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In conversation with W.O. Mitchell
W.O. Mitchell at The Banff Centre around 1983. Photo: Paul D. Fleck Archives. The Archives has been digitizing old cassette tapes before they disintegrate, including more than a dozen from the...
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In conversation with: Elizabeth Sterling Haynes
Elizabeth Sterling Haynes, director of the Banff summer theatre arts course offered by the University of Alberta’s Department of Extension in 1933. Photo: Paul D. Fleck Library & Archives While...
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Explore 1950s and ’60s avant-garde art and writing in Hanuman Books
Consider them art miniatures or modern talismans, the Hanuman Books collection in The Banff Centre Library features some interesting and somewhat obscure writings of counterculture figures of the 1950s...
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Green achievements for Kinnear Centre result in LEED Gold Certification
We just received word that we have also been awarded LEED Gold Certification for the redevelopment of the Donald Cameron Centre! The Kinnear Centre for Creativity & Innovation at The Banff Centre...
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Artists’ books and book art: A conversation with our art librarian
Yoko Ono’s Box of Smile, part of the Paul D. Fleck Library & Archives collection, is neither an artists’ book nor book art, it’s what is considered a multiple. Photo: Kim Williams. I recently sat...
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Listen to this archival recording from the Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives at The Banff Centre, featuring a 1993 episode of “This Week in Banff”, a joint production of the Centre and CKUA Radio....
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Out of the Archives: Walter J. Phillips
Painter and printmaker Walter J. Phillips in 1953, with artists in the Design and Pictorial Composition program. This view hasn’t changed: find it on the road between First and Second Vermilion Lakes...
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Out of the Archives: Janos Starker
Celebrated cellist Janos Starker, who died on Sunday, came to Banff to teach almost every year between 1975 and 1991. Hungarian-born, he was among the faculty for The Banff Centre’s first fall / winter...
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A short history of Acoustic Ecology
From left: Chris Wood, Nathan Clarkson and Camara Miller. Photo: Meghan Krauss. What was the first sound you heard this morning? Take a moment, what can you hear right now? In 1973, R. Murray Schafer...
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Searching for Margaret Greenham
At the opening of the Margaret Greenham Theatre, July 18, 1969. Front row (l to r) Ernesto Vinci, Catharine Whyte, Earle McPhee. Back row (l to r) Campbell McLaurin (Chancellor), Alfred William Rooke...
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The Banff Centre’s war artists
For Remembrance Day, the Archives is remembering some of the Banff Centre community who have played the unique role of official War Artist. A.Y. Jackson with art students on a field trip to Canmore,...
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A conversation with: Josef Svoboda
Sarah Pierce’s exhibition in the Water Phillips Gallery, Lost Illusions/Illusions Perdue, features a mystery film which turns out to have been left here by the Czech scenographer Josef Svoboda (1920 –...
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This day in Banff Centre history – June 15
A glance back at some significant – and some not-so-significant but nevertheless entertaining – moments in the history of The Banff Centre, courtesy of The Banff Centre Archives. June 15, 1986: Photo...
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This day in Banff Centre history: July 1
A glance back at some significant – and some not-so-significant but nevertheless entertaining – moments in the history of The Banff Centre, courtesy of The Banff Centre Archives. July 1, 1968: Photo...
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This day in TBC history: July 18, 1969
A glance back at some significant – and some not-so-significant but nevertheless entertaining – moments in the history of The Banff Centre, courtesy of The Banff Centre Archives. Photo courtesy Banff...
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This Day in Banff Centre History – August 10, 1964
A glance back at some significant – and some not-so-significant but nevertheless entertaining – moments in the history of The Banff Centre, courtesy of The Banff Centre Archives. Fifty years ago today,...
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Verlag Notes and supermarket art
Selection of Rainer Verlag Publications, 1969-1990. Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives, The Banff Centre Artists’ Books Collection. Photo Meghan Krauss The Walter Phillips Gallery’s latest exhibition,...
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This Day in Banff Centre History – Circa August 19, 1946
A glance back at the significant – and not-so-significant moments in the history of The Banff Centre. Courtesy of The Banff Centre Archives. For the first 14 years of its existence, The Banff School of...
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Throwback Thursday with a twist of Convergence
On November 19, 1988, The Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building (JPL) officially opened its doors. As The Banff Centre’s newest and most technologically advanced building, JPL offered artists the...
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