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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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Chris Benjamin
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Last Saturday's African Nova Scotian Music Awards, held at Dalhousie for the first time in its 20-year history, showcased some of the best and most exciting music Nova Scotia has to offer.
Emily Borgal
Thursday, February 22, 2018
From digitizing yearbooks to sharing classic images of Dal’s past, we take a look at how University Archives and Special Collections are helping bring the university’s 200th anniversary to life.
Molly Marcott
Thursday, February 15, 2018
At a panel event hosted by the Black Student Advising Centre as part of African Heritage Month, Dal faculty Chike Jeffers and Isaac Saney discussed the pan-African movement and its relevance today.
Logan Robins
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
The Fountain School of Performing Arts presents its annual Concerto Night this week, an eclectic and exceptional evening of music.
Josephine Choi
Monday, February 12, 2018
Dal student volunteers at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History's new Body Worlds RX exhibit help navigate guests through a unique exploration of the human body.