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To assist in SIMSA fundraising, Dr. Bertrum MacDonald has generously donated 2 tickets to an upcoming show for the choir he performs in, the Halifax Camerata Singers. The show, entitled A Time for All Things, will take place March 28 at Saint Benedict Parish (45 Radcliffe Drive, Halifax).

Entries into the draw are just $2 for the chance to win 1 of 2 tickets. Entries can be made with either Andrea Kampen or Hannah Steeves. The draw date for this contest is March 25. Money raised will be used for SIMSA events, such as the end of semester celebration.

Visit the Facebook event for A Time for All Things for more information about the performance.

Open Data and Open Governance in Canada: 

A Critical Examination of New Opportunities and Old Tensions

Please join the School of Information Management for a free public lecture at 4:00 on Tuesday, March 10 in Rowe 3089. 

Jeffrey Roy from the School of Public Administration will examine the evolution and effectiveness of open data strategies in the public sector with a particular focus on municipal governments in Canada. It will also delve more deeply into whether open data can facilitate innovative forms of governance with an empowered and participative society.

From May 4 – 15, 2015, Dalhousie will be hosting a two-week summer institute to provide training in the digital humanities. The workshops, which draw on the well-established DHSI at the University of Victoria, will provide an ideal environment for discussion surrounding new computing technologies and how they are influencing teaching, research, dissemination, creation, and preservation in different disciplines.

To register, please go to http://stay.dal.ca/KxRegistration/dhsi15. 

Early registration fees are $100 per course for students.

Not Bound by Time: Book Production in the Seventeenth and Twenty-First Centuries

Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 from 4:30pm-5:30pm
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie Arts Centre, 6101 University Avenue

Dr. Stijn Van Rossem
University of Antwerp

Andrew Steeves
Gaspereau Press

Historian Dr. Stijn Van Rossem will begin this lecture by drawing on his research on the organization and operation of the printshop and bookshop of the Verdussen family in Antwerp in the seventeenth century. He will take us inside the Verdussen’s business, the Red Lion, to illustrate how this firm conducted its business over successive generations and through various typographical innovations in response to cultural, economic, and political change. Then, Andrew Steeves, designer and publisher at Gaspereau Press, in Kentville, Nova Scotia, will show how a small literary press of the twenty-first century has more in common with the Verdussens than well-established conventions and practices employed in today’s mainstream publishing trade. Together, Van Rossem and Steeves will demonstrate that innovation in a twenty-first century printing firm draws heavily on historic roots of four centuries earlier.

Show your support for local literacy initiatives by stopping by the fundraising table in the Rowe Atrium on February 23 from 11:30 – 2:00. Purchase your bowling tickets, enjoy a baked treat, or make a donation for this important cause.

Let’s get together and celebrate reading week with an outdoor skate!

We’ll meet at the Oval at 6:30 then head to a pub to warm up. Skates are free. See you there!