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Each year the Dalhousie Office of Human Rights, Equity & Harassment Prevention (HREHP) develops a mosaic calendar of religious holidays and cultural dates for faculty, staff and students. See below for a sample of April dates to observe, reflect, celebrate or promote throughout the university community.

The complete calendar is available on the website.

All Jewish and Islamic Holidays begin at sundown on the evening before the first date shown.

APRIL 20
Akshaya-tritiya (JA)
AkshayaTritiya is one of the sacred festivals on persons of Indian descent. Akshaya Tritiya is observed on the third day of the bright half of the Vaisakha month is considered to be the four most sacred days of the year according to the Indian calendar.

APRIL 21 – MAY 2
Ridvan (BA)
Ridvan commemorates the 12 days that Baha'u'llah spent in the garden of Ridvan in the last days of his exile in Baghdad, and during which time he proclaimed himself as the one announced by the Bab. On the first, ninth, and twelfth days of Ridvan work is suspended.