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The Weight of Water wins Grand Prize at the 2018 Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival

The Weight of Water wins Grand Prize in the 2018 Banff Mountain Film Competition
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Jacques Olek

Announcing the 2018 Summit of Excellence Award winner, accomplished Quebec climber Jacques Olek

Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival announces 2018 Summit of Excellence Award winner, accomplished Quebec climber Jacques Olek
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Banff Mountain Book Competition announces 2018 Grand Prize Winner

The Eight Mountains by Paolo Cognetti takes the Grand Prize in the 2018 Banff Mountain Book Competition
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Banff Mountain Book Competition announces 2018 category award winners

Banff Mountain Book Competition unveils category award winners set to compete for the Book Competition’s Grand Prize on November 1 at this year’s Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival.
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Twenty-two leaders from across Canada gather at Banff Centre for year two of Cultural Leadership program

Following a successful first year, Banff Centre's Cultural Leadership program is back with an impressive new cohort. ...
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Taking Risks On and Off the Wall

World-famous climber Tommy Caldwell isn’t afraid to put himself out there — on the side of a mountain, or on the page.
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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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