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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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Paige Black
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Partners from across the Dal community have come together again this year to celebrate African history and culture with a full slate of exciting events.
Matt Semansky
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Minho Choi and a group of classmates produced three songs and a music video in Dal's Development and Activism course to raise awareness about North Korea’s human rights abuses.
Cheryl Bell
Friday, January 29, 2016
The newly formed Halifax Dentistry Student Society for Refugees is working with community partners to sponsor a refugee family for their first year in Canada.
Miriam Breslow
Monday, January 25, 2016
Ram Raju, chairman and CEO of Kivuto Solutions, continues his longstanding support for Dalhousie and local entrepreneurship with a donation to the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship.
Matt Reeder
Friday, January 22, 2016
Norma Williams, Dal's first executive director of diversity and inclusiveness, brings more than three decades of anti-racism, diversity and equity work to her new role.