This Saturday, September 6, Albertans from across the province are invited to experience the best in local arts and culture, celebrating the first Alberta Arts Day. They can see a gallery show, watch a dance or music performance, take in a film, or get involved in hands-on creativity.
The Banff Centre, one of the province’s foremost arts and cultural organizations, will display a wide range of creative programming as part of the Alberta Arts Day celebration at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary. The Centre attracts artists from the region, across Canada and around the world in multiple creative disciplines, including Aboriginal arts, dance, opera, music, theatre, visual and literary arts, and new media.
“The Banff Centre welcomes this opportunity to show Albertans the creative scope of what we do,” says Sarah Iley, the Centre’s vice president, Programming. “We’re very proud to partner with the Alberta government to demonstrate the value of arts and culture in this province. The arts boost economic growth and development while responding to an enhanced demand for creativity and innovation as essential skill sets in local, national and international labour markets, and advances Canada as a centre of excellence on the international stage.”
In Banff, visitors can also take in two contemporary art exhibitions at The Banff Centre’s Walter Phillips Gallery. The main show, Bureau de Change, looks back on 30 years of work by alumni of The Banff Centre, including Janet Cardiff, Brian Jungen, and Rebecca Belmore. Adjacent, in the same gallery, Micah Lexier’s commissioned show Touch Paper Once uncovers ephemera from deep in the Walter Phillips Gallery’s archives. The Centre also hosts Barbara Spohr: Strangely Familiar in the RBC Lobby of the Eric Harvie Theatre, and a display of winning images from the 2007 Banff Mountain Photography Competition in the lobby of the Sally Borden Building.
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