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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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Sarah Nearing
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
With a unique performance style that has students performing under their own names, the Fountain School's take on Mary Zimmerman's "The Secret in the Wings" (which runs through Saturday at the Dalhousie Arts Cetnre) offers a journey of love and fear through some lesser-known fairytales.
Ryan McNutt
Friday, October 5, 2018
With Canada marking National Breastfeeding Week, learn more about Dal’s Breastfeeding Guidelines, established earlier this year to provide students, employees and all in the Dal community with information about supports and resources on campus.
Cheryl Bell
Friday, October 5, 2018
The Dr. William Murphy Dental Clinic celebrated its official opening during Homecoming 2018, offering enhanced care for more patients.
Matt Reeder
Friday, October 5, 2018
Dalhousie hosts its ninth-annual Mawio’mi on October 11 as part of Mi’kmaq History Month, with a full day of vendors, food, dance and drumming planned on Studley Campus.
Erin Elaine Casey
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire has been named the seventh recipient of the Dalhousie Faculty of Management’s Scotiabank Ethical Leadership Award, which honours Canadians who exemplify exceptional qualities of character, courage and adherence to ethical principles.