{ Monthly Archives }
The Sarnia Observer: “At the age of 85 and soon to be 86 in January 2009, Ted Sambell makes his yearly trips to Cochrane and area to tune in the North…. [H]e was approached to go to Banff for a summer at the Arts Centre. That summer turned into 11 years and at the age of 78 he was still involved in pianos.”
All About Jazz: “I often think that without the Banff International Jazz Workshop, I would never have gotten any tour off the ground. If you don’t know about this workshop, check it out.”
Montreal Gazette: Canadian choreographer Aszure Barton “created Jack in a Box in May during a creative sojourn with the company at the incomparable facilities in Banff.”
Edmonton Journal: “‘My brother and I were talking one day and decided that it would be interesting to bring together social critics like scientists, bioethicists, health-law specialists, philosophers and artists and have them look at the issues around science and art,’ says Sean Caulfield. He approached AGA senior curator Catherine Crowston and asked her if she would be willing to curate such a show. She brought 10 artists together with a group of social critics for a workshop at the Banff Centre of the Arts in August 2007. The result was a wild explosion of discipline-blurring conversation about the complex relationship that exists between art and science.”
Calgary Herald: “There are plenty of other mountains to climb, and amazing ski runs, and exciting rivers. If the tales of aging mountaineers, and films on high adventure can pack the largest theatre of the Banff Centre every year, it’s clear that part of us still craves living on the wild side of the mountain.”
All About Jazz: “So the artistic director at Banff, Barry Schiffman, called and asked me what was happening and I told him. Lo and behold he offered me free room and board and said, ‘Just get yourself out here,’ That was the sign that we should go through with the project despite the fact that the situation was still gloomy, so we booked everything and got ourselves out to Banff.”
