Clubs are formed by any members of the student body to organize recreational activities. Clubs are formed by filling out a form, emailing it to president@suscad.org, and then being officially ratified by the SUNSCAD council. Clubs and Collectives can then apply for funding from SUNSCAD, this includes supplies for activities, events, food for gatherings etc. Forms can be found here.
Collectives are formed by members of the student body in order to unite individuals around common issues, activities, or goals. A collective can be formed to organize, elevate, support, unite, advocate, or otherwise empower any constituency within the student body. All Collectives need to be ratified every year. Forms can be found here.
If you have a club or collective you’d like to start for the 2025-2026 school year, an existing club you’d like to have ratified again, or would like to apply for funding, fill out the forms linked in the above menu!
Active Clubs & Collectives
Board Game Club
Student Organizer – Chenyu Wan
chenyuwan@nscad.ca
This club will be a great space for students and staff to connect and socialize with each other while playing a variety of board games. Anyone interested in board gaming would be welcome to join. We will have a weekly game night, a relaxing and friendly event, coming soon!
Drag Clube
Student Organizer – Melanie Horton
melaniehorton@nscad.ca
This club will provide meeting space for aspiring drag performers and queer performing artists. This club will run under the guidance of MFA candidate Melanie Horton, who will be using the space to run her thesis project “Eternal Dress”. Eternal Dress is a regularly scheduled drag show that is always only ever a dress rehearsal and never a final show. By removing the barriers that “finished” and “perfect” create, artists and performers will have the chance to rehearse gender, experiment with movement and build community through the magic of drag.
Clay Club
Student Organizer – Sisko Cappura
siskocapurro@nscad.ca
Clay Club aims to create space for further educational and creative opportunities within ceramics at NSCAD through extracurricular workshops, artist talks, events, conferences, and out-of-town field trips. Clay Club invites all students of NSCAD to join regardless of their major and will invite club members to sell their ware both for individual student profit and further fundraising for the club.
Ephemera Collective
Student Organizers – Kylie Myra Richardson & Calum Cain
feelephemera@gmail.com
As a group of like-minded artists, our goal is to embody the ephemeral nature of all that is through movement and performance art. Using our bodies and beings, we create pieces that impose the present moment. We aim to foster a community of artists through performance-art shows focusing on a range of different themes. These shows combine elements of movement art, music, storytelling, and set, lighting, and costume design. As well, it will serve as a space to bring artists together. The heart of Ephemera lies within the dedicated artists that evoke her. We focus deeply on the importance of teamwork, each providing artistic input on the work at hand with the intention of reaching our end goal successfully, and growing as a team in the process. Our goals for the 2025-2026 terms are to grow our collective and host a Fall and Spring show.
Art History Society
Student Organizer – Rebecca Strong
rebeccastrong@nscad.ca
The Art History Society is for all NSCAD students to create a welcoming and fun space for engaging with art history as well as contemporary culture outside of our courses. This society is committed to art making, collective learning, and creating social opportunities in relation to art history and contemporary culture. Some community-building events include study nights! Trivia! Bingo!
Knitting Circle Collective
Student Organizer – Karina Howard
karinahoward@nscad.ca
A fiber arts club (not just knitting) that aims to create a space where any student can join and learn a new skill, make friends, and develop a community. Snacks are provided at weekly meetings in the NSCAD Library, and some supplies, such as yarn, needles, and crochet hooks, are available for members.
Scrabble Soirée Club
Student Organizers – Tovah Williams & Abby Banko
tovahwilliams@nscad.ca abbybanko@nscad.ca
Weekly meetings hosted at the NSCAD library on Wednesday evenings from 6 to 7 PM. An opportunity for any students, staff and faculty to unwind with calm, cosy, and intellectually inspired word games, such as Scrabble and Bananagrams. To fit with the soirée theme, fancy dresses optional, this is a chance for folks to go all out just for fun.
Perfume Club
Student Organizer – Mailey Horner
maileyhorner@nscad.ca
This is a club for the discovery of perfumes and all things fragrance. Scent is intimate, personal, sensual, scent is connecting, and so it is policed by the state, by so-called-clean-girls, by the idea of being clean itself. Scent is cultural. Scent is linguistic. Scent is grounding and also otherworldly. This club is towards a SMELLYGIRL MANIFESTO and a research project exploring the stinky and provocative questions that arise from the artistry of fragrance, both bottled and bodily. Long may you smell.
Queer Collective
Student Organizer – Clem Oliver
academic@sunscad.org
We are a student-run collective that focuses on topics and initiatives that are relevant to the queer community. As a collective, we believe it is vital to build, nurture, and sustain a strong queer presence within NSCAD and strengthen the queer community in Halifax. We strive to raise queer awareness, break down gender binary systems, and eliminate all forms of gender and sexuality oppression by maintaining an active presence within our school. Regardless of who you are or where you come from, NSCAD is a place where you can be assured that you have allies.
Photography Collective
Student Organizers – Logan Hatt, Shaelyn Wadden, Caspian Reid, & Theo McLeod
nscadu.photoclub@gmail.com, (or any of the above names + @nscad.ca)
The purpose of the photography collective is to foster the community’s passion for photography and provide opportunities for learning and creative expression. With our club, we like to invite students who are both starting or have completed their degree, and share our love and knowledge of the craft. We hope to provide an opportunity for photography students to gain the confidence to showcase their work in a gallery by accepting their submissions from both NSCAD and Halifax-based galleries and exhibitions. We want to give students the opportunity to share their work by participating in sales and markets, facilitating a space for students to show and sell their work. We hope to support the construction of a photo community and feed the search for knowledge by facilitating events like field trips, movie nights, and workshops on subjects the community is interested in.
Print Club
Student Organizers – Baily Smith and Evan McPherson
nscaduprintclub@gmail.com
Print Club is one of NSCAD’s oldest-running clubs. Students get together to work on prints, discuss projects, and collaborate for exhibitions, events, and print sales!
Inactive Clubs & Collectives
FLUX Collective
This collective’s primary objective is to establish an inclusive and adaptable club that fosters a strong sense of community by providing a diverse range of activities tailored to the interests of our members. This approach will ensure that every student feels welcome and has ample opportunities to connect, no matter their background, when they join, or what their specific passions may be. By creating an environment where everyone can find something they enjoy, we aim to make it easy for all members to feel like they truly belong.
Feminist Collective
A collective of students of any identities promoting gender equity safe sex and consent culture within the NSCAD campuses and community.
Badminton Club
A club to meet friends and play badminton in the top-floor studio of Academy campus. Raquettes are first-come, first-served, so bring your own and a friend 🙂
Design Collective
Design Collective is a fun, creative, multi-disciplinary community within NSCAD that welcome all fields of designer, either hobbyist, freelancers, professionals, also in various directions including graphic, product, industrial, service, UIUX, space, architecture and so on. We encourage hand craft and design thinking in every aspects, building design approach or solutions that help people in creating projects they care. Care about our planet, its people, and the joy. If you are interested in joining or having commissioner, email us!
BIPOC Collective
Hosting meetings for Black Indigenous + People of Colour students in closed spaces. A space to gather, heal, vent, organize, and meet other BIPOC students.
The Midnight Film Society
The Midnight Film Society is the current Film Club at NSCAD. We hold weekly screenings of films that we have purchased for the students to show them films that they would not normally see in class or unfortunately in theatres in Halifax as we do not have any independent theatres that are accessible.
Camping Collective
The Camping Collective is a community of students who come together for the purpose of camping, outdoor activities, and fostering a connection to nature. It aims to provide opportunities for students to participate in camping trips, hiking, or other outdoor experiences that they might not otherwise have access to, either due to cost, lack of knowledge, or limited access to outdoor spaces