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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
Thursday, November 26, 2015
At the age of eight, John Yool fled his native Sudan. Now, he's partway into his second Dalhousie degree, having come to the university through the World University Service Canada's Student Refugee Program.
Ryan McNutt
Friday, November 20, 2015
Students from across Sexton Campus have been spending their evenings this week in the basement of the Architecture Building, turning inspiration and collaboration into a vibrant display of colour for this Saturday’s event.
Nick Wright
Thursday, November 19, 2015
The Dalhousie Art Gallery teamed up with two Dal radiologists to try and solve some of the mysteries behind mummified Egyptian remains that have been in the university's possession for over 40 years.
Ryan McNutt and Miriam Breslow
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Martha Crago (vice-president research) and Michelle Adams (School for Resource and Environmental Studies) were joined by 11 Dalhousie alumnae as honourees at this week's Progress Women of Excellence Awards.
Caroline Kerr
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Tri-County Women’s Centre Executive Director Bernadette MacDonald delivered the School of Occupational Therapy's annual Kelly Bang Lecture last month. The event honours those whose research, practice, teaching and advocacy advances opportunities for women and marginalized adults.