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Media Statement: Banff Centre response to the Government of Canada's adjustment to the Endowment Incentives program

Statement from Janice Price, President and CEO of Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, in response to the Government of Canada’s recent adjustment to the Endowment Incentives component of the Canada...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jennifer Baichwal, and Brian Jungen join AGO Creative Minds this fall

The provocative speaker series returns with a lively discussion about how humans have impacted our Earth.
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Writer Paige Cooper reflects on her returns to Banff Centre

Paige Cooper's debut collection of stories Zolitude was longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and is a finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Awards...
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A picture of photograph negatives and other archival material from the Everest 1982 collection.

Everest in the Archives

The Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives recently welcomed a new collection to its archive: The 1982 Canadian Everest expedition collection.
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Calgary’s former Poet Laureate Derek Beaulieu named Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

The award winning professor will take up his post on October 15, 2018.
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A Sense of Place

For Ayelet Tsabari, writing is a way of processing memory, and for someone who has lead such a peripatetic life, memory is often tied to place.
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The Full Light of Day

Electric Company Theatre’s new work is the bright future of Canadian drama.
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Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity publishes limited edition anthology of Canada’s next fables

Fables for the 21st Century features 11 original short stories edited by best-selling authors Rawi Hage, Lisa Moore, and Madeleine Thien. ...
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Image of Michael Century during an oral history interview

Recording Our History: Banff Centre's Oral History Project

A discussion of the Banff Centre Archive's Oral History project, with videos featuring Michael Century and Marilyn Engle...
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How to Write a Perfectly Sad Song

Singer-songwriter Kim Richey writes lyrics that tug at the heartstrings—here's how you can, too...
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A blue balloon inflated with the text, "Tolstoy is Tolstoy by Lauren Groff," printed on it.

Story Balloons from McSweeney's Quarterly Concern

The Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives has long subscribed to McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. Issue 53 recently made its way into our collection, and it’s unlike any we’ve had before!
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The sheer side of Sleeping Buffalo Mountain with a dusting of snow and Banff Centre graphics over the image.

Reneltta Arluk, Director of Indigenous Arts, unveils her first full season of programs

For the first time in Banff Centre’s 85 year history, Indigenous Arts will be programmed throughout the calendar year.
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