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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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Friday, May 12, 2017
A commemorative Vimy Ridge Oak is being planted on the Agricultural Campus in Truro as part of Convocation celebrations, one of 40 trees across Atlantic Canada recognizing the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
Friday, May 12, 2017
Dalhousie and its partners — the Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax Regional School Board, Healing our Nations, and the Native Council of Nova Scotia — welcomed over 100 Indigenous high school students to campus to learn about career opportunities in health fields.
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Members of the Dal community have come together as the "Relay to #Dal200" team to raise funds for Phoenix Youth Programs, while the Dalhousie Alumni Association prepares to support runners again this year by hosting its volunteer water station.
Thursday, May 11, 2017
The latest project from Halifax's Zuppa Theatre, "The Archive of Missing Things," is an immersive, interactive theatrical experience threaded through the halls of Dalhousie's Killam Library. It's a mystery that’s part online scavenger hunt, part audio-play, part live performance.
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Dalhousie's Agricultural Campus, a longtime sponsor of Nova Scotia's Reach for the Top competition, hosted this year's showdown late last month, welcoming high school students from across the province.