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

Apply today for 2025–26 programs.

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Photo by Rita Taylor

A Message from Josephine Ridge, our Executive Director of Arts.

Help Banff Centre change lives and inspire creativity.

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Hung-Kuan Chen and Sabrina Chen, Art of Piano Masterclass. Photo by Abigaile Edwards.

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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

A musician in a blue wig plays a percussion instrument

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.

The Ramblin’ Hey Ho Ha’s performing on stage

Date: Thu, Jul 10 @ 6:00 PM

Shaw Amphitheatre

Amp Sessions: The Ramblin’ Hey Ho Ha’s

Free live show: The Ramblin’ Hey Ho Ha’s - Rocky Mountain Country from Banff!

Title page of Bach's St Matthew Passion autograph score and portion Original Composition

Date: Fri, Jul 11 @ 7:30 PM

Margaret Greenham Theatre

Interplay Opera Workshop: Excerpts from St. Matthew Passion

This masterpiece of Baroque sacred music uses a gorgeous weave of arias and chorales to recount Jesus’s final days.

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Stories

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

Oscar Peterson, photo by Al Gilbert, CM., F.R.P.S.

Jazz History, Iconic Music, and the Next Generation of Jazz Greats Unite in Banff (The Beautiful) Celebrates Oscar Peterson at 100 at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Banff Centre presents a concert to the Canadian jazz legend, Dr. Oscar Peterson, in collaboration with the Estate of Oscar Peterson and Céline Peterson.

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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.