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Banff International String Quartet Competition announces 2019 competing quartets

Ten of the world’s finest quartets will compete for the most coveted prize in chamber music at the 13th Banff International String Quartet Competition.
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Banff Centre alumna Meagan Musseau sets out on cross-Canada speaking tour

Winner of the 2018 Emerging Atlantic Artist Residency, interdisciplinary visual artist Meagan Musseau will embark on a multi-city, national speaking tour starting April 14, 2019, at The Rooms in St...
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2019 TAC Leaders Lab Fellows

Announcing the 2019 TAC Leaders Lab Fellows

18 innovative leaders from Toronto's arts and culture sector will collaborate over the year on how to best build the creative city...
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BISQC Classics Revisited

The archival team recently finished a major project of arranging and describing 15 years’ worth of early Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC) materials.
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Banff Centre’s Mountainside Summer Season kicks off with world premiere of Calgary Old Trout Puppet Workshop’s Ghost Opera on May 24

With more than 26 ticketed shows, and over 100 free events, Banff Centre is the place to experience multi-disciplinary art in the Canadian Rockies this summer.
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Open Studio - Emmanuel Osahor
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Open Studio: Visual Artist Emmanuel Osahor

While at Banff Centre, Emmanuel experimented with transferring paint to concrete. His work is inspired by shelters or gardens in Edmonton, and he paints using materials like tarps as a canvas.
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Building a Dance, Movement by Movement: How Peggy Baker Choreographs

Peggy Baker is a legend in the dance community. We caught up with her last winter during her company’s production residency for "who we are in the dark" when the work was first taking shape...
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Indigenous Leadership program at Banff Centre

Investing in leaders for social change

Historic donation to Banff Centre will support Indigenous Leadership and Social Innovation programming.
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Gryphon Trio

Canada’s extraordinary Gryphon Trio appointed Directors Designate of Classical Music Summer Programs at Banff Centre

Homecoming for Annalee Patipatanakoon, Roman Borys, and Jamie Parker who met at Banff Centre as summer music students in the 1980s, who will take the helm of Classical Music Summer Programs beginning...
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SMU Meadows School of the Arts

Banff International String Quartet Competition announces new collaboration with SMU Meadows School of the Arts

Now valued at over $300,000, one of the richest prizes in chamber music just got richer  with the addition of SMU’s Peak Fellowship Ensemble-in-Residence Prize.
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MEC Takes on Diversity in the Outdoors

Spurred by a public criticism of the lack of diversity in advertising in the outdoor industry, Mountain Equipment Co-op's latest campaign challenges who dominates the outdoors...
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Andrea Peña receives 2018 Clifford E. Lee Choreography Award

Peña will receive a cash prize for the commission of a new work and the support of two residencies at Banff Centre.
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