What's On
Calendar
Ollivier Dyens
Co-director, Building 21
Building 21 hosts a variety of events, activities, and workshops, including those by other McGill communities. Events hosted in Building 21 must align with our Vision and Mission statements, and follow our community guidelines.
Please email us at info@building21.ca for any additional enquiries and the password for hybrid events.
This Week's Events
This Month's Events
B21 Events
Ollivier Dyens
Co-director, Building 21
Lightning Talks⚡
Tuesdays & Fridays
Eclectic idea sharing with crowd-sourced critique from the interdisciplinary community.
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"I'm Not Sure" Talks 🌀
Mondays
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.
CATLAB (Creative Arts & Tech Lab)
Tuesdays
Bringing together artists and creators of different traditional and digital disciplines every Tuesday evening.
WWE Whiteboard
Wednesdays
A large whiteboard, an inquisitive audience, all to wrestle with your ideas and confront “so what”s.
Soup & PhD 🍲
Thursdays
Are you doing a PhD and finding it hard to meet other students? Find your community over a bowl of warm soup.
B21 Potluck 🥣
Fridays
Nothing like catching up with old friends over good food, yes? Join us for our B21 potluck, where everyone brings bits and bites.
Community Events
Ollivier Dyens
Co-director, Building 21
Sparrow Writing Society
Wednesdays
McGill's writing collective, a space to stay on track of your creative writing projects.
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Collectif La Collation
Thursdays
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
Sundays
Live co-working session hosted every Sunday in Montréal to work on passion projects
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Encode Justice Canada
Monthly
AI Ethics and Policy. Fighting for human rights accountability and justice in the age of AI
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SNAC (Student Nutrition Accessibility Club)
Monthly
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.
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TOSI Journal Club
Monthly
We discuss the benefits of open science and discover the big questions about science: how can science improve.
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McGill Neurotech
Team-based
Creating brain-computer interface (BCI) applications from start to finish with a yearly team.
ContactPast Communities
McGill Community for 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
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
Contact us
651 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal, Québec
Building 21
General contact
Ollivier Dyens
Co-director, Building 21
Anita Parmar
Co-director, Building 21
