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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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Wyatt Carling
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Dalhousie artists and innovators dig deep, showing the university's creative footprint in Halifax’s largest public art festival.
Emma Sutro
Thursday, October 16, 2025
The gift from Leslie McLean (MN’02) and Scott McCain to the Oulton-Stanish Centre will ensure that the Dalhousie Physiotherapy Clinic can provide expanded care to members of the Dalhousie and broader community.
Ellie Garry-Jones
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Everybody, the sold-out DalTheatre production running from Wednesday to Saturday this week, invites audiences on an unpredictable journey through life, death, and meaning.
Jennifer Cameron
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Student-led startups stepped into the spotlight during Innovation Week, showcasing an impressive range of innovations from bioplastics to bone-cancer detection. Find out who walked away the winners.
Ellie Garry-Jones
Friday, October 3, 2025
Explore Mi’kmaw history with an immersive, GPS-guided journey through Halifax that brings stories, music, and memory to life through your mobile device.