Media Releases

Banff Centre President | Janice Price

Janice Price, President and CEO of Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, is named one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women by the Women’s Executive Network (WXN) in Toronto

Price will be honoured at an Awards Gala at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
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Jacqueline Bell

Arts writer and curator, Jacqueline Bell promoted to Curator at Walter Phillips Gallery

Bell assumes the position on November 1, 2018.  
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Image from the film The Weight of Water

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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Book covers for all finalists

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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Development

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 Cultural Investment Fund (CCIF).
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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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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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Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity publishes limited edition anthology of Canada’s next fables

Fables for the 21st Century features 11 original short stories edited by best-selling authors Rawi Hage, Lisa Moore, and Madeleine Thien.
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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.
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