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Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Celebrates National Indigenous Peoples Month

Banff Centre is excited to recognize and celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21st by presenting a series of events throughout the month of June.

Indigenous Arts Basketweaving Workshop - a woman works with basketweaving materials

Banff Centre Indigenous Arts Engages Community and Cultivates Wisdom

Finding innovative ways to serve the needs of communities today while researching and forecasting the needs of tomorrow has been a strong thread for Banff Centre , and that has been particularly true...

InStudio: Hide Couture

How Slavey Dene designer D’Arcy Moses stitches his community into his designs

Indigenous Dance Residency at Banff Centre.

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity receives gift from the RBC Foundation in support of digital training and accessibility for Indigenous Artists

Banff Centre is thrilled to announce a $500,000.00 funding commitment from the RBC Foundation to provide greater access to digital media literacy training for e

InStudio: Animating Our Stories

For Indigenous storytellers, the medium may have changed, but the message stays the same

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.

Bowing Beyond Genres

Cellest Cris Derksen braids traditional and contemporary with genre-defying music.

The Slaight Family Foundation announces $12M in donations to charities supporting Indigenous communities across Canada

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is one of 15 recipients of one of the largest charitable donations ever in Canada aimed at Indigenous communities.

Partners

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 “Minhrpa” (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, Kainai. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Shuswap Nations, Ktunaxa Nations, and Metis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play here, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.

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