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African Heritage Month launch celebrates creative advocacy in action

African Heritage Month launch celebrates creative advocacy in action

Members of the Dal community and beyond filled the Dalhousie Arts Centre Sculpture Court to mark the start of African Heritage Month with food, music, reflection, and jubilation.  Read more.

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Tanis Trainor, photos by Cody Turner
Monday, February 2, 2026
Community members, scholars, performers and artists gathered to celebrate the opening of It’s About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970 and Now. The exhibition explores representation and reception, performing artists and the stage, dance in and for communities, and legislation and protest.
Kate Hayter
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
The Fountain School of Performing Arts’s production of Macbeth hits the stage in the Dalhousie Arts Centre this week, offering a radical re-telling of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.
Kristy Read
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
A new purpose-built air system in the space in the Killam Library now allows traditional prayer using sacred medicines, giving Indigenous students, staff, and community a reliable place for ceremony on Studley Campus.

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Alison Auld
Monday, September 30, 2019
Biology master's student Isabelle Hurley has teamed up with her advisor to launched a website that digs into each federal political party's stance on a range of environmental issues, filling an information gap as voters get set to head to the polls.
Warren McDougald
Friday, September 27, 2019
Prominent former politicians of different political stripes gathered at Dalhousie last Monday to discuss the big policy challenges that lie ahead for Atlantic Canada.
Stefanie Wilson
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Next Monday, Dalhousie's Studley Campus comes alive with the sights, sounds, and smells of the annual Mawio'mi, with a few new traditions in store to mark the event's 10th-anniversary milestone.
Matt Reeder and Sarah Dawson
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Follow along this year as We Are Dal unearths stories from individuals across the Dalhousie community, using first-person narrative to give you an intimate glimpse into the life of a new person each week.
Jane Doucet
Monday, September 16, 2019
This summer, second-year Schulich School of Law student Ziad Lawen spent his time with Paint the Park, a mural event that aims to beautify Mulgrave Park in the Halifax's North End.