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.
Please email us at info@building21.ca for the password for hybrid events and any additional questions.
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 ⚡
Tuesday Mornings
Eclectic idea sharing with crowd-sourced critique from the interdisciplinary community.
Friday Lightning ⚡
Friday Afternoons
Eclectic idea sharing with crowd-sourced critique from the interdisciplinary community.
Creative Labs
Sparrow Writing Society ✍️
Bi-weekly Monday Evenings
McGill's writing collective, a space to stay on track of your creative writing projects.
Community Gatherings
B21 Lunchtime 🥣
Wednesdays Lunch
Nothing like catching up with familiar faces over good food, yes? Join us for our B21 lunchtime, where everyone brings bits and bites.
B21 Meditation 🧘
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.
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.
Collectif La Collation
Atelier de poésie La Collation; Rejoignez-nous pour un atelier d’écriture poétique avec le Collectif de poésie La Collation!
Douze à deux
Live co-working session hosted every Sunday in Montréal to work on passion projects
Encode Justice Canada
AI Ethics and Policy. Fighting for human rights accountability and justice in the age of AI
SNAC
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.
Fireside
Cozy fireside conversations with hackers, builders, and tech entrepreneurs
TOSI Journal Club
We discuss the benefits of open science and discover the big questions about science: how can science improve.
McGill Neurotech
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.
"I'm Not Sure" Talks
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.
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.
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