Banff Centre Summer Arts Festival

May - September

Over 70 events! Including over 50 FREE experiences.

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Banff International String Quartet Competition

August 25 – 31, 2025

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Isidore String Quartet, first-prize winners of BISQC 2022. Photo by Rita Taylor.

Current Exhibition

Elliptical Lineages
June 7 - September 7, 2025
Public Reception: June 27, 5 - 8 PM

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Sarah Houle, 'Circles' (still), 2024. Video, 4 minutes 24 seconds. Courtesy of the artist.

Reflections 2024-25

Read Banff Centre's latest Report to Community and watch our companion video.

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Emily Solstice Tait, Tasha Faye Evans, Kelly McInnes. Photo by Rita Taylor.

Arts and Leadership

Apply today for 2025–26 programs.

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Photo by Rita Taylor

A Message from Josephine Ridge, our Executive Director of Arts.

Help Banff Centre change lives and inspire creativity.

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Hung-Kuan Chen and Sabrina Chen, Art of Piano Masterclass. Photo by Abigaile Edwards.

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Inspiring Artists, Leaders and Creatives since 1933

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is a learning organization built upon an extraordinary legacy of excellence in artistic and creative development. From our home in the stunning Canadian Rocky Mountains, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity aims to inspire everyone who attends our campus – artists, leaders, and thinkers – to unleash their creative potential.

Programs

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Program Dates September 14, 2025 - September 19, 2025

Truth and Reconciliation Through Right Relations - September 2025

Weave leadership pathways to overcome challenges, create a strategic focus and actualize goals.

Application Deadline

August 05, 2025

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Program Dates February 02, 2026 - February 28, 2026

Toga da wôhnagabi: Music Creation Residency 2026

“Toga da wôhnagabi” (Stories for the future) provides songwriters a transformative space to actively listen and learn from each other in story and song.

Application Deadline

August 20, 2025

Deep Winter Writers faculty Holly Pester, Nasser Hussain, and Divya Victor

Program Dates January 12, 2026 - January 30, 2026

Deep Winter Writers 2026

Deep Winter Writers Residency is a self-directed program that offers time and space for writers to retreat, reconnect, and re-energize their writing practice.

Application Deadline

August 20, 2025

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We recognize, with deep respect and gratitude, our home on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. In the spirit of respect and truth, we honour and acknowledge the Banff area, known as “Minihrpa” (translated in Stoney Nakoda as “the waterfalls”) and the Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) – comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney Nations – as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Shuswap Nations, Ktunaxa Nations, and Metis Nation of Alberta, Rockyview District 4. We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play here, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.

Events

John de Haan & Jason de Haan, When the Last Earth-Tie is Sundered (My jacket and my Son’s / My Father’s jacket and mine), 1975 / 2025, embroidery, bleach, and silk on denim jackets.

Date: Sat, Jun 07 - Sun, Sep 07

Walter Phillips Gallery

Elliptical Lineages

'Elliptical Lineages,’ on June 7 - September 7, 2025, presents work of artists that engage the creative practices of a family member or those they consider kin.

Midnight channel collective standing against a graffitied wall.

Date: Fri, Aug 01 @ 7:30 PM

Midnight Channel - Live at CLVB '33

Whether you’re a lifelong jazz fan or just here for the ride, their music meets you where you are—and takes you somewhere unexpected.

Jazz Showcase, 2019. Yunior Terry Ensemble: Christian McGhee (Drums), Summer Kodama (Bass), Jacob Hiser (Piano), Edward Bond (Guitar), Walter Cano(Trumpet), Camila Nebbia (Saxophone) & Ethan Fisher (Vibraphone).

Date: Fri, Aug 01 @ 10:00 PM

Jazz Jams 1 at CLVB '33

Improvisation is the heart of this event, where all original music is created spontaneously by anyone who chooses to participate.

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Stories

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Spooky Folk Tale The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Charming Family Story Kohkom’s Babushka to Receive World Premieres This Fall at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Partnering with theatre companies in Calgary and Edmonton, Banff Centre will present world premieres of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Kohkom’s Babushka.

Gilead in the Rocky Mountains: Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Presents Opera Adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale in World Premiere of New Arrangement

Gilead in the Rocky Mountains: Banff Centre Presents World Premiere of Chamber Arrangement of The Handmaid’s Tale Opera

Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian classic continues to resonate, with a new iteration of the story appearing at Alberta’s Banff Centre.

Oscar Peterson, photo by Al Gilbert, CM., F.R.P.S.

Jazz History, Iconic Music, and the Next Generation of Jazz Greats Unite in Banff (The Beautiful) Celebrates Oscar Peterson at 100 at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Banff Centre presents a concert to the Canadian jazz legend, Dr. Oscar Peterson, in collaboration with the Estate of Oscar Peterson and Céline Peterson.

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Virtual Inspiration

Cris Derksen, Cellist

Decolonizing the Narrative Conversation Series

Decolonizing the Narrative Conversation Series is a bi-monthly conversation session that invites Indigenous Art creators to talk about their practice.

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Literary Arts Reading List

Our Director of Literary Arts, Derek Beaulieu, recommends these titles by Banff Centre faculty and friends.

Indigenous Haute Couture Beading

Indigenous Haute Couture High Fashion Virtual Open Studios

In this online version of our Open Studios events, we highlight the work of the Indigenous Haute Couture participants.

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We recognize, with deep respect and gratitude, our home on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. In the spirit of respect and truth, we honour and acknowledge the Banff area, known as “Minihrpa” (translated in Stoney Nakoda as “the waterfalls”) and the Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) – comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney Nations – as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Shuswap Nations, Ktunaxa Nations, and Metis Nation of Alberta, Rockyview District 4. We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play here, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.