Canada.com City Guide Edmonton: “Theatre training for professional actors is in precious short supply in this country. In the West, it’s non-existent. That glaring niche is about to be filled thanks to a new collaboration between the Banff Centre, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre.”
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Feeding creativity at the Banff Centre
Calgary Herald: “The Banff Centre is making stalwart efforts to reinvent the experience of cafeteria dining.”
Top honours for Kinnear
Calgary Sun: “A who’s who of the business community gathered at the Telus Convention Centre to salute Kinnear and his most deserving honour.”
Matthew and Jill Barber’s sibling revelry hits the road
Chart Attack: Jill Barber “spent most of January in residence at the Banff Arts Centre.”
“Getting out of a routine that didn’t involving waking up every morning, checking my email and running around doing daily errands, worked,” says Jill. “I devoted all of my time to writing and playing.”
Banff’s hills are alive [in particular, Tunnel Mountain]
Vue Weekly: Amy Fung “whisked away last weekend to take in a tumultuous three days of open studios, informal and lively discussions, and the opening/panel discussion of Anthem at the Banff Arts Centre.”
Amy Fung also discusses the exhibition on her blog.
Jupiter String Quartet performs at Lincoln Centre
Banff Centre names Robinson new director
Calgary Herald: “Kelly Robinson, director of this season’s successful Calgary Opera production of The Ballad of Baby Doe as well as the two big Calgary Opera-Banff Centre co-commissioned operas, Filumena and Frobisher, was named the Centre’s new director of Theatre Arts.”
Banff Centre recognizes that creativity’s not limited to artistic pursuits
Edmonton Journal: “Only The Banff Centre drops dancers, accountants, sopranos, scientists, novelists, flautists, mountain climbers and video installationists onto the same campus and encourages them to communicate and collaborate with each other.” [Article about 75th anniversary]