Joe Rose was a °®¶ą´«Ă˝nursing student and AIDS activist who wanted to start a Montreal edition of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an international grassroots political group that is working to end the AIDS pandemic. While attending °®¶ą´«Ă˝in 1985, he founded the Etcetera Club, a safe space for LGBT students. On…
It’s finally time to celebrate! We will have a special celebration the evening of Thursday, June 16 to recognize all those who have retired and all those who have arrived at the major milestone of 25 years of service to °®¶ą´«Ă˝since July 1, 2019.
The evening will include a cocktail hour and a dinner. Dawson’s traditional Recognition of Service aims to treat our long-serving and dedicated employees to a very special night.
Invitations will be sent in May.
Decolonization and Indigenization Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Resist Violence and the Creative Collective for Change present an online conversation with Dr. Catherine Kinewesquao Richardson. She will speak about Cultural safety and managing risky conversations in the classroom on March 24 at 2:45 p.m.
Click Read More for the Zoom link.
Kristopher Woofter, Rebecca Million and Ben Lander have organized a free event open to the public for Indigenous Peoples Week. The film Blood Quantum by local Indigenous filmmaker and °®¶ą´«Ă˝graduate Jeff Barnaby will be screened and then Jeff will be there to take questions afterwards.
The event will be in the °®¶ą´«Ă˝Theatre on March 30 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.
To mark International Women’s Day this year, the Women’s/Gender Studies students and faculty, as well as members of the larger college community, engaged in a re-naming/re-claiming activity whereby Montreal metro stations were renamed by participants after women they find inspiring.
The event, which took place on March 8, in Conrod’s from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., saw participants affix labels sporting the names of their chosen inspirational figures on a large blank metro map. Some inspiring figures were drawn from contemporary cultures, while others were figures from both the distant, and the recent, past, like Betty White. Some women, like Mary Two-Axe Earley, Harriet Tubman and Angela Davis, were social activists, while others are celebrities (e.g. Oprah, Zendaya, Christiane Amanpour). Participants were also invited to complete colourful cards on why they chose their particular figures.
Over $400 was raised to benefit our Financial Aid Food Bank from a bake sale in connection with the activity where faculty and students sold baked goods, fashioned by members of our W/GS community. A button-making activity where engaged students produced their own pins sporting the W/GS logo was also quite popular!
-Submitted by Johanne Rabbat, Coordinator of Women's and Gender Studies
Ça commence aujourd'hui ! Cette année verra le retour en face-à -face des activités culturelles de la Francofête.
Programme complet : FrancofĂŞte 2022
Événements clés : Le retour des activités culturelles de la Francofête en présentiel
IONKWATĂ“NHAHERE is a Kanien’kĂ©ha word that means “We are raising our Spirits.” In the wake of the last two years, Indigenous communities have been re-confronted with the realities of colonialism. For this reason, the organizers of Dawson’s Indigenous Peoples’ Week (formally First Peoples’ Week) have decided to focus on celebrating the joy within our cultures,…
The Sustainability Office, in collaboration with the Peace Centre and other departments, is excited to introduce the fast-approaching Earth Week 2022, which will take place Tuesday to Friday, April 19-22. We would like to give you an opportunity to take advantage of some of the many activities we have planned. You will note that we have a mix of in-person and virtual events available.
You can roam the Lower Atrium shopping for eco-friendly products and/or take a Living Campus tour and learn about the many student-driven sustainability initiatives that have changed the campus! While there will be more to come, certain activities are dependent on direct participation. Please review your schedules, and if interested, request a booking to join us and discover our Living Campus while connecting with others from the °®¶ą´«Ă˝community.
Our Earth Week theme this year is “Well-Being for Yourself, Others, and the Environment.” Inspired by the we are happy to announce that our week’s activities and events will collectively touch on all 17 SDGs.
To request class bookings for our events, clickfor our events form. If you have any questions, feel free to email sustainability@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
Yes! We are planning a Graduation ceremony for the first time in person since 2019! The event will take place at Place des Arts on Wednesday, June 22. Students who have completed their CEGEP studies in the Summer or Fall of 2021 and those who are on track to graduate at the end of the Winter 2022 semester will receive invitations in early April. Faculty and employees are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Second-year students of Dawson's Professional Theatre Program are presenting Chaos by Laura Lomas, directed by Stefanie Buxton.
Chaos is a series of interconnected stories, where characters search for meaning in the modern world. British playwright Laura Lomas says, "I was thinking about how I felt as a young person and how the world felt. The word "chaos" kept springing out of that. I wanted to write something in the gesture of that Chaos, as a celebration of it. ... I didn't want it to make sense, but I did want it to feel alive - all the ways I remember feeling as a teenager."
Chaos runs March 23-26 at 8 p.m. and is PWYW (pay-what-you-want) at the door. Tickets can be booked on Eventbrite; click on Read More link.
Last Modified: April 6, 2022
