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Reflections 2025-26

Read our annual Report to Community for the 2025-26 season: a year of welcoming new visitors, programs, partners, spaces, and ways of being.

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Watch online films from Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival and World Tour

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New mountain culture and adventure films. (CAN/USA)

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Watch online films from Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival and World Tour.

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Live at CLVB '33: Open Thursday through Saturday nights, all Summer long.

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Inspiring Artists, Leaders and Creatives since 1933

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is a learning organization built upon an extraordinary legacy of excellence in artistic and creative development. From our home in the stunning Canadian Rocky Mountains, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity aims to inspire everyone who attends our campus – artists, leaders, and thinkers – to unleash their creative potential.

Programs

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Program Dates October 04, 2026 - October 09, 2026

From Data to Relational Direction: Evaluative Practices for Cultural Leaders

Wise Practice | Performance Evaluation

Expand your ability to lead with clarity and integrity by embedding evaluative thinking and data strategy as core tools for learning, alignment, and impact.

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Indigenous Leadership participants at Banff Centre 2022

Program Dates August 30, 2026 - September 04, 2026

Negotiation Skills Training - September 2026

Indigenous Leadership | In Person

Practice your negotiation skills and leave with new strategies to bring to the negotiating table.

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Participants in an adventure filmmaking workshop

Program Dates October 23, 2026 - October 26, 2026

Moonlighter Film Camp - From Concept to Completion

Women's Outdoor Filmmaking Intensives

Moonlighter Film Camps, led by  outdoor industry professionals are designed to enhance technical filmmaking skills. Open to filmmakers who identify as women.

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We recognize, with deep respect and gratitude, our home on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. In the spirit of respect and truth, we honour and acknowledge the Banff area, known as “Minihrpa” (translated in Stoney Nakoda as “the waterfalls”) and the Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) – comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney Nations – as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Shuswap Nations, Ktunaxa Nations, and Metis Nation of Alberta, Rockyview District 4. We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play here, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.

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Banff Centre Summer Arts Festival 2026

Over 100 concerts, DJ nights, literary cabarets, art-making workshops, and much more—including many free events—all summer long.

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Date: Fri, Feb 13 2026 - Sun, Jun 21 2026

Walter Phillips Gallery

Cheryl L'Hirondelle: where the voice touches (((acts, utterances, transmissions for freedom)))

From February 13 to June 21, experience the first career survey organized on multidisciplinary singer/songwriter Cheryl L’Hirondelle’s multi-decade practice.

Opera Pub

Date: Fri, Jul 17 2026 @ 8:00 PM

Banff Legion, 92 Banff Ave

Opera Pub

Your favourite arias are on tap at the Banff Legion—for two nights only.

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Stories

Diane Borsato: A Clean Place to Swim

Walter Phillips Gallery welcomes visitors this summer with the communal possibilities of water in Diane Borsato: A Clean Place to Swim and creative artmaking for children and youth with Family ARTventures

JUNE 23, 2026 – WPG presents Diane Borsato: A Clean Place to Swim, an exhibition that considers how water fosters intimacy, solidarity, and belonging

National Indigenous History Month

Celebrate National Indigenous History Month at Banff Centre this June with Music, Dance, Film Screenings, and Storytelling

JUNE 1, 2026 - Celebrate National Indigenous History Month events with concerts, short films, and a virtual art market.

IN A LANDSCAPE

Pink Martini and IN A LANDSCAPE perform at Banff Centre for a weekend of unforgettable performances this June

MAY 28, 2026 - The weekend of June 27 and 28 begins with Pink Martini’s high-energy jazz-style concert and ends with IN A LANDSCAPE: Classical Music.

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Virtual Inspiration

Installation view of Elliptical Lineages, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, 2025. Photo: Rita Taylor.

Elliptical Lineages Artist Spotlights

Hear directly from a number of the artists exhibiting in Elliptical Lineages as they reflect on their work. On view from June 7 to September 7, 2025

Cris Derksen, Cellist

Decolonizing the Narrative Conversation Series

Decolonizing the Narrative Conversation Series is a bi-monthly conversation session that invites Indigenous Art creators to talk about their practice.

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Literary Arts Reading List

Our Director of Literary Arts, Derek Beaulieu, recommends these titles by Banff Centre faculty and friends.

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We recognize, with deep respect and gratitude, our home on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. In the spirit of respect and truth, we honour and acknowledge the Banff area, known as “Minihrpa” (translated in Stoney Nakoda as “the waterfalls”) and the Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) – comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney Nations – as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Shuswap Nations, Ktunaxa Nations, and Metis Nation of Alberta, Rockyview District 4. We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play here, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.