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25th Edition of Artists in Bloom is April 20!

March 22nd, 2023

Springtime means that Artists in Bloom is back! This year will be the fundraising event’s 25th annual edition—a quarter century! We are excited to welcome you to the event and to see what our talented student artists will produce. Artists in Bloom is an annual event held at Dawson College which has raised funds for…

First National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is Thursday, Sept. 30

September 29th, 2021

Dawson students and employees will experience the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation at Dawson College on Thursday, Sept. 30. A poster in the Upper Atrium explains the significance of the day to the Dawson community: “Wearing orange on Sept. 30 is more than taking part in a popular event. It’s a solemn act to…

Keynote Earth Week talk addressed struggles for environmental justice in Indigenous and Black communities

May 4th, 2021

Every year Earth Week features a series of amazing speakers, do-it-yourself workshops, tours, gardening and 2021 is no exception. While Earth Week certainly did not look like years past due to COVID-19, the organizers were able to take advantage of our current online reality by virtually bringing in Keynote Speaker Dr. Ingrid R G Waldron…

Thirza Cuthand: Reclamations

February 9th, 2021

When the pandemic first struck last March, curator and Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery administrator Rhonda Meier, began thinking of what could be done if life stayed completely online for the next six or more months.  With online projects being the obvious solution, she leapt to program Thirza Cuthand, a Plains Cree/Scots artist whose work…

DAWSCON software conference is on!

November 19th, 2020

DAWSCON, the free software conference at Dawson College, is on as usual this year. The fifth annual conference for students and developers will be taking place virtually on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. “This year, we’re going international because we can,” said organizer and Computer Science faculty member Ken Fogel. “It is really exciting having a…

Dawson’s first Virtual Open House a success

November 3rd, 2020

A Dawson College team worked for months to transform Open House into a virtual event. “It was an amazing community effort during extremely isolating times,” said lead organizer Lucy Segal of the Communications Office. “It was an enormous challenge to pitch something completely new, but everyone was receptive and despite new measures and limitations, I…

Dawson creates compelling online experience for Open House Oct. 20-25

October 19th, 2020

MONTREAL (Oct. 19, 2020) – The first-ever Virtual Open House of Dawson College begins Tuesday, Oct. 20 and runs through Sunday, Oct. 25. The experience will launch from the 2020 Open House landing page on the Dawson website: www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/open-house For students considering applying to CEGEP for Fall 2021, Dawson will be offering: 22 technical programs…

Open House will launch 46 new videos and offer daily chat opportunities

October 6th, 2020

Dawson College will be offering 22 career programs and five pre-university programs in the Fall 2021 Semester. The Medical Ultrasound Technology Program will be offered for the first time at Dawson and for the first time in English in Quebec. In addition to that, the pre-university programs of Arts, Literature and Communication, Science and Social…

Resistance and Resilience opens Oct. 8

October 6th, 2020

Following the success of Skénn:en: Peace and Decolonization (2017) and Queer and Peace (2018), Diana Rice (Programming Coordinator, Peace Centre) prophetically conceived of a project that would provide a space for those voices traditionally unheard and often ignored: Legacy and racialized immigrant communities. Once again collaborating with Rhonda Meier of the Warren G. Flowers Art…

Peace Week 2020

September 8th, 2020

Continuing the Conversation: Reimagining, Rebuilding, Reconnecting The semester has started. Usually a time of excitement and exhilaration as the Dawson College community dives into the beautiful trifecta of educating, engaging, and enriching.  This year is different. The halls are devoid of the cacophony of laughter and chatter, rendering the College strangely subdued. We aren’t congregating,…

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Last Modified: March 22, 2023

 

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