Bob Walker, Acting Chair, The Banff Centre Board of Governors Janice Price, President, and The Banff Centre Midsummer Ball Committee invite you to meet us at the intersection of art and ideas at The 36th Banff Centre Midsummer Ball Weekend July 24 – 26, 2015 mōˈmen(t)əm, məˈmen(t)əm/ Momentum (etymology): From Latin, from movimentum ‘to move.’ 1. Financial resources and encouragement that donors give to fuel artists’ dreams and careers; 2. Global capacity of The Banff Centre and its donors to support artistic ideas from inception To inquire about ticket availability to distribution. * please contact Caitlin Cuffari at 403.762.6323 or [email protected] *Our setting in the Rocky Mountains inspires artists** and remains sacred Treaty 7 territory. **Supporters ensure that our participants experience mentoring with the masters, flexible programming, and resources for career growth. *** ***By providing the time, space and facilities for artists to focus on creativity. CLICK HERE TO DONATE TO THE MIDSUMMER BALL ARTISTS’ FUND or see the donation information on page 13! Cover photo: Aszure Barton’s Busk. Photo by Don Lee, The Banff Centre. MIDSUMMER RESIDENCY Donate for impact Each $1,500 donation gets Through the Midsummer and a chance to win! you a chance to win one of Residency, a number of artists Join J. Vair Anderson two Rolex watches! will have the opportunity Jewellers in transforming Each $3,000 donation also to spend time at The Banff the lives and careers of gets you a chance to win a Centre this summer and to Banff Centre artists. bonus jewellery piece! perform on the Midsummer Ball Weekend. See donation card in back pocket for details. Laila Biali is an award- k.d. lang has won eight Classic Music Residency: winning Canadian jazz pianist, JUNO awards and four Our classical music residents vocalist and songwriter who Grammy awards over her 30- are among the most promising has toured with Suzanne Vega, year career. A recipient of the anywhere. They have been Chris Botti and Paula Cole and Order of Canada, an inductee coming here for decades recorded with and supported in the Canadian Music Hall to access our distinguished Sting. A Banff Centre alumna, of Fame, and a Banff Centre faculty and collaborate on she has been awarded a JUNO Fleck Fellow, lang has appeared interpretation, creation and nomination for “2011 Best alongside such musical performance. Several talented Vocal Jazz Album of the Year” luminaries as Tony Bennett, Roy pianists will be collaborating and for her latest studio recording Orbison, and Elton John. Her performing for Ball guests as Tracing Light, in addition to stirring performance of Leonard part of this years’ Midsummer the “SOCAN Composer of the Cohen’s “Hallelujah” at the Residency. Like so many of Year” and “Keyboardist of the opening ceremony of the 2010 our alumni, their Banff Centre THE MIDSUMMER Year” at Canada’s National Jazz Olympics is now legendary. experience will be a catalyst for Awards. Laila is also a member “She’s the best singer of her their artistic careers. of the all-female New York- generation,” says Tony Bennett. BALL ARTISTS’ FUND based neo-Classical crossover New Visions in Dance quartet Rose & the Nightingale Indigenous Arts Residency: Emily Molnar is whose members tour with Residency: Renowned for an internationally respected Support the development of innovative Our goal is to provide the highest Grammy award-winner her passion, commitment, and and critically acclaimed director, artists in disciplines as varied as writing, level of funding possible for those Esperanza Spalding. leadership in the arts, The Banff choreographer and dance artist, dance, opera and digital media. Propel artists selected to attend our programs. Centre’s Director of Indigenous and has been appointed Artistic the creative careers of actors, painters, Your support ensures that artists attend Arts, Sandra Laronde is highly Director of Dance at The Banff musicians and Indigenous artists locally, The Banff Centre because of their accomplished as a director, Centre. Named The Globe and and around the world. talent, not their ability to pay. producer, choreographer, and Mail’s 2013 “Dance Artist of creative leader. Along with top the Year”, a graduate of the Pŏs′ə-bəl dancers from around the globe, National Ballet School and a “As a musician making a living in Calgary, taking three weeks away from my work, Laronde will lead an innovative former member of the National in and of itself can be stressful, but to have the funding to make it possible to be dance residency this summer, Ballet of Canada, Molnar will in Banff has—what can I say? This has changed my life!” featuring the cutting-edge lead some of Canada’s most new Indigenous dance interesting and versatile dancers - Kenna Burima, Performing Arts resident, musician, and music teacher creation Backbone. in a Midsummer Residency that explores new ideas about dance Photos clockwise from top left: Emily Molnar, Laila Biali, k.d. lang, Sandra Laronde creation and performance. WEEKEND ITINERARY Friday, July 24 11:00 a.m. 12:30 – 5:00 p.m. 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Golf at The Fairmont Séance Fiction Visual & Digital Banff Springs Walter Phillips Gallery Arts Social Reception, light fare, and May 2 – July 26, 2015 Jen Mizuik Banff Centre chamber music Nestled among common Indulge in this delectable and begins at 10:30 a.m. Tee terms found in literature sits eclectic social hosted by Jen times begin at 11:00 a.m. the imagined term séance Mizuik, Director of Visual Play 18 (or nine) holes of fiction. This exhibition & Digital Arts. We invite 7:00 p.m. Co-Artistic director of the 12:30 – 2:00 a.m. Late-night golf at the world-famous suggests “séance fiction” guests, artists, and faculty to Friday Night LIVE 605 Collective, contributor shenanigans and cocktails Fairmont Banff Springs as a way in which to enjoy a spectrum of artistic Sponsored by Shaw to the Beijing Modern Dance continue at Three Ravens Golf Course, designed by understand how artists act activity while partaking in Communications Company, and performer Wine Bar. Canada’s master golf course as mediums to the past and light snacks and cocktails. for Wen Wei Dance, Josh Showcase performances architect, Stanley Thompson. future. Inserting themselves Meander through open 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Martin takes the stage for presented by RBC Capital Renowned for its panoramic into histories that are elastic, studios, sip whiskey from Culinary Festival an inspiring performance. Markets beauty, the Fairmont Banff artists speculate on the past handmade ceramic cups, or Relax, mingle, browse the Classical music takes a twist Springs Golf Course is a and future in a way that warm up to the fire pit on opening of our glittering silent with Banff Centre resident captivating and challenging complicates the present. the ceramics deck. Experience auction, and enjoy fine wine pianists performing George ekspləˈrāSH(ə)n layout set in the heart of The works in Séance Fiction a retreat from the ordinary and a culinary festival in the Gershwin’s 1924 Rhapsody in Canada’s Rocky Mountains. include stories, histories, with a private viewing of company of friends and artists. Blue arranged for four hands. “As an Australian visiting The Banff Centre for the second correspondence or narratives Séance Fiction, the inspired 9:00 – 10:00 p.m. 10:00 p.m. – 12:30 a.m. time, the past two months have been an amazing period of Performance Showcase that are real or imagined, group exhibition in the Walter The party continues with development and collaboration. (The Centre) is one of the Hosted by renowned Banff Centre alumnus DJ conjured or summoned, Phillips Gallery, or even get few places in the world that offers the time and space for fragmented or provisional. your palm read. Take your playwright, actor and director, Socalled in our Maclab Bistro Artists include Hannah time in this self-paced social and Banff Centre alumnus late-night lounge and patio. contemplation, exploration and skill development.” Daniel MacIvor, and the Socalled is known for his Doerksen, Maggie Groat, before you make your way to Anna Pidgorna, composer and media artist, Tamar Guimarães with Friday Night LIVE! Banff Centre’s Vice President genre-bending approach, and Winter Creative Music Residency Kasper Akhøj, Soda_Jerk, - Arts, Carolyn Warren, will be collaborating live with Guy Maddin, Heather and enjoy performances from vocalists and instrumentalists. Ivan Morrison, and Shana top Banff Centre artists in a Moulton. variety of artistic disciplines. Award-winning Canadian jazz pianist, vocalist, songwriter, and Banff Centre alumna Laila Photos opposite page, clockwise from top left: DJ Socalled, Laila Biali, Still from Guy Biali will light up the night. Maddin, Hauntings l (2010). Courtesy Guy Maddin, commissioned by TIFF, Director of Visual & Digital Arts, Jen Mizuik 10:15 – 10:55 a.m. Indigenous Arts Spotlight Sandra Laronde & Backbone: Indigenous Dance Creation A co-production of The Banff Centre and Red Sky Performance Saturday, July 25 Sponsored by 7:00 – 7:45 a.m. Norton Rose Fulbright Early Bird Walk In this compelling spotlight, Our campus is connected to some Backbone is featured as a of Banff’s loveliest trails. Discover cutting-edge new Indigenous the early morning radiance of 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. dance creation inspired by the our mountaintop setting on this Arts + Leadership Spotlight ‘backbone’ of the Americas, optional guided walk. Dan Buchner & Jen Mizuik a continuous sequence of mountain ranges spanning Sponsored by 7:30 – 9:30 a.m. North, Central, and South Parkland Fuel Corporation 11:10 – 11:50 a.m. 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. 2:15 – 3:00 p.m. Musical Mountaintop America as well as Antarctica.