Dalhousie Arts Centre

Location:               6101 University Ave

Phone:                                      (902) 494-3820

Website:                               www.dal.ca/artscentre

For more than 50 years, the Dalhousie Arts Centre has been integral to the arts community on our campus and in our city. Built in 1971, the Arts Centre is the only complex of its kind in Nova Scotia and is home to a variety of arts and performance venues along with various meeting and learning spaces.

Of the numerous performing arts spaces in the Dalhousie Arts Centre, the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium is the most familiar and prestigious. The 1,023 seat concert hall is the home of Symphony Nova Scotia, as well as the venue of choice for a wide variety of performers ranging from Ballet Jörgen; singers like Diana Krall, Renée Fleming, Leonard Cohen, and Jeremy Dutcher; bands; comedians; authors, and more.

Other performance spaces include the Sir James Dunn Theatre (198 seats); the David Mack. Murray Studio (80 seats), the MacAloney Room (90 seats), and the Arts Centre’s newest addition, the 296-seat Joseph Strug Concert Hall. Complimenting these diverse performance venues are the Sculpture Court and the Dalhousie Art Gallery.

Making art accessible to our campus community and the public at large, the Dalhousie Arts Gallery mounts national and international touring exhibitions and initiates many ambitious and exciting programs. Entrance is free of charge.

The Arts Centre is also the proud home of the Fountain School of Performing Arts (FPSA), the only multi-disciplinary performing arts school east of Montreal offering degrees in theatre, music, and cinema & media studies, along with a 2-year diploma in costume studies. FSPA’s full production schedule of plays, concerts, recitals and more can be found at dal.ca/performingarts.