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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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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.
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.
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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Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Back in April, the Agricultural Campus took part in the Soil Conservation Council of Canada's "Soil Your Undies" campaign, using cotton underwear to test soil health. In July, during Community Day, the results were dug up.
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
This July, 40 Indigenous youth from Atlantic Canada and as far away as Quebec and Labrador attended week-long health science camps at Dalhousie, Cape Breton University and St. Francis Xavier University.
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Pride Week 2018: As a peer educator with Human Rights and Equity Services, Rachele Manett focuses on intersectionality in helping people and communities better understand issues affecting 2SLGBTQ+ communities on campus and beyond.
Thursday, July 26, 2018
First launched at Dalhousie in 2014, the PLANS summer camp — which now reaches African Nova Scotian youth across the province — prepares high school students of African descent for postsecondary studies in the health professions.
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Photo essay: Members of the Dal community sported their rainbow colours and hit the streets last Saturday to take part in the Halifax Pride Parade.