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Banff Centre Summer Arts Festival 2026

Canada's celebration of art in the mountains since 1950.

Over 100 concerts, DJ nights, literary cabarets, art-making workshops, and much more—including many free events—all summer long.

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From the film The Hard Way
Date: Sun, Jun 21 2026 - Sat, Jun 27 2026

Online Films Screening

Watch a curated lineup of short films by Indigenous filmmakers sharing cultures, stories, and voices from the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival.
Attend Free
Meriem Bennani, Party on the CAPS, 2018. Video Installation. Photo by Mathilda Olmi.
Date: Wed, Jun 24 2026 @ 4:00 PM
Glyde Hall

Nomadisms Open Studios

Visit the studios of this summer’s Nomadisms residency participants and see how they pushed creative boundaries during their four weeks at Banff Centre.
Attend Free
Lacey Hill portrait
Date: Wed, Jun 24 2026 @ 7:30 PM
Margaret Greenham Theatre

Lacey Hill

Indigenous soul. That’s how Six Nations-born-and-bred Lacey Hill describes her emotion-filled original songs.
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$25.00
Banff Centre Campus, Cascade Mountain in the Background.
Date: Sat, Jun 27 2026 @ 10:30 AM
Le Café

Campus Tour

Experience Banff Centre campus through the eyes of our participants! Tours Occur Every Other Saturday from June to August.
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$10.00
Pink Martini
Date: Sat, Jun 27 2026 @ 8:00 PM
Jenny Belzberg Theatre

Pink Martini All-Stars

Experience Pink Martini’s All-Stars tour led on stage by NPR’s dashing Ari Shapiro, the soulful Edna Vazquez, and America’s Got Talent finalist Jimmie Herrod.
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From $65.00
Banff Center, 2024. Arthur Hitchcock for IN A LANDSCAPE
Date: Sun, Jun 28 2026 @ 4:00 PM
Shaw Amphitheatre

IN A LANDSCAPE: Classical Music in the Wild™

IN A LANDSCAPE: Classical Music in the Wild™ returns to Banff Centre with an outdoor concert featuring pianist Hunter Noack on a 9-foot Steinway grand piano.
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$64.00
Miriam Khalil
Date: Fri, Jul 03 2026 @ 8:00 PM
Banff Legion, 92 Banff Ave

Opera Pub

Your favourite arias are on tap at the Banff Legion—for two nights only.
Attend Free
Image of a river
Date: Mon, Jul 06 2026 - Sun, Jan 03 2027
Jeanne & Peter Lougheed Building

One arc in colour, another in time

To mark its 50th year, Walter Phillips Gallery invites past artists to return a postcard with a memory, creating a growing archive for visitors to experience.
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Photo of Dodie Bellamy
Date: Thu, Jul 09 2026 @ 7:00 PM
CLVB '33

Literary Cabaret: Summer Writers - Chapter 1

Hosted by Dodie Bellamy
Highly influential author Dodie Bellamy reads alongside participants from the Summer Writers residency.
Attend Free

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Art of Piano

Inspired faculty and emerging musical talents meet in Art of Piano. Join us as musicians push their instruments to new heights in skill and expression, sharing their unique perspectives and creativity.

Art of Piano is generously supported by lead donor Heather Edwards. Additional support provided by the Alice and Betty Schultz Scholarships Endowment Fund for Dance and Music, Helen Graham, and the Yolanda Freeze Master Artists Music Fund

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colorful space cartography projection

Nomadisms

Nomadism is a mode of existence determined by movement, alternative cartographies, and attention to the earth. This summer, artists consider how this shapes aesthetics and gestures of art-making and collaboration.

Visual Arts is generously supported by Foundation David R. Graham and the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Program.

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National Indigenous History Month

Banff Centre recognizes National Indigenous History Month as a time for learning, honouring, reflecting, and engaging with Indigenous cultures. Banff Centre invites the community to participate in events and activities including a music concert, dance and jewelry workshops, story sharing panels, and more.

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Indigenous Arts

Through outstanding performances, concerts, residencies, presentations, workshops, talks, and exhibitions, Indigenous Arts contributes to strong and vibrant communities in Canada and around the globe.

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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.