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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, October 4, 2023
With baseball's playoffs getting underway, English prof Bart Vautour will be watching not only as a fan, but as the instructor behind Dal's new course offering on baseball and literature.
Shiloh Bouvette
Friday, September 29, 2023
Residents, students and the ĢAV community came together to bring a colourful street mural to life at the intersection of Larch and Jennings in Halifax designed by Mi’kmaw artist Tayla Fern Paul.
Matt Reeder
Friday, September 29, 2023
As Treaty Day approaches, "Treaty-Informed Teaching," a new course from Dal's Centre for Learning and Teaching, is set to offer faculty the opportunity to understand treaty perspectives as they relate to education and learning.
Theresa Rajack-Talley and Catherine Martin
Friday, September 29, 2023
This weekend is an extremely important one here at ĢAV and in Mi'kma'ki. With the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Orange Shirt Day, Treaty Day and the launch of Mi’kmaq History Month, is a time for honouring and learning from the past as we reflect on our commitments and responsibilities now and into the future.
Genevieve MacIntyre
Thursday, September 28, 2023
The portrait of Mi’kmaw editor, author and activist Elder Daniel Paul, painted by the acclaimed Mi’kmaw artist Alan Syliboy, now hangs in the Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building at ĢAV.