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THE REVISIONARIES A Tribe Called Red breaks cultural boundaries SPRING/SUMMER 2017 PLUS Spring and Summer events guide inside

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Ban‰ Artist in FOUR DAYS OF Residence Jane Burton working on a painting. To see more glimpses into our artists’ spaces, check out Open MUSIC WITH A SIDE Studio page 44.

Features In every Issue 16 Finding Freedom 30 Classical Music on 6 Topline Calendar 44 The Artists Are Present Through Song the Rise Some highlights from this Peek into the studios of Measha Brueggergos- Exploring the importance summer’s Banff Centre Banff Centre participants man explores her roots and evolution of this events OF MAPLE SYRUP. through music centuries-old form 50 Summer Event Series 10 Art Online Plan your summer cultural 7 TO 10 SEPTEMBER 2017 | CALGARY CANADA 18 ILLUMINATIONS: 34 Reverbs & Reconciliation Follow our InStudio adventures human/nature Catching up with A Tribe stories online Banff Centre lights up two Called Red’s Bear Witness 74 New Heights national parks in celebra- 12 Timeless work Celebrating Banff Centre Festival Pass $129 Experience Canada’s brightest tion of Canada’s 150th 38 Canada’s Next Get to know the artists alumni achievements and Generation of Cultural behind some of the works milestones Single Tickets $10 to $55 classical music stars alongside 22 Indigenous Future Leaders from our permanent Narratives What the world needs collection 76 Banff Staff Honens Laureates at this Looking forward to to know about arts Honens Box Office Indigenous futures with leadership 14 A Room in the Woods 78 Banff Centre Supporters 403 299 0140 | honens.com AGO curator Wanda Peek inside one of the award-winning festival of piano. Nanibush 40 Diversity on Leighton Artist Studios 82 My Studio Canada’s Stages Exploring the creative 26 Opera in the 21st Century The people and ensem- work space of Jonathan How Toronto’s Against the bles bringing new voices Goldstein Grain Theatre is redefining to Canadian stages

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hear from the artist how their piece was created, what inspired it, and how it fits into their body of work. As well as celebrating Banff Centre’s history as an arts training institution, in this inaugural issue we’re look- ing forward to the next 150 years of arts and culture and asking what the future holds for Canada. In a Q+A with Wanda Nanibush, Banff Centre Literary Arts faculty member and Art Gallery of Ontario curator, you’ll learn why visibility for Indigenous art- ists needs to be front and centre for Canada’s artistic and social future. We also hope you enjoy a feature story on Against the Grain Theatre which reveals the new faces and forms of contemporary Canadian opera. In addition to these informative, in-depth stories, you’ll find all the information you need to plan your spring and summer activities at Banff Centre. In May we’ll be hosting our fourth annual Children’s Festival. This will be followed throughout the spring and summer by an outstanding talks series featuring Indigenous voices from our Future Narratives program; a glimpse into Banff’s summer classical music programs with performances of works by Beethoven, Xenakis, Stravin- sky, and more; Banff’s opera program presenting the iconic Canadian opera DEAR ARTS LOVER, those experiencing Banff Centre’s Kopernikus by Claude Vivier in part- Welcome to the new biannual programs for the first time? nership with Against the Grain Theatre magazine of Banff Centre for Arts and In this first edition ofInStudio , you’ll and the Canadian Opera Company; Creativity. In this magazine you’ll find read about Banff Centre’s plans to and much more. interviews with artists in residence, celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday with I hope you enjoy exploring our behind-the-scenes looks at new an epic and immersive art installation, new Banff Centre magazine as you artistic works, information about the which will be exhibited first in Banff, discover the exciting lineup of hundreds of public events that take Canada’s first national park, then a artists and artworks we have in store place at Banff Centre every season, few weeks later in Rouge, Canada’s for you here. and highlights from what Banff alumni first urban national park. This instal- I look forward to welcoming you have been doing since leaving Banff’s lation is created by visual artist Sarah to Banff Centre, and hope you will mountain campus. Fuller and Montreal’s acclaimed multi- share with me your experiences of InStudio was launched to share media collective Moment Factory and our presentations over this upcom- with you what Banff Centre witnesses will not be one to miss. ing season and your thoughts on this every day in our artistic spaces In a feature story we connect with new publication. and training facilities. As Canada’s A Tribe Called Red about how they are home for arts training and creation, reimagining relationships between we host some of the world’s finest Indigenous and non-Indigenous cul- emerging and established artists on tures through music. You can catch campus year round, and welcome them and other outstanding Cana- faculty from the finest organizations dian artists in our Shaw Amphitheatre in Canada and throughout the world. series this summer. Janice Price Who better to share these stories, In the From the Vault section, PRESIDENT & CEO programs and activities with than you’ll see works from Banff Centre’s BANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS AND

you, our audiences, supporters, and permanent visual arts collection, and CREATIVITY WAY COLIN CREDIT: PHOTO

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LEFT: Parker Thiessen, Midnight Oscilla- tions (an excerpt) (2017). Audio and video. Thiessen is part of the 2017 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art.

Hedley with special the season with an eclectic for the time being is an guest Ria Mae program of works for flute analogy of thinking about Friday, June 9, 6:30 P.M. and percussion. what it means to be in Cascade Gardens | $35 between spaces and times. Specifically the exhibition Walk off the Earth with Summer Music Series focuses on our present and special guests Amistad and In Performance: Radhe our relationships to percep- CBC Music’s 2017 Search- Radhe: The Rites of Holi tions of reality. light Contest Winner and The Rite of Spring Friday, June 10, 3 P.M. | $35 Friday, June 23, 7:30 P.M. Eric Harvie Theatre | $25 Summer Music Series Senior/Student $22 | Child In Performance: Faculty Summer Music Series $12.50 | ♥ and Participants from In Performance: Claire Summer Music Programs Chase and Steven Schick Friday, June 30, 7:30 P.M. Tuesday, June 20, 7:30 P.M. Walter Phillips Gallery Rolston Recital Hall | $25 Rolston Recital Hall | $25 Opening Reception: Senior/Student $22 | Child Senior/Student $22 | Child for the time being $12.50 | ♥ $12.50 | ♥ 2017 Alberta Biennial of Summer Music Programs Contemporary Art co-artistic directors kick off Saturday, June 24, 6–9 P.M. Summer Highlights Walter Phillips Gallery | Free

April May June Contemporary Banff Centre Sheldon Casavant: Performance in the Park Indigenous Voices: Children’s Festival Exploring the Impossible June 9 and 10 Wanda Nanibush Talk Saturday, May 20 Saturday, May 20, 10 A.M. Cascade Gardens, Parks Wednesday, April 5, 7 P.M. Featuring free or low-cost and 1 P.M. | Margaret Canada Administration ABOVE, LEFT: Walter Phillips Gallery | Free activities and live shows in- Greenham Theatre | $7 Building | Both days Bundle: Walk off the Earth cluding: storytelling, creativity $52.50 | Child $25 performs June 10 rooms, circus school, family Dancers of the Damelaha- Celebrate Canada 150 and in our Shaw Am- Indigenous Arts dance, and more! mid: In Abundance the arrival of summer with phitheatre with special guests Tanya Tagaq Saturday, May 20, 11:30 A.M. highly-anticipated per- Amistad and Friday, April 28, 7:30 P.M. Ticketed Events Include: and 2:30 P.M. | Margaret formances from some of CBC Music’s Margaret Greenham Theatre De Temps Antan Greenham Theatre | $7 Canada’s top contemporary 2017 Searchlight $32 Saturday, May 20, 9:30 A.M. music acts! Contest Winner. and 12 P.M. | Rolston Recital RIGHT: Dancers

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The Creative Gesture Noetic July 27 and 29, 7:30 P.M. Eric Harvie Theatre | $25 Senior/Student $22 | Child $12.50 | ♥

August Outdoors Concert at Banff Centre’s Shaw Amphitheatre A Tribe Called Red Sunday, August 6, 6:30 P.M. Shaw Amphitheatre | $30 Child $20

CLOCKWISE, Summer Music Series FROM FAR In Performance: LEFT: Noetic Faculty and Participants performed in from the Sumer Music 2014 at The Programs Göteborg Friday, August 11, 7:30 P.M. Opera. Author Rolston Recital Hall | $25 Naomi Klein. The Rolston Senior/Student $22 | Child String Quartet $12.50 | ♥

Saturday Night Jazz Saturday, August 12, 19 and 26, 7:30 P.M. July Margaret Greenham Theatre Summer Music Series Opera in the 21st Century Literary Journalism Talk Summer Music Series $25 | Senior/Student $22 Music in the Pines Kopernikus Gabrielle Hamilton In Performance: Faculty Child $12.50 | ♥ Saturday July 1 | Time and July 6 and 8, 7:30 P.M. Wednesday, July 12, 7:30 P.M. and Participants from the locations to be announced Margaret Greenham Theatre St. George’s-in-the-Pines Summer Music Programs on banffcentre.ca on June 29 $25 | Senior/Student $22 Anglican Church, 100 Beaver Friday, July 21, 7:00 P.M. Free Child $12.50 | ♥ Street, Banff | Free Outdoors in front of Music September Celebrate Canada’s 150th and Sound Building & Rolston Banff Centre International birthday with a kaleidoscope Recital Hall | $25 | Senior/Stu- String Quartet Festival of grand and intimate perfor- Outdoors Concert at Environmental Reportage dent $22 | Child $12.50 | ♥ September 1–3, 2017 mances in Banff. Banff Centre’s Shaw Naomi Klein Individual tickets: $25 Amphitheatre Thursday, July 13, 7:30 P.M. Senior/Student $22 Blue Rodeo Margaret Greenham Theatre Outdoors Concert at Passports: $120 | Senior/ Outdoors Concert at Friday, July 7, 6:30 P.M. $25 | Senior/Student $22 Banff Centre’s Shaw Student $105 Banff Centre’s Shaw Shaw Amphitheatre | $55 Child $12.50 | ♥ Amphitheatre Introducing the Banff Centre Amphitheatre Sarah Harmer (ROLSTON) (ROLSTON) TREMBLAY MARIE-PIERRE ), TREMBLAY MARIE-PIERRE ), International String Quartet

BrassFire Featuring Jens Sunday, July 23, 1 P.M. NOETIC NOETIC Festival! Borne out of Banff Lindemann Summer Music Series Outdoors Concert at Shaw Amphitheatre | $35 International String Quartet Sunday, July 2, 1 P.M. In Performance: Miro Banff Centre’s Shaw Child $20 Competition, this three day Shaw Amphitheatre | $25 Quartet and Imani Winds Amphitheatre festival led by Barry Shiffman Senior/Student $15 | Child Tuesday, July 11, 7:30 P.M. Corb Lund with special showcases the finest in inter- $10 Rolston Recital Hall | $25 guest Leeroy Stagger national classical music to au- Senior/Student $22 | Child Saturday, July 15 6:30 P.M. diences through a completely $12.50 | ♥ Shaw Amphitheatre | $50 immersive experience. PHOTO CREDITS: BENGT WANSELIUS ( WANSELIUS ( BENGT CREDITS: WANSELIUS BENGT CREDITS: PHOTO PHOTO

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SVEA FERGUSON Extreme Calm, 2015

CALGARY-BASED artist Svea Ferguson’s Extreme Calm was created in 2015 as part of a Banff Centre self-directed REBECCA BELMORE ASKING

visual arts residency, and was acquired ) ) Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother, 1991 into Banff Centre’s permanent collection PEOPLE TO Spring 2016. It’s made of marble-printed ANISHINAABE ARTIST Rebecca it was used to address the land ADDRESS linoleum flooring, layered directly onto Belmore wanted to make art at political demonstrations from the wall space, held in place by pegs that would spark conversation coast to coast. THE LAND carved from rock. between Indigenous people and “I was particularly interested For Ferguson, the creation process the Canadian government — and in locating the Aboriginal voice DIRECTLY is an organic one. “It’s really about that she wanted to make something on the land. Asking people to WAS AN process of building it, and the call and that would help people speak for address the land directly was an response between my body and the themselves. attempt to hear political protest ATTEMPT material,” she says. Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama- as poetic action,” says Belmore. Extreme Calm is part of a series of mowan: Speaking to Their The piece is well travelled, hav- TO HEAR linoleum and vinyl work by Ferguson, Mother is six feet wide, seven ing spoken to a clear-cut forest, POLITICAL whose background in textiles caused her feet long and made of all-organic Indigenous land claims, and even to first become interested in the mate- materials. The conical shape making it as far as Parliament Hill. PROTEST AYUM-EE-AAWACH OOMAMA-MOWAN: SPEAKING TO THEIR MOTHER THEIR TO MOTHER THEIR SPEAKING TO SPEAKING OOMAMA-MOWAN: OOMAMA-MOWAN: AYUM-EE-AAWACH AYUM-EE-AAWACH rial. “It has that soft skin-like quality, but it further amplifies the megaphone Belmore was the first is an industrial material — it’s so resilient.” that is sometimes inserted into Indigenous woman to represent AS POETIC Ferguson is creating a new commis- its mouth. It was acquired into Canada at the Venice Biennale ), KATY WHITT ( WHITT ( WHITT KATY ), KATY ), ACTION. sion for the 2017 Alberta Biennial of the Banff Centre’s permanent in 2005. She won the 2013 Contemporary Art, presented jointly by collection in 2007, and now sits in Governor General’s Award for Banff Centre’s Walter Phillips Gallery and an alcove in the Kinnear Centre visual art, and has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Alberta, where similar CALM EXTREME CALM EXTREME for Creativity and Innovation on many national and international materials and draping techniques will the campus. venues. be used. The piece was a response “Banff is naturally the best “If I can let go of some of that control to the Oka Crisis of 1990 — a place for this artwork to reside,” and be open to what gravity is doing protest against a proposed golf says Belmore. “I hope that by and what the physicality of the material course on Mohawk territory leaving it in the care of the col- is doing, then that’s generally when I’m I’M ALWAYS in Quebec. But after its 1991 lection that it will continue to most pleased in the end.” FORGETTING THAT debut at the Between Views and have a life of its own.” Points of View exhibition at Banff

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THE LEIGHTON ARTISTS STUDIOS, opened in 1985, are nine unique studio spaces for artists working in all genres. It’s located on campus, but nestled in the forest in a world all its own. Each of the eight original studios was named for the distinguished Canadian architect who designed it, and each space is unique in its look and feel. The beautiful, secluded spaces have housed writers, compos- ers, singer-songwriters, visual artists, screenwriters, playwrights, transla- tors, curators, theorists and more. It’s the perfect place to escape into your thoughts and focus on creation. One of those original eight, the Cardinal Studio, was designed by Ottawa architect Douglas Cardinal and was originally intended as a space for composers. It takes the spiral form of a nautilus, which serves to provide privacy for whomever is working inside. Cardinal himself is Indigenous and often looks to nature to inspire his designs, like the Canadian Museum of History in Quebec. In recent years, the Cardinal Studio has housed artists like k.d. lang, and many other composers, writers, and artists looking for a little time and space.

Maintenance of the studios is supported by the Leighton Artists Studios Facility Renewal Endowment.

LEFT: An original drawing of the Cardinal Studio A Room in the Woods from the Paul D. Fleck Library and Renowned Canadian architects designed artist retreats that are Archives. The studio perfect spaces for creation. Here’s the first in a series exploring is often described as an inner ear, with Banff Centre’s Leighton Artists Studios. a piano nestled right in the middle. PHOTO CREDIT: DON LEE DON LEE CREDIT: DON CREDIT: PHOTO PHOTO

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history for her most personal album yet BY JENNY SPURR

S THE DAUGHTER OF a pastor, Cana- ingly,” she says. When making a classical record, dianA soprano and Ban Centre alumna Measha “You know exactly what the repertoire is and Brueggergosman began singing in the choir of exactly how long you have to record it.” her local Baptist church. But instead of the soulful Spirituals, on the other hand, allow for more Measha performed melodies of American folksongs  lling her parish interpretation — in fact, they demand it. The from her newest hall, Measha grew up with the classic hymns of genre emerged out of Africa during the slave album, Songs of Mendelssohn and Handel, which later inspired trade, at a time when the oppressed needed a Freedom, at Ban her to pursue a career as an opera singer. way to communicate and express themselves. Centre on February 18 as part of Black For Measha, classical music has always had With this in mind, Measha worked with compos- History Month and a certain rigour to it — with not much room for er Aaron Davis to co-create new arrangements Ban Centre’s improvisation. steeped in her personal style, layering vocals Canada 150 event “Most of the time a song is what it is,” she tracks and weaving in spoken word. The result series celebrating says. “You infuse as much of yourself as you is powerful and provocative. Canadian artists. can into the existing classical work, but at the “As Lauryn Hill as my witness, I know that measha.com end of the day that piece will be there long having spoken word woven throughout an album a€ter you’re gone, and it was there long before can make people really think about what it is you got to it.” they’re hearing,” she says. “The voice is such That’s why, for her latest album, Measha dug a universal instrument that touches people on deep into her ancestry — uncovering her family a visceral level.” history and challenging her classical train- That’s why Measha believes it’s so important ing — to create a collection of African-American for artists today — and tomorrow — to use their spirituals. “My father always wanted me to voices to the fullest extent. “I think art and do an album of old hymns and spirituals, and culture is part of the narrative that is meant I couldn’t have done it before now because I to in• uence policy. And if you don’t think that don’t think I would have really understood the as an artist, then you’re underestimating your context,” says Measha. power.” That also means allowing all voices to Featuring songs like “Swing Low, Sweet Char- be a part of the conversation. My father iot,” “Go Tell It on the Mountain,” and “Blessed “We can’t keep thinking that silencing dis- Assurance,” Songs of Freedom is an emotional, senting opinion is a way forward, because all it always wanted spiritual, and musical journey through the turbu- does is push them further away and make them lent chapters of North American history. feel more marginalized,” she says. Artists must me to do an “It’s by far my most personal album.” keep pushing boundaries, exploring new works, With eight studio albums under her belt, and questioning society. album of the Juno Award-winning, Grammy-nominated “Otherwise, we might  nd ourselves in the For more in musician  nally felt ready to create something same place again.” Banff Centre’s old hymns and a bit more immediate, although she admits the 150 series, visit spirituals. recording process wasn’t always comfortable. Measha’s time in Banff was generously supported by banffcentre.ca

“Classical musicians do not improvise will- the Paul D. Fleck Fellowships in the Arts Endowment. /150 VU HIEP CREDIT: VU HIEP CREDITS: PHOTO PHOTO

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HEY TRUDGE THROUGH the forest in pitch black, in the dead of winter, in a place with- out light pollution, or people, or much of anything. TBecause of the darkness and the cold in the air, the stars are bright and there’s a thin outline of light illuminating the tops of the surrounding mountains. This is Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park in the dead of January. There are a dozen people or so, all bundled up against the cold winds blowing across the frozen lake, and they’re here to figure out how to tell the story of a place that contains so many histories — that of Canada’s first national park, that of Canada’s sesquicentennial, and those of the people who lived here long before. This is ILLUMINATIONS: human/nature, a large-scale, immersive artistic project commissioned by Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. It takes place not just in Banff National Park, but also in Toronto at Rouge National Urban Park, the first and only park of its kind in Canada. The project will attempt to create a single narrative shared between two locations — the oldest national park in the country, and something entirely new. The team of artists behind the project comprises visual artist Sarah Fuller, Montreal multimedia entertain-

) ) ment studio Moment Factory, and a group of research- Celebrating the ers, who studied both spaces intently in order to provide 150th anniversary of necessary context for the development of the piece. “There are so many different perspectives and narra- confederation, tives and histories and just diversity in each place,” says DUBOIS RESIDENCE DUBOIS RESIDENCE DUBOIS Sarah Fuller, who works with photography and site-specif- Banff Centre works ic installation pieces. “To try and bring that all together in a with Canadian artists meaningful and respectful way is a really good challenge.” Because of the sheer scale of the project, that feeling is to shed light on the shared group-wide. “This is not a normal project for Mo- ment Factory,” says the group’s creative director, Gabriel stories of two iconic Pontbriand. One of Moment Factory’s similar signature : national parks. shows, Anima Lumina (next page), was “a 1.5-km multi- ILLUMINATIONS media night walk that [paid] tribute to the rich biodiversity

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BANFF - Illumination R2.indd 20 2017-03-29 4:41 PM BANFF - Illumination R2.indd 21 2017-03-29 4:41 PM INDIGENOUS FUTURE NARRATIVES Curator, writer, and educator Wanda Nanibush joins Banff Centre as faculty for the Literary Arts program Future Narratives. She spoke with us about Indigenous visibility in the art world and Canada post-150. BY DEVON MURPHY

DM: You’re lead faculty for the Banff Centre a two-pronged approach kind of person — we have to program, Future Narratives: Contemporary have shows that are just Indigenous work in order to Indigenous Artistic Practice. The program will ask questions that are important to Indigenous people, employ Indigenous contemporary thought and but then we also need to place the work alongside artistic practices to try to answer some questions international artists and Canadian artists. about the next 150 years of Canada — what kind of conversations do you hope to have? What does it mean to you that the AGO considers WANDA: I think that placing Canada within an Indig- this a priority? enous context automatically means that you have to As far as going forward, it means that they’re living up to think beyond 150 years.It places the project of Canada their responsibilities as an institution on Indigenous land. as a question as opposed to a statement; it allows the artists in the room more freedom to think creatively Why is greater visibility for Indigenous artists about what it could be. important in Canada? Indigenous artists are some of the best artists in You’re the first person to hold the title Assistant Canada and the world, so there’s no reason for them Curator: Canadian and Indigenous Art at the Art not to be here — I think that’s important to say. Some Gallery of Ontario. What kind of pathway do you of the work does deal with the history of colonization; hope to forge? it deals with Indigenous philosophies; it deals with a There are a few things that I want to accomplish. By certain kind of location that an Indigenous artist might having “Indigenous” in the title, [the position] creates an be working from. And these kinds of things help audi- area of commitment. Part of the area of commitment is ences have new ideas about what Canada is, what it that we have to acquire more contemporary Indigenous has been, maybe about who they are. It helps them work for the collection. It also means that we should ask questions about their relationship to Indigenous be exhibiting more Indigenous art, both on its own and people, land, history. So I think there’s a social trans-

PHOTO CREDIT: ANDREW WILLIAMSON ANDREW WILLIAMSON CREDIT: ANDREW CREDIT: PHOTO PHOTO also in Canadian and special exhibitions. I’m always formation that can happen with that visibility.

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BANFF - Wanda R3.indd 22 2017-03-29 4:39 PM BANFF - Wanda R3.indd 23 2017-03-29 4:39 PM The 150th anniversary of confederation means we’re likely to encounter a lot of narratives about Canada’s past this year. How can people keep Indigeneity and context in mind while celebrating the anniversary? Whenever we’re looking at a situation of injustice for a group of people, I think it’s possible to look at the good stuff that’s come out of a project like Canada, while also understanding it as an unfinished project that needs to take the path of justice going forward. It’s like when somebody dies: we’re sad, we’re in mourning, and we have a sense of loss, but we’re also celebrat- ing that person’s life. I don’t think they’re mutually exclusive — criticism and celebration.

Why is it important to you to be outspoken on these issues? I have a responsibility to my ancestors who fought for me to have the space that I have. So it’s my responsibility to carry that on for the next generation to have the space that they need.

CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS VOICES: SPEAKER SERIES Images are taken Featuring talks and from the exhibition performances by: The FIFTH World, presented at the Kitchener-Waterloo Wanda Nanibush | April 5, 7 P.M. Art Gallery and Lee Maracle in Conversation curated by Wanda with Drew Hayden Taylor | April Nanibush. The show 8, 7:30 P.M. celebrated the Santee Smith | May 4, 7 P.M. 20th anniversary of Jolene Rickard | May 30, 4 P.M. Tribe, a Saskatoon- Kiviuq Returns | June 10, 7:30 P.M. based centre for See page 50 for more details evolving Aboriginal media, visual and performing arts.

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BANFF - Wanda R3.indd 24 2017-03-29 4:39 PM BANFF - Wanda R3.indd 25 2017-03-29 4:40 PM Rachel Marshall plays Adanya Dunn in Against the Grain’s workshop of No One’s Safe at Banff Centre, 2016

OPERA IN THE 21st CENTURY How Toronto’s Against the Grain Theatre is turning the classical form on its head BY JENNA DOUGLAS PHOTO CREDITS: RITA TAYLOR TAYLOR RITA CREDITS: RITA CREDIT: PHOTO PHOTO

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BANFF - Opera R3.indd 26 2017-03-30 4:13 PM BANFF - Opera R3.indd 27 2017-03-29 4:38 PM The cast of No One’s Safe discovers the scene of a crime in the lobby of Banff Centre’s Walter Phillips Gallery, 2016.

E ARE IN AN era where makes the relationship work. “They brought opera looks very different from the stereotypes our level to national exposure.” which pervade popular culture; any fan of the I’ve been lucky to see most of Against the genreW knows that the days of large, helmet- Grain’s productions over the years, and I horned women and parking-and-barking are got to work as music staff — playing rehears- gone. It is through partnership, and through the als, leading the chorus, even playing some sharing of resources, that opera can be well harpsichord — on a few of their fun projects, represented in the twenty-first century. like the premiere production of #UncleJohn, a As a young Canadian pianist gaining a modern-day take on Mozart’s Don Giovanni, love and skill for working with singers, Banff and two iterations of #AtGMessiah, a staged, Centre’s Opera program became one of the choreographed version of Handel’s most earliest goals I distinctly remember pursu- famous oratorio. To see the team in action is ing. In 2007 I got in, and had an unforgettable to see a clear vision enacted with enthusiasm, summer; I played and rehearsed my first humour, and sharp focus. full-length opera, and made lasting relation- “What Joel has in ships with people who are still friends and spades,” says Paul Curran, colleagues today. stage director and a past But since that summer, there has been a mentor of Ivany’s, “is a significant shift in the shape and function of passion for redefining and opera at Banff Centre, a shift that makes the retelling opera in its present program less about a finished product and form, in a new way — with- instead more process-oriented. The Centre out corrupting.” Rehears- has now partnered with two of Canada’s most als with Ivany are spent influential opera companies: the Canadian questioning every choice, Opera Company (COC) and the seven-year-old every tradition that comes “indie opera” company, Against the Grain with the idea of attending Theatre (AtG). Joel Ivany, co-founder and ar- an opera. He finds unortho- tistic director of the Toronto-based AtG, sees dox venues, writes his own it as a merging of “the biggest in Canada, and librettos — or “transladapta- is small and communicative; I’ve seen them keeps listeners in mind at every point during maybe the most different.” tions,” to use AtG’s coined put up amazing shows in mere days, and I’m his rehearsal process, and advocates for the OPERA It might not be surprising that the COC and term — of Mozart and Da convinced there’s a sort of alchemy about audience’s operatic experience from the mo- Banff Centre, two of Canada’s major artistic Ponte, and now, he has their process that turns deconstruction into a ment they arrive at the venue. AT BANFF institutions, have decided to work together to redesigned the mission of Joel Ivany truly stunning finished product. “I’ve always got the idea that he very much CENTRE foster and develop the current generation of opera at Banff Centre. With its high-profile presence at Banff Centre, feels he’s serving a greater need or a greater opera. Yet the collaboration with Against the Open Space: Opera in the AtG has the resources to develop a new gener- good,” says Curran. “He has a need to do this, In honour of Cana- Grain is something that is rare and new within 21st Century is the name of ation of versatile artists. Perhaps more exciting rather than ‘me, me, me’.” It’s a sentiment that da’s 150th birthday, the opera industry. I remember feeling a sense the five-week residency of is their opportunity to further validate the power echoes the mission of Banff Centre as a whole; Against the Grain of pride when I learned that AtG would be a AtG and the COC, held on campus in Banff. This of small, chamber-sized opera. Ivany knows the Centre can play a pivotal role in an artist’s Theatre is staging major part of the new approach to opera at summer will be Ivany’s fourth spearheading the from experience that “leaner and smaller — you development, yet it’s a stepping stone that Kopernikus, an Banff Centre. Having always found its shows program. Through staged opera and chamber can still get a lot of attention that way.” inevitably leads to great work outside of Banff. opera by Canadian creative and novel, I and my fellow enthusi- music, roughly a dozen singers and apprentice Learn more Curran, who joined Open Space in 2016 to With Open Space, everybody seems to win: com poser Claude astic Toronto opera fans finally had proof that pianists work with Ivany, AtG Music Director about Against direct Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Banff Centre stays close to its own vision of Vivier, at Banff Canada’s artistic giants felt the same way. Topher Mokrzewski, and an impressive faculty the Grain’s believes that supporting chamber opera also supporting emerging talent and fostering ar- Centre. The reason for the symbiosis is simple: the of teachers and coaches. performance of helps to support large-scale opera at major tistic creation; the Canadian Opera Company COC offers resources and space to help AtG Young singers, mostly post-academic and No One’s Safe companies. “Nobody is saying, ‘I am not going extends its influential reach to the novel and Thursday, July 6, create better and better work, and AtG brings eager to gain professional experience, audi- by watching our to see Tosca at the COC because I’m seeing mobile face of opera; and Against the Grain 7:30 P.M. and Satur- to the COC its creative license and loyal fol- tion from across Canada to work with Ivany Banff Centre #UncleJohn’,” he explains. “I think what Joel Theatre has begun to earn the large audience day, July 8, 7:30 P.M. lowing — full of the young demographic which and his team. They arrive as prepared as they Presents video does, and what AtG does, is entice people in a it deserves. See event listing on large companies court. “[The COC] is well can be, and open themselves up to the type banffcentre.ca/ different way.” page 60 for more aware of the press that AtG gets and gets for of operatic deconstruction that Open Space banff-centre- Part of that difference is the absolute con- Opera at Banff Centre is generously supported by information. the David Spencer Emerging Vocalists Endowment. them,” says Ivany, who is candid about what is all about. The tight-knit creative team of AtG stories (OPERA) (OPERA) TAYLOR TAYLOR RITA RITA (IVANY). (IVANY). NOVAK NOVAK NIKOLA CREDITS: NIKOLA CREDITS: PHOTO PHOTO sideration that Ivany gives his audiences. He

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BANFF - Opera R3.indd 28 2017-03-29 4:38 PM BANFF - Opera R3.indd 29 2017-03-30 4:16 PM This centuries-old form is only getting

better with age BY ARTHUR KAPTAINIS

A performance from the 2016 residency Concert in the 21st Century, Classical Music where performers explore innovative ways to present music. TAYLOR TAYLOR RITA CREDIT: RITA CREDIT: PHOTO PHOTO on the Rise

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BANFF - Classical Musician R4.indd 30 2017-03-29 4:37 PM BANFF - Classical Musician R4.indd 31 2017-03-29 4:37 PM to be reassured but because they want to be (ditto North America) is to be astonished by surprised. And every pleasant surprise is the the sort of execution that was then thought result of a little outburst of integrity. not to need a retake. SUMMER Good intentions are not enough. Talent This dynamic is at work also in orchestras. MUSIC might be hard to define, but it is inescapably The gap between a world-famous ensemble mandatory. No regimen of practice would and your friendly local symphony is much IN BANFF produce from me a performance of a Bach narrower than it once was. An orchestra of As part of Banff prelude and fugue worth hearing. Arthur Rubin- the sort we once might have considered mid- Centre’s programs, stein (1887-1982), to jump to the other extreme dling can, under the right conductor, produce Co-Artistic Directors of giftedness, admits to laziness so often in his a great night of Mahler. The best student of Summer Classical memoirs that one has the impression that, by orchestras are now so accomplished that lis- Music, Steven Schick confessing to his sin, he thinks he can expiate teners might wonder where the professional and Claire Chase, it. Yet, as the rehearsal pianist in 1907 for the advantage resides. There is a subtle balance: have put together a Paris premiere of Richard Strauss’s Salome, Students can be rehearsed ad infinitum suite of programs to Rubinstein — whom we think of as a master of without losing their edge. Pros cannot. And advance today’s clas- Chopin nocturnes and mazurkas — quite natu- students become pros. sical musicians. Their rally learned the opera by heart. No one needs to be told that the compact focus: the creation But if in some respects things ain’t like disc is in its sunset. Even downloading is of new music; refine- they used to be, in many ways the evolution passé in the era of streaming. The effect of ment of traditional of performance has been strongly positive. these convulsions on classical consumption and contemporary “The level of mediocrity is constantly ris- is hard to predict. practices; and the ing,” the pianist and educator Leon Fleisher One of the prevailing ironies of the opera amplification of music commented in an interview for the Montreal world is that the surging popularity of Metro- in public spaces. Gazette several years ago. And it has surely politan Opera Live in HD cinema broadcasts risen since. Fleisher told me that while the is giving companies who present truly “live” Experience these mountain is becoming more massive, the al- opera the jitters. But there is no parallel programs in one of the titude of the summit remains the same. Good phenomenon in the concert world. My sense many public events performances might be far more common, is that as cellphones and earbuds proliferate and performances but stellar interpretations are as rare as ever. as the main media of music appreciation, throughout this sum- Perhaps Fleisher was thinking of solo per- the allure of live performance in an uplifting, mer. See event listing formers of the Richter and Rubinstein class. communal and acoustically rewarding setting on page 50 for more But there is a sub-superstellar level in which will increase accordingly. There is more good information. the standard is now much too high to be news in the continued popularity of baroque labelled mediocre. Think of strings. No longer music and the widespread, if exaggerated, Claire Chase and is a second violin a player who did not make belief that specialists are required to play and Steven Schick the firsts; and a viola, one who did not make sing it well. Another growing niche is contem- June 20, 7:30 P.M. OCATION, LOCATION, location: So in youth of playing spontaneous reductions the seconds. The rise in quality all around can porary music, which is no longer weighed International Con- goes the old real estate cliché. The triptych for of Wagner operas from their score. Possibly be seen in the profusion over the last decade down by 12-tone karma. temporary Ensemble today’s classical musicians, I propose, is integ- this restless intellect also turned him into the of fine string quartets. It was not always so. Undergirding all of this activity is integrity: L June 22, 7:30 P.M. rity, integrity, integrity. Integrity is what assures only A-list recitalist who regularly performed There are certainly some recordings of the belief in the music, willingness to devote years Music in the Pines the survival of classical amid widespread and with sheet music in front of him. Classical 1950s and ’60s that stand as classics, but to to its study, and eagerness to communicate Celebrate Canada’s unsupported claims of its decline. After decades could not thrive in a world full of Richters, listen today to recordings by the Amadeus it to as many people as possible. There are 150th birthday with of listening, I am still astounded by how firmly each playing in a darkened hall, refusing to fly Quartet (the premier ensemble of the U.K.) easier ways of making a living. But none that a kaleidoscope of musicians believe in what they do and how ear- across the ocean, deciding on repertoire at and the Budapest Quartet in its later years provides greater rewards. grand and intimate nestly listeners wish to share their joy in doing it. the last minute, and so on. Individualism has its performances all Equally astounding is the immediate connection limits. Where to place those limits is, in some around Banff, all day performers and listeners alike can feel with mu- respects, the central question. CLAIRE CHASE: For us, it’s not CC: It doesn’t mean that we’re THE Saturday, July 1. sic written either 400 years ago or last month. Most agree that Glenn Gould (1932-1982) so much about what we call it, doing away with any tradition — “My my, hey hey,” sings Neil Young. But classical carried his contrarianism too far in Mozart. EVOLUTION it’s about how musical com- in fact, I think the most rigorous Times and locations is truly the music that is here to stay. His ultimate act of individuality was to cease munities cross-pollinate and way of honouring a tradition OF CLASSICAL to be announced on Integrity, of course, is made of parts. It public performance altogether. If a world full evolve one another. We’re in is by being inclusive of all the banffcentre.ca on incorporates awareness of the need to practice of Richters would be hard to sustain, imagine MUSIC AT BANFF favour of just calling what we do things that, musically, we do. June 29 and the good judgment — typically provided by the desert that would be a world full of Goulds. At Banff Centre, we value ex - “music,” which worked just fine ABOVE: Gregory a teacher — of what to work on and how much. Yet this Canadian’s impulse to be different was amining a variety of disciplines for thousands of years. SS: We want to think of the label Kozak and Miro Quartet and For auditioning violinists, a thorough acquain- supported by a savagely brilliant insight into and perspectives. We caught as some place to start and not ScrapArtsMusic’s Imani Winds | July 11, tance with Strauss’s Don Juan is famously nec- everything he played. No one did “bad” better. up with Co-Artistic Directors STEVEN SCHICK: I think the some place to finish. unique “power- 7:30 P.M. essary. But I should like to think that that daily The lesson for the aspiring recitalist is not to of Summer Classical Music, more we make those labels per- percussion” style Vicky Chow and routine is animated by a touch of adventure. become a Gould, but to let a little Gould — a little Claire Chase and Steven meable, the more likely it is that Visit banffcentre.ca/banff- was developed Winston Choi The transcendent piano mastery of Sviatoslav individuality — find its way into every perfor- Schick, to discuss why they’re people will find something in- centre-stories to read our during a three- August 1, 7:30 P.M. month residency Richter (1915-1997) cannot be unrelated to his mance. Standard repertoire comes back again starting a dialogue about the teresting in a form they thought series on the Summer Classi-

at Banff Centre. early attempts at being a painter and his habit and again, not only because audiences want LEE DON LEE CREDIT: DON CREDIT: PHOTO PHOTO term “classical music.” they didn’t like before. cal Music program.

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BANFF - Classical Musician R4.indd 32 2017-03-29 4:37 PM BANFF - Classical Musician R4.indd 33 2017-03-29 4:37 PM Reverbs & Reconciliation A conversation with Bear Witness,

of A Tribe Called Red BY LISA CHARLEYBOY

HERE IS ALWAYS EVOLUTION in revolution, and A Tribe Called Red (ATCR) is testament to that. The internationally-acclaimed DJ group, made up of Bear Witness (Cayuga), Ian “DJ NDN” Campeau (Nipissing First Nation), and the most recent addition, Tim “2oolman” Hill (MohawkT First Nations), rose to prominence in Ottawa after Bear Witness and DJ NDN created club nights aimed at the urban Indigenous crowd dubbed “Electric Pow Wow.” When they first started in 2008, the pair simply played sets of hip hop and dubstep to mostly Native crowds, but in 2008 when they added Dan “DJ Shub” General (Mohawk from Six Nations) to the mix, the then-trio created an entirely new genre of music dubbed “Pow Wow Step” which attracted attention from the mainstream music industry. Both their self-titled first album and their second, Nation II Nation, received Polaris Music Prize nominations in 2013 and 2014 respectively. In 2014, the group won a Juno Award for Breakthrough Group of the Year — the first ever Aboriginal group to win an award outside of the Indigenous music category. During the acceptance speech, DJ NDN gave a special shout-out to Native youth, urging them to chase their goals and “aim high,” as the group was proof that anything is possible. Shortly after that big win, the group shifted again as DJ Shub exited for personal reasons and 2oolman came on board. This set the stage for a new creative process, as they geared up from making club bangers to creating an entire concept album, We Are The Halluci Nation. Released in the fall of 2016, it features artists Tanya Tagaq, Lido Pimentia, Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def), Saul Williams, and Shad, to name a few. I caught up with Bear Witness over the phone while he was at home in Ottawa on a rare

tour hiatus. TAYLOR TAYLOR RITA CREDIT: RITA CREDIT: PHOTO PHOTO

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BANFF - TribeCalledRed R3.indd 34 2017-03-30 3:48 PM BANFF - TribeCalledRed R3.indd 35 2017-03-29 4:36 PM We’ve always had an abundance of trying to begin the conversation that OUTDOOR talent within the Indigenous com- would bring us to a place where we CONCERTS munity, but we’ve largely only been can start talking about reconciliation. AT BANFF talking to ourselves because people One thing I’ve noticed is how Indig- CENTRE’S SHAW outside of the community weren’t enous people and non-Indigenous willing to listen. But there’s been this people come to our shows and expe- AMPHITHEATRE massive shift in the last decade in rience the same thing at our shows, Canada. You see it with the Polaris together. That’s the common ground. Experience A Tribe Called with both Tanya [Tagaq - Inuk throat That’s a common experience that’s Red this summer in the singer] and Buffy [Sainte-Marie] being created here in Canada. Trying Shaw Amphitheatre winning Polaris Music Prizes, and us to find common ground to even begin series, along with some of winning a Juno outside of the Indig- having a conversation about Indig- Canada’s finest musicians: enous category. These are massive enous issues — which attack the heart changes in the way that people are of the colonial construct — is one of BrassFire featuring Jens seeing the culture and are willing to the hardest things to do between Lindemann | July 2, 1 P.M. interact with the culture [...] in a way Indigenous people and settlers. What Blue Rodeo | July 7, that doesn’t seem so voyeuristic as we’ve been able to do with Tribe is to 6:30 P.M. in the past. We’re actually getting to begin to give people the opportunity Corb Lund with special exercise our voices. The fact that to have a shared experience. That can guest Leeroy Stagger Indigenous artists can be outspoken lead to better understanding of each July 15, 6:30 P.M. about the things they care about other, that will then lead us to a place Sarah Harmer | July 23, and remain successful — now that’s to have a critical conversation, to help 1 P.M. really different. put things in order on this continent. A Tribe Called Red

August 6, 6:30 P.M. We’ve got these celebrations of So what’s the next big goal for Tribe? culture — not just within our own I always find that such a hard ques- people — but with everybody cel- tion because we’re constantly blow- ebrating. For me, this feels like a ing our own minds in terms of how far part of moving forward, and a part this is going to go, or how it’s going to of reconciliation. Within the chang- grow, or what’s going to be possible ing landscape in Canada, and all next. We’re always being told by the this talk about reconciliation, do people around us to dream bigger you feel like you’re a part of that? because we have a hard time seeing I have mixed feelings about the idea how far this can go. Every time we LC: So I’m just wondering where you used a lot of ideas I had around Indig- of reconciliation, in the way it’s being seem to dream up something bigger feel the band is right now — how have enous science fiction to fill in the gaps One thing I’ve used and played out in Canada, par- than we did last time, it happens. I you evolved from when you started? and flesh it out a bit. But the way that noticed is how ticularly. It’s one of those things I feel mean, we got a track with Yasiin BEAR WITNESS: It’s changed a lot. the album itself gets to tell the story does a lot more for the colonialists Bey [“R.E.D.”]. So, we’ve just got to This album was a three-year journey. is largely due to our new member, Indigenous than it does for Indigenous people. keep challenging ourselves to grow In the beginning of production, I was 2oolMan. He has a different style of more and see where this is going to trying to write a storyline for it. We working and was able to pick up the people and So you don’t feel a personal connec- take us. But I’m really getting to a started off talking about us as a band challenge of creating this concept non-Indigenous tion to the concept as it stands now? point where what I’m excited about is of superheroes who were going off album, have a story-arc through the I don’t really have a personal con- who’s going to come next. I want to to find other allies, then that story music, and also work with all these people come to nection […] but the overall idea of see what this next, younger genera- evolved to us being bandits. But different people and include their our shows and reconciliation is really difficult. There’s tion of Indigenous artists has to offer. once John Trudell gave us the Halluci collaborative elements. If you want to a lot of work to be done before we We’re already starting to become Nation poem, it was like, Okay! Now talk about evolution, taking that step experience the can even start that conversation. the ‘old guys’. I want to see what’s we have this idea of a nation that we of collaboration was so huge, and going to come up. I want to help can invite people to be a part of. something we all learned a lot from same thing at our Do you feel like A Tribe Called Red foster that next generation of artists and grew a lot from. shows, together. can be a part of that conversation? to have more opportunities than the Was it one member that led the I think A Tribe Called Red is a part of rest of us had. vision along the journey, or was Tribe’s been great about introducing it collective? Indigenous music to the main- This interview has been edited and condensed. Lisa Charleyboy (Tsilhqot’in — Raven Clan) We collectively decided to do it. I took stream. How has the acceptance is a First Nations writer and social entrepreneur living in Toronto. She is the Editor-In-Chief on a lot of the writing part of it and changed since you started touring of Urban Native Magazine, which focuses on pop culture with an Indigenous twist. was inspired by John’s poem and as a trio back in 2010? lisacharleyboy.com

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BANFF - TribeCalledRed R3.indd 36 2017-03-29 4:36 PM BANFF - TribeCalledRed R3.indd 37 2017-03-29 4:36 PM What does the next century hold for cultural institutions and how do we bring leaders together to respond to these challenges? As Ban‡ Centre launches a new training program for cultural leaders, Russell Willis Taylor discusses the importance of training homegrown talent for leadership in Canada and abroad.

OVER THE PAST YEAR, there have been a focused, and wise to create the kind of institu- number of public discussions in the cultural tional resilience that the future, and indeed the community about Canadian leadership for present, requires. Canadian institutions. The Globe and Mail In 2016, Prime Minister Trudeau and Minister and The Toronto Star have written insightfully of Canadian Heritage Mélanie Joly pledged an about the mixed emotions that Canadians feel unprecedented $1.9 billion to foster the cre- when a great job in Canada is awarded to some- ation of Canadian content and to increase the one from abroad — even while being proud of international audiences for Canadian creative the fact that Canada and Canadian institutions professionals. This support is a clear and wel- attract the very best and the very brightest. come message that creative expression is not When I think about this issue of Canadian ornamental, it is fundamental – to who we are talent needed for a Canadian job, especially in and how we see ourselves. They form part of a the cultural sector, I'm reminded of what my Canadian cultural diaspora of which we can all be sociologist friends would call a “category error” proud, and we need to seek out the next genera- when we worry too much about ™ lling all our jobs tion of leaders who will take their places, both with homegrown leaders. Perhaps we should be home and abroad. more concerned with the diversity of voices we At Ban‡ Centre, our Leadership programs encourage to become leaders in the ™ rst place. integrate the power of the arts, the wisdom of Surely not all of our leaders Indigenous practice, and the must have the same experi- extraordinary beauty of Ban‡ ences, the same gender, the National Park to prepare and same ethnicity that today’s empower the next genera- leaders have. Rather than Creative tion of Canadian leaders. As being concerned with local part of these programs we or provincial recruitment, expression is not will be launching a cultural- I wonder if we shouldn’t be ornamental, it leadership training program turning our energy toward in 2017, in partnership with actively identifying and is fundamental – other leading artistic organi- nurturing that next genera- zations across Canada. In a tion of leaders, who will bring to who we time of unexpected change, radically di‡ erent viewpoints are and how we public leaders have noted Canada’s Next Generation of to our cultural institutions that the world needs Canada and our governing boards. see ourselves now more than ever. Their vision of the future Around the world, from the may not be ours, but the future that they face is International Society for the Performing Arts, led very di‡ erent from the world in which those of us by David Baile, to the Bank of England, headed by who have led cultural organizations matured and the renowned Mark Carney, Canadians are taking grew into our jobs. They will need an appetite for on global leadership challenges — and succeeding. CULTURAL uncertainty and complexity that exceeds our own, They form part of a Canadian cultural diaspora of and they will need to build institutions that o‡ er which we can all be proud, and we need to seek value to a society that is rapidly changing. Their out the next generation of leaders who will take governing bodies will need to be committed, their places, both home and abroad.

Russell Willis Taylor is currently serving as interim Vice-President of Arts and Leadership at Ban‡ Centre for Arts and LEADERS Creativity. Previously Taylor was the President and CEO of National Arts Strategies in the U.S., and Executive Director of the English National Opera in the U.K. For more information about Leadership programs at Ban‡ Centre, including

PHOTO CREDIT: ERIK PUTZ/JOSIAH GORDON GORDON PUTZ/JOSIAH ERIK PUTZ/JOSIAH CREDIT: ERIK CREDIT: PHOTO PHOTO the newly launched Cultural Leadership program, visit ban‡ centre.ca.

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BANFF - Leadership R3.indd 38 2017-03-29 4:35 PM BANFF - Leadership R3.indd 39 2017-03-29 4:35 PM Neworld Theatre’s Artistic Director Marcus Youssef

ARCUS YOUSSEF is a Canadian theatre artist who’s also a person of colour, and he’s wondering where — in 2017 — the representa- M tions of people like him are on our Canadian main stages. “There’s more talk of inclusion than historically there has been,” says Youssef. “But still more talk than action.” Youssef grew up in Vancouver, the son of an Egyp- tian immigrant. He’s the artistic director of Neworld Theatre, a mainstay of Vancouver’s theatre com- munity, and the playwright-in-residence at Banff’s Playwrights Colony. While large regional theatres lag in terms of programming content that reflect Canada’s people, there’s a flipside to that equation that he’s discovered working with Colony Director Brian Quirt and Associate Dramaturg Jenna Rodgers at Banff. “The Playwrights Colony in particular, under Brian’s direction, has just quietly gone ahead in a way I believe a national institution should,” says Youssef, “which is to quietly and unassumingly represent the country that it is part of.” At the 2016 Playwrights Colony, that representation Diversity included a collaboration between Youssef, Theatre Re- placement Co-Artistic Director James Long (with whom Youssef also co-created the play Winners and Losers), and Niall McNeil, an actor with Down Syndrome, along on with a cast of performers of mixed abilities. What was unique for Youssef about working on his latest retelling, King Arthur’s Night, was that a lot of Canada’s his creative journeys involved sitting back and taking notes while McNeil and the other cast members took off on flights of creative fancy. “We’ve been been working at the Down Syndrome Stages Research Foundation here for three years,” Youssef says, “and we’ve hired three folks from there to be in the show whose lives include Down Syndrome.” The amplification of many McNeil, a professional actor who grew up on the Caravan Farm Theatre outside of Kamloops, plays voices is the hallmark Arthur in the show, workshopping at Banff Centre this of new Canadian theatre summer. “But [co-star] Tiffany King is playing Guinev- ere and she’s never acted before. Her parents told me BY STEPHEN HUNT she had been acting out movies and stories by herself

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BANFF - OnBanffDiversity R3.indd 40 2017-03-29 4:34 PM BANFF - OnBanffDiversity R3.indd 41 2017-03-29 4:34 PM voices is an extension of a new brand Victoria playwright Joan MacLeod, Neworld of Canadian theatre. Shows by writers to Vancouver’s Majumdar and her Theatre’s Niall such as Anita Majumdar, Youssef, and funny, smart Fish Eyes Trilogy for McNeil as King others are tackling Canada as it looks young audiences, all the way to King Arthur. The now, rather than developing work that Arthur’s Night. company is presents an imaginary Canada, from For Quirt, who doubles as the back in Banff a mythologized past that doesn’t artistic director of Toronto’s Night- this summer workshopping exactly apply to how we live now. swimming Theatre, the issue of the piece on “Ošten it’s those kinds of intersec- creating a theatre ecology that’s the campus. tions I’m really interested in,” Youssef diverse and inclusive ­ rst is simply says. “Where it doesn’t conform to our that it helps foster the creation of kind of media or social media-driven better plays. or ideological expectation. Because Majumdar, whose recent work was real life is ošten a lot more compli- developed through a number of Banƒ cated and nuanced than those mass- residencies, is a prime example. communicated kinds of stories.” “She’s one of many artists whose Or, as Rodgers puts it: “Why here? voices have been underrepresented Why now?” on our stages and who have not When Brian Quirt ­ rst took over necessarily been well represented at as director of the Banƒ Playwrights Banƒ — to a certain degree — over the Go to our Colony ­ ve years ago, the ­ rst thing he years,” says Quirt. website to read considered was what de­ ned a play. “I’m not here to say it didn’t hap- more about If playwrights wanted to work with pen in the past,” he adds, “[just that] the importance a dramaturg to shape a text, that was I’m just going to make it happen in of diversity ­ ne. If they wanted to work with a the present. and inclusion choreographer to incorporate dance “It makes a huge diƒ erence to the in Canadian into the storytelling, that was ­ ne too. work,” he continues, “and we hope theatre from Quirt soon found himself welcoming it makes the work stronger, more the director of puppeteers, a Banƒ dog trainer, and powerful, more eƒ ective — and also the Banff Play- others into the retreat. more producible.” wrights Colony, When it comes to the Playwrights Those sorts of stories are also the Brian Quirt Colony, “I’ve chosen,” Quirt says, “to kind Quirt hopes emerge from the banffcentre.ca/ de­ ne playwriting extremely broadly.” 2017 Playwrights Colony, which will banff-centre- That includes everything from focus on developing stories for the- stories Canadian theatrical legends like atre for young audiences, including several Indigenous creation compa- nies that combine dance, music, and text to tell their stories — all of which ­ ts comfortably within Quirt’s de­ ni- tion of what a play is. Evelyn Chew, Tiƒ any “It was really important for me,” King, Niall McNeil and Quirt says, “that these Indigenous Josh Martin at King companies, that work with dance This spotlight on amplifying diverse voices is an extension Arthur’s Night rehearsal and theatre equally, be part of the conversation that we conduct at the of a new brand of Canadian theatre Colony, about which stories we tell, but [also] how we tell those stories.” found the opportunity to do this thing mics on, but [Niall and Tiffany] know the a more holistic way throughout the Youssef says that very devotion to she loves with other people.” says subject matter, and they know what whole process. developing stories that are diverse Youssef. “And she’s amazing.” the theme is. They just improvise.” “It’s not just about saying our doors and inclusive — not to mention un- In lieu of enlisting the performers It’s an example of what Banff’s are open,” she adds, “but about mak- orthodox and original — isn’t a luxury, to act out an existing script, Youssef Associate Dramaturg Jenna Rodgers ing space for the practices that might but a cultural necessity. created a number of situations and says is one of the moments when be necessary for diverse artists to “If a country’s culture does not a theme, then watched and listened inclusion evolves into equity. emerge or feel safe.” re— ect its social world,” says Youssef, as the performers shaped the show, “Inclusion is a [first] step,” Rodg- King Arthur’s Night, meanwhile, is “then it’s not going to survive.” rather than the other way around. ers says. “But what I think is unique on the fast track to a world premiere “There are whole sections of the about the King Arthur process is that in mid-2017, with hopes that it will tour King Arthur’s Night is generously supported show,” he says, “where we ask ques- it wasn’t just about including Niall, it the country after that and on into 2018. by the Mackie Family Creation Endowment

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THE ARTISTS ARE PRESENT Artists pull back the curtain on their workspaces for our regular Open Studio events.Take a look inside...

Banff Artist in Residence Diane Colwell’s studio walls are covered in her findings from the summit register books and boxes at the tops of Canadian mountains. Photo by Rita Taylor

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See the full photo gallery of the artists and their open studio spaces, at banffcentre.ca/banff-centre-stories and follow our Instagram @banffcentre to get a behind the scenes look inside our Open Studios events.

RIGHT: Pianist Mikolaj Warszynski performs during a piano show- case for the Banff Mu- sicians in Residence program in 2016. Photo by Rita Taylor; BOTTOM: Body as Site participant Susannah Mira shows off her Visual Arts studio in 2017. Photo by Rita Taylor; New pottery just out of the kiln at the ceramics Open Studios 2016. Photo by Katy Whitt.

TOP: Artist Evan Halter at Banff Centre in 2016, during Open Studios for the Still Alive residency, which explored the still life genre. Photo by Rita Taylor; LEFT: A look at Fall Banff Artist in Residence participant Erin Hayden’s studio during 2016. Photo by Rita Taylor

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BANFF - OpenStudio R3.indd 46 2017-03-31 9:46 AM BANFF - OpenStudio R3.indd 47 2017-03-29 4:28 PM CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Artist Viviana Cárdenas CHECK OUT staging her work SOME OF in 2016. Photo by OUR OPEN Katy Whitt; Broken STUDIOS Social Scene’s Brendan Canning EVENTS THIS was lead faculty for SPRING AND the Independent SUMMER Music residency in 2016. Here he leads Readings from a listening party the Writing Studio where each partici- May 3, 7:30 P.M., pant played a song Bentley Chamber they’d produced at Music Studio Banff Centre. Photo by Don Lee; Maryse Classical Music Larivière takes a with Claire Chase photo during the and Steven Schick 2016 Visual Arts June 20, 4-6 P.M., residency, Still Alive. Bentley Chamber Photo by Rita Taylor. Music Studio Visual + Digital Arts, Banff Research in Culture and Banff Artists in Residence August 10, 4-7 P.M., Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building, Room 204

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Ban Research in Culture: On Energy, Contemporary Open Studios with faculty Ackroyd & Summer Indigenous Harvey in Glyde Hall. Photo by Katy Whitt Voices: Speakers Open Series Studios Events Series This spring, Banff Centre hosts a se- Open Studios goes ries of discussions and performances behind-the-scenes into Plan your cultural adventures this by leading Indigenous thinkers and the residencies and artists on the potential future narra- workshops that are part summer with Banff Centre tives of this country and beyond. of Ban Centre’s artistic training programs. Contemporary Indigenous Voices: Speakers Series invites artists to Get up close and think collectively in order to reorient personal with artists, Jazz & Creative and retool the 150th anniversary of this musicians, dancers, and country, and the role of art and artists authors as they open Music Series in manifesting alternative futures. their studios and present For three weeks every summer, Banff works and ideas created Featuring talks and performances by: Centre’s campus comes alive with jazz. With at Ban Centre for Arts Wanda Nanibush | April 5, 7 P.M. nearly nightly shows at The Club, late-night and Creativity. Lee Maracle in Conversation with sessions at Maclab, and Saturday Night Drew Hayden Taylor | April 8, 7:30 P.M. performances, it’s hard not to feel the Featuring: Tanya Tagaq | April 28, 7:30 P.M. infectious vibe that takes over! Hear music • Spoken Word Santee Smith | May 4, 7 P.M. played by participants in the Banff Interna- Performances Jolene Rickard | May 30, 4 P.M. tional Workshop in Jazz & Creative Music. • Readings from the Kiviuq Returns | June 10, 7:30 P.M. Writing Studio Featuring shows almost every night • Visual + Digital Arts Indigenous Voices Open Studios between August 10 and 26! See pages Indigenous Arts is supported by speakers series • Classical Music Open 68-70 for details. featuring Wanda Jazz in The Club Studios featuring James Nanibush, pictured. • Literary Journalism Macaulay, Tyshawn Lead Program Supporter Photo by Andrew Participant Readings Sorey, 2015 Williamson.

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Picture yourself in the Shaw Classical musician Outdoor Amphitheatre this summer Gudbjartur Hakonarson, 2016 Summer Music Series

Concerts at Banff Every summer, Ban Centre for Arts and Creativity welcomes Centre’s Shaw dozens of musicians from around the world to its classical music programs, led by Co-Artistic Directors of Summer Classical Music Amphitheatre Claire Chase and Steven Schick.

Experience the best of Canada’s In these programs, participants work with the world’s “ nest music in open air, in the heart of Banff classical musicians to create new music, re“ ne traditional and National Park. contemporary practices, and amplify music into the public spaces of Ban and the rest of the world. Featuring concerts by: BrassFire featuring Jens Join faculty and participants for a series of over 20 concerts that Lindemann | July 2, 1 P.M. re• ects the diversity and vitality of classical music in society. Blue Rodeo | July 7, 6:30 P.M. Corb Lund with special guest Highlights include: July 15, 6:30 P.M. Leeroy Stagger Claire Chase and Steven Schick | June 20, 7:30 P.M. | July 23, 1 P.M. Sarah Harmer International Contemporary Ensemble | June 22, 7:30 P.M. | August 6, A Tribe Called Red Miro Quartet and Imani Winds | July 11, 7:30 P.M. 6:30 P.M. Vicky Chow and Winston Choi | August 1, 7:30 P.M.

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Dine with us. Fresh, local, and infused with creativity. Enjoy fine dining, bistro, or buffet options just steps away from theatres and gallery April 28 spaces. Contemporary Indigenous Voices Tanya Tagaq banffcentre.ca/dining 5 8 19 21 Friday, April 28, 7:30 P.M. 29 Reservations 1.403.762.6300 Contemporary Contemporary Banff Centre for Arts Walter Phillips Gallery Margaret Greenham Open Studio Indigenous Voices Indigenous Voices and Creativity and National Curator’s Tour: Theatre | $32 Spoken Word Wanda Nanibush Talk Lee Maracle in Music Centre present Everything I Say Is True Participant Show Wednesday, April 5, 7 P.M. Conversation with Drew Chamber Music from the Friday, April 21, 1:00 P.M.| Eric Polaris-winning Inuk Flash Fwd: Walter Phillips Gallery | Free Hayden Taylor Mountains Harvie Theatre – West Lobby throat singer Tanya Tagaq Saturday, April 29, 8 P.M. Saturday, April 8, 7:30 P.M. Wednesday, April 19, 7:30 Free performs songs from her The Club, Theatre Complex Stay with us. Future Narratives lead faculty Walter Phillips Gallery | Free P.M. | National Music Centre's most recent albums Free Wanda Nanibush gives an Studio Bell, 850 4 Street SE, More information on page 66 Retribution and Animism. Impeccable service, artist talk about her practice. Join bestselling author Drew Calgary | $40.25 Join us for sudden bursts exceptional views, and Hayden Taylor in conversa- Tanya Tagaq is a former of word, sound, and power Wanda Nanibush is an Anishi- tion with Lee Maracle. Join us for a Chamber Music Open Studio Banff Centre alumna and as participants from the amenities in a peaceful, naabe-kwe image and word Gala Concert featuring works Spoken Word Faculty Show guest faculty member Spoken Word program hit the natural setting. warrior, curator, community Lee Maracle is the author of by Brahms and Ravel, and led Re: Quest for Literary Arts' Spoken stage, each with their own animator/organizer, and arts a number of award-winning by Banff International String Friday, April 21, 8 P.M. | Rice Word program. particular brand of lightning. consultant from Beausoleil and critically acclaimed liter- Quartet Competition director Studio, Jeanne and Peter From confession to critique, Designed with the visitor First Nation. She is Assistant ary works, and is the recipient Barry Shiffman. Lougheed Building | Free song to sonnet, these artists in mind, with quick access Curator of Indigenous and of the 2014 Ontario Premier’s shine with commitment and Canadian Art at the Art Gal- Award for Excellence in the Join Literary Arts' Spoken as they present orature that surrender — a spontaneous to all Banff has to offer. lery of Ontario. Arts and the 2016 recipient of Word faculty Buddy Wake- seeks to reflect the times, ceremony not to be missed. the Ann Green Award. field, Dr. Afua Cooper, Janet question the truth, and pre- Rogers, and Tanya Evanson dict the future. banffcentre.ca/hotels

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for an evening of readings Centre will be four of the from works in progress. youth leaders and four mem- bers of the Order of Canada, Banff Centre Hosted by Program Director including acclaimed director May Greg Hollingshead. and writer Atom Egoyan, artist Children’s Festival and scientist Ariel Garten, Ocean Vuong, Poetry community leader and Sa- Faculty for Literary Arts' mara Everyday Political Citizen MAY 20 Writing Studio program 20 Cory Nicotine, Massey Fellow Ban Centre Hadiya Roderique, and more. Children’s Festival Saturday, May 20, all day Banff Centre invites you to take a journey into a Ban Centre  Various world of art and imagination. Locations | Free  $7

More information on le t De Temps Antan Dancers of Traditional Québec music Damelahamid group De Temps Antan Celebrating the diversity brings a special blend of and beauty of Indigenous 24 Open Studio musical flair that speaks to cultures across Canada, 3 Open Studio Readings from the 30 familiar rhythms of the past. In Abundance is a new Readings from the Writing Studio Contemporary dance piece for family 9:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. Writing Studio Wednesday, May 24, 7:30 Indigenous Voices audiences based on the Wednesday, May 3, 7:30 P.M. P.M. | Bentley Chamber Jolene Rickard salmon cycle. Bentley Chamber Music Music Studio | Free Tuesday, May 30, 4 P.M. Sheldon Casavant: Studio | Free Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Exploring the 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Santee Smith Join Colin McAdam, and Building, Room 204 | Free Impossible Plus many FREE events Join Janice Galloway, Pro- participants for an evening gram Director Greg Hollings- of readings from works in Jolene Rickard is a visual With sleight of hand and and activities! 4 head, and participants for Contemporary progress. historian, artist, and curator mind-captivating illusions, an evening of readings from Indigenous interested in the issues of this magician brings an 10 works in progress. Voices Open Studio Tour our Visual and Digital Hosted by Program Director Indigeneity within a global exciting and theatrical magic Santee Smith Readings from the Arts studios for an opportu- Greg Hollingshead. context. show for the whole family. Thursday, Writing Studio nity to meet the artists from Wednesday, May 10, 7:30 P.M. the Ban Artist in Residence Jolene is faculty for the 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. May 4, 7 P.M. 5 Walter Phillips Bentley Chamber Music (BAiR) program and discover Indigenous Art Journal Walter Phillips Gallery Gallery | Free Studio | Free their work. 27 program. Curator’s Tour: Canada 150 Everything I Say Is True Santee Smith is Join Karen Solie, Anita Rau The Walrus Talks Friday, May 5, 1 P.M. | Eric a member of the Badami, and participants Walter Phillips Gallery Conversations about Harvie Theatre – Lobby | Free Mohawk Nation, for an evening of readings Curator’s Tour: Impulses Canada: We Desire a 31 Turtle Clan from from works in progress. Wednesday, May 17, 6 P.M. Better Country Open Studio More information on page 66 Six Nations of the Walter Phillips Gallery | Free Saturday, May 27, 7 P.M. Readings from the Grand, Ontario. Hosted by Program Director Eric Harvie Theatre | Free Writing Studio She works as a Greg Hollingshead. More information on page 66 Reserved seating, Wednesday, May 31, 7:30 P.M. choreographer, book through thewalrus.ca Bentley Chamber Music All tickets $7 9 dancer, singer, /canada150 Studio | Free Visual + Digital Arts Lecture and pottery Open Studio th Tickets on sale: Bopha Chhay designer. As an 17 Readings from the To celebrate the 150 anni- Join Ocean Vuong, Caroline 1.800.413.8368 Tuesday, May 9, 4 P.M. artist, she is com- Open Studio Writing Studio versary of Confederation, Adderson, and participants banffcentre.ca Jeanne and Peter Lougheed mitted to sharing Visual + Digital Arts Wednesday, May 17, 7:30 P.M. The Walrus presents a national for an evening of readings Building, Room 204 | Free traditional and Open Studio Bentley Chamber Music tour featuring 50 members from works in progress. contemporary Wednesday, May 17, 47 P.M. Studio | Free of the Order of Canada and Bopha Chhay is a writer and stories of her In- Glyde Hall, all studios | Free 50 youth leaders exploring Hosted by Program Director curator based in Vancouver. digenous culture. Join Lee Henderson, Colette the theme We Desire a Better Greg Hollingshead.

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10 Contemporary Open Studio Indigenous Voices Open Studio: Ban Kiviuq Returns International Literary Saturday, June 10, Translation Centre (BILTC) 7:30 P.M. | Margaret Tuesday, June 13, 7:30 P.M. Greenham Theatre | Free Rice Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building | Free Kiviuq Returns is a new performance by the Join the 2017 Ban˜ Interna- Qaggiq Collaborative that tional Literary Translation brings together Inuit mu- Distinguished Author for an sic, brilliant costumes, intimate conversation with and elder storytelling in the resident translator. a contemporary retell- June 9 & 10 ing of Kiviuq’s heroism Inspired by the network of through the ages and the international literary transla- sorrows. tion centres in Europe, BILTC Cascade Gardens, Parks Canada is the only one of its kind in Administration Building North America. Since the One day: $35 | Child $12.50 inaugural program in 2003, Both days: $52.50 | Child $25 BILTC has hosted translators 10 from approximately thirty Celebrate Canada 150 and the Performance in the Park countries translating work arrival of summer with highly- Walk o the Earth with involving more than forty anticipated performances from languages. special guests Amistad some of Canada’s top acts: and CBC Music’s 2017 Searchlight Contest Winner Hedley with special guest Ria Mae Saturday, June 10, 3 P.M. 20 Friday, June 9, 6:30 P.M. June Cascade Gardens | $35 Open Studio Open Studio: Claire Vancouver punk-pop quartet Hedley has More information at far right. Chase and Steven Schick been making arena-ready, ¦ st-pumping Tuesday, June 20, 4š6 P.M. pop hits for over a decade. With six studio 6 8 Bentley Chamber Music albums, a pair of JUNOs, 11 MuchMusic Video Visual + Digital Arts Lecture Visual + Digital Arts Lecture Studio | Free Awards, three SOCAN Awards, 17 #1 Much Lorenzo Fusi Ngahiraka Mason 13 videos, and 60 million online video views, Tuesday, June 6, 4 P.M. Thursday, June 8, 4 P.M. Visual + Digital Arts Lecture Come experience the work-in- their place in the Canadian cultural land- Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Julie Nagam process of our Summer Music scape is ¦ rmly cemented. Building, Room 204 | Free Building, Room 204 | Free Tuesday, June 13, 4 P.M. faculty and participants as Hedley Jeanne and Peter Lougheed they workshop and rehearse Lorenzo Fusi is the 2016 Ngahiraka Mason (born in Building, Room 204 | Free new works. Walk O The Earth with special Visiting Academic Curator at Te Urewera, New Zealand) is 9 guests Amistad and CBC Music's 2017 the Illingworth Kerr Gallery at a writer, educator, curator, Performance in the Park Opera comes down the hill (in Dr. Julie Nagam is Chair of Searchlight Contest Winner the Alberta College of Art + historian, and artist. She Hedley with special jeans) for one of our favourite the History of Indigenous Summer Music Series Saturday, June 10, 3 P.M. Design in Calgary. He is also has worked extensively with guest Ria Mae events, #OperaPub for the Art in North America, a In Performance: Claire the Artistic Director of PIAC European and New Zealand Friday, June 9, 6:30 P.M. 4th year in a row! Come hear joint appointment with the Chase and Steven Schick Walk O˜ The Earth is an unconventional, at the Fondation Prince Pierre historical, modern and con- Cascade Gardens | $35 some of Canada’s next great University of Winnipeg and Tuesday, June 20, 7:30 P.M. multi-talented ¦ ve-piece musical phenom- de Monaco. temporary art, institution art opera singers sing arias and the Winnipeg Art Gallery. She Rolston Recital Hall | $25 enon that is currently taking the world by collections and acquisitions, More information on right duets from your favourite op- is responsible for research- Senior/Student $22 | Child storm. Their brilliant ¦ ve-people-playing-one- Fusi has commissioned and the commissioning of site- eras, and all from the comfort ing and developing a series $12.50 | ♥ guitar interpretation of Gotye’s Somebody almost 200 new works with speci™ c contemporary works. of your bar stool. of courses, exhibitions, and That I Used To Know recently exploded on artists from around the world, Mason currently resides in Opera in the 21st Century related programs designed Summer Music Co-Artistic YouTube garnering over 35 million views in curated or co-curated over Hawaii and is the curator of #OperaPub These artists are participants to engage, enhance, and Directors Claire Chase and under two weeks. 60 exhibitions, and written Honolulu Biennial 2017. Friday, June 9, 8 P.M. in the program Open Space: develop the area of Indig- Steven Schick kick o˜ the for and edited numerous Ban£ Legion, 92 Ban£ Ave. Opera in the 21st Century. enous art. season with an eclectic pro-

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Included in the upcoming Alberta Biennial, Justin Waddell, Float in Space and Drift in Time (2017). Plywood, glass, mirror, paint, steatite, custom projector. 29 Opera in the 21st Century Chamber Werx Thursday, June 29, 7:30 P.M. The Rice Studio | Free

Our Chamber Music program looks to expand the way we hear, see, and interact with art song and chamber music. This multi-disciplined event will engage audience members in new ways by re- moving many of the formali- ties that we have become accustomed to.

The program will feature Banff Centre Open Space singers, 22 24 musicians, and dancers. Oliveros, Iannis Xenakis, Summer Music Series Walter Phillips Gallery Gustavo Aguilar, Marcos Balter, In Performance: Inter- Opening Reception Mark Applebaum, and faculty national Contemporary for the time being 30 composer Tyshawn Sorey. Ensemble (ICE) Plays 2017 Alberta Biennial of Summer Music Series Beethoven and Lewis Contemporary Art In Performance: Faculty Summer Music faculty will Thursday, June 22, 7:30 P.M. Saturday, June 24, 6–9 P.M. and Participants from also join Steven and Claire for Rolston Recital Hall | Free Walter Phillips Gallery | Free Summer Music Programs an informal conversation with Friday, June 30, 7:30 P.M. the audience following the ICE and Steven Schick present Please join us for the opening Rolston Recital Hall | $25 performance. a thrilling concert pairing reception of the 2017 Alberta Senior/Student $22 | Child Beethoven’s Septet, a work Biennial for the time being. $12.50 | ♥ filled with energy, light and momentum, with Born for the time being is an analogy Ensemble Evolution partici- 21 Obbligato, an ICE-commis- of thinking about what it means 23 pants, side by side with faculty, Open Studio sioned companion piece to be in-between spaces and Summer Music Series perform works by young Ca- Visual + Digital Arts by the composer/improvis- times. Specifically the exhibi- Radhe Radhe: The nadian superstars and faculty Open Studio er/computer music pioneer tion focuses on our present Rites of Holi and members Sabrina Schroeder Wednesday, June 21, 4–7 P.M. George Lewis. and our relationships to The Rite of Spring and Zosha Di Castri, with Glyde Hall, all studios | Free perceptions of reality. Friday, June 23, Steven Schick conducting. 7:30 P.M. | Eric Harvie Tour our Visual and Digital Arts Theatre | $25 Baroque violinist and faculty studios for an opportunity 23 Senior/Student $22 member Aisslinn Nosky leads to meet the artists from the Opera in the 21st Century 27 Child $12.50 | ♥ the ensemble in a new work Indigenous Art Journal and #OperaPub Open Studio for period and modern Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR) Friday, June 23, 8 P.M. | Banff Open Studio: Faculty Faculty and partici- instruments by Canadian programs and discover their Legion, 92 Banff Ave. | Free and Participants from pants from Ensemble composer Michael Oesterle. work. Summer Music Programs Evolution join Vijay Iyer See June 9 for details. Tuesday, June 27, 7:30 P.M. for a performance of Bentley Chamber Music Radhe Radhe, a live Studio | Free film score paired with a new arrangement of Come experience the work- Stravinsky’s original ing process of our Classical work, to create an Music faculty and partici- unforgettable alloy of pants as they workshop and new and old. rehearse new works. PHOTO CREDITS: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST (WADDELL), WILLIAM KEERAN (RADHE RADHE) (RADHE KEERAN WILLIAM RADHE) (RADHE KEERAN WILLIAM (WADDELL), ARTIST (WADDELL), THE OF ARTIST THE OF COURTESY CREDITS: COURTESY CREDITS: PHOTO PHOTO

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Chamber music ensemble Imani Winds 4 Open Studio Emeritus, Ian Brown, joins Open Studio: Jack Literary Journalism Editorial Quartet and ICE Winds Faculty Charlotte Gill and Tim Tuesday, July 4, 4•6 P.M. Falconer for an intimate con- July Bentley Chamber Music versation about their work, Studio | Free long-form journalism, and the art of writing. Come experience the work- ing process of our Summer Music faculty and partici- pants as they workshop and 6 rehearse new works. Opera in the 21st Century Kopernikus Thursday, July 6, 7:30 P.M. Summer Music Series Margaret Greenham Theatre In Performance: JACK $25 | Senior/Student $22 Quartet and ICE Winds Child $12.50 | ♥ 11 Tuesday, July 4, 7:30 P.M. Summer Music Rolston Recital Hall | Free “Opera, as a form of expres- Series sion of the soul and of human In Performance: JACK quartet joins forces with history, cannot die. The hu- Miro Quartet and leading members of the wind man being will always need to Imani Winds Jens Lindemann section of ICE – Joshua Rubin, represent his/her fantasies, Tuesday, July 11, clarinetist, Rebekah Heller, dreams, fears and hopes.” 7:30 P.M. bassoonist, and Ryan Muncy, - Claude Vivier. Rolston Recital Hall saxophonist – for a concert $25 | Senior/Student 1 2 featuring new works by Cana- Kopernikus, a chamber- $22 | Child $12.50 | ♥ Summer Music Series Outdoor Concert at dian composers Erin Gee and opera written by arguably Music in the Pines Banff Centre's Shaw Sabrina Schroeder. Canada’s greatest composer, The Miro Quartet, 7 8 Saturday July 1, all day Amphitheatre Claude Vivier, is unlike any past winners of Outdoor Concert at Opera in the 21st Century Eva-Lynn Jagoe is Director Time and locations to be BrassFire Featuring Jens opera that has ever been the Banff Interna- Banff Centre's Shaw Kopernikus of the Program in Compara- announced on ban centre.ca Lindemann written. Montreal-born Vivier tional String Quartet Amphitheatre Saturday, July 8, 7:30 P.M. tive Literature and associate on June 29 | Free Sunday, July 2, 1 P.M. 5 created a new sound by Competition and the Blue Rodeo Margaret Greenham Theatre professor of Comparative Shaw Amphitheatre Literary Journalism Talk constantly seeking answers Naumburg Chamber Friday, July 7, 6:30 P.M. $25 | Senior/Student $22 Literature, Spanish and Por- Celebrate Canada’s 150th $25 | Senior/Student $15 Ian Brow, Charlotte Gill to simple questions: Where Music Competi- Shaw Amphitheatre | $55 Child $12.50 | ♥ tuguese, and Cinema Studies birthday with a kaleidoscope Child $10 and Tim Falconer are you coming from? Where tion, offer sensu- at the University of Toronto. of grand and intimate perfor- Wednesday, July 5, 7:30 P.M. are you going? ous performances Join country rock band See July 6 for details. mances in Ban BrassFire is an interactive Communitea, 117 – 1001 6th of Schubert’s Blue Rodeo for their annual Summer Music programs performance celebrating Avenue, Canmore | Free An all-Canadian creative Quartettsatz and outdoor performance. Open Studio participants and faculty collab- the rich musical history of team explore Kopernikus’ Beethoven’s Quartet Open Studio: Miro oratively curate and perform the trumpet in particular, 2016 Rogers Communica- themes of loss, longing, No. 131, while the 11 Quartet and Imani Winds in a day of site-speci c shows from Bach, Duke Ellington tions Chair, and now Editor and reconciliation by look- Grammy nominated Summer Music Series Visual + Digital Arts Lecture Tuesday, July 11, 4¨6 P.M. in a variety of di erent spaces and Louis Armstrong to the Imani Winds perform In Performance: Faculty Imre Szeman and Bentley Chamber Music throughout Ban . They will warm Argentinian sounds of works by Stravinsky and Participants from the Eva-Lynn Jagoe Studio | Free be showcasing a culmina- Piazzola, contemporary pop and Ligeti. Summer Music Programs Tuesday, July 11, 4 P.M. tion of work created over the star Sting, Latin salsas, and Friday July 7, 9 P.M. Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Come experience the work- two weeks of the Ensemble swinging big band grooves. Rolston Recital Hall | Free Building, Room 204 | Free ing process of our Summer Evolution program, which Music faculty and partici- explores the future of classical As the  rst classical brass so- ing at what Canada has to Summer Music programs Imre Szeman is Professor pants as they workshop and ensemble work. loist to ever receive the Order celebrate and also come to participants showcase of Drama & Speech Com- rehearse new works. of Canada, Jens Lindemann terms with. repertoire re‡ ned under the munications and English Repertoire will include 20th developed BrassFire in 2006 mentorship of the JACK Quar- Language & Literature at the century works, with Canadian at Ban Centre. Kopernikus features par- tet and ICE winds; and faculty University of Waterloo. He and world premieres from ticipants from Banª Centre’s violinist Aisslinn Nosky leads is also Adjunct Professor Pauline Oliveros, George Opera in the 21st Century a large ensemble of players in of Research and Graduate Lewis, and Morton Feldman. program. Biber’s famous Battalia. Studies at Ontario College

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Chef and author Gabrielle Hamilton they workshop and rehearse We celebrate his great per- and folk music scenes. In new works. cussion pieces, themselves just over a decade, she has indebted to the natural world, established herself among in a performance on the the pantheon of legendary Summer Music Series grounds of Ban . A younger female songwriters this coun- In Performance: generation is represented by try has produced, her name Steven Schick and Canadians Vivian Fung and spoken in the same breath as Nicholas Hodges Michael Oesterle, along with Joni Mitchell, Sarah McLach- Faculty for Visual Arts Tuesday, July 18, 7:30 P.M. young Icelandic superstar lan, Sylvia Tyson, and Kate & program Ban‚ Research Rolston Recital Hall | Free Anna Thorvaldsdottir. Anna McGarrigle. in Culture: On Energy, Claudia Rankine. Rhythm, sound, space and Performance will begin on virtuosity. Nicholas Hodges the lawn in front of Music and and Steven Schick perform Sound Building at 7 P.M. and 25 modern masterpieces for will then continue in Rolston Visual + Digital Arts Lecture 12 14 piano and percussion. Recital Hall at 8:30 P.M., fea- Elizabeth Povinelli Literary Journalism Talk Walter Phillips Gallery turing faculty and participants Tuesday, July 25, 4 P.M. Gabrielle Hamilton Curator’s Tour from the Piano-Composer Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Wednesday, July 12, 7:30 P.M. for the time being Collaborative and Roots and Building, Room 204 | Free St. George’s-in-the-Pines 2017 Alberta Biennial 21 Rhizomes programs Anglican Church, 100 Beaver of Contemporary Art Summer Music Series Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Franz Street, Ban‚ | Free Friday, July 14, 6 P.M. In Performance: Faculty Boas Professor of Anthropol- Walter Phillips Gallery | Free and Participants from the ogy at Columbia University, Gabrielle Hamilton is the chef/ Summer Music Programs 23 where she has also been Di- owner of Prune, a restaurant More information on page 66 Friday, July 21, 7 P.M. Outdoor Concert at rector at the Institute for the in New York City, a James Outdoors in front of Banff Centre's Shaw Research of Women, Gender, Beard Foundation winner, and Music and Sound Building Amphitheatre and Sexuality. Her research the author of New York Times Visual + Digital Arts Lecture & Rolston Recital Hall Sarah Harmer and writing have focused on bestseller Blood, Bones & Claudia Rankine $25 | Senior/Student $22 Sunday, July 23, 1 P.M. developing a critical theory Butter: The Inadvertent Edu- Friday, July 14 7 P.M. Child $12.50 | ♥ Shaw Amphitheatre | $35 of settler late liberalism that cation of a Reluctant Chef. The Rice Studio | Free Child $20 would support an anthropol- John Luther Adams returns ogy of the otherwise. Claudia Rankine is a poet, to Ban Centre, reprising his Sarah Harmer possesses whose 2014 book Citizen: An historic visit in 2009 at which one of the most distinctive 13 American Lyric won multiple his Inuksuit was premiered. voices of the Canadian rock Environmental Reportage awards and played a major Naomi Klein role in national conversations Thursday, July 13, 7:30 P.M. about race in America. Singer-songwriter Margaret Greenham Theatre 15 Sarah Harmer $25 | Senior/Student $22 She is the 2016 MacArthur Ge- Outdoor Concert at Banff Child $12.50 | ♥ nius Grant recipient for poetry. Centre's Shaw Amphitheatre Corb Lund with special Join award-winning journalist guest Leeroy Stagger and author Naomi Klein for an Saturday, July 15 6:30 P.M. on stage conversation about 18 Shaw Amphitheatre | $50 her body of work, including Open Studio JOHN D. & CATHERINE T. MACARTHUR MACARTHUR T. CATHERINE & D. JOHN This Changes Everything: Open Studio: Steven Join us for this Americana Capitalism vs. the Climate. Schick and Nicholas and roots-country perfor- Hodges mance, with rollicking honky Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis are Tuesday, July 18, 4¤6 P.M. tonk and rousing alt-country. guest faculty in Literary Arts' Bentley Chamber Music Featuring critically acclaimed Environmental Reportage Studio | Free Albertan roots-country program. singer-songwriter Corb Lund MELANIE DUNEA/CPI §HAMILTON¨ §HAMILTON¨ DUNEA/CPI MELANIE ¤HAMILTON¥ DUNEA/CPI MELANIE Come experience the working (pictured) and Lethbridge process of our Summer Mu- alt-country singer-songwriter sic faculty and participants as Leeroy Stagger. FOUNDATION, DUSTIN RABIN §HARRIS¨ §HARRIS¨ RABIN DUSTIN FOUNDATION, PHOTO CREDITS: CREDITS: PHOTO CREDITS: PHOTO FOUNDATION, MACARTHUR T. CATHERINE & D. JOHN ¤HARRIS¥ RABIN DUSTIN

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Noetic by Sidi Larbi Cherkaouih. Arika Yamada 29 Open Studio Currently, Dean is co-editor Summer Music Series Open Studio: Craig of Digital Barricades, a book Michael Pisaro’s A Wave Taborn, Cory Smythe series from Pluto Press; a and Waves for 100 and Phyllis Chen previous co-editor of Theory Percussionists Tuesday, July 25, 4–6 P.M. & Event; and a contributor to Saturday, July 29, 4 P.M. Bentley Chamber Music e-flux, Rethinking Marxism, Margaret Greenham Theatre Studio | Free Political Theory, and South Free Atlantic Quarterly. Come experience the work- Michael Pisaro is a composer ing process of our Summer known for his gentle sonic Music faculty and partici- Literary Journalism Talk landscapes and meditative pants as they workshop and Literary Journalism compositions. In this light, rehearse new works. Participant Readings his A Wave and Waves is a Thursday, July 27, 7:30 P.M. monumental masterpiece. Margaret Greenham Theatre For seventy-five minutes, 100 Summer Music Series Free performers drop grains of In Performance: Craig rice and other grain on small, Taborn, Cory Smythe Listen to participants from the resonant objects, bow ma- and Phyllis Chen Centre’s Literary Journalism rimba bars and wood blocks, Tuesday, July 25, 7:30 P.M. Program read from the work brush pieces of sandpaper Rolston Recital Hall | Free created while in residence. together, scrape brake drums Writing created in Literary from cars, and rustle leaves. The brilliant pianists Craig Journalism has been nomi- The result is a magnificent Taborn, Cory Smythe, and nated for National Magazine symphony of gentle noises Phyllis Chen, all of whom wear Awards and the National that will bathe listeners in multiple hats as interpreters, Newspaper Awards and has sound. composers, and improvis- appeared in The Atlantic, The ers, defy categorization. They Walrus, and The Globe and team up for a faculty show- Mail, amongst many other The Creative Gesture case featuring works for solo publications. Noetic piano, multiple pianos and toy 27 Saturday, July 29, 7:30 P.M. pianos, including improvisa- The Creative Gesture Eric Harvie Theatre tions, original pieces, and per- Noetic $25 | Senior/Student $22 formances of older music. Thursday, July 27, 28 Child $12.50 | ♥ 7:30 P.M. Summer Music Series Eric Harvie Theatre In Performance: Faculty See page 64 for details. $25 | Senior/Student and Participants from the 27 $22 | Child $12.50 | ♥ Summer Music Programs Visual + Digital Arts Lecture Friday, July 28, 7:30 P.M. Jodi Dean Noetic is a work for Rolston Recital Hall | Free Thursday, July 27, 4 P.M. nineteen dancers, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed choreographed origi- Colour, texture, and rhythm. Building, Room 204 | Free nally for Gothenburg New and classic music for pia- Ballet by Sidi Larbi no and percussion performed Jodi Dean is a political Cherkaoui, along with by faculty and participants philosopher and professor in a distinguished team from the Piano-Composer the Political Science depart- comprising sculp- Collaborative and Roots and ment at Hobart and William tor Antony Gormley, Rhizomes Programs. Smith Colleges. Dean’s fashion designer duo research interests and Les Hommes, and teaching examine contem- composer Szymon porary and modern political Brzóska. It will be theory, communism, digital recreated by dancers media, poststructuralism, participating in the psychoanalysis, feminist The Creative Gesture theory, and climate change. program PHOTO CREDIT: MATS BÄCKER BÄCKER MATS CREDIT: MATS CREDIT: PHOTO PHOTO

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Everything I Say Yesterday was Is True Once Tomorrow L.A.-based Oglala (or, A Brick is Walter Phillips Lakota artist Kite a Tool) constructs a This exhibition is a complex narrative timely re-visitation through the use of of artists’ magazines Gallery her own family’s from the 1990s, ephemera and his- guest curated by Banff Centre’s Walter Phillips Gallery is dedicated torical documents, Winnipeg-based to the collection, curation, and presentation of as well as through a Kegan McFadden. contemporary art. new body of work in various mediums, in- February 11 – July 2 cluding video, sound Everyday Established in 1976, Walter Phillips Gallery holds and sculpture. 9 A.M. – 5 P.M. Jeanne and Peter several exhibitions annually, in addition to support- March 29 – May 10 Loughed ing curatorial programs, installations, and exhibi- Everyday Building, First Floor tions throughout the campus. 9 A.M. – 5 P.M. Eric Harvie West Lobby for the time being 2017 Alberta Performance Biennial of by Kite Contemporary Art Wednesday, March for the time being is 6 29, 4 P.M. an analogy of thinking Outdoor Concert at Walter Phillips about what it means Banff Centre's Shaw Gallery to be inbetween Amphitheatre spaces and times. A Tribe Called Red Curator’s Tours Specifically the Sunday, August 6, Friday, April 21, 1 exhibition focuses on 6:30 P.M. P.M. and our present and our Shaw Amphitheatre Friday, May 5, 1 P.M. relationships to per- August $30 | Child $20 ceptions of reality. Producing an un- Impulses June 24 – believably unique Selections from September 10 1 4 sound, A Tribe Called the Permanent Wednesday to Visual + Digital Arts Lecture Come experience the work- Summer Music Series Red mixes traditional Collection Sunday Wafaa Bilal ing process of our Summer In Performance: Faculty powwow vocals and Impulses makes 12:30 – 5 P.M. Tuesday, August 1, 4 P.M. Music faculty and partici- and Participants from drumming with visible rarely seen Walter Phillips Jeanne and Peter Lougheed pants as they workshop and the Summer Music cutting-edge works from Walter Gallery Building, Room 204 | Free rehearse new works. Programs electronic music to Phillips Gallery Per- Friday, August 4, 7:30 P.M. celebrate their manent Collection, Opening Reception Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal, Rolston Recital Hall | Free Aboriginal culture in which are presented Saturday, June 24 an Associate Arts Professor Summer Music Series an open, wild party. alongside new texts 6 – 9 P.M. at New York University’s Tisch In Performance: Vicky Anne Bourne leads Piano- that reimagine their School of the Arts, is known Chow and Winston Choi Composer Collaborative and context in our con- Curator’s Tours internationally for his online Tuesday, August 1, 7:30 P.M. An Improviser's View of temporary moment. Friday, July 14, 6 P.M. performative and interactive Rolston Recital Hall | Free Notated Music programs Saturday, August 5, 4 P.M. Wednesday, August works that provoke dialogue participants and faculty, in a Rolston Recital Hall | Free February 11 – May 28 9, 5 P.M. and Friday, about international politics Canadian pianists Winston concert featuring the works of Wednesday to August 25, 1 P.M. and internal dynamics. Choi and Vicky Chow offer the legendary Pauline Oliveros. Join us as musicians from Sunday a double bill of works by the Piano-Composer 12:30 – 5 P.M. Canadian composers Remy Collaborative and An Impro- Walter Phillips More gallery Open Studio Siu and Dorothy Chang, as viser’s View of Notated Music Gallery, Main Space event information Open Studio: Winston well as classics by Ravel and 5 Programs – some of the available online at Choi, Vicky Chow, and Steve Reich. Summer Music Series best young musicians from Curator’s Tours banffcentre.ca Remy Siu In Performance: Faculty across Canada and around Wednesday, May 17, Tuesday, August 1, 4 – 6 P.M. and Participants from the world – perform with Wil Murray. Detail of THE ONLY 6 P.M. Bentley Chamber Music the Summer Music distinguished faculty. PHOTO CREDIT: COURTESY THE ARTIST THE ARTIST THE COURTESY CREDIT: COURTESY CREDIT: PHOTO PHOTO POWER IS NO POWER: Ituna to ARTIST THE ARTIST THE COURTESY CREDIT: COURTESY CREDIT: PHOTO PHOTO Studio | Free Programs Athabasca (2017). Part of the 2017 Alberta Biennial. banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2017 InStudio 67

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Vijay Iyer, musician and Artistic Director of the Banff A Night International Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music. 11 Jazz & Creative Music Jazz Club: Music at the Banff curated by Vijay Iyer Friday, August 11, 8 P.M. The Club, Theatre Complex Mountain Free See August 10 for details. Film Festival Summer Music Series In Performance: Faculty and Participants from Lux Cinema the Summer Music Programs Friday, August 11, 7:30 P.M. Screenings Rolston Recital Hall $25 | Senior/Student $22 Child $12.50 | ♥

Join us as faculty and partici- pants from the An Improvis- er’s View of Notated Music combine Igor Stravinsky’s classic work, L’Histoire du Featuring a selection Soldat (The Soldier’s Tale), of award-winning films now approaching its centen- from the 2016 Banff nial, with a team of young Mountain Film and Book improvisers who will create improvised responses to it. Festival. Two different film programs. New films 12 shown each month! Jazz & Creative Music 12 Saturday Night Jazz Summer Music Series View full schedule at Saturday, August 12, In Performance: Faculty 7:30 P.M. | Margaret and Participants from banffcentre.ca Greenham Theatre the Summer Music 8 9 $25 | Senior/Student Programs $15 Summer Music Series Walter Phillips Gallery Tour our Visual and Digital $22 | Child $12.50 | ♥ Saturday, August 12, 4 P.M. Tickets at luxbanff.com Arts studios for an opportu- Rolston Recital Hall | Free In Performance: Peter Curator’s Tour or at the door. Evans, Tyshawn Sorey, for the time being nity to meet the artists from Vijay Iyer leads world- Sofia Jernberg, Tiffany 2017 Alberta Biennial of the Banff Artist in Residence renowned faculty and Join us as musicians from Lux Cinema Banff, Ayalik, Carla Kihlstedt Contemporary Art (BAiR) program and discover participants through from the Piano-Composer 229Reversed Bear Street, Banff Tuesday, August 8, 7:30 P.M. Wednesday, August 9, 5 P.M. their work. an evening of jazz Collaborative and An Impro- Bentley Chamber Music Walter Phillips Gallery | Free and creative music viser’s View of Notated Music Studio | Free exploration. Programs – some of the best More information on page 66 Jazz & Creative Music young classical musicians Join us for an ad hoc night of Jazz Club: Music from across Canada and improvised music from Sum- around the world – perform curated by Vijay Iyer Image from the film mer Music faculty trumpeter Thursday, August 10, program perform with their with distinguished faculty. Freedom Under Load Peter Evans, percussionist 10 8 P.M. | The Club, Theatre internationally acclaimed Featuring new works created Tyshawn Sorey, vocalist Sofia Open Studio Complex | Free mentors in evenings of under the mentorship of Jernberg, and Tiffany Ayalik Visual + Digital Arts experimentation. Improviser’s Lab faculty. and violinist/vocalist Carla Open Studio Emerging musicians from Recommended for ages Banff Mountain Film Festival Presenting Partners Kihlstedt. Thursday, August 10, the International Workshop 14 years and older.

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BANFF - Listings R3.indd 68 2017-03-29 4:33 PM BANFF - Listings R3.indd 69 2017-03-29 4:33 PM WHAT'S ON AT BANFF CENTRE Introducing the Banff Centre International String Quartet Established in 1973, the Festival! Borne out of the Banff International String Quartet Banff International Workshop Competition, this three-day festival showcases the finest in in Jazz & Creative Music international classical music to audiences through a completely is a three-week intensive 15 program where we reimag- immersive experience. Jazz & Creative Music ine the state of the art. Jazz Club: Music Led by Banff International String Quartet Competition Direc- curated by Vijay Iyer tor Barry Shiffman, the festival is held in competition off-years Tuesday, August 15, 8 P.M. and features competition winners and alumni alongside special The Club, Theatre Complex Free guests exploring repertoire from across the centuries.

See August 10 for details. Friday, September 1, 4 P.M. Saturday, September 2, BLAKE POULIOT AND ALICE LEE 7:30 P.M. Johann Sebastian Bach ROLSTON STRING QUARTET 16 Concerto for Two Violins (1723) R. Murray Schafer Jazz & Creative Music String Quartet No. 2 “Waves” (1976) Jazz Club: Music ROLSTON STRING QUARTET curated by Vijay Iyer Johann Sebastian Bach PIERS LANE, ST. LAWRENCE STRING Wednesday, August 16, 8 P.M. Concerto for Two Violins (1723) QUARTET, AND TYLER DUNCAN Gabriel Fauré The Club, Theatre Complex La Bonne Chanson (1894) Free Friday, September 1, 7:30 P.M. BLAKE POULIOT AND JUPITER STRING QUARTET See August 10 for details. ALEXANDER MALIKOV Ludwig van Beethoven Maurice Ravel String Quartet No. 12 (1825) Violin Sonata No. 2 (1927)

17 JUPITER STRING QUARTET Sunday, September 3, 4 P.M. Jazz & Creative Music György Ligeti JUPITER STRING QUARTET 24 26 String Quartet No. 1 (1954) AND JULIE NESRALLAH Jazz Club: Music Vijay Iyer leads world-re- Jazz & Creative Music Jazz & Creative Music Ottorino Respighi curated by Vijay Iyer nowned faculty and par- Jazz Club: Music Saturday Night Jazz JULIE NESRALLAH, BARRY Il Tramonto (1914) Thursday, August 17, 8 P.M. ticipants through an evening curated by Vijay Iyer Saturday, August 26, SHIFFMAN, AND PIERS LANE The Club, Theatre Complex of jazz and creative music Thursday, August 24, 8 P.M. 7:30 P.M. Johannes Brahms JUPITER STRING QUARTET, BARRY Free exploration. Featuring faculty The Club, Theatre Complex Margaret Greenham Theatre Two Songs for Mezzo Soprano and SHIFFMAN, AND DENIS BROTT Tyshawn Sorey and Matt Free $25 | Senior/Student $22 Viola (1884) Johannes Brahms See August 10 for details. Stevens. Child $12.50 | ♥ String Sextet No.2 (1865) See August 10 for details. Vijay Iyer leads world-re- Saturday, September 2, 4 P.M. St. Lawrence String Sunday, September 3, 7:30 P.M. nowned faculty and par- Quartet: Haydn Discovery JUPITER STRING QUARTET ticipants through an evening 18 22 AND TYLER DUNCAN Jazz & Creative Music Jazz & Creative Music 25 of jazz and creative music The St. Lawrence String Quartet has Samuel Barber Dover Beach (1931) Rolston Jazz Cabaret Jazz Club: Music Walter Phillips Gallery exploration. Featuring faculty a particular passion for Haydn and Friday, August 18, 8 P.M. curated by Vijay Iyer Curator’s Tour Linda Oh, OkkYung Lee. they want to share it with the world. ROLSTON STRING QUARTET AND Rolston Recital Hall | Free Tuesday, August 22, 8 P.M. for the time being Yet the father of the string quartet is PIERS LANE The Club, Theatre Complex 2017 Alberta Biennial too often regarded today as an open- Dmitri Shostakovich Join renowned jazz faculty Free of Contemporary Art ing act; pleasant music before the Piano Quintet (1940) Tyshawn Sorey as he leads Friday, August 25, 1 P.M. meat of the program. So the Quartet has created Haydn Discovery: events ROLSTON STRING QUARTET the participants through See August 10 for details. Walter Phillips Gallery | Free that delve into a particular Haydn Steve Reich Conduction — music that hap- quartet with a virtuosic performance Different Trains (1988) Featuring a pens in the moment. More information on page 66 and a commentary rich in wit. video by Beatriz Caravaggio 23 Leading each Discovery is the Quar- Jazz & Creative Music Jazz & Creative Music tet’s first violinist Geoff Nuttall, called 19 Jazz Club: Music Jazz Club: Music “chamber music’s Jon Stewart” by Jazz & Creative Music curated by Vijay Iyer curated by Vijay Iyer The New York Times. Saturday Night Jazz Wednesday, August 23, Friday, August 25, 8 P.M. Saturday, August 19, 8 P.M. | The Club, Theatre The Club, Theatre Complex 7:30 P.M. Complex | Free Free Passport and Package Holders are invited to exclusive behind-the-scenes Margaret Greenham Theatre events throughout the Festival! $25 | Senior/Student $22 See August 10 for details. See August 10 for details. Individual tickets: $25 | Senior/Student $22 Child $12.50 | ♥ TAYLOR TAYLOR RITA CREDIT: RITA CREDIT: PHOTO PHOTO Passports: $120 | Senior/Student $105 Festival Supporter All Inclusive Festival Packages starting at $900 per person Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust All performances take place in the Rolston Recital Hall at Banff Centre. 70 InStudio Spring / Summer 2017 banffcentre.ca

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Night out in Banff with colleagues Pass or clients? Click. $90 banffcentre.ca/events Includes 2 FREE shows, Cultural field trip with students $80 * or summer camp kids? Call. half-price on ANY show 1.403.762.6301 or 1.800.413.8368 Choose Fun day in the Rockies with a group presented at Banff Centre of friends or family members? Visit. 5 events Banff Centre Box Office this summer, and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Eric Harvie Theatre Lobby in the Arts offers you the opportunity Tuesday – Saturday exclusive freebies! to reunite in a highly creative 12–5 P.M. Lover atmosphere, nestled in Canada’s first national park! On ticketed event days, the Box Office will selection Banff Centre Season Pass holders enjoy maximum remain open until 30 minutes after the access to summer events at Banff Centre, along event start time and will open at least with extraordinary flexibility and exclusive perks two hours prior to ticketed performances Get a great deal for your summer in Banff! Select the option that’s right for you: scheduled on a Sunday, Monday, or holiday. on summer events Attend an exciting performance and bene- at Banff Centre. Purchase our new Banff Centre Season Pass for fit from our group deal when you buy 10 or more tickets for the same show* or select Senior – 60 and over $90 and enjoy as many events as you want, for a very one of our many free performances. Student – valid student ID Purchase an Arts Lover special price. (unless otherwise stated) Pass for $80 and get Mingle with creators during one of our free Child – 12 and under tickets for up to 5 Season Pass holders get their first two shows for free Open Studios, featuring artists, writers, events. and then get 50% off of any show presented at Banff and musicians participating in Banff Centre banffcentre.ca Centre Theatres and the Shaw Amphitheatre, for the programs. Choose your 5 events entire summer season! Immerse yourselves in arts and creativity from those listed as ♥ with a complete service package, including The Fine Print Performances and artists are subject to change without notice. Season Pass holders also get 10% off at Vistas and food and accommodation. Tickets are non-refundable. Where permitted, Banff Centre tickets Three Ravens for the season and a Banff Centre Gift may be exchanged within the same series up to 24 hours prior to Bag (value of $50)! To benefit from our group discount the performance; fees may apply. Regardless of age, all audience The Fine Print on show tickets: members must have a ticket. We strongly advise that infants young- • Limit of 1 ticket per Arts Lover 1.403.762.6301 or 1.800.413.8368 er than one not attend performances for the enjoyment of the Pass per show. *The Fine Print rest of the audience, and we generally recommend that audience • Depending on availability. • Corb Lund with special guest Leeroy Stagger and Blue Rodeo are included in To book full accommodation and members be four years of age or older in order for everyone to fully • Valid for shows presented your 50% discount offer, but can’t be selected as one of your “Free Shows”. conference packages: enjoy the performance. Events in The Club are recommended for between June 12 and August 31 • Limit of 1 ticket per Season Pass per show. ages 14 and over. Please contact the box office for specific age and at Eric Harvie Theatre, Rolston Re- • Depending on availability. 1.403.763.6712 or 1.877.760.4595 seating recommendations. Any person who is disruptive during a cital Hall, and Margaret Greenham • Valid for shows presented between June 12 and August 31, 2017 at Shaw [email protected] performance may be asked to leave, and a refund will not be of- Theatre, listed as (♥) Amphitheatre, Eric Harvie Theatre, Rolston Recital Hall, and Margaret Greenham • Excludes Shaw Amphitheatre Theatre. fered. Refunds will also not be issued on the basis of performance shows, Lux Cinema Screenings, • Excludes Lux Cinema Screenings and other shows presented outside of *Groups of 10 people or more get 10% off on select content. Please be advised that many of our events are audio- and and other shows presented out- Banff Centre campus. events. Special pricing for kids, students, and seniors video-recorded for dissemination. When booking your ticket, please side of the Banff Centre campus. • Banff Centre reserves the right to exclude any show from this offer. on select events. advise the ticket seller should you require wheelchair seating.

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for Fiction, and the Governor in Canadian history. Harris James Rolfe (music) and Anna General’s Award for Fic- was a member of Canada’s Chatterton (libretto), com- tion) for her book Willem de Group of Seven painters, and missioned by the Canadian Kooning’s Paintbrush. She was present at the inaugural Opera Company. participated in a Banff Centre celebration of Banff Centre’s Writing Residency in 2013. official home in Banff National Park in 1946, Mountain Forms Awards and is a painting of the Sawback Visual Arts mountain range in Banff Nominations Stan Douglas was awarded National Park. David Bowie’s last album, the 2016 Hasselblad Founda- Blackstar, which features tion International Photogra- Jeneen Frei Njootli was award-winning saxophone phy Award. The prestigious awarded one of three 2016 player and Banff alumnus honour is awarded at a William and Meredith Saun- Donny McCaslin, won five reception in Sweden, and derson Prizes for Emerg- awards, including Best Rock John Corigliano’s The the 2011 Banff Master Class months at Banff Centre collab- includes a prize of over ing Canadian Artists. She Performance, Best Rock Song Ghosts of Versailles won for for Strings and Winds. His orating on their performance $100,000 and an exhibition participated in a Visual Arts and Best Alternative Music both Best Engineered Album, prize includes support and piece, which premiered at the at the Hasselblad Center. Studio Work Study position Album. McCaslin was faculty Classical, and for Best Opera grants worth over $17,500, as PANAMANIA cultural program Douglas was at Banff Centre at Banff Centre, followed by in the Banff International Jazz Recording. Corigliano was well as a number of concert in Toronto, and continues to in 2013, where he worked two thematic residencies. Workshop four times between faculty at Banff Centre in the engagements including per- tour the globe. Literary Zoe Whittall (above) was with Chris Haddock on their She is a Vuntut Gwitchin artist 2006 and 2011. summer of 2013. forming with the Orchestre Madeleine Thien won the shortlisted for the Scotiabank innovative multimedia theatre from Old Crow, Yukon, and is Symphonique de Montréal. Banff Centre’s Director of 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize Giller Prize for her novel The production Helen Lawrence. based in Vancouver. Bill Frisell, Banff Centre alum- Conductor Krzysztof Dance Emily Molnar received and the Governor General’s Best Kind of People. She nus, was nominated for Best Penderecki won for Best the Order of Canada in 2016. Award for Fiction, and was worked on an early draft of Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Contemporary Instrumental Choral Performance for his Dance Molnar has been the artistic shortlisted for the Man Book- her novel at Banff Centre for Belmore won the 2016 Music Album for When You Wish album Penderecki Con- Betroffenheit, a Banff Centre director of Ballet BC since er Prize for her novel Do Not Arts and Creativity during a Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the Tanya Tagaq (above, right) Upon a Star. Frisell was a ducts Penderecki, Vol. 1. He co-production, was Guardian 2009, and continues her role Say We Have Nothing. She self-directed writing residen- Art Gallery of Ontario. The received the Order of Canada. student at Banff in the 1990s, conducted the Banff Festival dance critic Judith Mackrell’s in guiding dance initiatives participated in the Banff Inter- cy. The Best Kind of People award is presented to an artist The multi-award-winning Inuk and returned as faculty in Orchestra in 2004, includ- pick for Britain’s Number #1 at Banff Centre, where she national Literary Translation went on to occupy The Globe who has made an outstand- singer took part in the Banff 2004 for the Banff Interna- ing performances of his Dance Performance of the recently launched a signa- Centre program in 2012, and and Mail bestseller list in ing contribution to the visual Centre Re(Claim) program in tional Jazz Workshop. own Concerto Grosso and Year. Choreographer Crystal ture new program titled The returned to Banff as faculty in Canadian fiction for months. arts in Canada, and includes 2015, creating a new sound- Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Pite and playwright/actor Creative Gesture. 2016 for the Emerging Writers the $50,000 prize, as well as scape for the controversial si- The Fred Hersch Trio was Jonathon Young spent several Intensive program. Ian Brown was a finalist for a solo exhibition at the AGO lent filmNanook of the North. nominated for Best Jazz the Hilary Weston Writers’ within two years. Belmore Tagaq returns to Banff Centre Instrumental Album for Sun- Orchestre Arts Miriam Toews, the multi- Trust Prize for his non-fiction is a Banff alumna and one of in April 2017 as faculty for the day Night at the Vanguard. award winning author of memoir Sixty. Brown was her signature artworks is part Spoken Word Residency. Fred Hersch was also nomi- Symphonique Leadership All My Puny Sorrows and A the Rogers Communications of Banff Centre’s permanent nated for Best Improvised Eva Cairns, managing pro- Complicated Kindness, won Chair of the Literary Journal- public art collection: Ayum- In November 2016, mezzo- Jazz Solo, from the album de Montréal ducer of Edmonton’s Catalyst the $50,000 Writers’ Trust ism program at Banff Centre ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: soprano Simone McIntosh of We See. Hersch was a resi- Theatre, won the annual Fellowship, which includes a from 2010-2016, and returns Speaking to Their Mother Vancouver won First Prize at dent of the Leighton Artists’ Manulife Rozsa Award for Excellence residency at Banff Centre, as to Banff in July as faculty for (1991), which she conceived the Canadian Opera Compa- Colony in 2000 and 2001. in Arts Management. Each part of a partnership between Literary Journalism. and created at Banff Centre. ny’s annual Ensemble Studio Competition year, $10,000 is awarded to Banff Centre and The Writ- Competition. That same Chucho Valdés won for Best Blake Pouliot, (right) a an exceptional arts manager, ers’ Trust. Toews served as Kerry Lee Powell was rec- Lawren Harris’s artwork month she also won McGill’s Latin Jazz Album for Tribute 22-year-old violinist from and another $10,000 given faculty for Banff Centre’s ognized by all three major Mountain Forms sold at Wirth Vocal Prize. In 2015 at To Irakere: Live In Marciac. Toronto, won first prize at the to their arts organization. Emerging Writer’s Intensive Canadian fiction prizes (the auction for $11.2 million, Banff Centre, McIntosh played Valdés served as faculty in OSM in front of a live audi- Cairns has taken part in mul- (formerly called Writing With Scotiabank Giller Prize, the becoming the most expen- Donna in the workshop of the the Banff International Jazz ence. Pouliot is a Banff Centre tiple Banff Centre leadership

Style) program in 2001. Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize sive painting sold at auction opera Crush, a new work by POULIOT) (BLAKE POULIOT) (BLAKE FASANO JEFF FASANO JEFF TAGAQ); TAGAQ); (WHITTALL, (WHITTALL, ARTISTS THE OF ARTISTS THE OF COURTESY CREDITS: COURTESY CREDITS: PHOTO PHOTO Workshop in 1993 and 2006. alumnus who participated in development programs.

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InStudio MAGAZINE BANFF CENTRE BANFF CENTRE ARTS Deb Smythe TEAM EXECUTIVE TEAM PROGRAMMING Festival Director, LEADERSHIP Devon Murphy Janice Price Mountain Culture Editor President & CEO Claire Chase Kristy Trinier Co-Artistic Director, Jenny May Spurr Bruce Byford Director, Visual, Digital Summer Classical Associate Editor Vice-President, and Media Arts Music Marie-Helène Dagenais Administration & CFO Mark Wold Joanna Croston Events Editor Michael Code Managing Director, Programming Director, Vice-President, Program Planning Mountain Culture Contributors Operations Jenna Douglas Joel Ivany BANFF CENTRE Neil Johnston Lisa Charleyboy Director of Open BOARD OF Vice-President, Stephen Hunt Space: Opera in the GOVERNORS Development Arthur Kaptainis 21st Century David T. Weyant, Josh Knelman Valerie Kaypay Vijay Iyer Q.C., Chair Russell Willis Taylor Vice-President, Director of Larry Fichtner, Human Resources International Vice Chair ROGERS CUSTOM Russell Willis Taylor Workshop in Jazz Janice Price, CONTENT Interim Vice-President, and Creative Music President & CEO Steve Maich Arts & Leadership Eric S. Harvie Jens Lindemann, CM Elmer Hildebrand Senior Vice-President, , O.C. Director, Brass Festival Evaleen Jaager Roy Digital Content Andy Kenins, ICD.D & Publishing Emily Molnar, CM Director, Dance Judith LaRocque, ICD.D Garth Thomas Letha J. MacLachlan, Q.C. Pedja Muzijevic Senior Director, Gay Mitchell, ICD.D Business Development Director, Concert in Andrew Molson the 21st Century Patricia Ruby Christopher Loudon Casey Prescott John Snow, P.M.L.M, M.A. Director, Custom Director of Presenting Content BANFF CENTRE Brian Quirt Jaimie Hubbard FOUNDATION BOARD Director, Playwrights Group Account & Andrew MacNiven Colony Content Director (Chair) Tamara Ross Janine Cole Larry Fichtner Director Special Tim Kitchen Client Services Projects and Audience J. Mark MacDonald Manager Services Jackson von der Ohe Jed Tallo Devyani Saltzman David T. Weyant, Q.C. Art Director Director, Literary Arts (Ex-Officio) Janice Price (Ex-Officio) Josiah Gordon Steven Schick Amy Marenco Co-Artistic Director, Associate Art Director Summer Classical Mike Lambe Music Senior Director, Sales Barry Shiffman Director, Banff International String Quartet Competition

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Lead Arts Supporters Founding Supporters Nexen Chair in Indigenous Leadership Banff Centre gratefully acknowledges the following supporters. Their generosity provides emerging and established artists with access to our creative programming and to inspiring mentorship from our leading faculty.

Banff Centre Children’s Banff Centre International Banff Centre and National Music String Quartet Festival Festival Supporters Centre Series Presenting Patrons Access and Travel Supporters Sir Jack Lyons Jan and Larry Charitable Trust Fichtner

Banff International Banff International String Banff Mountain Film and Book Creative Gesture – Jazz and Creative Quartet Competition Festival Presenting Partners Dance Residency is Music Program Lead supported by Supporter Lead Patrons Christine and David The Globe and Anderson Mail and Thomson Reuters Supporting Sponsor Flanagan Foundation

Designing for Dance Indigenous Arts is supported by Preferred Supplier Seven Generations TransAlta Andrea Brussa Costume Design Energy Ltd. Corporation Workshop for Dance

Andrea Brussa Award to Honour Indigenous Women’s Achievement in Community Leadership provided by an Anonymous Donor

Government Ban Centre is grateful for the funding from the Government of Alberta, through Alberta Advanced Education, Alberta Infrastructure, and the C40517 Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Arts programs are also supported by funding from the Government of Canada through the Canada Council for Media Partners the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Arts Training Fund and the Canada Arts Presentation Fund.

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Alan and Geri Moon Nicolas Ruel Barbara Spohr Memorial Endowment EPCOR Scholarship Endowment Ken McVey Memorial Endowment PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment Norbert and Patricia Morgenstern Shaw Communications Inc. Benediktson Fellowship Fund for Not-for-Profit Leaders Laszlo L. Funtek Endowment for Not-for-Profit Leaders 2015-16 Mountain Galleries at the Fairmont Shell Canada Limited for Icelandic Artists Evelyn Wood Memorial Endowment Leighton Studios Facility Publishing Workshop Endowment Mountain House Richard Singleton Benediktson Fellowship Fund Finch Chamber Music Scholarship Fund Renewal Fund Endowment Quebecor Media Endowment MSR - Mountain Safety Research Rick and Brune Sinneave for Mexican Artists Fiona Mee Foundation Endowment Lenora P. Masters Endowment R.S. Williams & Sons Company Supporters Alan Murdock Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust Bess Winspear Memorial Endowment Frederick Louis Crosby Linda and Richard Singleton Ltd. Endowment Fund In recognition of supporters who contributed $10,000+ to National Geographic Society Margaret Southern Betty Farrally Memorial Endowment Memorial Endowment Endowment Fund Raul Urtasun - Frances Harley Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity between April 1, 2015 and Nexen Energy ULC Estate of Mario James Stella BISQC Canadian Commission Freeze Family Career Development Liz Crockford Artists Fund Scholarship for Artists March 31, 2016. Nikon Canada Inc. The Stollery Family Prize Endowment Fund Program Fund, BISQC Lockwood Family Endowment from Argentina In addition to the names listed, Banff Centre expresses The North Face Suncor Energy Foundation Bliss Carman Award Endowment Freeze Family Instrument Fund Fund for Music Repsol Emerging Artists appreciation to the many others who have supported arts training Northern Gateway Pipelines LP Carolyn* and David Tavender, QC Bobbye Ruth and Dewitt L. Potter Frelyn Memorial Endowment Louis and Gertrude Crosby Scholarship Fund and creation. Norton Rose Fulbright Joanne Taylor and Jack Davis Endowment Fund for Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Family Endowment Repsol Master Artists Endowment Oboz Footwear TD Bank Group Dance Scholarship Outstanding Artist Program Louis Muhlstock Endowment Richard and Sidney Killmer OneWest Events Inc. Tim Hortons Inc. Bobbye Ruth and Dewitt L. Potter Gay Mitchell and Archie McIntosh Lucy and Stephen Maxym Endowment Oboe Endowment Fund The 1988 Foundation c/o Lotte and Chris and Mary Fong Parkland Fuel Corporation TransAlta Corporation Library Endowment Fund Creation Endowment Fund Mackie Family Creation Robert L. Jamison Endowment John Hecht Memorial Foundation Rick and Julie George Susan Peterson and Thomas d’Aquino Treksta Boris Roubakine Memorial Endowment George Brough Memorial Endowment Fund Endowment Rogers Communications Chair in Alberta Blue Cross Asim and Sanjukta Ghosh Petzl Shirley and Greg Turnbull Brenda and Jamie Mackie Endowed George Ryga Playwriting Maclab Enterprises Endowment Fund Literary Journalism Endowment Fund Alpine Club of Canada The Globe and Mail Birgit Piskor Kim and Jeff van Steenbergen Fellowships for Visual Artists Scholarship Endowment Macquarie Group Foundation Rosetta and Mario Stella Endowment Amazon.ca The Globe and Mail and Denise Poley, Marc Langlois, Patrick and Michelle Ward Bruce McKinnon Memorial Endowment Gertrude and Ernest E. Poole Endowment for Not-for- Rousseau et Vermette Endowment Jamie and Patsy Anderson Thomson Reuters Jean Mogensen, Marni Jan and Adam Waterous Canadian Pacific Hotels Endowment Endowment Profit Leadership Ruby Mercer Opera Award ARC Resources Ltd. GoPro, Inc. Virtue, Steve de Keijzer Peter and Joanne Whidden Carlyle Norman Scholarship for Gladys and Merrill Muttart Marek Jablonski Piano Endowment Ruth and Wes Van Dusen Endowment Christine Armstrong and Irfhan Rawji Sandra and Ernie Green Power Corporation of Canada Joan* and Marshall Williams Emerging Literary Artists Endowment Foundation Endowment Margaret (Peggie) Sampson Sandra Faye Guberman Endowment ATB Corporate Financial Services Harrison McCain Foundation Bryan Price and Christine Choi Nancy and Andrew Wiswell Carlyle Norman Scholarship for Greg Rudel/Andrew Shepherd Memorial Endowment Schlosser/Alton/Peacocke Endowment Azimuth Capital Management and the Hnatyshyn Foundation Progress Energy Canada Ltd. Vladimir and Yachiyo Wolodarsky Mountain and Wilderness Writers Memorial Endowment Maria Francisca Josepha Brouwer Sir Jack Lyons Scholarship for the Arts B&E Electronics Ltd. Dick and Lois Haskayne Qiviuk/Jacques Cartier Clothier World Expeditions Carolyn Tavender Endowment Gwen Hadley Scholarship in Scholarship Fund for Dutch Musicians Sir Mark Turner Memorial Irene M. Bakker Christopher Head RBC Royal Bank Yamaha Canada Music Ltd. Catharine Whyte Memorial Endowment Literary Arts Endowment Marjorie and Neil Armstrong Scholarships Endowment Banff Airporter Inc. Elmer Hildebrand - Golden Robyn and Gord Ritchie Yamnuska Mountain Adventures CIBC Emerging Artists Harold Crabtree Foundation Endowment Sonia de Grandmaison Endowment Banff Lake Louise Tourism West Broadcasting Ltd. Rolex Canada Ltd. Anonymous (5) Scholarships Endowment Endowment Marnie Warrack Memorial Endowment Stuart Olson Endowment Bergans of Norway Horizon North Logistics Inc. Clifford E. Lee Choreography Award Harold Douglas Brown Endowment Marshall M. Williams Endowment Sunwapta Broadcasting Laila Biali Rebecca Hotchkiss and Harley Colleen Anderson Millard Visual Helen B. Schlosser Endowment Mary and Chris Fong Family Endowment Limited Endowment Big Rock Brewery Hotchkiss* and The Hotchkiss Art Endowment Fund Helen Macfarlane Allison Endowment Mary E. Hofstetter Legacy Fund Susan Agar Memorial Endowment Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Family Foundation Creation Fund Endowment Herb and Ivy Paris Endowment for Excellence in the Visual Arts Susan and Graeme McDonald Blu’s The Howard and Maryam Newman Banff Centre CUPE Local 4318 Scholarship Fund Ian S. Lee Memorial Endowment Mary Mooney Memorial Endowment Music Endowment BP Canada Energy Group ULC Family Foundation, Inc. Cyril and Elizabeth Challice IBM Theatre Crafts Endowment Maxine and Jack Weber Endowment Susan Glass and Arni Thorsteinson Buck Braund Husky Energy Inc. Fund for Musicians Ilona Diener Memorial Fellowship Michael and Sonja Koerner Endowment Fund for Dancers Endowment Andrea Brussa Icebreaker Merino Clothing Inc. Endowments Cyril and Elizabeth Challice Teaching Fund Endowment Michael Davies Scholarship Susan Siversky Memorial Endowment John and Bonnie Buhler Investors Group Fellowship Fund for Music Institute of Canadian Endowment Fund Sylvia and Jack Chetner Endowment Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is grateful to its generous donors who, T.C. Hargrave Scholarship The Camera Store J. Vair Anderson Jewellers recognizing the need for sustainable funding sources, have created Cyril and Mary Paris Endowment Bankers Endowment Morna Davies Memorial Endowment Canada House Gallery Colin Jackson and Arlene Strom endowments—the earnings from which provide ongoing support for artists Darwall Endowment Isobel and Tom Rolston Fellowships Muriel Jolliffe Endowment for Dance in Voice Endowment Canadian Natural Resources Limited Jarislowsky Fraser Partners Foundation and leaders at Banff Centre. David and Peggy Leighton Endowment in Music Endowment Myra Paperny Endowment for Tevie and Arliss Miller Endowment Canadian North John and Barbara Poole Legacy Funds David Spencer Emerging Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Emerging Alberta Writers Toshimi and William Sembo Pat and Connie Carlson at Edmonton Community Foundation 60th Anniversary of Dance Endowment Andres Segovia Memorial Endowment Vocalists Endowment Fund Endowment Niki Goldschmidt Fund for Masterclass Artist Endowment Cyril and Elizabeth Challice Kicking Horse Coffee Company 75th Anniversary of Banff Centre Andrew David Shapiro Denis Jackson Memorial Jeannie McWhinnie Endowment Fund Composers Endowment Trina McQueen Endowment Jack Chetner KPMB Architects Endowment Fund Memorial Endowment Scholarship Endowment Jeff and Kim van Steenbergen Artist Nonprofit Leadership Scholarship Fund Fund for Film and Media Chevron Canada Limited Lake Louise Ski Resort and Aboriginal Women’s Voices Endowment Anjulin Endowment Devon Canada Scholarship Endowment Scholarship Endowment Fund Nova Corporation Endowment Vladimir & Yachiyo Wolodarsky Clif Bar & Company Summer Gondola Ada Bronstein Endowment Fund Annie Romanchuk Endowment for Indigenous Leaders and Managers Jenny Belzberg Endowment OK Gift Shop Endowment Endowment Fund for Coca-Cola Refreshments John and Sheilagh Langille Adele Wiseman Endowment Arnold Spohr Distinguished Guest Donald and Stella Cameron Jim Dinning and Evelyn Main Endowed Ontario Artists Fund Literary Arts & Music Canada Company Jens Lindemann, CM Alan and Christene Murdock Artist Endowment for Dance Memorial Endowment Scholarship for Visual Artists Patricia Clifford Scholarship W.O. Mitchell Endowment Jeremy Collins Loch Gallery Endowment for Dancers Art Work Acquistions Endowment Doris Elizabeth Yanda Endowment John Labatt Limited Endowment Endowment Fund Walter and Estelle Painter Endowment ConocoPhillips Canada Jamie and Brenda Mackie Alan Hooper Memorial Endowment Asper Endowment Dorothy Cranstone Endowment John Linn Memorial Endowment Paul and Gerri Charette William and Nona Heaslip Endowment Michael and Heather Culbert Maclab Enterprises Alathea and Herbert Manley Audrey E. Klinck Scholarship Fund Dr. William A. Cochrane Endowment John W. Kieley Endowment Endowment Bursary Fund for Archives for Performing Arts David Spencer Endowment Jim Madro Endowment Aurora Fund Eagles’ Nest Scholarship for Emerging Musicians Paul D. Fleck Fellowships in William T. Wylie Endowment Encouragement Fund Mammut Alice and Betty Schultz Bakstad Stone Family Endowment Endowment Fund Joseph F. Smith Memorial Endowment the Arts Endowment William Townsend Memorial Estate of Michael Bruce Cooke Davies Masters Gallery Ltd. Scholarships Endowment Fund Banff Centre General Endowment Eaton Foundation Endowment Fund Joyce and David Keith Peter and Sheila Bentley Distinguished Endowment Simone Desilets Mawer Investment Management Allard Foundation Endowed Banff Centre Staff Endowment Edith Marion Ramsay Scholarship for the Arts Guest Artist Endowment Fund Wizan Film Properties Inc. Endowment Deuter McAra Unicom Scholarship Fund for Banff Churches Endowment Memorial Endowment Joyce Carlyle Memorial Scholarship Peter Lougheed Leadership Yolande Freeze Master Diana Paul Galleries MEC Mountain Equipment Co-op Nonprofit Leaders Banff School of Advanced Edwards Family Fund in the Crafts Endowment Institute Endowment Artists in Music Fund Sharon F. Douglas Viviane and Jay Mehr Amanda Fryk Skarin Management Endowment Eileen Higgin Calgary Theatre Keith Evans Scholarship in Peter MacKendrick Endowment * Deceased Jan and Larry Fichtner Brent McLean and Sheila Memorial Endowment Barbara and John Poole Endowment Singers Endowment Visual Arts Endowment Fund for Visual Artists

Flair Foundation Wappel-McLean Andrea Brussa Master Artist Barbara Gyurka Award for Eldon & Anne Foote Fund for Cultural Ken and Marie Madsen Pitblado Family Scholarship Supporter logos and lists throughout Margaret and Jim Fleck Gay Mitchell and Archie McIntosh Endowment Fund Technical Achievement and Environmental Leaders Endowment Scholarships for Dance Endowment publication are current at time of printing.

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JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN, former host of CBC’s WireTap, is back with a new podcast from Gimlet Media called Heavyweight — a show all about regret, difficult conversations, and second chances. Brimming with Jonathan’s trademark humour, Heavyweight is quickly climbing the charts. But SEASON SPONSOR Jonathan doesn’t let the noise distract him.

Q Describe your studio. A For a few months, I had a residency at the New York Public Library, where I was working in a quiet room that felt very old-school New York. There were a lot of older New Yorker artist types with 50-pound laptops who would give you dirty looks if your cell phone vibrated, which I found very romantic.

THE RECORDING STUDIO ITSELF IS THE CLOSEST THING I HAVE TO A SACRED SPACE. SEP 16 – OCT 8, 2017 NOV 11 – DEC 3, 2017 JAN 6 – 28, 2018 Q What hours of the day are you most productive? A At the Gimlet Media office, I found myself going into work sometimes super early (like 6 o'clock in the morning!) just to have quiet before the place started to get busy. The recording studio itself is the closest thing I have to a sacred space — I just love the quiet.

Q What distracts you when you’re working? A Over the years, I’ve taught myself how to write and create under any circumstance: in rooms with fluorescent lighting, in a coffee shop, at a desk- top in my study, at my kitchen table. I’m not super sensitive to my surroundings. One of the things that FEB 17 – MAR 18, 2018 MAR 3 – 24, 2018 APR 21 – MAY 13, 2018 I like about writing and editing tape is that you can really get lost in your own mind and forget about My Studio where you are. It’s a good sign. It means you’re on the inside, not on the outside.

We step inside the workplaces of Q Do you listen to music while you work? some of our favourite artists and A For inspiration, I’ll listen to really bad music, often from the time period that I’m writing about… in a thinkers to explore their creative way that almost makes me feel embarrassed were someone to walk in the room. Inspiration can come environments BY JENNY SPURR from all kinds of weird places and there are no rules. You don’t necessarily have to keep things complete- ly quiet and walled off from the rest of the world; it can be porous and you can allow other influences to OCT 11 – 22, 2017 JAN 31 – FEB 18, 2018 APR 4 – 29, 2018 DEC 1 – 23, 2017 filter through.

Jonathan Goldstein took the stage at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity to present some of his favourite

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