Welcome to our virtual celebration!
Banff Centre celebrates the Stoney Nakoda, Blackfoot, Dene, Ktunaxa, and Métis of Treaty 7 territory and surrounding lands. We celebrate the People and the artistry and creativity they inspire.
Featuring a Welcome to the Day by Lillian Rose, and an introduction to the events by Reneltta Arluk and Janice Price.
Participants of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and levels of experience are invited to sketch and draw in Banff Centre’s free beginner-level drawing workshops held online.
Led by Alberta Rose W/Ingnuk, this class encourages artistic exploration and conversation about the ways in which we interact with the cultural and geological landscapes around us that have been home to Indigenous peoples from time immemorial.
Within our homes, there is a multitude of everyday ‘things’ that create unique marks that are telling of our own, personal, domestic lives. This printmaking workshop is inspired by ‘domestic mark making’, where the creation of prints can be made from the marks and things that live around us.
By using hand-made mark-making tools, found objects, or using ‘situational’ mark-making, this printmaking workshop will demonstrate how prints can be made with simple and accessible tools that are available in many variations of places and homes.
Get ready for Stories, Songs, and Tomfoolery! A very personal, intimate, virtual musical experience - recorded in the Almighty Voices studio.
There are entertainment legends, and then there is Tom Jackson, a triple-threat actor, musician, and activist whose achievements in each discipline are downright head-spinning. Tom’s career is unparalleled, not to mention wildly acclaimed, abundantly decorated, and almost ridiculously interesting.
Now, at an age when most are pulling back, the 71-year-old Calgary-based star is barreling towards the busiest and most glittering chapter in his towering 40-odd-year run at the forefront of contemporary film, TV, and music.
OChiSkwaCho is a sacred being, known to many Indigenous people as a spiritual messenger. Kokoom, an elderly (spiritually ailing) two-spirit woman has to decide whether to stay with her grandchildren or follow the OChiSkwaCho. OChiSkwaCho was filmed at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
Win'ge'he Ahiya - (Raising a Song) is about life in Morley. It's about loss, frustration, hopes, and resiliency. A young man is trying to live his life the best way he knows how, with a little encouragement and a lot of perseverance he manages to get by; he is "raised" and taught life's lessons, to become his own song.
Followed by a panel discussion.
Closing Celebration by Daryl Kootenay, traditional singer, dancer, artist, speaker, and youth leader from the Stoney Nakoda Nation of Treaty 7 in southern Alberta.
Funded by the Government of Canada.
Financé par le gouvernement du Canada.
Indigenous Arts at Banff Centre is supported by: