Banff Centre Summer Arts Festival

A celebration of art in the mountains!

Since 1950, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity has been inviting audiences onto campus for concerts, exhibitions, film screenings, workshop presentations, productions, talks, and readings at our gorgeous location on Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain.

With a 360° view of the Rocky Mountains, the Summer Arts Festival invites the Banff community into the creative process that happens every day at Banff Centre, to witness the magic that comes out of our residencies in visual art, music, opera, Indigenous arts, literature, and more.

From world premieres to works in their earliest stage of development, Banff Centre is a place where emerging artists, Canadian icons, and international superstars gather to create and share work with our community.

Find out more in the Festival Guide and see what's coming up in the Festival Calendar.

View all Events

Banff (The Beautiful) Celebrates Oscar Peterson at 100

Fri, Jul 18 @ 8 PM

Upcoming

Taras Grascoe. Photo by Katia Taylor.

Date: Tue, May 20 @ 7:00 PM

Literary Cabarets: Literary Journalism Readings - Chapter 2

Hosted by the award-winning author of eight nonfiction books, Taras Grescoe, who will read alongside writers from the Literary Journalism Residency.

Kyo Maclear. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Date: Thu, May 22 @ 7:00 PM

Literary Cabarets: Literary Journalism Readings - Chapter 3

Author Kyo Maclear, Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, will host and read alongside writers from the Literary Journalism Residency.

Hung-Kuan Chen & Tema Blackstone.

Date: Sun, May 25 @ 7:30 PM

Rolston Recital Hall

Art of Piano: Hung-Kuan Chen & Tema Blackstone

Masterful performers from the Juilliard School, Hung-Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone showcase their technical prowess via selections from Mozart and Debussy.

Indigenous Arts

Walter Phillips Gallery

How to Fest

CLVB '33

Amphitheatre

The Handmaid's Tale Chamber Opera Premiere

Sat, Jul 26 @ 7:30 PM

Opera, jazz, film, and more... "Artists roam freely across these definitions" and so should we.

Josephine Ridge, Executive Director, Arts

Come for the show.
Stay for the view.

Subscribe

Phone (Main Switchboard)
403.762.6100

Address
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive
PO Box 1020
Banff, Alberta
Canada
T1L 1H5

Find us on Google Maps

Banff Centre is supported by

Follow Us

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 “Minihrpa” (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, and Kainai. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Shuswap Nations, Ktunaxa Nations, and Metis Nation of Alberta, Rockyview District 4. We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play here, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.