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The Creative Voice Strategic Plan 2016 – 2021 Strengthening Canada’S Creative Voices a Message to Our Community, Artists and Partners The Creative Voice Strategic Plan 2016 – 2021 Strengthening Canada’s Creative Voices A message to our community, artists and partners A home for arts and creativity. UNESCO’s first worldwide study on the At Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, This strategic plan, The Creative Voice, will economic contribution of the creative we have been welcoming extraordinary help us write the next chapter of this story In a world that is forever moving and industries in 2015 identified several of artists and leaders here on Treaty 7 land for together. To our supporters, audiences, changing, art can act as a vehicle for Canada’s creative industries as benchmarks. generations. The breadth, and substance, partners, participants, clients, visitors, and understanding. We are facing a broad range In 2016, the Government of Canada of our offerings as a post-secondary Banff Centre team, we thank you for your of disruptive innovations and reinvention pledged an unprecedented $1.9 billion to institution that specializes in arts and culture continued support and dedication. None of in the world today that are changing foster the creation of Canadian content is unequalled anywhere in the world. Banff this would be possible without you. markets, sectors, countries, and the lives of and arts exports to increase international Centre was born during the Great Depression individuals everywhere. Closer to home and audiences for Canadian creative artists and with an extraordinary vision, inspired by also tied to the national landscape, there is professionals. This support is a clear and Alberta’s entrepreneurial spirit, to develop an Alberta economy that has witnessed a welcome message that creative expression is artistic and creative potential in talented number of challenges in the face of declining not ornamental – it is fundamental to who we artists from Alberta, Canada and around the prices for natural resources. Provincially, are, and how we see and express ourselves. world, and we stay true to that mission today. Janice Price It helps us define, celebrate, and share President & CEO the importance and role of high-quality This is a special place indeed; for performing our cultures. Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity education, and access to this, has been artists, visual artists, writers, film and new emphasized as key in shaping the success This is the backdrop for Banff Centre’s media practitioners, Indigenous artists, and of Alberta’s future, and there is no reason 80 year commitment to arts and creativity. leaders from across Canada and around the to doubt that this also rings true on a much Artists help us make sense of our world globe, as well as our many audiences who larger scale when applied to Canada, – they tell our stories, offer different engage with these artists and leaders. Our and the world. perspectives and show us new and powerful story matters because it is also your story These dramatic shifts are also providing ways to see and understand the world. and the story of everyone who wants to an extraordinary and uniquely Canadian They help us define, celebrate and share strengthen the creative voices of Alberta moment. More than ever, the world is our cultures the world over. Creativity is and Canada. recognizing Canada’s strength and leadership now globally recognized as an essential in taking creative approaches to change, 21st Century skill. Creativity enables us diversity, reconciliation, immigration, to contribute to our communities, set environmental issues, and arts and culture. expectations for our leaders, and find Cover image: Luri Lee from the Rolston String meaning for ourselves. Creativity is in all of Quartet performing at Music for a Summer us, it is for everyone. Evening at Banff Centre as part of summer training programs in 2015. Photo by Rita Taylor. 2 < The Creative Voice Strategic Plan 2016 – 2021 > 3 The Creative Voice Strategic Plan 2016 – 2021 Canada’s home for arts learning and creation. As Canada’s leading post graduate arts institution, Banff The practice of all Centre for Arts and Creativity offers intensive training and career development programs for emerging and the arts is acrobatic, established artists across all artistic disciplines. As not much different champions of arts and creativity, Banff Centre also has an extensive leadership offering in the cultural, from being a high wire Indigenous, corporate, and environmental sectors. “walker, a trapeze artist. Banff Centre offers more than one hundred programs annually that are open for application to artists No guarantee each time and arts practitioners at the post-graduate and that you won’t lose your professional level. Adjudicated by international faculty, Banff Centre participants engage in balance and fall. educational programs designed to help them advance And like most artists their careers and create new artistic works. Banff Centre’s five year strategic plan is called I have had spotters. The Creative Voice because training, supporting, Several. and developing creative voices is what we do on a daily basis. Arts and creativity is core to our mission — W.O. Mitchell, author of Who Has Seen and it is what connects us across our arts and The Wind and alumnus and faculty of leadership training, and conference experiences, Banff Centre’s Literary Arts program, enabling Banff Centre to deliver distinct public value which he directed in its formative years. to Albertans and Canadians. Over the next five years Banff Centre will strengthen its support for new creative voices by offering training programs in arts and leadership and will further focus its resources Phillip Blanchett, musical group Pamyua, and experience to be a catalyst for Canadian culture Banff Centre, 2016. Photo by Rita Taylor. and a global organization in arts and creativity. 4 < The Creative Voice Strategic Plan 2016 – 2021 > 5 Contributing to Canada’s Contributing to Canada’s cultural landscape cultural sector Integral to Banff Centre Banff Centre has been helping training programs are festivals, launch, sustain, and grow the performances and world class careers of artists, practitioners and events that showcase the artists and cultural leaders for over 80 years. work created here to over 80,000 audience members every year. The impact of these alumni is clear: Works are presented from all artistic disciplines: opera, music, dance, film and media, mountain culture, visual and Indigenous arts, and more. % Across these disciplines Banff Centre is proud to showcase to audiences 90 commissions, behind the scenes, of alumni work premieres, and co-productions with professionally in their field. some of the world’s finest cultural organizations and companies. These works go on to be showcased around the world, extending the % impact and reach of our programs. Every year in Banff there are: 81 secured a position, role or exhibition within a year of taking a Banff Centre + program. 150 % Premieres 78 earn their living from artistic practice, and serve + as mentors and teachers 50 within their communities. Commissioned Artistic Works % + 70 of participants in arts 400 training programs are Canadian. Performances and Events David Thor Jonsson and Ragnar Kjartansson during the development of the five channel video installation, The End by Ragnar Kjartansson. Created at Banff Centre for the 53rd Venice Biennale. Photo by Laura Vanags. 6 < The Creative Voice Strategic Plan 2016 – 2021 > 7 1970: Laszlo Funtek 2000s: The Banff Centre formalizes and develops has evolved into one of Banff Centre for 1949–1968: Dr. Ernesto Vinci, Banff’s Theatre program. the world’s leading arts- renowned German-born training organizations, 1942: World-renowned opera instructor, initiates enabling artists from pianist Max Pirani, 1970: In recognition of the Arts and Creativity Banff’s opera program. Canada and across the of the Royal College broadening educational role globe from all disciplines of Music in London, of the school, it is renamed The Banff Centre for to learn from each joins the arts faculty Music: Classes Continuing Education other and practice at in classical music. 1936–1945: The Banff School’s for children in the 1992: Banff alumni (The Banff Centre for short). the highest level of formative years occur during Suzuki method are account for half of the excellence; Banff Centre 1944: Banff Centre the latter half of the Great introduced in the Canadian Opera Company. now welcomes 3,000 Building 1972: Banff Centre offers its hosts the Alberta Depression and the Second mid-1960s by Thomas artists a year, presenting Writers’ Conference, World War; under the directorship Rolston who was first program in Indigenous 1996: Sheila Jordan over 400 events annually which includes the of Donald Cameron (he remained then teaching at the Leadership Training. co-leads the Jazz including Songs inaugural Creative director until 1969) the Centre University of Alberta. Vocal program with Jay Above the Treeline, on a Cultural Writing Competition attracts high calibre instructors In 1965 Rolston was 1974: Legendary jazz Clayton. In 2012, Jordan 2008 with Indigenous for Alberta Schools, from across Canada and appointed head of composer Oscar received the National Women, including Tanya initiating the first the world, including faculty the strings program Peterson co-founds the Endowment for the Arts Tagaq. These events writing programs from renowned institutions in Banff— brass jazz program at Banff Jazz Masters Award—the attract audiences at Banff unrelated The Juilliard School, Cornell, and woodwinds with composer and jazz most prestigious U.S. of over 80,000 from Legacy to theatre arts. and New York University. classes followed. clarinetist Phil Nimmons. award for jazz music. Alberta and beyond. 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity has an extraordinary legacy spanning over 80 years of support and inspiration to thousands of Early 1930s: New Canadian 1974–1986: W.O. Mitchell, 1997: Jim Prentice joins 2016: The Banff Centre 2003: Banff Centre 2021: Banff Centre families who have settled in author of Who Has Seen 1983: Banff Banff Centre as faculty becomes Banff Centre for artists from across all disciplines.
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