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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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Jessica Nowlan
Thursday, August 4, 2022
A new program launched this summer by a collection of national research groups in collaboration with 海角社区app and other Canadian universities offered trainees in health-related professions a window in the substantial toll modern health care takes on climate change.
Alison DeLory
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Alumnus Brad Pickard (MArch 2010) and Architecture Professor Emeritus Richard Kroeker have won a World Architecture Festival Prize for a powwow stadium designed for the Muscowpetung Saulteaux First Nation in south-east Saskatchewan.
Jane Gaffney
Thursday, July 28, 2022
This month the Wije'winen Health Centre opened its doors to the urban Indigenous community in Halifax, providing future opportunities for medical learners interested in Indigenous health.
Mandy King
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Past/Future: African Canadian History, Arts and Culture in STEM Education in Canada is the first symposium of its kind in Canada 鈥斅燼n important step as part of a broader project to help bring Black people's history and experiences into the grade school classroom.
Andrea Hart
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Rina Wehbe, a computer scientist with academic roots in psychology, created Above Water to help shatter the stigma around mental health disorders and encourage people to set actionable strategies to achieve personal goals.