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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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Ryan McNutt
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Poet, author and professor Afua Cooper took home one of Nova Scotia’s top artistic honours at the Creative Nova Scotia Awards gala this past weekend — one of multiple Dal award recipients at this year’s celebration of Nova Scotian artistic excellence.
Stephen Abbott
Friday, November 13, 2020
Following the tragic shooting rampage that cost the lives of 23 Nova Scotians in April, Adrian Delli Colli and Ireland Thurler were spurred to action — walking from Portapique to Enfield to raise money they now plan to use to create a scholarship fund for the victim's families.
Janet Dyson
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Fountain School of Performing Arts alum Craig Jennex's recent book Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada, which he co-authored with Nisha Eswaran, shares items from the collection of The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives to illustrate the story of LGBTQ2+ politics in Canada.
Stephanie Rogers
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
No one knows food more than the faculty, staff, students and alumni of the Faculty of Agriculture and Dal's Agricultural Campus — so it only made sense for the Ag community to come together during the pandemic and make a new cookbook, now for sale.
Jennifer Lambert (with files from Matt Reeder)
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
This year, as we remember those who fell during wartime, we share the stories of five Dalhousians who served — some of whom gave their lives — in the First World War.