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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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Jordan Zarvie
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Although the Bighorns prevailed over the Trojans at the 11th Annual Residence Charity Face-Off, the real winners were IWK Health Centre patients and families, with Dal students raising nearly $15,000.
Allison Kincade
Friday, March 18, 2016
ShiftKey Labs, the Dal-hosted information communications technology sandbox, teamed up with the global technology company to host a “hackathon” event for students. Their challenge: develop applications using information from the Government of Nova Scotia’s Open Data Portal.
Paige Black
Friday, March 18, 2016
At the sixth-annual Weldon Literary Moot, students from the Schulich School of Law came together with volunteer actors and legal professionals to perform a mock trial based on a JRR Tolkien classic and raise funds for local education organization Halifax Humanities 101.
Marie Visca
Friday, March 18, 2016
As part of Brain Awareness Week (March 14-18), Dal's Brain Repair Centre hosted a public forum in which several of its researchers shared insights into what goes on inside our heads.
Marie Visca
Friday, March 11, 2016
Compelling speakers from across the Dal community and beyond are gathering at the Student Union Building this Sunday for the fifth annual TEDxDalhousieU event.