The Banff Centre: Communications

Market Wire: “For more than three decades, Gordon Arnell has shown vision and leadership within the real estate industry and his community. Chairman of the board of directors and a former president and chief executive officer of Brookfield Properties, he has been a mentor and role model for many young executives. He is equally well-known as a supporter of and contributor to many arts and educational institutions. Over the years, the Banff Centre and the University of Alberta have benefited from his dedication and support.”

FFWD: “As an institution devoted to creativity, The Banff Centre provides for its artists and other residents because it expects a lot of them, and the musicians recruited for the Indie Band Residency are no exception. The program, the brainchild of the Banff Centre’s director of music, Barry Schiffman, and the director of audio, Theresa Leonard, is a bit of a departure for the institution, which typically has focused on classical and jazz for its residencies.”

Business Wire: “The Art & Technology Network in conjunction with the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontiers Initiative and Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre is pleased to announce the winner of the first ever Locative Cinema Commission. The UK-based art group Blast Theory has been awarded $4,500 for the art commission…. Premieres at ZER01’s 2010 01SJ Biennial, 2011 Sundance Film Festival and 2011 Banff Summer Arts Festival.”

The Globe and Mail: “A new, national initiative is under way to heighten Canadians’ awareness of the arts, their accessibility to art and artists, and their ‘participation in and engagement with’ the activities of the cultural sector.

“The initiative, called Culture Days, may result in the dates of other cultural events being moved to run at the same time. Details are sketchy at this point but the initiative, set to make its debut next September, has already lured some of the country’s top arts mavens onto its steering committee…. Other participants include Sarah Iley, vice-president of programming for the Banff Centre….”

Bad at Sports: A couple of resident artists in the Visual Arts Thematic Residency Why are Conceptual Artists Painting Again? interview Kitty Scott and Jan Verwoert. “Giving the institution back to the artists.”

CBC: “Composer, conductor and celebrated flutist Robert Aitken has won the Canada Council’s $50,000 Walter Carsen Prize…. A former director of the Banff Centre’s winter program in Music, Aitken has also established and led a number of musical series….”

CBC Radio 3: “This week The Banff Centre of the Arts announced the bands and producers that will be taking part in their second annual Indie Band Residency… Make sure to stay tuned to the blog for updates from within the walls of the Banff Centre Indie Band Residency as producer Chris Kelly will be blogging for us as he goes through it with his band Analog Bell Service.”

The New Yorker: Alex Ross writes, “Evan Hurd, who photographed Adams for my Profile, traveled to Banff in June to observe the making of Inuksuit and produced this short documentary.”