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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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Matt Reeder
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Outstanding students, a new president, award-winning research, incredible community contributions — take a look back at our biggest stories from the past year.
Alison Auld
Monday, December 18, 2023
Researchers at ĢAV and the University of Oxford examined how refugees were received in Canada and the UK, finding low reception rates in both countries and limited pathways for settlement.
Emily MacKinnon
Friday, December 15, 2023
Inspired by a matching pledge from the J & W Murphy Foundation, nine universities and NSCC joined forces to raise funds for their student-led food security programs on campus through the Food Security Project.
Kim de Laat, Alyssa K Gerhardt, and Andrea Doucet
Friday, December 15, 2023
If more Canadian fathers are to harness the benefits of parental leave and remote work, we need to design employment and care policies in ways that recognize every family’s unique needs.
Alexa Goodman
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Dal's designation as a Bee Campus was awarded based on the strength of its commitment to creating habitats that foster the well-being and survival of pollinators such as bees.