Dawson Media Night is the prime event for Dawson College’s Cinema-Communications department. Divided into four categories; animation, narrative, experimental and documentary, the screening features the work of students that, throughout the semester, have striven to create creative and professional material. Prizes are given, students host the event along with live performances, art installations in the lobby and food/beverages...

The Liberal Arts Anthology is an annual project culminating in the publication of essays, short stories, poems, photographs, drawings, etc. by 1st & 2nd year students in the program. The project is run entirely by students (planning, coordinating collaborators, editing, desktop publishing). The theme of the anthology is different every year and reflects the diverse...

Cinema-Communications department The Dawson Game, Launching May 10, in the lower atrium of Dawson College. “Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself” – John Dewey In the Cinema and Communications Integrating Activity class, students are taking Dewy at his word by launching an educational augmented reality game. With a population of...

The 3rd annual ScienceFest conference, to be held May 8th to May 11th 2017, 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 2016-2017. It foresees involvement from all disciplines in the program (as...

The 2017 edition of Science, On Tourne! challenges students to “build an autonomous machine able to pick up golf balls and put them in a container” The winning team from the Local Dawson competition will be sent to the Finals held at Cégep Garneau on May 5 & 6. The local Dawson competition will have teams...

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...