Calendar
Building 21 hosts a variety of events, activities, and workshops, including those by McGill groups that share our ethos. Open to the entire McGill Community: students, faculty, and staff. No appointment necessary. Just drop by!
Please email us at info@building21.ca for the password for hybrid events and any additional questions.
Code of Conduct
Please email us at info@building21.ca for the password for hybrid events and any additional questions.
Code of Conduct
Building 21 Hosted Events
B21 hosts a range of regularly scheduled events during the semester that brings together scholars from all disciplines. Join us for interdisciplinary discussions, creative labs, and community gatherings.
Interdisciplinary Discussions

Tuesday Lightning ⚡(Projects)
Tuesday afternoons
[For scholars managing project progress] Eclectic idea sharing with crowd-sourced critique from the interdisciplinary community.

Thursday Lightning ⚡(Projects)
Thursday afternoons
[For scholars managing project progress] Eclectic idea sharing with crowd-sourced critique from the interdisciplinary community.

Friday Lightning ⚡ (General)
Friday afternoons
Eclectic idea sharing with crowd-sourced critique from the interdisciplinary community.
Community Gatherings
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B21 "I'm Not Sure" Roundtable
Monday afternoons (bi-weekly)
By bringing together insights from different fields, the I’m Not Sure talks explore the fluid and permeable membrane of possibilities and create room for unexpected answers to emerge. Led by Ho Mai-Thi and Prof Ollivier Dyens.

B21 Meditation 🧘
Tuesday mornings
Come by for a group meditation to find some calm in your busy day. For all who are interested in trying out meditation for the first time: for beginners but open to all.
B21 POTLUCK 🥣
Wednesday lunches
Nothing like catching up with familiar faces over good food, yes? Join us for our B21 community potluck, where everyone brings bits and bites.

B21 "Wednesday Nights"
Wednesday evenings (bi-weekly)
From Philosophy to Technology, Society to the mysteries of the World, let’s explore the connections and possibilities together. Bring your favourite snack or drink, and let’s embark on a journey of thought and conversation! Led by Josh Weinstein.
Creative Labs

Sparrow Writing Society ✍️
Monday afternoons (bi-weekly)
McGill's writing collective, a space to stay on track of your creative writing projects. Bi-weekly Mondays 4:30 PM @ B21.

Tinker Tuesday
Tuesdays evenings
Got something you want to: mend, build, model, fix, try, create, draw, make, glue, cut, sew, paint, embroider, craft, brainstorm, write, snip, test, pastel, sketch? Biweekly Tuesdays 7pm @ B21.
Events hosted by McGill groups
These are events hosted by other McGill groups and organisations that take place in B21. While not hosted by us, they share our collaborative and interdisciplinary spirit.

McGill AI Lab
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Open Technical Coworking Sessions. A time for the community to come work on their interdisciplinary machine learning related projects, ask questions, get feedback and ideate!

Collectif La Collation
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Atelier de poésie La Collation; Rejoignez-nous pour un atelier d’écriture poétique avec le Collectif de poésie La Collation!

Douze à deux
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Live co-working session hosted every Sunday in Montréal to work on passion projects

Encode Canada
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AI Ethics and Policy. Fighting for human rights accountability and justice in the age of AI

SNAC
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Student Nutrition Accessibility Club (SNAC). Reacting to the high cost of food and inaccessibility of healthy eating on campus, SNAC seeks to provide nutritious resources to the McGill community in a sustainable manner.

TOSI Journal Club
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We discuss the benefits of open science and discover the big questions about science: how can science improve.

McGill Neurotech
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Creating brain-computer interface (BCI) applications from start to finish with a yearly team.
Past Events
These are some of the past community-led events that have taken place in B21.

WWE Whiteboard
A large whiteboard, an inquisitive audience, all to wrestle with your ideas and confront “so what”s.

McGill Lifelong Learning
Providing learning opportunities for adults as part of the McGill School of Continuing Studies

Intergenerational McGill
Building a university that embraces lifelong living and learning across generations

CATLAB
Creative Arts and Tech Lab (CATLAB). Bringing together artists and creators of different traditional and digital disciplines every Tuesday evening.

Fireside
Cozy fireside conversations with hackers, builders, and tech entrepreneurs

Soup & PhD
Are you doing a PhD and finding it hard to meet other students? Find your community over a bowl of warm soup.

B21 Art Nights
Bring your supplies for an evening of painting, drawing, making music, and anything else creative

Storytime
Come relax, enjoy a hot beverage, and listen to an incredible story hosted by one of our own Building 21 scholars