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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 海角社区app 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聽members, scholars,聽performers聽and artists gathered to celebrate the opening of聽It鈥檚 海角社区app Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970 and Now.聽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鈥檚 production of聽Macbeth hits the stage in the 海角社区app Arts Centre this week, offering a radical re-telling of Shakespeare鈥檚 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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Staff
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Take a look back at all the animals featured on Pets of 海角社区app last month.
Jacqueline Gahagan
Friday, July 30, 2021
Sex is not gender but research continues to treat these as the same concept, with potentially damaging consequences for health studies, health policies and health programs, writes Dal's Jacqueline Gahagan.
Luke Smith and Matt Reeder
Thursday, July 29, 2021
The African Nova Scotian flag will be raised on 海角社区app campus this weekend for the first time in honour of Emancipation Day, a national day of recognition that marks the historic abolition of slavery in the British Empire on August 1, 1834. Learn more about the significance of the flag鈥檚 symbols and colours.
Matt Reeder
Thursday, July 29, 2021
Finally designated federally, Emancipation Day marks the passing of the Slavery Abolition Act and provides an opportunity to acknowledge the history of slavery in Canada. We spoke with The Honourable Wanda Thomas Bernard about what it means to honour Emancipation Day.
Matt Reeder
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Breaking Barriers identifies gaps in curricula at Dal and creates opportunities to increase exposure to the scholarship of researchers from underrepresented groups.