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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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Stephanie Rogers
Friday, January 31, 2025
Cozy blankets and other items made with wool from the Faculty of Agriculture’s sheep flock are now available for sale from a new online store.
Farrah Smith
Friday, January 24, 2025
The International Centre will serve as a home away from home this year for students and others from the Dal community wishing to usher in the Year of the Snake together.
Jalana Lewis
Friday, January 10, 2025
A stunning quilt installation created by an African Nova Scotian artist has found a permanent home at Dalhousie, unveiled late last year at a celebration marking the release of the latest annual report from Dalhousie's African Nova Scotian Strategy Advisory Council.
Robert Huish
Thursday, January 9, 2025
How precisely Donald Trump could make good on his threat to annex Canada can be found in the U.S. Constitution. There is both potential and precedent in American history.
Sonya Jampolsky
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Rodney Small, founder and executive director of grassroots community engagement initiative One North End, sees a direct link between his Dal education and the work he does now. "I was not just a number."