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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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Ryan McNutt
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Dal researchers host public colloquium this weekend, in collaboration with NSCAD faculty, exploring the relationship between public art and urban public space.
Amani Saini
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
The spirited matchup was the first of three residence sport showdowns this year to raise money for the IWK Foundation.
Ryan McNutt
Friday, October 4, 2013
Wednesday's Mawio'mi ceremony filled the Studley Quad with drumming and dancing all afternoon long.
Jane Affleck
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Elizabeth Fitting of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology takes us on a tour through two Dalhousie Art Gallery installations: Rita McKeough's "The Lion's Share," which runs through this weekend, and Ron Benner's garden display titled "Trans/mission: Insubstantial Equivalence."
Julia Manoukian
Thursday, October 3, 2013
The legacy of Terry Fox brings Dal students out in support of cancer research.