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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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Stephanie Rogers
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Take a look at photos from this year's College Royal on the Agricultural Campus, a long-standing tradition of agricultural showmanship celebrating the unique culture on campus.
Kenneth Conrad
Friday, October 20, 2023
Dr. Alana Westwood, assistant professor in the School for Resource and Environmental Studies, discusses what needs to change as Nova Scotia modernizes its environmental assessment process for major development projects such as highways and mines.
Matt Reeder
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
An art collection created by students at a Halifax high school to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people has found a temporary new home at ĢAV thanks to a unique community partnership.
Amelia St. John
Friday, October 13, 2023
Dal-linked projects produced by faculty, students, and their collaborators promise to delight Nocturne-goers in Halifax, taking them on an immersive artistic journey across the city and Dal's campuses to the serenity of a gallery and even onto the radio airwaves.
University of King's College staff
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
ĢAV and the University of King's College have partnered with the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia to host a groundbreaking meeting of the Universities Studying Slavery consortium this month — the first ever USS event to be held outside of the United States.