Events Calendar

Upcoming Events at The Banff Centre

For a complete listing events, check out What's On at The Banff Centre.

  • Mon, Feb 6 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Reel Time Film Screening: Monsieur Lazhar
    Monsieur Lazhar is nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 2012 Academy Awards. (Lux Cinema, 229 Bear St, Banff Alberta)
  • Tue, Feb 7 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Ken Lum Artist’s Talk
    The Death of the Photograph is the birth of the Image (or, is it the other way around?) (Kinnear Centre Ground Floor Husky Great Hall #105, Banff Alberta)
  • Wed, Feb 8 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm: Midweek Medley
    Every Wednesday afternoon musicians in residence perform a choice of the repertoire they are concentrating on during their residency at The Banff Centre.

    Tickets: Donation at the Door (Rolston Recital Hall, Banff Alberta)

  • Thu, Feb 9 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm: Polly Staple
    Curator’s Talk
    Production
    Director of London's Chisenhale Gallery presents the work of this leading small scale visual arts organization with a focus on commissioning works with emerging artists.

    Tickets: Free (Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Bldg, 204 , Banff Alberta)

  • Thu, Feb 9 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm: National Ballet of Cuba
    One of the ten great ballet companies of the world, the Ballet Nacional de Cuba presents a program entitled The Magic of Dance, a virtuosic performance that showcases the company's amazing ability through excerpts from the world's most famous ballets. Experience one of the world's most legendary companies in its Canadian Debut!

    Tickets: | Subscriber | Child (Eric Harvie Theatre, Banff Alberta)

  • Fri, Feb 10 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm: Rice Studio Talks: The Business of Music in 2012 and Beyond
    The Future’s So Shady, We’ve Gotta Be Bright.

    Jeffrey Remedios is the president and CEO of Arts & Crafts Productions, a Toronto-based independent music company he co-founded in 2002. Arts & Crafts offers expertise as a record label, management firm, merchandiser and music publisher in Canada and internationally, and boasts a roster of popular musicians including Broken Social Scene, Feist, Stars, Timber Timbre, Dan Mangan and many others. (Rice Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Bldg, Banff Alberta)

  • Fri, Feb 10 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm: Todd Saunders
    Recent Work
    Norway-based Canadian architect Todd Saunders has made headlines for his experimental designs using traditional methods of craft and sustainable technology. In Canada, Saunders has received widespread recognition for his work on the Fogo Island Artist Residency in Newfoundland, a series of six artists’ studios designed “off the grid”. In 2011, Saunders Architecture was awarded the AZ Award for Best Commercial Building, the Arnstein Arneberg Award for Outstanding Architecture and the HIŠE Award for Sustainable Excellence.

    Co-presented by Visual Arts. (Max Bell Auditorium, Banff Alberta)

  • Fri, Feb 10 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm: Interrarium Live
    Interrarium is a showcase of the best in ground breaking contemporary and physical performance and an incubator of brilliant new work.   (Margaret Greenham Theatre, Banff Alberta)
  • Fri, Feb 10 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm: Friday Evening at the Rolston
    Friday Evenings at the Rolston is a series of concerts featuring high level performances where you are introduced to the future musicians of the international stage, often in co-operation with their celebrated faculty. (Rolston Recital Hall, Banff Alberta)
  • Sat, Feb 11 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm: Raven Chacon – Solo
    Acoustic and Electric Noise Music
    A composer of chamber music as well as a solo performer of experimental noise music, Raven Chacon is known for creating musical landscapes of sinister and chaotic arrangements scored for unconscious creatures filled with dark and harrowing drones, mysterious avant-garde noise erected on the shoulder of a resonating snare rattle, bone whistle, strobe-drum, and a "mixed-blood" stringed guitar.   (The Club, Theatre Complex, Banff Alberta)
  • Sun, Feb 12 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm: Canmore Sundays
    In this popular community concert series, Banff Centre musicians visit Canmore for an intimate afternoon concert experience without intermission, introduced by Henk Guittart.

    Tickets: Donation at the Door (Creekside Hall, Canmore Seniors Centre, Banff Alberta)

  • Sun, Feb 12 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm: Rawlins Cross
    Eight time East Coast Music Award winners Rawlins Cross are one of Canada's most accomplished and beloved Celtic bands. At the vanguard between Celtic traditional music and rock, pop and worldbeat sounds, Rawlins Cross have rekindled their magic with a great new release, Heart Head Hands.

    Tickets: | Series Subscriber (Margaret Greenham Theatre, Banff Alberta)

  • Tue, Feb 14 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm: Richard Noble Public Talk
    The Politics of Utopia in Contemporary Art
    Dr. Richard Noble discusses the nature and effects of the utopian impulse in contemporary art. Focussing primarily on utopian art as a strategy for making art that might be considered political, he will identify a range of strategies through which the utopian impulse is expressed.

    Tickets: Free (Kinnear Centre 2nd Floor #203, Banff Alberta)

  • Wed, Feb 15 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm: Midweek Medley
    Every Wednesday afternoon musicians in residence perform a choice of the repertoire they are concentrating on during their residency at The Banff Centre.

    Tickets: Donation at the Door (Rolston Recital Hall, Banff Alberta)

  • Wed, Feb 15 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Lynne Cohen: Photographs from 1973 to 1978 Exhibition Tour
    Part of EXPOSURE Photography Festival. (Eric Harvie Theatre - Lobby West, Banff Alberta)

 

For a complete listing events, check out What's On at The Banff Centre.