The Tashme Project: The Living Archives is a play presented at Montreal’s Centaur Theatre. This play will serve to tie into a section of our Social and Economic History: The Family course which deals with families on the margin and under threat. The class has looked at various groups of individuals in the past whose...

Dawson will once again be the Montreal host for Entrepreneurship Week, coinciding with Global Entrepreneurship Week (Nov. 12-15, 2018). This week is all about creativity, innovation, resources and networking, the early stages of starting a new enterprise whether a social project or in business. Students and faculty will be inspired by hearing people who have...

The visit to the Armand Bombardier Museum serves as an inspirational tool for  Mech Tech students. Armand Bombardier was not an analytical engineer – he was essentially a hands-on Mechanical Technologist that started Canada’s largest company with 50,000 employees worldwide. All this took place an hour and a half from Montreal. The BRP (formerly Bombardier...

The objective of this project is to offer an opportunity to students, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to connect to seal hunting, a contemporary and important issue in our country as well as internationally, in a tactile and deep way. After learning about Inuit seal hunting from the Inuit perspective eight groups of students in anthropology...

Onkwaká:rá is a collaborative story telling series between the First Peoples’ Centre and the Dawson College Peace Centre. Each month we will bring in a speaker from an Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit or Métis) Nation to share a story. There will be diversity of speakers and stories. The stories will range from correcting erroneous narratives...

This project involves two separate groups of Visual Arts Program students (18 students per group) going on an excursion to one of the few hand-made paper mills in North America. Papeterie St-Armand is run by David Caruthers, who is a living legend in the paper-making milieu. Students will be presented with some history and processes...

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 also...

The students from first year Illustration Fall 2018 semester will be visiting a serigraphy (silkscreen) printing studio (Atelier Gymnase). It will introduce them to the principles of serigraphy, printing techniques on different surfaces such as paper, material t-shirts, etc. They will apply the knowledge gained from this workshop given to them and then apply on ...

Students will have a guided tour of the museum and then they will  explore the exhibition. The objective is to analyze some of the artifacts on display and reflect on their historical meaning. For instance, the museum displays the admission book where we can read the names of the women admitted as postulants, their age,...

Otsitsaken:ra (Charles) Patton will come to speak to classes about the Great Law of Peace, which inaugurated the Haudenosaunee Confederacy centuries before the arrival of settlers to Turtle Island. This confederacy exists today and is also known by names like the Iroquois Confederacy or the Six Nations that it consists, including the Kanienke:ha or Mohawk...