Calgary Herald: “The word is out on the new ideas and fresh energy that is beginning to transform the summer performing arts programs at the Banff Centre.” By Bob Clark.
Category Archives: Aboriginal Arts
Olympic dance springing from Banff Centre
Calgary Herald: “Created by Sandra Laronde, artistic director of Toronto-based Red Sky Performance and recently appointed director of Aboriginal Arts at the Banff Centre, the work is the only Canadian performance on the roster of ancillary cultural events and performances scheduled for next year’s Beijing Olympics.”
Red Sky Performance director named director of aboriginal arts
CBC Arts — “Sandra Laronde, an award-winning director, dancer and actor based in Toronto, has been appointed director of the aboriginal arts program at the Banff Centre. Laronde, an Anishinabe from Temagami in northern Ontario, will continue her role as artistic director of Toronto’s Red Sky Performance, an arts company she founded in 2000.”
WPG posts World Upside Down to E-Flux
E-Flux: “When the contemporary artists in this exhibition take up inversion they are using it self-consciously as a form of social critique. They aim at the dichotomies of gender, ethnicity, and sexuality that police many of our social hierarchies.”
Aboriginal media artist Mike MacDonald dies at 65
CBC Arts: MacDonald created the butterfly garden at Glyde Hall.
Australian indigenous artist appreciative of residency at Banff Centre
National Indigenous Times (Australia): Karen Mills participated in “Communion and Other Conversations” in 1993.
Travelling to other places is good for finding out and understanding more about who I am, what is most important to me, my family that I have now and my loved ones.
Aboriginal Art Turned Inside Out [Brian Jungen]
The Tyee: Interview with conceptual artist Brian Jungen. “Jungen is half aboriginal and grew up in the middle of nowhere Fort St. John, so the odds of him making it to art school, let alone becoming a hit in the rarified art world, were slim. That’s until he started taking apart pairs of Nike Air Jordan basketball shoes and reassembling them into aboriginal ceremonial masks,” a project he started during a Banff Centre residency.
Indigenous Women in Leadership Forum receives federal funding
Canadian Heritage— April 11, 2005 The federal government announced $104,746 in funding for two projects which will serve Aboriginal women in Alberta. The Banff Centre for Continuing Education will receive $50,000 for the second annual Indigenous Women in Leadership Forum. The week-long event will offer participants practical experience in the areas of facilitation and team-building to help them develop strategies for financial self-reliance.
Gwa’wina Dancers bring original work to The Banff Centre
Indian Country — July 30, 2004.
“Performing for the first time in Alberta, the Gwa’wina Dance Group brought an exciting collaboration in traditional and contemporary Aboriginal dance, music, singing and drumming to The Banff Centre as part of the 2004 Banff Summer Arts Festival.”
First native woman artist chosen to represent Canada at Venice Biennale is Banff Centre alumna
The Globe and Mail (Page R1) — June 29, 2004.
Anishnabe sculptor and performance artist Rebecca Belmore is the first native woman artist chosen to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale, “the world’s most prestigious art venue.” Her exhibition, for the June 2005 biennale, is curated by Scott Watson and Jann LM Bailey of the Kamloops Art Gallery.
At 44, Belmore is best known for Speaking to Their Mother, a 1991 outdoor performance with a two-metre-wide megaphone…. Beautiful in itself, the megaphone is also a mouthpiece that can be installed anywhere, from a windswept meadow in Banff, where Belmore created the work, to Parliament Hill, where it was used by the Assembly of First Nations to protest its exclusion from the 1996 first ministers conference.