Calendar

Building 21 hosts a variety of events, activities, and workshops. Open to the entire McGill Community: students, faculty, and staff.

‍No appointment necessary. Just drop by!

Community Guidelines

Building 21 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.

Lightning Rounds

Tuesday Lightning ⚡

Tuesday afternoons

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.

Regularly Scheduled Talks & Discussions

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.

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?

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.

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.

Workshops 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

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!

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Collectif La Collation

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

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Douze à deux

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

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Encode Canada

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

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McGill Neurotech

Creating brain-computer interface (BCI) applications from start to finish with a yearly team.

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Past Events

Some of the past community-led events that have taken place in B21.