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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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Matt Reeder
Friday, September 11, 2015
Each September and beyond, groups on campus like Res Life, Security and others team up to make sure new and returning students know what it means to live as part of a safe, supportive campus community.
Jane Doucet
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Rob Currie, Schulich School of Law professor and renowned criminal law expert, is also a singer-songwriter, writing about the experience of wrongly-convicted Canadian Romeo Phillion.
Matt Reeder
Friday, September 4, 2015
Dalhousie and Halifax Regional Police continue their longstanding partnership, ensuring a dedicated police presence in the areas surrounding Dal’s Halifax campuses during Orientation Week and on weekends through the fall.
Erin Stewart
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Follow along all semester as we offer a guided tour of Dal's Faculties, introducing you to people and places you might not know through video interviews, pop-up lectures, photo albums and more.
Ryan McNutt with Chloe Westlake
Friday, August 28, 2015
Its final residents have moved out, and this fall it will make way for a new fitness centre, but Eliza Ritchie Hall's influence will live on in the alumni who called it home over the past 28 years.