Please find below our annual Christmas Appeal, which contains some exciting updates. You can donate online at https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/halifax-humanities-101/, or you can mail us a cheque payable to The Halifax Humanities Society: 2222 Brunswick St, Halifax NS B3K 2Z3. Update: The Canadian Government intends to extend the window for 2024 charitable donations to February 28, 2025. Read all about it here: …
The Halifax Humanities Society is delighted to announce that we have launched the Humanities Today Lecture Series! The Humanities Today Series examines the role the humanities play in our lives and the lives of communities on the periphery of or excluded from the traditional avenues of humanities education. This series is supported by funds donated in the memory of Renate …
In memory of its very first student, The Halifax Humanities Society is pleased to name its University Access Program in honour of Bonita Shepherd. Bonita Shepherd was a groundbreaker, not only in being the first to apply to the Halifax Humanities full-year class, but also in taking up the possibility of continuing on to university classes. The Bonita Shepherd University …
Our biggest fundraising each year consists of a marathon reading of a classic work of literature. Teams of readers take on the responsibility of performing a section of the text and collecting donations in support of their participation. By the end of the event (sometimes 24 hours later!), we have heard the whole text read from start to finish. Over …
At the end of every term, we celebrate the achievements of our Halifax Humanities 101 students at a graduation ceremony attended by their friends, families, and professors. Graduation 2020 – A Year Like No Other In 2020, when COVID-19 made an in-person graduation impossible, we created a virtual graduation for our students. You can see the results below. Graduation 2019
Each year, law students and faculty from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, along with local lawyers, judges, and actors, create a mock trial of a literary figure as a fundraiser in support of The Halifax Humanities Society. https://apotheekonlinebelgie.be/viagra-soft-tabs-be/ 2023: Grinch v. Whoville – A Fundraiser for Halifax Humanities On Thursday, March 23rd at 7pm, Dalhousie law students …
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