Scene at Banff
Director of Aboriginal Leadership and Management programs Brian Calliou chats with Dr. Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux and Lloyd Martell, manager of Aboriginal partnerships for Nexen Inc. In June Wesley-Esquimaux was appointed the first Nexen Chair in Aboriginal Leadership at The Banff Centre. Supported by a $1 million investment from Nexen, the chair will research case studies of successful Aboriginal organizations, businesses, and leaders in Canada. Photo: Laura Vanags
Vancouver-based filmmaker Mary Bissell and actress Heather Graham at work during the 2009 Women in the Director’s Chair Workshop. Presented in partnership with Creative Women Workshops Association and ACTRA, the WIDC 2009 program was led by award-winning filmmaker Kari Skogland (50 Dead Men Walking, The Stone Angel). Photo: Don Lee
Calgary poet Jen Kunlire connects with a Banff audience during the 2009 Spoken Word program. Led by Calgary poet/performer Sheri D Wilson in association with the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival, the program provides spoken word artists with the resources they need to develop their voices and their career paths. Photo: Don Lee
(l-r) President & CEO of The Banff Centre Mary Hofstetter, Board of Governors
member Jim Kinnear, and Board Chair Jeff Kovitz greet His Royal Highness, The
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, during his June 7 visit to the Centre. His Royal
Highness, The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, toured the campus and attended a
dinner and performance celebrating the construction of the Kinnear Centre for
Creativity & Innovation. Photo: Don Lee
Leticia Vera and Andrea True Joy Fox perform Gaetan Gingras’s Fourteen Minutes of Pleasure/Love Among the Ruins during the Indigenous Choreographers dance residency in June. Fourteen Minutes of Pleasure/ Love Among the Ruins is one of four new choreographic excerpts created during the two-week residency. Photo: Laura Vanags.
Artist Julie Myers demonstrates how to create an on-line personalized map during
a BNMI Memory Maps Workshop at the Banff Summer Arts Festival. Photo: Don Lee
(l-r) Wild Rose MP Blake Richards, Mary Hofstetter, and Dave McKenna, chair of the Banff Community Foundation board, at the April announcement that the Centre will receive $947,760 from the Endowment Incentives component of the Canada Cultural Investment Fund. The Endowment Incentives investment matches donations made by individuals, companies, and community groups to the Centre through the Foundation. Photo: Laura Vanags
The Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, at The Banff Centre in March. The Minister announced an additional $7 million in annual funding for the National Arts Training Contribution Program (NATCP), a $24-million federal program from which The Banff Centre receives annual support. Photo: Don Lee
