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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, November 25, 2016
Dal's Faculty of Health Professions hosted a Health and Wellness Discovery Day earlier this month — an event that introduced high school students to issues of health and wellness through fun, interactive learning activities.
Friday, November 18, 2016
Nearly three decades ago, Afua Cooper helped lead a coalition that challenged a racist exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum. Last week Dr. Cooper, the James R. Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, was part of a reconciliation event at which the museum formally apologized.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Acting students in Dal's Fountain School of Performing Arts help bring the College of Continuing Education's Accident Investigation course to life.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
"Immigration Politics in Review" is the theme of this year's MacKay Lecture Series, which kicks off with Minelle Mahtani of the University of Toronto this Thursday night.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
In what has become an annual tradition, students in Dal's School of Architecture are hard at work building a bike-propelled showcase of light and colour for this Saturday's Holiday Parade of Lights in Halifax.