On May 4 and 5, a multimedia exhibit will be held. The Resist Violence 2017 event will feature works from all of the students involved in the paired Cinema/Communications and Humanities course, Imaging Violence and Nonviolence. The projects that will be showcased are related to the subject of resisting violence with the theme of “checkpoints”,...

“Power to the People” brings together two Arts + Culture graduating classes in the production of an innovative multi-disciplinary exhibition and poster campaign celebrating the power of collective action to advance social and political change. The exhibition will include theatrical, musical, media, inter-active, literary and visual artworks to be presented as a program of ‘performances’...

The Art, Literature and Communication (ALC) festival is a student-centered event that is designed to engage students from the planning stages to the presenting of all the some 30 events. This festival celebrates the work of our students beyond the classroom, giving them a greater arena to showcase their work. ALC 2017 Program

This event gives talented students from Fine Arts and Illustration & Design an opportunity to paint live for 2 hours, while family, friends, and community members watch their paintings come to life. The paintings are then auctioned off and the money raised this year will support Rosie Animal Adoption.

Students will visit the Old Prison of Trois-Rivières which was built in 1822-1823 and is now part of the musée québécois de culture populaire. The visit also includes a group session with an ex-convict who will describe the harsh reality of prison life in the 1970s and 1980s, just before the prison closed its doors. The visit...

In this workshop, History students will create short stop-motion videos that capture the drama and division of certain episodes during the French Revolution or inspired by it, such as the Haitian Revolution. The students will work in groups of 6, taking on various roles such as writer, director, set builder and so on. They will...

The Dawson Case Competition offers teams from participating CEGEPs across Quebec the opportunity to demonstrate their presentation skills and business acumen by analyzing, assessing and solving a business case. The Competition will take place on Sunday, April 9, 2017. In 2017, for the first time in its history, the competition will feature four streams: accounting/finance, marketing, entrepreneurship,...

Field trip to Graphiscan (Lithography Presses) Mirazed Serigraphie (Large Format Silkscreen Presses) printers in the South Shore area. The students will be able to see how silk screening, lithography and large format digital printing is done in our industry.  A survey will be given to the students for them to evaluate their experience.

Akwé:konskàtne/Maamuu: Journeys in Leadership combines experiential learning and a strength-based approach to building academic skills while celebrating indigenous identity and culture. Students will be the coordinators and managers of this project. It includes: 1) Children’s Day: Dawson Journeys students will plan, organize and host a program for Indigenous Awareness Days Children’s Day on April 6. 100 students...

Students in the Visual Arts program to collectively visit exhibitions at museums and galleries of both historical and contemporary Canadian and International Art in Toronto. This trip to visit Toronto’s museums and art galleries is proposed as an alternative pedagogical incentive to enhance student’s ability “to collect, organize and evaluate information from a variety of sources,...