Globe and Mail: “The Gryphon Trio will perform at the premiere of Canadian composer Christos Hatzis’s Constantinople, a multimedia theatre event in partnership with the Banff Festival.”
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Writer says Banff Centre victim of its own success
Globe and Mail: Noah Richler reminisces about the old days at the Banff Centre: “But the centre has become a victim of its own success. Once designated ‘for the arts,’ it now calls itself a ‘Conference Facility’… The centre seemed cold and remote and generally the wrong place to be, so I walked into town to find my old haunts.”
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Province investing an additional $27 million in Banff Centre
Province of Alberta: The Alberta government has announced a multi-million-dollar investment in new and renovated post-secondary facilities across the province, including $27 million at the Banff Centre, to go towards new facilities that will replace Donald Cameron Hall.
Women in the Director’s Chair: 10 years at the helm
Playback: In 1995 “[Carol] Whiteman set about creating a modular workshop designed to mimic the process of production, with women assuming helming duties. The concept became reality through a partnership with Women in Film and Video Vancouver, ACTRA and The Banff Centre, which would be the site of the workshop and provide many of the resources needed to execute the program.”
Nunavut’s getting animated with help from BNMI
Nunatsiaq News: “Three years after producers from the National Film Board first scouted Iqaluit, Cape Dorset and Pangnirtung for Nunavummiut who want to learn animation skills, a series of animation workshops are finally scheduled to start in January…. The chosen filmmakers will go to the Banff New Media Institute in Alberta to direct and animate their films, which will be available in French, Inuktitut and English.”
Dancing on the clock
National Post: “With the unusual luxury of two weeks of stage rehearsal last spring at Alberta’s Banff Centre — co-producer with the National Arts Centre of Timecode Break — choreographer Christopher House was able to use Stagias’s video to feed the live choreography and explore difficult compositional strategies.”
St. Lawrence String Quartet gains a new dynamic
Globe and Mail: “A large audience came to Walter Hall and held its collective breath as the St. Lawrence String Quartet gave its first Canadian concert since Scott St. John replaced second violinist Barry Shiffman, who left last month to head the Music and Sound department at the Banff Centre.”