Join us for an afternoon presentation by Isabelle Sully, an artist, curator, and writer whose practice often centers on the mechanisms and materiality of administration.

In this talk, she presents her practice through a series of recent projects, drawing on both the institutional contexts she works within and the self-initiated facets of her work. She reflects on projects developed through her current role as Artistic Director at A Tale of A Tub in Rotterdam, alongside initiatives such as DIY publishing and a performance project based in the smallest theatre in the Netherlands. Across these examples, she explores how administrative writing can be refigured as an artistic practice.

She is a faculty member for the Early Career Banff Artist in Residence 2026, a transformative five-week residency that provides mentorship, critical feedback, and studio time to visual artists in the early stages of their careers. 

This event is part of the Visual Arts Open Lecture Series, which presents talks by leading Canadian and international artists, curators, and academics.

Visual Arts is supported by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Program.

Join us for an afternoon presentation by Jacob Korczynski, a curator whose more than twenty years of practice are rooted in long-term collaboration with artists across exhibitions and publications.

His talk centres on his most recent body of research, including a project that brought together the work of artists Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Jimmy Robert, developed with support from a Curatorial Research Fellowship from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. He will also reflect on how several projects from the past decade anticipated his current thinking on intergenerational dialogue.

He is a faculty member for the Early Career Banff Artist in Residence 2026, a transformative five-week residency that provides mentorship, critical feedback, and studio time to visual artists in the early stages of their careers. 

This event is part of the Visual Arts Open Lecture Series, which presents talks by leading Canadian and international artists, curators, and academics.

Visual Arts is supported by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Program.

Join us for an afternoon presentation by Nour Bishouty, a multidisciplinary artist working across video, sculpture, works on paper, digital images, and writing.

In this talk, she traces the through-lines of her practice, examining how personal experience becomes legible within broader cultural and historical contexts. Drawing on works from the past decade, she explores how familial and inherited narratives can function as a counter-archive, using fragmentary traces and speculative gestures to unsettle systems that claim to organize meaning, including taxonomy, archives, museology, and colonial logics. She reflects on how misreading, absence, and distortion operate as material conditions in her work, and asks what becomes visible when certainty slips. She also examines how not knowing, or not fully understanding, might itself become a way of paying closer attention.

She is a faculty member for the Early Career Banff Artist in Residence 2026, a transformative five-week residency that provides mentorship, critical feedback, and studio time to visual artists in the early stages of their careers. 

This event is part of the Visual Arts Open Lecture Series, which presents talks by leading Canadian and international artists, curators, and academics.

Visual Arts is supported by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Program.

Rejoignez-nous pour une soirée dédiée à la littérature francophone contemporaine dans le cadre de la série Literary Cabaret, avec des lectures d'écrivains en résidence du programme Contemporary French Writers Residency au Banff Centre. Ce premier chapitre rassemble des œuvres originales d'auteurs qui explorent la poésie, la prose, les formes hybrides et les approches expérimentales du langage.

La soirée est animée par Chris Clarke et Cole Swensen, traducteurs et poètes primés, et mentors pour la résidence. Ils animent le programme, mettant en lumière les échanges dynamiques entre les traditions littéraires francophones et internationales, et partagent chacun une courte lecture de leur propre travail. Les écrivains liront des œuvres en cours, principalement en français, offrant un aperçu rare des processus créatifs qui façonnent certaines des voix littéraires les plus audacieuses de la France d'aujourd'hui.

Découvrez une sélection de livres de Pages Books et profitez d'un moment chaleureux et festif avec des écrivains, des lecteurs et la communauté. Ouverture des portes à 18h15 au CLVB '33, début des lectures à 19h00. Les invités sont les bienvenus pour échanger avec les écrivains et les intervenants après les lectures jusqu'à 21h30.

Ne manquez pas cette soirée inspirante consacrée à la langue, à la culture et à la littérature française contemporaine.

Le programme de résidence et l'événement sont généreusement soutenus par la Fondation DRG.
 

Join us for an evening celebrating contemporary francophone literature as part of the Literary Cabaret series, featuring readings from writers in residence from the Contemporary French Writers Residency at Banff Centre. This chapter brings together original works by resident writers working across poetry, prose, hybrid forms, and experimental approaches to language.

The evening is hosted by Chris Clarke and Cole Swensen, award-winning translators, poets, and faculty mentors for the residency. They guide the program and each share a short reading from their own work, highlighting the vibrant exchange between francophone and international literary traditions. Writers will read works in progress, largely in French, offering a rare glimpse into the creative processes shaping some of today's boldest literary voices from France.

Explore a selection of books from Pages Books and enjoy a warm, celebratory gathering of writers, readers, and community. Doors open at 6:15 PM in CLVB '33, with readings beginning at 7:00 PM. Guests are invited to mingle with writers and faculty following the readings until 9:30 PM.

Don't miss this inspiring evening of language, culture, and contemporary French literature.

Residency and event support is generously provided by Fondation DRG

Rejoignez-nous pour la soirée de clôture consacrée à la littérature francophone contemporaine dans le cadre de notre série Literary Cabaret, avec des lectures d'écrivains en résidence du programme Contemporary French Writers Residency au Banff Centre. Ce dernier chapitre rassemble des œuvres originales d'auteurs qui explorent la poésie, la fiction, les formes hybrides et les approches expérimentales du langage.

La soirée est animée par Rhonda Mullins et Santiago Artozqui, traducteurs et écrivains primés, et mentors pour la résidence. Ils animent le programme, mettant en lumière les échanges dynamiques entre les traditions littéraires francophones et internationales, et partagent chacun une courte lecture de leur propre travail. Les écrivains liront des œuvres en cours, principalement en français, offrant un regard intime sur les processus créatifs qui façonnent certaines des voix littéraires les plus marquantes de la France d'aujourd'hui.

Découvrez une sélection de livres de Pages Books et venez passer un moment chaleureux et convivial avec des écrivains, des lecteurs et la communauté. Ouverture des portes à 18h15 au CLVB '33, début des lectures à 19h00. Les invités sont les bienvenus pour échanger avec les écrivains et les intervenants après les lectures jusqu'à 21h30.

Ne manquez pas cette soirée vibrante consacrée à la langue, à la culture et à la littérature française contemporaine.

Le programme de résidence et l'événement sont généreusement soutenus par la Fondation DRG.