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As part of the Walter Phillips Gallery exhibition Bureau de change, artist Elizabeth Chitty presents her work History, Colour TV and You, originally mounted in 1982.

As part of the Walter Phillips Gallery exhibition Bureau de change, artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan present their work Lesbian National Parks Free-Range Tour of Duty, originally mounted in 1999.

Led by Halifax-based artists Stephen Kelly and Eleanor King, a two-part interactive public workshop in which participants learn to construct their own low-watt transmitters, and take them into the field for a performance-based broadcast. Call 762-6281 to register.

Berlin-based broadcaster, curator, and theoretician Sabine Breitsameter presents a talk on Acoustic Ecology. Professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, Breitsameter lectures on acoustic media art, electro-acoustic art forms, and contemporary listening culture.

As part of the Walter Phillips Gallery exhibition Bureau de change, artist Rebecca Belmore presents her work Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan, originally developed at The Banff Centre in 1991. Featuring special guests Lori Blondeau, Marcia Crosby, Allen Deleary, Richard Hill, Cheryl L'Hirondelle, James Luna, and others.

Artist Bill Burns presents Bird Radio. Friday’s events include a screening, artist’s talk, and performance, followed by a public reception and book signing in the Butterfly Garden. On Saturday and Sunday Bill Burns will offer continued performances live in the butterfly garden and streaming on www.radio90.fm.

Selected artists featured in Bureau de change, an exhibition celebrating The Banff Centre’s 75th Anniversary, will discuss their work in relation to this formidable history.

Curators Sylvie Gilbert and Helga Pakasaar will give a tour of Bureau de change, an exhibition that documents the significant developments in visual art that have taken place at The Banff Centre. Artists will be in attendance.

Join the Walter Phillips Gallery for the opening of its 75th Anniversary Project. Featuring Bureau de change 1, a large group exhibition tracing the development of visual art at The Banff Centre since 1974; Touch Paper Once, Micah Lexier’s installation that excavates the past 30 years of the Gallery archives; and Radio Free Banff, programming that uses the radio as a site for aural experimentation and goes live to air at the opening!

Selected artists featured in Bureau de change, an exhibition celebrating The Banff Centre’s 75th Anniversary, will discuss their work in relation to this formidable history.
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The Academy Award-winning true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, counterfeiter extraordinaire and bohemian. After getting arrested and sent to a German concentration camp in 1944, he was forced to help the Nazis in an organized counterfeit operation set up to flood and destroy the Allied economies. Also screening the Oscar-nominated short animation I Met The Walrus.

With his signature blend of comedy, tragedy, and social commentary, Denys Arcand follows Jean-Marc, a civil servant who has taken to disappearing into an elaborate fantasy life where he is free to be famous, suave and sought-after. His real life keeps losing out to the dream world and the possibility arises that Jean-Marc’s reality will drift away completely.

In conjunction with Barbara Spohr: strangely familiar, the Walter Phillips Gallery hosts an afternoon panel discussion exploring contemporary photographic practice. Speakers include Penny Anne Cousineau-Levine, professor and chair of the department of visual arts, University of Ottawa, and past recipients of the Barbara Spohr Award, Patricia Deadman (1991), David McMillan (2004), and Ramona Ramlochand (2007).

This film captures the 24 days of an unprecedented strike at one of the world’s largest slaughterhouses — located in Brooks, Alberta — whose employees have emigrated from all over the world. In a decade, small-town Brooks has transformed from a socially conservative, primarily Caucasian town to one of the most diverse communities in Canada.

Join curator Ryan Rice, writer and historian Marcia Crosby, and artist Dana Inkster for a discussion of their work in relation to the topical themes of Canadian identity, nationhood, and nationalism featured in the Walter Phillips Gallery exhibition ANTHEM.  

The opening reception and catalogue launch of ANTHEM: Perspectives on Home and Native Land with curator Ryan Rice, and the opening reception of Lily of the Valley: Attila Richard Lukacs, Still Life Paintings / Helen Lukacs, Garden.

Before being adapted for the screen, Persepolis was well-known as the autobiographic graphic novel of author Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis is Satrapi’s darkly humorous take on her experiences as a young Muslim woman who comes of age in Tehran during the rule of the Shah, the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.

Academy award-winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) returns with a riveting tale of espionage, betrayal and desire. Lust, Caution follows an idealistic and well-meaning young woman who finds herself operating as a secret agent during the World War II Japanese occupation of Shanghai.