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A guided tour of the current exhibition, Once Upon a Time.

Experience the adventure of outdoor life through amazing expeditions, mountain-bike mastery, and the world's last great wild places. Featured films include Crux, Red Gold, Patagonian Winter, and more! Some films may contain coarse language.

Cellist Gary Hoffman performs the Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No. 2, as well as Bach Concerti featuring oboist Nicholas Daniels and the Banff Festival Chamber Orchestra.

Discover the stars of tomorrow, today. Featuring the finest emerging musicians in residence at The Banff Centre.

Featuring The Diaz Trio with Andres Diaz, Roberto Diaz, and Andres Cardenes, and flutist Carol Wincenc performing works by Beethoven and Hindemith.

Australian-Canadian roots artist, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist returns for a concert in the great outdoors featuring songs from his new album Dark Shades of Blue. The concert is presented outdoors with seating on the lawn so bring a blanket or cushion to sit on. Concert goes rain or shine.

Opening act: Joshua Radin.

An evening of Brahms including two of his most celebrated works - the Clarinet Quintet and Horn Trio - with faculty artists Chen Halevi, William ver Muelen, Andres Cardenes, and Lydia Wong.

Enthusiastic amateurs will enjoy this opportunity to roam The Banff Centre campus, cameras in hand, learning practical tips and techniques from award-winning photographers.

Revel in the atmosphere of music and art in this series of Sunday afternoon concerts featuring the best young musicians of our time at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.

Tonight features Dieter Hennings (guitar), Chistine Choi (violin), and Lucas Wong (piano) performing Tzigane by Maurice Ravel. Plus Isabel Gleicher (flute) and Lucas Wong (piano) perform Cesar Franck's flute sonata.

A beautiful, calm, and intimate setting to enjoy a classical music concert - just a block away from the bustle of Banff Avenue.

Opera superstar Tracy Dahl in recital in the intimate Rolston Recital Hall.

With American oboe virtuoso Stephen Taylor in Mozart's Quartet for Oboe and Strings.

Walk on the wild side with Radical Reels, the steepest, fastest films from the Banff Mountain Film Festival, including Cliff Notes, Play Gravity, The Sharp End: BASE Solo, and more! Some films may contain coarse language.

Discover the stars of tomorrow, today. Featuring the finest emerging musicians in residence at The Banff Centre.

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The Writer and Popular Culture: What’s pop, what’s not and why?

The popular Literary Journalism Conversations series goes primetime! Susan Swan kicks off the series when it moves to Friday nights with a talk in honour of Susan Sontag who died Dec 28, 2004. Swan is a journalist, activist, and novelist published in twenty countries. She takes us on a tour of the writer’s role in pop culture, and tells us why LavaLife and Modern Lov.com; plastic glasses, Brangelina, Queen Elizabeth and the Pope are pop but not mail order brides, the sport cricket, Jewish kosher cooking, and the medieval sagas of Iceland.

Featuring renowned British cellist Raphael Wallfisch.

Baroque violinist Monica Huggett in a program of masterworks of the 17th century.

Revel in the atmosphere of music and art in this series of Sunday afternoon concerts featuring the best young musicians of our time at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.

A summer tradition, Banff Centre musicians visit the Canmore Seniors Centre for an intimate chamber music experience.

Renowned explorer, journalist, and author, Jon Turk gives a presentation on his upcoming book, The Raven's Gift: A Scientist, A Shaman, and their Remarkable Journey Through the Siberian Wilderness. An academically trained scientist, Turk had his logical preconceptions turned upside down when he entrusted his injured body to the care of a 100-year-old woman, a Shaman, in Siberia. Turk has widely travelled the world and yet nothing prepared him for this mystical experience. "A PhD chemist, trained in the rigors of scientific research, I inadvertently found myself standing naked on one leg in front of a Moolynaut, a 100 year old Siberian shaman who was invoking Kutcha, the Raven God, to heal my injured pelvis."

A beautiful, calm, and intimate setting to enjoy a classical music concert - just a block away from the bustle of Banff Avenue.

Berlin-based critic Jan Verwoert asks, “Why are conceptual artists painting again? Because they think it is a good idea.” Verwoert teaches art at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and is a contributing editor to frieze magazine.

Composer: Jonathan Dove
Librettist: Nick Dear
Stage director: Kelly Robinson and Michael Waller
Conductor: Henk Guittart

Siren Song, by the British composer Jonathan Dove, is a chamber opera about the longing for love and the susceptibility to deception. Based on a bizarre, true story about a young sailor who exchanges letters with a beautiful and successful model whom he has never met, and with whom he becomes infatuated, Siren Song is a story about the power of the imagination, and how we invent the people we love. Jonathan Dove writes, “When I first came across the true story which inspired Siren Song, I knew it had to become an opera.”

“Jonathan Dove’s one acter… is a gem of a piece from a composer who rarely puts a foot wrong in the opera house.” BBC Music Magazine

Featuring a pre-show chat with the composer 45 minutes prior to each performance.

Audience recommendation: This performance contains graphic, adult language and mature situations.

To celebrate Cabin Fever: The Best New Canadian Non-fiction. The Banff Centre Press presents the finest creative non-fiction pieces written by participants in the Banff Centre's Literary Journalism Program over the past twenty years.

Readings by contributing authors Jeremy Klaszus and Penney Kome.
Free Lemonade, Coffee, Brownies, and Prizes.

Discover the stars of tomorrow, today. Featuring the finest emerging musicians in residence at The Banff Centre.

Acclaimed journalist Marni Jackson hosts the launch of Cabin Fever: The Best New Canadian Non-Fiction, a collection celebrating the 20 year history of The Banff Centre’s Literary Journalism program.
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A hometown favourite, famed cellist Shauna Rolston in The Protecting Veil by John Tavener.

Composer: Jonathan Dove
Librettist: Nick Dear
Stage director: Kelly Robinson and Michael Waller
Conductor: Henk Guittart

Siren Song, by the British composer Jonathan Dove, is a chamber opera about the longing for love and the susceptibility to deception. Based on a bizarre, true story about a young sailor who exchanges letters with a beautiful and successful model whom he has never met, and with whom he becomes infatuated, Siren Song is a story about the power of the imagination, and how we invent the people we love. Jonathan Dove writes, “When I first came across the true story which inspired Siren Song, I knew it had to become an opera.”

“Jonathan Dove’s one acter… is a gem of a piece from a composer who rarely puts a foot wrong in the opera house.” BBC Music Magazine

Featuring a pre-show chat with the composer 45 minutes prior to each performance.

Audience recommendation: This performance contains graphic, adult language and mature situations.

Tonight's cabaret features the Hilario Duran Trio, plus special guests, and takes place in The Banff Centre's hippest venue, the underground licensed Club.

The Club is a licensed venue that admits those 14 and older.

Rush tickets may be available at the door.

Filmmaker Veronica Tennant introduces Shadow Pleasures (2004), featuring readings by Michael Ondaatje, as interpreted in dance and film. Tennant's latest dance doc, Vida y Danza, Cuba ~ Life & Dance (2008) traces the journey of Cuban choreographer Lizt Alfonso, and her all-female company Danza Cuba.
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Revel in the atmosphere of music and art in this series of Sunday afternoon concerts featuring the best young musicians of our time at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.

Composer: Jonathan Dove
Librettist: Nick Dear
Stage director: Kelly Robinson and Michael Waller
Conductor: Henk Guittart

Siren Song, by the British composer Jonathan Dove, is a chamber opera about the longing for love and the susceptibility to deception. Based on a bizarre, true story about a young sailor who exchanges letters with a beautiful and successful model whom he has never met, and with whom he becomes infatuated, Siren Song is a story about the power of the imagination, and how we invent the people we love. Jonathan Dove writes, “When I first came across the true story which inspired Siren Song, I knew it had to become an opera.”

“Jonathan Dove’s one acter… is a gem of a piece from a composer who rarely puts a foot wrong in the opera house.” BBC Music Magazine

Featuring a pre-show chat with the composer 45 minutes prior to each performance.

Audience recommendation: This performance contains graphic, adult language and mature situations.

A summer tradition, Banff Centre musicians visit the Canmore Seniors Centre for an intimate chamber music experience.

Frances Stark often uses language as a visual motif in her artwork. Working primarily on paper and using collage, Stark borrows text from novels, poetry, and pop songs to create works that are innately personal. Recent exhibitions include the 2008 Whitney Biennial and Tate Modern.

A beautiful, calm, and intimate setting to enjoy a classical music concert - just a block away from the bustle of Banff Avenue.

Everybody Dance Now! North America's finest young dancers delight in a stunning new work by the 2009 Lee Award winner Heather Myers, a Pas de Deux from Romeo et Juliette, and Grosse Fuge by Hans van Manen.

Pre-show chats start 45 minutes prior to each Festival Dance performance.
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Stuart Bailey is co-editor and designer of Dot Dot Dot, the bi-annual art/design publication which began life as a graphic design magazine, but whose content has gradually widened to cover art, music, language, politics, film and literature. Tonight Bailey presents on his work Dexter Sinister.

Everybody Dance Now! North America's finest young dancers delight in a stunning new work by the 2009 Lee Award winner Heather Myers, a Pas de Deux from Romeo et Juliette, and Grosse Fuge by Hans van Manen.

Pre-show chats start 45 minutes prior to each Festival Dance performance.
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Michael Ondaatje introduces one of his early docs, The Clinton Special: A Film About The Farm Show, a film that follows Theatre Passe Muraille and a group of actors into the countryside.
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Featuring Adrian Thompson
Composer: Leos Janácek

A true love story about a country boy, a gypsy girl, and an alder-grove. Less is more in this summer song cycle for tenor, mezzo, and piano.

Discover the stars of tomorrow, today. Featuring the finest emerging musicians in residence at The Banff Centre.

Everybody Dance Now! North America's finest young dancers delight in a stunning new work by the 2009 Lee Award winner Heather Myers, a Pas de Deux from Romeo et Juliette, and Grosse Fuge by Hans van Manen.

Pre-show chats start 45 minutes prior to each Festival Dance performance.
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A lion of the literary world, Michael Ondaatje is interviewed on stage by the director of The Banff Centre's Literary Journalism program, Marni Jackson.

Faculty artist, pianist John Perry in performance.

With this exhibition of recent works, a number of which were created at The Banff Centre, the London-based artist continues to explore her interest in choreographed movement and the construction of pictorial space. With her distinctive technique of luminescent watercolour glazing on canvas, Otto-Knapp works with references ranging from Bronislava Nijinska, George Balanchine, and Yvonne Rainer, to The Banff Centre's own archive.

Conductor Joel Smirnoff leads the Banff Festival Orchestra in a major concert featuring Mozart’s Overture to Don Giovanni, Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 in C Major, and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with soloist Angela Cheng.

“Nothing short of magic... a pianist one could listen to for hours.” - The Record
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Enjoy a free public swim at the Sally Borden Fitness & Recreation centre.

Everybody Dance Now! North America's finest young dancers delight in a stunning new work by the 2009 Lee Award winner Heather Myers, a Pas de Deux from Romeo et Juliette, and Grosse Fuge by Hans van Manen.

Pre-show chats start 45 minutes prior to each Festival Dance performance.
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Revel in the atmosphere of music and art in this series of Sunday afternoon concerts featuring the best young musicians of our time at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.

Silke Otto-Knapp, Jan Verwoert, Frances Stark, Flora Wiegmann, and Lindsay Fischer

In conjunction with the Silke Otto-Knapp exhibition, this panel follows the final performance of Festival Dance. Moderated by art critic Jan Verwoert, Otto-Knapp, artist Frances Stark, dancer/choreographer Flora Wiegmann, and ballet master Lindsay Fischer discuss the relationship between dance and visual art, and contemporary engagements with each field's avant-garde history.

A special Sunday night concert featuring trumpet soloist Jens Lindemann and a stunning line-up of brass players, including Patrick Sheriden, Wycliffe Gordon, Martin Hacklemann, and more.

A documentary film about the art and science of paperfolding. Presented as part of Bridges Banff II, a conference devoted to mathematics, music, art, architecture, and culture.

A summer tradition, Banff Centre musicians visit the Canmore Seniors Centre for an intimate chamber music experience.

A beautiful, calm, and intimate setting to enjoy a classical music concert - just a block away from the bustle of Banff Avenue.

This one-hour tour of public artwork at The Banff Centre begins with Mike MacDonald’s Butterfly Garden and spans the campus to include works by John McEwan, Jin-Me Yoon, Peter von Tiesenhausen, and more.

Let's Go Outside

Jonathan Watkins director of Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, will discuss contemporary art as presented outside of galleries and museums.

Featuring renowned pianist Hamish Milne.

Discover the stars of tomorrow, today. Featuring the finest emerging musicians in residence at The Banff Centre.

Adapted by Peter Brook
From the opera by Georges Bizet
Stage director: Michael Waller
Conductor: Adam Burnette

Fiery gypsy woos soldier. Dumps him for toreador. Jealous soldier murders gypsy. No bull.

One of the world's great operas as you have never seen it before. Lean and mean in Peter Brook's famous 80-minute version.

Sung in French with English surtitles.

Pre-show chats start 45 minutes prior to each opera performance.
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Kick off the August long weekend, when renowned trumpeter Jens Lindemann hosts a big brassy concert featuring 18 gifted young players, and plenty of pizzazz!