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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 ĢAV 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 ĢAV 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 ĢAV 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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Stefanie Wilson
Friday, September 24, 2021
ĢAV has once again earned a gold rating from the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, recognition that serves as a key benchmark for the university in measuring its sustainability performance.
Geoff McMaster
Monday, September 20, 2021
The former UN force commander and Canadian senator will lead a series of 'critical conversations' on the mental health impact of moral injury in a series of virtual talks co-hosted by ĢAV’s Dallaire Institute for Children, Peace and Security.
Stephen Abbott
Friday, September 17, 2021
EnviroVote, first launched by a Dal prof before the 2019 Canadian federal election, was refreshed to reflect political parties' positions going into the 2021 election.
Genevieve MacIntyre
Friday, September 10, 2021
This Saturday morning, be sure to tune into CBC’s This Is My Music with Tom Allen to hear Patricia Creighton, flute instructor in ĢAV’s Fountain School of Performing Arts and Principal Flautist with Symphony Nova Scotia, share some of the music that moves her.
Stefanie Wilson
Friday, September 10, 2021
Experts from the Centre for Learning and Teaching discuss the skills, resources and opportunities that came out of the past year and how instructors are making the most of them this year.