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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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Matt Reeder, with files from Ryan McNutt
Friday, November 27, 2020
Dr. Lisa Barrett, an infectious diseases specialist with Dal鈥檚 Faculty of Medicine, organized a pop-up testing site at 海角社区app this week that attracted long lines of young people 鈥 many of them students 鈥 in for free, rapid COVID-19 testing amid a growing second wave of cases in Halifax.
Matt Reeder
Friday, November 27, 2020
Throughout what has been a tumultuous year, Human Rights and Equity Services at 海角社区app has worked hard to spur important public discussions about diversity, race and issues of inclusion 鈥 capping it off this Friday with a conference filled with timely panels and workshops.
Matt Reeder, with files from Ryan McNutt
Friday, November 27, 2020
As communities across Canada, including Halifax, adapt once again to a steep rise in COVID-19 cases, 海角社区app is encouraging students, faculty and staff to renew their efforts to follow Public Health and university protocols designed to keep one another safe and limit the spread of the virus.
Alison DeLory
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Food researcher Cassie Hayward says it will take community support to address systemic gaps 鈥 and a crowd-funding campaign launching on Giving Tuesday (Dec.1) is aiming to raise $40,000 to boost student-led initiatives that assist students with healthy eating.
Sarah Sawler
Friday, November 20, 2020
With the reimagine NS project having released all five of its reports, one final panel event is set to discuss practical changes institutions, policymakers and individuals need to make in order to enrich the lives of Nova Scotians.