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...

The Canadian War Museum is Canada’s national museum of military history and one of the world’s most respected museums for the study and understanding of armed conflict. History students will visit the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa on March 26th, 2019. They will have a guided tour of the highlights of the museum and they...

Visual Arts students will visit the University of Ottawa’s Fine Arts department, the Ottawa Art Gallery and the National Gallery. An evening activity is planned, and students are free to explore the ByWard Market and other downtown landmarks. The next day students visit the History Museum in Hull and the artist run centers including Axe...

Science students will take a trip to Ottawa to visit research facilities at the National Research Council (NRC) and the Transportation Safety Board (TSB). Students will be separated into three groups and each group will visit 4 different labs for about 1.5 hours each visit (total of 12 labs). In preparation for the lab visits...

A team of professional engineers fom Haply who have put together robotics workshops for students to get them interested in mechatronics and programming have been invited to Dawson. They will coach students, starting with basic microcontrollers and up through motor control.  Students will also program an Arduino-based “robot” in pairs.

This field trip consists of a trip to New Bedford, MA, the setting for Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, for students in the Moby Dick Reflectioins class. In addition to being the setting of Moby Dick’s beginning scenes, New Bedford, MA, was also one of the two or three most important seaports in the United States...

This project comprises of two workshops that students would participate in to gain a better understanding of the Truth & Reconciliation Calls to Action. The workshops were designed by Raymond Wilson, who is a member of the Laichwitach Nation and is an Indigenous educator. The first workshop is a simulation of students portraying NGOs, giving...

Lateef Martin, an experienced speaker on race and comics in the early Cold War era, will be invited to speak to History students on this subject. The students will be asked to read Truth: Red, White and Black. It’s the story of a black soldier who was experimented on to become the very first Captain America-before...

Hairdresser’s Hymn to Venus: a performance project will bring esteemed performance artist Michelle Lacombe to Dawson, introducing her work, and the cutting-edge practice of performance art, to our students and the Dawson community. This project will particularly interest students in Fine arts and ALC, in addition to gender and feminist studies, Peace studies, Theatre, etc....