ARTS at The Banff Centre have a long and distinguished history. For almost 75 years, The Banff Centre has provided professional career development and lifelong learning for artists and cultural leaders in performing, literary, new media, and visual arts. Work is showcased throughout the year in public concerts, exhibitions, and events, culminating in the Banff Summer Arts Festival. LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT at The Banff Centre offers customized and public programs in the corporate, government, Aboriginal arts, and not- for-profit sectors that enable and support fundamental At The Banff Centre I hear of The Banff Centre’s transformation in individuals, organizations, and particular genius every time communities. I discovered the joy I speak to an artist, scientist, MOUNTAIN CULTURE programming at The and the discipline of Banff Centre promotes understanding and appreciation or any individual who has of the world’s mountain places by creating opportunities music. The impact lives had the great fortune to for people to share and find inspiration in mountain with me every day. experiences, ideas, and visions. have been a resident. CONFERENCE SERVICES at The Banff Centre pianist Jon Kimura Parker Alberta visual artist Christopher Cran provides superb meeting and accommodation facilities for organizations from all over the world, featuring over 400 guest rooms, and 60 exceptional meetings spaces, lecture theatres, and auditoriums to accommodate groups from five to 1,000 people. FAST FACTS The Banff Centre Founded: 1933 Location: Banff, Alberta, Canada Annual program participants: 4,000–5,000 Scholarships, support, and financial assistance provided: $3.8 million Original performances, concerts, and exhibitions Inspiring Creativity per year: over 400 The Banff Centre is a catalyst for creativity and a globally respected Audience for the Banff Summer Arts Festival: 34,250 post-secondary educational institution and conference facility. Audience for the Banff Mountain Festivals: 12,090 Banff Centre alumni create, produce, and perform works of art all Audience for the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour: 165,000 in 29 countries over the world; lead our institutions, organizations, and businesses; and play significant roles in our cultural, social, intellectual, and Banff Centre budget: $43.8 million economic well-being, and in the preservation of our environment. Self generated revenue: $28.8 million (75%) For almost 75 years, the Centre has developed potential and Alberta Government grant: $11.4 million (25%) transformed careers. Our multi-disciplinary programs enable All figures 2006-2007 For more information, please contact emerging and established individuals in the arts, sciences, business, Marketing & Communications, The Banff Centre and the environment to create and showcase new work, to push Box 1020, Banff, Alberta T1L 1H5 The Banff Centre is supported by funding from the Government of boundaries, to interact and share knowledge, and to develop new [email protected] Alberta, through Alberta Advanced Education, Alberta Infrastructure tel: 800-422-2633, 403-762-6157 and Transportation, Alberta Innovation and Science, and the Alberta ideas and solutions for the present and the future. www.banffcentre.ca Foundation for the Arts. Arts training programs are supported by Produced by The Banff Centre January 2007 funding from the Government of Canada through the Canadian Front cover: violinist Linling Hsu. Department of Heritage and the Department of Human Resources Above: The Banff Centre’s Development through the National Arts Training Contribution Program. Rolston Recital Hall. Photos: Don Lee The impact of Banff Centre programs is woven into the fabric of Alberta and Canadian culture. Theatre, opera, and dance productions workshopped at The Banff Centre illuminate stages from Made in Alberta coast to coast. Award-winning art and literature produced at the Centre is featured in galleries, bookstores, and libraries across the country. Business and community leaders from every province apply leadership skills learned in Banff, and musicians and dancers trained at The Banff Centre Shared with the world form the core of Canada’s major symphony orchestras and dance companies.

A proud legacy Artistic leadership Shaped in Banff Award-winning The interaction with other artists, Since 1933, some of the best and brightest Centre alumni and faculty make-up: Recent productions co-produced or Recent awards and accomplishments of Banff Centre alumni and faculty include: especially with so many senior artists at in Canadian and international arts and • over 50 per cent of the workshopped in Banff include: culture have passed through Banff Centre Symphony Orchestra • Romeo and Juliet, co-produced by • Joysanne Sidimus, winner of a 2006 Governor the top of their game is one of the most doors, including: writers Margaret Atwood, General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime • over 50 per cent of the The Banff Centre and Alberta Ballet Ann-Marie MacDonald, Yann Martel, Achievement. important parts of the Banff experience. Gloria Sawai, Greg Hollingshead, Alice Philharmonic Orchestra • Alberta Ballet’s Dangerous Liaisons • Choreographer David Earle, winner of the Munroe, Timothy Findley, and W.O. Mitchell; • over one-third of the • Decidedly Jazz Dancework’s ¡BULLA! 2006 Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Edmonton writer, actor, composer Aaron Copland and musicians Vancouver Symphony Orchestra A Loud Cuban Jazz Experiment Performing Arts. and director Mieko Ouchi Oscar Peterson, Dave Douglas, Jon Kimura • 35 per cent of the • The Gryphon Trio’s Constantinople Parker, Jens Lindemann, the St. Lawrence • Peter Behrens, winner of the 2006 Governor Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra String Quartet, and the Gryphon Trio; • Sylvain Émard’s Le Temps de Chien General’s Literary Award for English Fiction, painters A.C. Leighton, A.Y. Jackson, and • over 25 per cent of the • Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal’s and fellow nominees Rawi Hage, Bill Gaston, I wish every artist the Tak Tanabe; dancers/choreographers National Arts Centre Orchestra The Stolen Show and Trevor Cole. luck of spending time at Agnes de Mille, Evelyn Hart, Tara Birtwhistle, • over one-third of the • Ballet British Columbia’s Carmina Burana • Ceramist and sculptor Peter Powning, winner Brian Macdonald, Brian Webb, and Jean Toronto Symphony Orchestra of the 2006 Saidye Bronfman Award. The Banff Centre. Grand-Maître; actors Cynthia Dale, Fiona • Filumena, co-commissioned and co- • over 75 per cent of Alberta Ballet • Jazz musician and composer Brad Turner, Reid, Kim Cattrall, and Eric McCormack; produced by The Banff Centre and writer Yann Martel, playwrights Tomson Highway, Sharon • over 80 per cent of Ballet British Columbia Calgary Opera winner of a 2006 Victor Martyn Lynch-Stanton award. winner 2002 Man Booker Prize Pollock, and John Murrell; and opera singers • over 50 per cent of the • Frobisher, the second full-length original , Tracy Dahl, and Frances Ginzer Royal Winnipeg Ballet opera created by John Estacio and • The Land’s End Chamber Ensemble, whose – to name just a few. John Murrell, tells a story of love, loss, CD Rollin’ down #1, recorded at the Centre, • 25 per cent of the National Ballet won Outstanding Classical Recording at the I have never worked of Canada and adventure in Canada’s North. Co-commissioned and co-produced by Western Canadian Music Awards. so well in my entire life • a large part of the Shaw Festival company The Banff Centre and Calgary Opera, • 2006 Dora Mavor Award winners Richard Frobisher will premiere as part of Calgary Bradshaw, Susanna Hood, Michael Levine, …. as I have here at Opera’s 2006–2007 season and will Ahdri Zhina Madiela, Jennifer Tarver, and Nigel The Banff Centre. be the centrepiece of the 2007 Banff Shawn Williams. Photos, from left: W.O. Mitchell teaching at the Centre in 1977. Lorin Mathis and Leigh Allardyce Summer Arts Festival. in Romeo and Juliet, co-produced by the Centre and Alberta Ballet, photo: Ivan Karabobaliev. Video production shoot writer Timothy Findley, for Frobisher, photo Tara Nicholson. Ben Heppner in one of his first opera roles, the Centre’s 1979 production ofGianni Schicchi, photo: Grant Ponton. The Gryphon Trio’s Constantinople, photo: Michel Boulianne. Alumna Cynthia Dale in on completing his final work, the Stratford Festival’s Anything Goes, photo: David Hou. The Shadows, at The Banff Centre