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New Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Announced

The new annual literary prize will be launched in 2022 — awarding $150,000 to a single work of fiction by a woman or non-binary writer.
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Banff Centre Mountain Book and Film Festival nominated for USA Today 10Best Award

Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival nominated for USA Today’s 10Best Reader’s Choice Award.
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Visual + Digital Art Open Studio

Visual Arts Explores the Relationship between Art and Communities

Visual Arts at Banff Centre continues to offer exceptional programs and opportunities for emerging and professional artists, curators, art critics and researchers.
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Visual Arts Presents Darkness and Accessibility 2020

For the Winter Exhibition, Banff Centre’s Walter Phillips Gallery proudly presents Governor-General Award-winning visual artist Rita McKeough’s darkness is as deep as the darkness is.
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InStudio: Crafting the Universe

How choreographer Andrea Peña creates worlds for her dancers to inhabit, and for audiences to explore
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New Rogers Communications Chair of Literary Journalism Announced

Award-winning author Charlotte Gill is the new Rogers Communications Chair of Literary Journalism at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
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InStudio: Artist as Warrior

Jazz drummer Jerry Granelli looks to Buddhist teachings to define his place as an artist in society
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Arts, Culture, and Digital Transformation Summit | Banff Centre

Final Speakers List Announced: Re-imagining the place of the artist in a digital world

The speakers list for Banff Centre’s groundbreaking Arts, Culture and Digital Transformation Summit has been finalized.
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Banff Centre’s 2020 Music Programming Announced

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s full line-up of 2020 residency programs in music has been released.
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Image from the film Piano to Zanskar © Jarek Kotomski

Piano to Zanskar wins Grand Prize in the 2019 Banff Mountain Film Competition

Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is thrilled to announce Piano to Zanskar as winner of the Grand Prize in the 2019 Banff Mountain Film Competition.
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Down From The Mountain by Bryce Andrews

Down from the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear by Bryce Andrews takes the Grand Prize in the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition

Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is pleased to announce Down from the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear by Bryce Andrews as Grand Prize winner of the 2019 Banff Mountain Book...
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Banff Centre donor sits in an empty Eric Harvie Theatre.

InStudio: Leaving a Legacy in the West

A contribution from arts lover and philanthropist Jenny Belzberg and her family will make a big mark on campus — coming fall 2020​
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