2019 Spring/Summer Instudio
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ARTS CULTURE EVENTS SPRING / SUMMER 2019 Get in the spirit for a haunted puppet opera Shows, Concerts + Event Listings Inside Help set artists in motion Support the Artists’ Fund All donations to the Artists’ Fund go directly to Banff Centre arts Centre. Banff by programs and support deserving artists on their creative journey. To make a donation, please visit banffcentre.ca/artists-fund or call Candice Noakes at 1.888.495.4467 Residence Banff Musicians in Features In every issue SPRING / SUMMER 2019 12 The Art of Conduction 3 President’s Letter The improvisational practice that changed 4 Event Highlights Tyshawn Sorey’s music Some highlights from On the cover this season’s Banff 14 Haunted Home Centre shows Ghost Opera is a world of puppets, greed, and 6 Connect With Us questions of life and death Follow our InStudio stories online 20 Animating our Stories Indigenous storytelling 8 From the Vault in the digital age Get to know the artists behind some of the 24 Leading in a Time works from our of Peril and Possibility permanent collection How social innovation has the ability to move mountains PHILLIPA is the latest creation from the dark and 26 The Monster Within whimsical minds of the Old Trout Puppet Workshop Alberta Ballet’s new for their upcoming production, Ghost Opera. Known take on the story of , 2017) for choosing ambition over convention, eight of Old Frankenstein Trouts’ finest artists handcrafted 14 human-sized puppets, each painted and varnished to resemble 30 Putting Yourself into 10 Studio Visit aged sculptures. On the cover, Phillipa is a young Your Writing Learn about one of our woman, here we see her in her older form. Electric Literature’s Leighton Artists Studios Executive Director A unique combination of puppeteers, opera singers, on the space where 37 Special Section TO CONJURE FROM VAPOUR FROM CONJURE TO and acrobats will take to the Eric Harvie stage on autobiography and Stay at Banff Centre May 24 to breathe life (and death) into the ghostly fiction collide this summer for a works of art. Watch the characters navigate Giller cultural adventure Help set Prize-winning author André Alexis’ take on a Greek 32 A Classical Music Legacy myth at Banff Centre for the world premiere in the Mountains 42 Open Studios before the show heads to the Calgary Opera. The impact of the Peek into the studios of artists Yolande and Howard Banff Centre artists Freeze Fund for Music on the Banff 48 What’s On International String Plan your spring/summer in motion Quartet Competition, cultural adventures 10 years later Support the 57 Staff Recognition 38 Guidelines Artists’ Fund How artist Carmen 58 Alumni News Papalia decentres the Celebrating Banff Read all about the ocular in his work Centre achievements All donations to the Artists’ Fund creation of Ghost Opera and milestones go directly to Banff Centre arts Centre. Banff by on pages 14-19. 60 Banff Centre Supporters programs and support deserving Learn more and buy tickets at banffcentre.ca artists on their creative journey. 64 Last Word Exploring the creative To make a donation, please visit workspace of Canadian banffcentre.ca/artists-fund indie pop band, Alvvays or call Candice Noakes at 1.888.495.4467 Residence Banff Musicians in HENDERSON (LEE MCKAY NAHANNI (ABOVE), KEALEY KAITLIN , (COVER) STANG JASON CREDITS: PHOTO Spring /Summer 2019 InStudio 1 Banff Centre is untamed creativity. Advance your practice in a post-graduate level artist residency. Programs offered year-round for emerging to professional artists. , 2018. Photo by Jessica Wittman. Apply today. banffcentre.ca The Hamlet Complex Hamlet The PRESIDENT’S LETTER Read more about what Electric Lit’s Executive Director Halimah Marcus has to say on page 30 of this issue. Mountainside Live, Banff Centre’s summer series, brings more exciting shows to the Shaw Amphitheatre. This year you’ll find old favourites like Blue Rodeo and new faces like singer- songwriter John Prine, Juno-winning DEAR Inuk musician Susan Aglukark, and ARTS P.E.I.’s own Alvvays. We caught up with the group’s frontwoman, Molly Rankin, LOVER, on the back page to learn about her favourite spaces to create in. Spring and summer are here and with that a new season of exciting arts Finally, we’re thrilled to host the 13th events and programming comes to triennial Banff International String the mountains. Quartet Competition to close out the summer, a showcase of some of the Banff Centre will be bustling with projects most talented young quartets in the in all stages of creation, making every world. This year, the top prize includes stroll through campus an opportunity a new two-year paid residency at to encounter artists experimenting, Southern Methodist University as well collaborating, and sharing their work. as the continuation of the three-year Alberta Ballet’s Artistic Director Jean career development program. Grand-Maître will occupy the dance This promises to be a summer full of studios as the company works on its exciting cultural adventures. Please latest new creation, Frankenstein. Banff enjoy this issue of InStudio, which Centre will host the company and the looks behind the scenes of all our recent Order of Canada inductee as he artistic projects. takes his ideas from page to stage. We look forward to welcoming you On the cover of this issue we have to Banff Centre for our exciting spring provided you a glimpse of the exciting and summer season! production Ghost Opera, which will have its world premiere in the Eric Harvie Theatre. The piece, a collaboration between Banff Centre, Calgary Opera, and the Old Trout Puppet Workshop, was written by Giller Prize-winner André Alexis, is staged with puppets, and promises to be unlike any opera you’ve ever Janice Price seen. Read all about the myth behind PRESIDENT & CEO the story and how these intricate BANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS puppets were created, on page 14. AND CREATIVITY We also welcome editors from the popular digital publisher Electric Literature, as they teach writers working in autobiography, fiction, and auto-fiction how to develop their unique voices. PHOTO CREDIT: COLIN WAY COLIN CREDIT: PHOTO Spring /Summer 2019 InStudio 3 Ghost Opera May 24 A full-scale puppet opera, bringing together the supernatural and the philosophical, the comic and the fearsome, music and image, the real and the surreal. Visual Arts Open Studios Jens Lindemann July 3 + August 21 July 21 + 24 + 25 Mînowin Tour the visual arts studios Jens Lindemann is the May 24 to meet and discover first classical brass In Mînowin, the Dancers of the work of artists in in player to ever receive the Damelahamid draw from Banff Centre’s Visual Arts Order of Canada and the origin stories and explore residency programs. foremost trumpet soloist ways to translate these in his country’s history. perspectives through a Susan Orlean contemporary lens. in Conversation John Prine July 9 + 17 + 24 August 8 Guidelines Join Rogers Communications This two time Grammy- Carmen Papalia Chair in Literary Journalism winning singer-songwriter is with Heather Kai Smith Susan Orlean in conversation among the English language’s June 15 – August 25 with award winning writers premier phrase-turners with music relevant to any age. The exhibition Guidelines Rebecca Skloot, William is the first collaboration of Finnegan, Carol Shaben, and Michael Harris. Vancouver-based artists Jazz and Creative Music Carmen Papalia and Heather Ensemble Showcases Kai Smith. A series of works Alvvays August 10 + 17 + 23 in sound, animation, and July 13 Vijay Iyer leads world- drawing advocates for an Toronto-based five-piece renowned Banff Centre Event Highlights understanding of accessibility Alvvays combine their faculty and participants as a temporary experience fuzzy, jangly indie pop with through an evening of that requires a relational infectious, sugary melodies. approach to mutual care. jazz and creative music exploration. banffcentre.ca WHAT’S ON AT BANFF CENTRE Join us this summer for music, dance, opera, lectures, and peeks inside our artists’ studios. Learn more about our spring and summer events on pages 48–56 and on our website at banffcentre.ca ONE WEEK OF EXHILARATING CONCERTS AND EVENTS. The world’s finest young string quartets descend upon the Canadian Rockies. Tickets now on sale. View schedule at bisqc.ca TOP: Dancers of Damelahamid performing MÎnowin (photo by Derek Dix). CENTER: Canadian indie pop band Alvvays. BOTTOM: Participants from the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music (photo by Jessica Wittman). PHOTO CREDITS: JENS LINDEMANN (JAMIE AND KELLEY PHOTOGRAPHY), JOHN PRINE, PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ARTIST UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED OTHERWISE UNLESS ARTIST THE OF COURTESY PHOTOS PRINE, JOHN PHOTOGRAPHY), KELLEY AND (JAMIE LINDEMANN JENS CREDITS: PHOTO Spring /Summer 2019 InStudio 5 @BANFFCENTRE Art Online Rose Guitar Trio, Banff Musicians in Residence Revisor, 2019 FOLLOW BANFF CENTRE Subscribe to keep in touch and stay up to date on programs, events, and more. /BANFFCENTRE @BANFFCENTRE /THEBANFFCENTRE @BANFFCENTRE Follow us on Instagram @banffcentre to get Marcus Youssef regular peeks into our artists’ spaces, information about upcoming performances, and stunning views of our unique campus in the mountains. banffcentre.ca CONNECT WITH US 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 Presents series to get a deeper look at the creation of productions before they Work by Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye head out into the world.