Scene at Banff
Red Sky Performance with directors of the Song and Dance Troupe of Nationalities in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, during the Tono tour. Created in partnership with the Centre, Tono premiered at the 2008 Banff Summer Arts Festival and toured to Beijing and Inner Mongolia as part of the cultural programming for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the 2008 Meet in Beijing Festival, and the International Festival of Art & Culture.
Photo courtesy Sandra Laronde.
Austrian mountaineer Peter Habeler addresses a sold-out crowd at the 2008 Banff Mountain Film Festival. One of the founding fathers of lightweight, alpine-style climbing, Habeler won over the audience with self-effacing tales of his legendary partnership with Reinhold Messner, including their first ascent of Mount Everest without the aid of supplemental oxygen.
Photo: Laura Vanags.
Elizabeth Hay (right), author of Late
Nights on Air, the winner of the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and award-winning author Shauna Singh Baldwin, author of
The Tiger Claw and What the Body
Remembers, discuss the joys and pitfalls of literary translation at a public presentation during the 2008 Banff Summer Arts Festival. Both are alumni of the Centre’s Literary Arts programs, and have worked with translators at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre.
Photo: Laura Vanags.
Under the tutelage of Banff Centre audio work study Keith Chan (far left), Banff Community High School students Eric Sethna, Evan Waugh, and Matthew Harding (l-r) get a chance to experiment as recording engineers as part of a community outreach project. The project will connect artists in the Centre’s Music & Sound programs with students in Bow Valley schools, enriching local arts education and providing artists with opportunities to hone their communication and public presentation skills.
Photo: Laura Vanags.
Toronto artist Bill Burn’s Bird Radio, 2003-2007 (multimedia installation and radio broadcast) was part of the Walter Phillips Gallery’s 75th anniversary Bureau de change exhibition. Gallery visitors were invited to activate a “chandelier” of jerry-rigged birdcalls which were live streamed on www.radio90.fm. Bureau de change examined 30 years of contemporary art practice at The Banff Centre, featuring the work of more than 50 artists who have come to Banff to create, research, and explore new ideas.
Image courtesy of the artist.
James Rout, manager of the Paul D. Fleck Library & Archives, demonstrates The Banff Centre on iTunes U, a new initiative to disseminate the creative work inspired in Banff. Launched in October, The Banff Centre on iTunes U allows anyone with access to the Internet to download selected works created at the Centre for free. Content includes concert recordings, artist and author talks, theatre performance and mountain film festival video excerpts, dialogue on contemporary leadership, and more. Check it out at itunes.banffcentre.ca.
Photo: Kimberly Simpson.
Lucan Harris in the world premiere of Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra’s The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres at The Banff Centre. Celebrating UNESCO’S International Year of Astronomy, The Galileo Project was co-produced by the Centre and refined during a Banff residency. This new work was conceived and scripted by Tafelmusik’s Alison Mackay and will tour nationally and internationally, marking the 400th anniversary of the first astronomical telescope.
Photo: Don Lee.
Vancouver artist Ken Lum makes a point during the Banff International Curatorial Institute Trade Secrets conference in November. The conference brought together dozens of curators and artists from around the world to examine contemporary curatorial practice, education, and research, and the challenges and opportunities facing curators in today’s global market.
Photo: Laura Vanags
