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ARTS CULTURE EVENTS FALL 2019 / WINTER 2020 ART AS RESISTANCE AGAINST OUR WARMING PLANET Shows, Concerts + Event Listings Inside Banff Centre is FALL 2019 / WINTER 2020 creativity that On the cover Features In every issue 12 Forever Emerging 3 President’s Letter can't be tamed. Governor General's 4 Event Highlights Award-winning author Some highlights from Katherena Vermette this season’s Banff on growing your Centre shows voice as a writer 6 Connect With Us 14 Art at the End Follow our InStudio of the World stories online Artists are responding Banff Centre is to the climate crisis. 8 From the Vault Who will listen? Get to know the artists behind some taking chances. 22 An Unbreakable Circle of the works from our Indigenous storytelling permanent collection in the digital age 10 Studio Visit 24 Leaving a Legacy Learn about one in the West of our Leighton Banff Centre's Artists Studios A 2015 PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION IN PARIS theatre undergoes titled Radical Action Reaction by visual artists renovations thanks to 28 Special Section and environmental activists Heather Ackroyd Banff Centre is a generous donation Explore Banff Centre and Dan Harvey frames an acorn tree as an campus this fall actor centre stage behind grass curtains. 30 Hide Couture and winter Years later, the installation is still reflective D'Arcy Moses' of the duo’s creative partnership, having Indigenous haute . 42 Open Studios spent years working with natural elements couture innovates on Peek into the studios to create art that challenges the material traditional practices of Banff Centre artists limits of their craft in order to challenge humanity’s relationship to the environment. 34 Artist as Warrior 48 What’s On Jazz drummer Returning to Banff Centre in the fall, Ackroyd Plan your fall/winter Jerry Granelli on & Harvey are lead faculty for our visual arts cultural adventures the revolutionary residency Earthed. Engaging participants act of being an artist 59 Staff Recognition with local ecologists and biologists, Earthed invites artists to develop their practices 36 Crafting the Universe 60 Alumni News as conduits for public discourse about Choreographer Andrea Celebrating Banff urgent environmental issues. Peña's new piece Centre achievements Artifice Manifesto and milestones brings vulnerability 62 Banff Centre to the stage Supporters 66 Last Word Exploring the creative workspace banffcentre.ca Read about Ackroyd & Harvey of adventure writer on pages 14–19. Learn more Sharon Wood about their public lecture at PHOTO CREDIT: COURTESY THE ARTISTS (COVER) ARTISTS THE COURTESY CREDIT: PHOTO banffcentre.ca Fall 2019 / Winter 2020 InStudio 1 PRESIDENT’S LETTER DEAR ARTS season to workshop her latest creation, Artifice Manifesto; Governor General’s LOVER, Award-winning author Katherena Vermette, who will lead the Emerging Banff Centre welcomes you to another Writers Intensive; and Slavey Dene exciting season of programming on our designer D’Arcy Moses, who brings his snowy campus. We enter into a new years of haute couture experience to year full of fresh ideas, new visiting an Indigenous Arts fashion residency. artists, and an exciting revitalization Finally, explore our many free and project on campus. ticketed events this fall and winter, In early November, after the conclusion from “Balkan-Klezmer-Gypsy-Party- of the world-renowned Banff Centre Punk-Super Band” The Lemon Bucket Mountain Film and Book Festival, our Orkestra, to beloved holiday concert theatre space will be undergoing a A Charlie Brown Christmas featuring renovation thanks to a generous gift The Jerry Granelli Trio, as well as from the family of Calgary philanthropist open readings from the Centre's and former Banff Centre board chair internationally-recognized Literary Jenny Belzberg. You can read all about Arts residencies and cutting-edge Banff Centre is this transformational gift, and what you Walter Phillips Gallery exhibitions. can expect to see when we reopen the There’s always something new to space as the Jenny Belzberg Theatre explore at Banff Centre. We look in 2020, on page 22 of this issue. forward to seeing you on campus. voices that move On the cover is work by artists Sincerely, Ackroyd & Harvey, faculty for the visual arts residency Earthed and leaders in the conversation about mountains. what artists can do in the fight against climate change — a conversation important to all of us as residents of Canada’s first national park. Elsewhere in the magazine you can Janice Price read about choreographer Andrea PRESIDENT & CEO Advance your practice in a post-graduate Peña, who won the Clifford E. Lee BANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS Award, and joins Banff Centre this AND CREATIVITY level artist residency. Programs for emerging to professional artists offered year-round. Apply today. banffcentre.ca TYNÉ ANGELA FREEMAN, BANFF INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP IN JAZZ & CREATIVE MUSIC. PHOTO CREDIT: DONALD LEE DONALD CREDIT: PHOTO MUSIC. CREATIVE & JAZZ IN WORKSHOP INTERNATIONAL BANFF FREEMAN, ANGELA TYNÉ PHOTO CREDIT: COLIN WAY COLIN CREDIT: PHOTO Fall 2019 / Winter 2020 InStudio 3 WHAT’S ON AT BANFF CENTRE Join us this season for music, exhibitions, talks, and peeks inside our artists’ studios. Learn more on pages 48-54, and at banffcentre.ca Banff Centre Mountain Jim Cuddy Trio Film and Book Festival January 6 October 26 – November 3 Sit back and enjoy one of Canada's TOP RIGHT: Sarah Marquis, photo by Don’t miss nine epic days filled most recognizable voices, Blue Rodeo's Krystle Wright. with stories of remote journeys, Jim Cuddy, as he and his trio members perform Canadian roots rock music. RIGHT, CLOCKWISE: ground-breaking expeditions, Jordi Phillips during and cutting-edge adventures Ghost Days Open told through the eyes of authors, Studios, photo by photographers, and filmmakers Amy Helm Jessica Wittman. from around the globe. Amy Helm, photo by February 1 Ebru Yildiz. The Lemon Enjoy this folk-rock performance Bucket Orkestra, photo influenced by Americana, gospel, by Carlos M. Gàrate. The Lemon Roisin Adams during a Bucket Orkestra and blues in an intimate setting. BMiR Open Concert, photo by Rita Taylor. November 15 Dance to exciting music with Visual Arts a “Balkan-Klezmer-Gypsy- Open Studios Party-Punk-Super Band.” February 5 + March 25 Tour the studios to meet artists Candice Lin, in the Visual Arts programs A materialist history and discover their work. of contagion Until December 8 Banff Musicians In A materialist history of contagion, in Residence Los Angeles-based artist Candice Open Concerts Lin traces the materialist history of colours and their global circulation Until February 7 as exotic commodities entwined Attend free weekly concerts with the legacies of plantation featuring musicians in economies and colonial expansion. residence at Banff Centre. Event Highlights Event banffcentre.ca Fall 2019 / Winter 2020 InStudio 5 CONNECT WITH US Art Online @BANFFCENTRE There’s More to See Behind the Scenes Get involved with Banff Centre online to see even more from InStudio. Every time you see the plus symbol ( ), it means we’ve got more in store for you with videos and articles available online. You can also explore more on our website and on YouTube. Learn how artists get inspired to create their works in our Spotlight series. Plus, check out our Banff Centre Ensemble Evolution performance Presents series to get a deeper look into the of Alvin Lucier's newest composition, Work from the Wigs and Makeup Technician Practicum program Monteverdi Shapero Hansel and Gretel creation work creation of productions before they head out into the world. banffcentre.ca FOLLOW BANFF CENTRE Banff Centre is... Subscribe to keep in touch and stay up to date on We explore the ways Banff Centre inspires creativity programs, events, and more. in our latest brand campaign, which features 10 artist and alumni profiles each year, like choreographer Crystal Pite (pictured left). The campaign demonstrates artistic /BANFFCENTRE impact in Alberta, Canada, and across the world. @BANFFCENTRE /THEBANFFCENTRE Press Play IGTV Get a feel for what it's like to be an artist in @BANFFCENTRE residence and explore longer looks into the studios of our visiting artists and faculty on our IGTV channel. Follow us on Instagram ARTIST STATEMENTS Learn some of the stories behind the works-in-progress that participants dive @banffcentre to get Crystal Pite as featured in our national ad campaign Rudy Loewe from Distributed Identities regular peeks into into while in residence in this Instagram series. our artists’ spaces, information about upcoming performances, Watch a Wigs and Makeup and stunning views of tutorial featuring our our unique campus theatre practicums at in the mountains. banffcentre.ca/InStudio banffcentre.ca Fall 2019 / Winter 2020 InStudio 7 FROM THE VAULT A Sense of Place Work from Banff Centre’s Permanent Collection DR. EMMANUELLE LOUBET Tokyo Sound Postcards BY NINA PATTERSON THE PINGS OF METAL BALLS in a pachinko parlour, the bustle of a train station, an elevator attendant’s cheerful tone — these are some of the noises you hear while listening to Tokyo Sound Postcards. This series of nine cassette tapes was created by Rax Karal, the alias of Dr. Emmanuelle Loubet, a multimedia producer and musicologist. Loubet became interested in electronic music and the art of sound recording while studying at the Technical University of Berlin. Wanting to leave the familiar context of European and Western culture behind, Loubet moved from Berlin to Tokyo – a place where she knew no one and did not speak the language. It was 1986 and Loubet, an anomaly in the traditionally LISA MYERS male-dominated field of sound recording and Train Tracks from Sault Ste. Marie technology, arrived in the city armed with nothing but her small Walkman and a microphone attachment. to Espanola (2015–16) Linguistically isolated, Loubet began to focus in BY SYLVIA DREAVER on the contrasting sounds around her: the traditional mixed with the high tech.