The ALC festival is a student-centred event that is designed to engage students from the planning stages to the presenting of more than 25 events. This festival celebrates the work of our students in and beyond the classroom, providing them a greater arena to showcase their work.

The Cinema and Communications students come together in groups to create various interactive activities. Each group is responsible for designing an interactive activity using AR technology related to one of the various Sustainable Dawson initiatives scattered around Dawson Campus much like a scavenger hunt. All of the different activities are then combined by the students...

This event gives talented students from Visual Arts, Illustration, and 3D Animation the 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 half the money raised this year will go to Youtheatre, supporting their Indigenous productions, and the...

The Walking Tour of St. Henri is an opportunity for students to step outside the classroom and to consider key concepts in geography in relation to their physical surroundings. The tour weaves together historical events and contemporary conversations, focusing on issues of urban planning, inequality, housing, gentrification, community-building and activism in the neighborhood of St....

The 5th annual ScienceFest (SF’19) conference, to be held April 3rd to April 13th 2019, is a dynamic student-centered conference at Dawson College that shares students’ knowledge, creativity and passion for learning science in a public forum and recognizes them for their efforts and achievements in 2018-2019. It foresees involvement from all disciplines in the...

Students from the Law, Society and Justice Profile will visit the National Assembly in Quebec City. Students will observe Question Period, and meet with members of all Quebec political parties. During these activities, students will have a Profile lunch together in Quebec. The trip relates directly to the theme of the Profile in that students...

History students will visit the old prison of Trois-Rivières built in 1822-1823 which is now part of the musée québécois de culture populaire. The visit 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...

This is a combined project between 391-652-DW (Integrative Seminar- 3rd year) and 391-525-DW (principles of fundraising – 2nd year) Classes. We have a guest speaker from Nk Consultants who will present an interactive workshop on topics related to managing a networking event and having confidence in entering and exiting a room /group with grace, introducing...

The  KAIROS-Blanket-Exercise_History has proven to be extremely successful as an activity for students to understand the history of Indigenous dispossession and struggle in Canada and to reflect on the intergenerational impact of colonization on individuals, families, and communities. It is an experiential exercise that fully engages all participants in a process of connecting with a reality, not...

Students in their graduating year of Illustration will take a 1-hour guided tour of the Thierry Mugler retrospective currently on display at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. This exhibition is the first museum presentation of Mugler’s full breadth of work. The tour expounds on the designer’s history, his evolution of work, and connection to...