Summer Celebration


Join us for the 2026 Summer Celebration!

The Summer Celebration is a fun-filled day of food, activities, art, and community and featuring live music from Sarah and Dale Letcher from the band Big Fish!

  • Open to everyone in the Department of Psychiatry (residents, grad students, faculty, research staff, and admin staff)
  • Bring a friend, partner and/or children

Event details

When: Sunday, July 19, 2026, 2 to 7 p.m.

Where: St. Mary’s Boat Club
               1641 Fairfield Rd
               Halifax, NS 

Registration for this event is now closed.

Note: This is an internal event and not open to the public.

Schedule

Start time

End time

Activity

2 p.m.    Event registration opens
2 p.m.  4:30 p.m. Scavenger hunt — 5 items to find at your own pace (prizes available)
2 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Arts and crafts for all ages!
2:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Kids games (run by camp counsellors)
3 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Deck games — kids (up to age 15, prizes available)
3:30 p.m. 4 p.m. Deck games — adults (ages 16+, prizes available)
3 p.m. 5 p.m. Kayaking (ages 18+)/Canoeing (ages 7+) (sign up required)
4:45 p.m. 6:15 p.m.

Dinner — international food and BBQ

If you have a dietary restriction: 
Foods will be labelled — look for signs

5:15 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Welcome remarks and prize winner announcements
5:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Live dinner music — vocals and acoustic guitar with Sarah and Dale Letcher (from Big Fish)
  7 p.m. Event wrap-up 


Venue information

  • St. Mary’s Boat Club overlooks Northwest Arm—inside space, outside deck, access to canoes, kayaks, tennis courts, and Conrose Park green space
  • Parking is available. There is space for approximately 50 cars in the two designated spots as well as the side street. Halifax Transit routes 1 and 24 are a 10-minute walk to the boat club.
  • The main level (reception hall) of the club is wheelchair accessible via the driveway, however, there is no parking permitted on the driveway at any time. Vehicles dropping guests at the accessible entrance must be moved to the parking lot immediately after dropping guest(s) off.

Questions?

Email aleya.macneil@nshealth.ca