The Banff Centre: Communications

Montreal Mirror: “During a residency at Banff, Carpenter’s zining intersected with the Web when she took a circular text originally intended for a chapbook and turned it into her first Web-based art project…. Recently, Carpenter has been kept hopping with the Montreal and Toronto launches of her novel… and working with the Banff Centre on bringing their literary program into the 21st century. ‘Banff has given me a lot,’ says Carpenter. ‘I did my first Web-based work there in 1995, and now they’ve invited me back to be part of expanding their program.’”

Globe and Mail: “Jim Fleck, a renowned Canadian businessman and philanthropist, has been chosen to receive the International Angel Award from the International Society for the Performing Arts…. [Fleck] has acted as chair or president of half a dozen other organizations including the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Banff Centre.”

Globe and Mail: “More than 16 months after the Conservatives announced a far-reaching, seven-year infrastructure plan valued at $33-billion and made up in part by the $8.8-billion Building Canada Fund, cultural projects across the country have yet to see a federal dime…. Two weeks ago, Environment Minister Jim Prentice, a Calgary MP, said four Alberta projects owed a combined $105-million from the fund are being expedited, including the Banff Centre’s new Kinnear Centre for Creativity and Innovation.”