Banff Centre Summer Arts Festival

May - September

Over 70 events! Including over 50 FREE experiences.

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Banff International String Quartet Competition

August 25 – 31, 2025

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Isidore String Quartet, first-prize winners of BISQC 2022. Photo by Rita Taylor.

Current Exhibition

Elliptical Lineages
June 7 - September 7, 2025
Public Reception: June 27, 5 - 8 PM

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Sarah Houle, 'Circles' (still), 2024. Video, 4 minutes 24 seconds. Courtesy of the artist.

Reflections 2024-25

Read Banff Centre's latest Report to Community and watch our companion video.

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Emily Solstice Tait, Tasha Faye Evans, Kelly McInnes. Photo by Rita Taylor.

Arts and Leadership

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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 January 12, 2026 - January 30, 2026

Banff Musicians in Residence Winter 2026

This self-directed residency offers space and focused time for musicians of all genres to develop their projects at Banff Centre.

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Deep Winter Writers faculty Holly Pester, Nasser Hussain, and Divya Victor

Program Dates January 12, 2026 - January 30, 2026

Deep Winter Writers 2026

Deep Winter Writers Residency is a self-directed program that offers time and space for writers to retreat, reconnect, and re-energize their writing practice.

Application Deadline

August 20, 2025

Participants in the classroom

Program Dates September 14, 2025 - September 19, 2025

Truth and Reconciliation Through Right Relations - September 2025

Weave leadership pathways to overcome challenges, create a strategic focus and actualize goals.

Application Deadline

August 05, 2025

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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.

Events

John de Haan & Jason de Haan, When the Last Earth-Tie is Sundered (My jacket and my Son’s / My Father’s jacket and mine), 1975 / 2025, embroidery, bleach, and silk on denim jackets.

Date: Sat, Jun 07 - Sun, Sep 07

Walter Phillips Gallery

Elliptical Lineages

'Elliptical Lineages,’ on June 7 - September 7, 2025, presents work of artists that engage the creative practices of a family member or those they consider kin.

Daphne Boyer, Cedar and Sweetgrass Banners, 2022. Digital collages of individually photographed porcupine quills. Image printed on silk twill using acid dyes. 16' X 14'. Photographer: Lina Samoukova. Courtesy the artist.

Date: Wed, Jul 02 @ 4:00 PM

Kapishkum: Métis Gathering Open Studios & Elliptical Lineages Exhibition Tour

Visit the studios of this year's Kapishkum: Métis Gathering participants & take a guided tour of the Walter Phillips Gallery exhibition, 'Elliptical Lineages'.

Headshots of Left to right: Éric Le Sage, photo by Nicolas Guerin. Magali Mosnier, photo courtesy of the artist. Paul Meyer, photo by Edith Held Vandoren. Lee Allen, photo courtesy of the artist.

Date: Thu, Jul 03 @ 7:30 PM

Rolston Recital Hall

Mainstage Chamber Music Concert: Éric Le Sage, Magali Mosnier, Paul Meyer, Lee Allen, Joel Brennan & Gahlord Dewald

Discover the world of chamber music, where a small number of instruments can make a massive impact.

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Kenna Burima, photo by Sean Dennie; Timothonius, photo courtesy of the artist; Spencer Britten, photo by Amanda Palmer; DJ Rob Faust, courtesy of the artist. John Alcorn, photo courtesy of the artist.

Banff Centre Summer Arts Festival Heats Up with New Programming for CLVB ’33 and the Shaw Amphitheatre, Highlighting Bow Valley Favourites and Cabaret Stars

Banff Centre celebrates two unique venues on campus with the free outdoor Amp Sessions and the jazzy, late-night Live at CLVB ’33 Series.

Kinnear Centre for Creativity and Innovation at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Photo by Rita Taylor.

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Hosts Over 500 International Journalists and 200 Delegates as the Official 2025 G7 Summit International Media Centre

Four-day summit operation transforms Banff Centre from arts and leadership institute into a full-scale international media hub, reinforcing its position as a pr

Hali Heavy Shield, Naaahsa is an Artist!, 2023, revised 2025. Digital image. Courtesy of the artist.

Elliptical Lineages Exhibition Opens at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity's Walter Phillips Gallery

Elliptical Lineages explores kinship and artistic exchange across generations, on view at Banff Centre’s Walter Phillips Gallery June 7–Sept 7, 2025.

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Virtual Inspiration

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.

Indigenous Haute Couture Beading

Indigenous Haute Couture High Fashion Virtual Open Studios

In this online version of our Open Studios events, we highlight the work of the Indigenous Haute Couture participants.

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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.