelming, making it easy to lose focus? Would reading a text in a different language help with understanding?
The YuJa Panorama digital accessibility platform provides students with access to Alternative Formats to meet their accessibility needs.
Alternative formats allow for the conversion of documents into a wide variety of accessible documents including:

source, PDF and text files
immersive reader for audio playback
gradient reader for visual word recognition when reading
ePub to download the document in eBook format
audio podcast for audio playback
Braille grade 2 format for downloading
OCR formats for images with text to be searched and read by screen readers
math formats to convert equations into LaTeX
language translation to over 100 languages

Let’s explore these together in this 30-minute session, facilitated by Student Accessibility Specialists.

Read&Write: Reading Essentials
2025-11-05 17:00 - 17:30 | Convergys Learning Centre, Main Floor – BU Library, 270 18th Street, Brandon, MB, R7A 6A9, Canada
Do you find getting through required textbook readings a challenge? Can understating dense academic articles feel overwhelming? Do you experience information overload and find it difficult to retain what you’ve read?
In this 30-minute session, Student Accessibility Specialists will provide an overview of how students can use the Read&Write tool, along with a selection of learning strategies, to help navigate these challenges.
Read&Write is a versatile literacy support toolbar that helps students read, write, study, and research with confidence. For this session, we will look at how students can use the Read&Write toolbar to:

Read aloud text from websites, PDFs, or Word documents to help with focus, retention, and comprehension
Understand words with vocabulary lists, picture and text dictionaries
Annotate PDFs with highlights, sticky notes, and summary features to break down dense text into manageable sections
Reduce visual distraction with the screen masking tool that directs focus on one line or section at a time
Convert text into audio so you can review information on the go

It works with websites, PDFs, and Brandon University platforms such as Moodle and Microsoft Office 365 web apps. Read&Write is free for all students and can also be accessed off campus using your Brandon University account.
All students are welcome!

RESCHEDULED: Level 8: The Hourglass Trials
2025-11-04 16:45 - 17:15 | Zoom, Brandon, MB, Canada
This event is rescheduled for Thursday, November 13, at 4:00 PM.
Time can feel like it’s always slipping away. In this level, you’ll explore time-management strategies like time blocking and focus techniques to defeat procrastination and take control of your schedule. Complete this quest and become a Time Tactician.
Open to all students. Register Now!
Level Up Your Learning Series
Ready to embark on an adventure? Level Up Your Learning is a gamified workshop series where each session is a new quest designed to help you unlock powerful skills for success at university. From mastering time and organization, to collecting legendary notes, to battling test anxiety, each level brings you closer to academic victory
You don’t need to attend previous sessions to join the next one, just jump in wherever you’d like! Students who attend four sessions will automatically be entered to win a $100 campus bookstore gift card at the end of the semester.

Niigaan Sinclair: Why Indigenous Art and the Art Gallery Aren't Friends
2025-11-03 11:30 - 12:30 | Clark Hall, Room 206, 270 18th Street, Brandon, Manitoba, R7A 6A9, Canada
IshKaabatens Waasa Gaa Inaabateg Department of Visual Art Speaker Series presents Niigan Sinclair: Why Indiginous Art and the Art Gallery Aren’t Friends.
Niigaan Sinclair is Anishinaabe from Peguis First Nation. He is an award-winning writer, editor and professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba who was named by Maclean’s magazine in 2022 as one of the most influential people in Canada. Niigaan is a multiple nominee of Canadian columnist of the year (winning in 2018) and his commentary appears weekly on multiple platforms across Canada — from the pages of The Winnipeg Free Press to TV shows on CBC and APTN as well as on his co-hosted podcast Niigaan and the Lone Ranger.
His first book Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an IndigenousCentre (McClelland & Stewart, 2024) was a national bestseller that won the 2024 Governor General Award for Non-fiction. He is a former secondary school teacher who won the 2019 Peace Educator of the Year from the Peace and Justice Studies Association based at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Bobcats Volleyball
2025-11-01 17:00 - 21:00 | Healthy Living Centre, 2010 Louise Avenue, Brandon, MB, R7B 0L4, Canada
BU Men’s Volleyball vs Mount Royal
Game start: November 1, 2025 5:00 pm

BU Women’s Volleyball vs Mount Royal
Game start: November 1, 2025 6:45 pm

Bobcats Volleyball
2025-10-31 18:00 - 22:00 | Healthy Living Centre, 2010 Louise Avenue, Brandon, MB, R7B 0L4, Canada
BU Men’s Volleyball vs Mount Royal
Game start: October 31, 2025 6:00 pm

BU Women’s Volleyball vs Mount Royal
Game start: January 31, 2025 7:45 pm

BU Symphonic Band in Concert at WMCA
2025-10-30 19:00 | Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium, 205 20th Street, Brandon, MB, R7B 1L6, Canada
Brandon University Symphonic Band, under the direction of Dr. Wendy Zander, performs alongside guests for an evening of new and old favourites!
Guests include:

Vincent Massey Senior Band (Meghan Graham & Mitchell Wedgewood);
Dauphin Senior Concert Band (Andrew Coombs);
High school students from across western Manitoba.

For more details and ticket information, visit the WMCA link at: https://www.wmca.ca/events/bu-symphonic-2025

Read&Write: Essay Writing Essentials
2025-10-30 11:00 - 11:30 | Convergys Learning Centre, Main Floor – BU Library, 270 18th Street, Brandon, MB, R7A 6A9, Canada
Do you find essay writing a challenge? Often students feel overwhelmed – from organizing their ideas and information, getting their words on the page, to revising and editing for an insightful, clear, and polished paper.
In this 30-minute session, Student Accessibility Specialists will explore ways that students can use the Read&Write tool, paired with a stages for writing framework, to help navigate these challenges.
Read&Write is a versatile literacy support toolbar that helps students read, write, study, and research with confidence. More specifically, the Read&Write toolbar has the potential to help students:

Highlight and export key points from readings and placing these into a structured outline
Brainstorm and capture ideas and information with sticky notes and other annotation tools
Weave key terms into your writing by building a vocabulary list and using the dictionary features
Proofread using speech-to-text, grammar check, and word prediction

It works with websites, PDFs, and Brandon University platforms such as Moodle and Microsoft Office 365 web apps. Read&Write is free for all students and can also be accessed off campus using your Brandon University account.
All students are welcome!

Wilder Voices: Anthony Morgan
2025-10-29 19:30 - 21:30 | Keystone Centre, 1175 18th St, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
The Wilder Institute presents its first-ever event in Brandon — and in Manitoba! On October 29, 2025, they are hosting the Wilder Voices Speaker Series, an inspiring evening focused on community conservation and animal translocation.
Wilder Voices welcomes Anthony Morgan — celebrated science communicator and current host of The Nature of Things on CBC — as keynote speaker. Anthony’s ability to bridge science and community makes critical environmental issues both accessible and engaging.
The speaker series will highlight:

Community conservation
Endangered species protection
Meaningful community engagement

In particular, the Wilder Institute invites students and professors from Brandon University, especially those in programs related to environmental science, wildlife management, animal care, and conservation biology, to attend the event. Their participation will help foster meaningful dialogue between future professionals, experts, and the broader community — key to creating lasting change.
About the Wilder Institute
The Wilder Institute collaborates with local and global partners to develop science-based solutions that help wildlife and people. We aim to make a difference by working with landowners, local communities, researchers, and other conservation organizations around the world. We engage with governments to develop policies and practice that can yield scalable benefits on national and international levels. Our efforts to help endangered species, restore ecosystems, and improve human livelihood are simply trying to make the world a better place. Our past successes give us the confidence to take on any challenges in the future. We know that conservation works, and we see immense hope when people join forces to make a difference. Together, we know that we can restore balance for wildlife and human life for generations to come.
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Level 7: The Dungeon of Deadlines
2025-10-28 16:45 - 17:15 | Zoom, Brandon, MB, Canada
Big assignments can feel overwhelming if you try to tackle them all at once. In this level, you’ll learn how to break projects into smaller steps so you can make steady progress and beat procrastination. Complete the quest to earn your Task Titan badge!
Open to all students. Register Now!
Level Up Your Learning Series
Ready to embark on an adventure? Level Up Your Learning is a gamified workshop series where each session is a new quest designed to help you unlock powerful skills for success at university. From mastering time and organization, to collecting legendary notes, to battling test anxiety, each level brings you closer to academic victory
You don’t need to attend previous sessions to join the next one, just jump in wherever you’d like! Students who attend four sessions will automatically be entered to win a $100 campus bookstore gift card at the end of the semester.
