The Banff Centre
Banff, Alberta, Canada
http://www.banffcentre.ca/

Women in the Director’s Chair Workshop

Dedicated to building capacity for mid-level women filmmakers, Women in the Director’s Chair Workshop takes a dynamic approach to traditional fictional storytelling for film and television by combining classroom theory with practical hands-on experiences. Working in a collegial environment with senior mentors, peers, and professional actors (ACTRA) and crews (DGC and IATSE), participants develo......
 

Interactive Screen 0.9: The Makers is the fourteenth installment of the Banff New Media Institute’s acclaimed new media summit, where media makers from Canada and the world gather to reflect on the current state of new media and the shape of things to come. At the end of each summer, producers, investors, and policymakers convene with artists, technologists, and cultural researchers of div......
 

New media practitioners interested in developing a project, furthering their knowledge, networking, and working directly with the Banff New Media Institute’s Interactive Screen 0.9 Workshop peer advisors are encouraged to apply to this scholarship. Scholarships are available to Canadian and international applicants and include financial support to attend the workshop, as well as focused mentors......
 

Learn how to implement a community, organization, or board strategic planning session with a focus on specific strategies. Understand how to keep the plan alive through evaluation, revision, and performance, measurement. Become familiar with a proven model for strategic planning based on systems thinking and its associated processes, tasks, and activities....
 

This work study program provides the opportunity to assist in the organization and support of visual arts programs through the practical application of administrative skills. Participants have the opportunity to engage in discussions about visual arts programming, schedule, and attend both formal lectures and informal discussions with program artists. Learning opportunities arise in the prepara......
 

The curatorial work study program with the Walter Phillips Gallery is designed for emerging curators. This is a hands-on opportunities that allow individuals to work on projects with direct mentorship and support in a multitude of areas focusing on the participants learning objectives, and may include curatorial studies and arts management and administration. Learning opportunities may be forma......
 

The Visual Arts Aboriginal Preparatorial Work Study program enables the participant to engage in hands-on opportunities working alongside the Walter Phillips Gallery preparator. Direct mentorship and support is provided throughout the program to develop the participant’s skills in preventative conservation, art handling, installation techniques, and environmental conditions (including appropria......
 

Mountain regions around the world are refuges for some of the globe¡¯s most intact and colourful indigenous and traditional cultures. From Peru to Tibet to the Alps, mountain people maintain ways of life reflecting their mountain homes, and continuously adapt to the changing world around them. Cultures at Risk will explore and celebrate the mountain cultures of the world at a time when their ......
 

This program continues the learning journey embarked upon in our Practicing Aboriginal Sovereignty program. We will examine the philosophical, linguistic, and cultural basis of traditional governance and how those manifest themselves into governing institutions. We will then reconcile those institutions with colonial concepts such as legislative, judicial, executive, and financial. We begin wit......
 

Aboriginal leaders, managers, and board directors are faced with the complex challenges of re-building their nations and establishing effective institutions. Research and best practices indicate that successful Aboriginal nations and organizations set strategic direction and long term goals. A viable strategic plan is required to keep pace with changes in the world, reduce the dependence on gov......
 

This program has been created specifically for women leaders. It examines issues, challenges and inequities that women face on a daily basis as they strive to fulfill the responsibilities of their job, meet the needs of their family members, and answer the demands of the community. It offers the opportunity to acquire a variety of made-to-measure tools. Newly-gained skills will serve as the fou......
 

Aboriginal leaders, managers, and board directors are faced with complex issues, accelerated change, and new ways of doing business. This program will demonstrate the structure and management of a governing board for maximum efficiency and effectiveness. You will come away prepared to facilitate new processes, run more productive meetings, and be more effective in your decision-making. You will......
 

Writing with Style is a week-long workshop for writers of all levels. In the idyllic mountain setting of The Banff Centre, writers are given the opportunity to edit and shape a manuscript or work-in-progress under the guidance of an experienced editor. The diverse writing community encourages the development of new ideas and allows writers to gain confidence in their own style and voice. Ea......
 

The Wired Writing Studio is a unique opportunity for poets and writers of fiction and other narrative prose to pursue their artistic visions and develop their voices through one-on-one editorial assistance from experienced writers/editors, as well as through involvement in a community of working writers, both on-site at The Banff Centre, and online for five months following the residency. In......
 

Self-directed writing residencies provide time, space, and facilities for individual research, editing, and manuscript development. There are no formal activities organized around a self-directed writing residency; writers structure their own time, and are free to maintain privacy or to engage with other artists and activities at The Banff Centre. Writing faculty are not available for consu......
 

Science is a part of the culture and politics of a vibrant society. As science and technology become more and more integral to decisions in the public sphere ¡ª from genetically modified foods, to nanotechnology, to wireless devices, to reproductive technology ¡ª a widespread engagement with the ideas and practices of science is crucial to the public good. There must be so many ways that science ......
 

The Creative Non-fiction and Cultural Journalism program was established in response to an endowment from the government of Alberta and Maclean Hunter Limited. The program offers eight established writers of non-fiction an opportunity to develop a major essay, memoir, or feature piece. A month-long residency enables writers to work on their manuscript during individual consultations with facult......
 

Production activity runs year-round at The Banff Centre, and is most intense in July and August, during the Banff Summer Arts Festival. The Theatre Production, Design, and Stage Management program supports concurrent Playbill and program-related performances in opera, dance, Aboriginal arts, and drama, and encourages the development of highly trained technicians. Participants are mentored by ex......
 

The Interactive Project Lab (IPL), established in 2002, is a unique alliance of knowledge, resources and funding that accelerates the creative, business and technology skills of Canadian interactive media talent, fostering the creation of innovative projects and viable start-up new media companies. Focused on the production of interactive cultural and entertainment works, the IPL offer......
 

This summit considers the responsive environments of everyday life. What makes up the nano dream home of the future? Can your home emulate the subtlety of your emotions? Can it heal you? Is it extensible, wearable, inhabitable, and mobile? Will it report you and to whom? Is ubiquity frightening, desirable? Do fear, possibility, or both motivate us? Are there materials that we can repurpose ......
 

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