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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 5, 2017
Dr. Patrick McGrath and Dr. Patricia Lingley-Pottie are among the 2017 recipients of the Governor General’s Innovation Award, celebrating their work with the Strongest Families Institute — an organization that has helped more than 12,000 families and counting across the country.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Dalhousie's new Community Report — titled "Look What We Can Do Together" — celebrates the possibilities of partnership, profiling how the university and its cross-sector partners are helping build a stronger future for our region, country and planet.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Dalhousie will put diversity and inclusion front-and-centre during its 200th anniversary year in 2018 with a series of public forums, days of action and more.
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Architecture student Jennifer Kinnunen is part of an international team whose idea for refugee-led "food buses" was one of five finalists in the global What Design Can Do 2016 Refugee Challenge.
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
For the fourth year in a row, Dalhousie raised the most money of any workplace in Nova Scotia in the Canadian Cancer Society's daffodil campaign.