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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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Andrew Riley
Thursday, December 20, 2018
An award supporting single mothers from Dal’s Transition Year Program who pursue social work has been boosted thanks to the generosity of speakers and organizers of a national continuing education conference held on campus last spring.
Emma Geldart
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
For Tanya Muggeridge, a facility manager at Dal's Faculty of Agriculture, the chance to swim across the Northumberland Strait to raise money for Brigadoon children's camp was an opportunity she couldn't pass up — and one which took every ounce of determination she had to complete.
Matt Reeder (with files from Ryan McNutt)
Friday, December 14, 2018
A milestone as exciting as a 200th anniversary naturally lends itself to thinking big. That’s just what Dal has done during its bicentennial year, creating a legacy as the university enters its third century.
Obinna Esomchukwu
Friday, December 14, 2018
The Dalhousie Art Gallery's Student, Staff, Faculty and Alumni Exhibition, on until the 21st, is an annual December highlight.
Cecilia Khamete
Thursday, December 13, 2018
For Dal pianist Tim Crofts, the opportunity to help George Elliott Clarke perform his epic poem, "The Story of Dalhousie, or The University as Insurgency," has turned into an immensely rewarding, year-long collaboration.