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The Creative Voice Strategic Plan 2016 – 2021
Strengthening
Canada’s Creative
Voices
A message to our community,
artists and partners
A home for arts and creativity. UNESCO’s first worldwide study on the At Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, This strategic plan, The Creative Voice, will
economic contribution of the creative we have been welcoming extraordinary help us write the next chapter of this story
In a world that is forever moving and industries in 2015 identified several of artists and leaders here on Treaty 7 land for together. To our supporters, audiences,
changing, art can act as a vehicle for Canada’s creative industries as benchmarks. generations. The breadth, and substance, partners, participants, clients, visitors, and
understanding. We are facing a broad range In 2016, the Government of Canada of our offerings as a post-secondary Banff Centre team, we thank you for your
of disruptive innovations and reinvention pledged an unprecedented $1.9 billion to institution that specializes in arts and culture continued support and dedication. None of
in the world today that are changing foster the creation of Canadian content is unequalled anywhere in the world. Banff this would be possible without you.
markets, sectors, countries, and the lives of and arts exports to increase international Centre was born during the Great Depression
individuals everywhere. Closer to home and audiences for Canadian creative artists and with an extraordinary vision, inspired by
also tied to the national landscape, there is professionals. This support is a clear and Alberta’s entrepreneurial spirit, to develop
an Alberta economy that has witnessed a welcome message that creative expression is artistic and creative potential in talented
number of challenges in the face of declining not ornamental – it is fundamental to who we artists from Alberta, Canada and around the
prices for natural resources. Provincially, are, and how we see and express ourselves. world, and we stay true to that mission today. Janice Price
the importance and role of high-quality It helps us define, celebrate, and share President & CEO
This is a special place indeed; for performing
education, and access to this, has been our cultures. Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
artists, visual artists, writers, film and new
emphasized as key in shaping the success This is the backdrop for Banff Centre’s media practitioners, Indigenous artists, and
of Alberta’s future, and there is no reason 80 year commitment to arts and creativity. leaders from across Canada and around the
to doubt that this also rings true on a much Artists help us make sense of our world globe, as well as our many audiences who
larger scale when applied to Canada, – they tell our stories, offer different engage with these artists and leaders. Our
and the world. perspectives and show us new and powerful story matters because it is also your story
These dramatic shifts are also providing ways to see and understand the world. and the story of everyone who wants to
an extraordinary and uniquely Canadian They help us define, celebrate and share strengthen the creative voices of Alberta
moment. More than ever, the world is our cultures the world over. Creativity is and Canada.
recognizing Canada’s strength and leadership now globally recognized as an essential
in taking creative approaches to change, 21st Century skill. Creativity enables us
diversity, reconciliation, immigration, to contribute to our communities, set
environmental issues, and arts and culture. expectations for our leaders, and find Cover image: Luri Lee from the Rolston String
meaning for ourselves. Creativity is in all of Quartet performing at Music for a Summer
us, it is for everyone. Evening at Banff Centre as part of summer training
programs in 2015. Photo by Rita Taylor.
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The
Creative
Voice
Strategic Plan 2016 – 2021
“
Canada’s home for arts
learning and creation.
As Canada’s leading post graduate arts institution, Banff The practice of all
Centre for Arts and Creativity offers intensive training
and career development programs for emerging and the arts is acrobatic,
established artists across all artistic disciplines. As
champions of arts and creativity, Banff Centre also
not much different
has an extensive leadership offering in the cultural, from being a high wire
Indigenous, corporate, and environmental sectors.
walker, a trapeze artist.
Banff Centre offers more than one hundred programs
annually that are open for application to artists No guarantee each time
and arts practitioners at the post-graduate and that you won’t lose your
professional level. Adjudicated by international
faculty, Banff Centre participants engage in balance and fall.
educational programs designed to help them advance And like most artists
their careers and create new artistic works.
Banff Centre’s five year strategic plan is called
I have had spotters.
The Creative Voice because training, supporting, Several.
and developing creative voices is what we do on a
daily basis. Arts and creativity is core to our mission — W.O. Mitchell, author of Who Has Seen
and it is what connects us across our arts and The Wind and alumnus and faculty of
leadership training, and conference experiences, Banff Centre’s Literary Arts program,
enabling Banff Centre to deliver distinct public value which he directed in its
formative years.
to Albertans and Canadians. Over the next five years
Banff Centre will strengthen its support for new
creative voices by offering training programs in arts
and leadership and will further focus its resources Phillip Blanchett, musical group Pamyua,
and experience to be a catalyst for Canadian culture Banff Centre, 2016. Photo by Rita Taylor.
and a global organization in arts and creativity.
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Contributing to Canada’s Contributing to Canada’s
cultural landscape cultural sector
Integral to Banff Centre Banff Centre has been helping
training programs are festivals, launch, sustain, and grow the
performances and world class careers of artists, practitioners and
events that showcase the artists and cultural leaders for over 80 years.
work created here to over 80,000
audience members every year. The impact of these alumni is clear:
Works are presented from all artistic
90 %
disciplines: opera, music, dance, film
and media, mountain culture, visual
and Indigenous arts, and more.
Across these disciplines Banff Centre
is proud to showcase to audiences
commissions, behind the scenes, of alumni work
premieres, and co-productions with professionally in their field.
some of the world’s finest cultural
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organizations and companies. These
works go on to be showcased
around the world, extending the
impact and reach of our programs.
%
Every year in Banff there are:
secured a position, role or
exhibition within a year
of taking a Banff Centre
150 +
program.
Premieres 78 %
50+
earn their living from
artistic practice, and serve
as mentors and teachers
within their communities.
70 %
Commissioned
Artistic Works
400
Performances and Events
+
David Thor Jonsson and Ragnar Kjartansson during the
development of the five channel video installation,
of participants in arts
training programs
are Canadian.
The End by Ragnar Kjartansson. Created at Banff Centre
for the 53rd Venice Biennale. Photo by Laura Vanags.
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1970: Laszlo Funtek 2000s: The Banff Centre
Banff Centre for formalizes and develops has evolved into one of
1949–1968: Dr. Ernesto Vinci, Banff’s Theatre program. the world’s leading arts-
renowned German-born training organizations,
Arts and Creativity 1942: World-renowned
pianist Max Pirani,
opera instructor, initiates
Banff’s opera program.
1970: In recognition of the
broadening educational role
enabling artists from
Canada and across the
of the Royal College
of the school, it is renamed globe from all disciplines
of Music in London,
to learn from each
Building
joins the arts faculty The Banff Centre for
Music: Classes other and practice at
in classical music. Continuing Education 1992: Banff alumni
1936–1945: The Banff School’s for children in the the highest level of
(The Banff Centre for short). account for half of the
formative years occur during Suzuki method are excellence; Banff Centre
1944: Banff Centre the latter half of the Great introduced in the Canadian Opera Company. now welcomes 3,000
1972: Banff Centre offers its
on a Cultural
hosts the Alberta Depression and the Second mid-1960s by Thomas artists a year, presenting
Writers’ Conference, World War; under the directorship Rolston who was first program in Indigenous 1996: Sheila Jordan over 400 events annually
which includes the of Donald Cameron (he remained then teaching at the Leadership Training. co-leads the Jazz including Songs
inaugural Creative director until 1969) the Centre University of Alberta. Vocal program with Jay Above the Treeline,
Writing Competition attracts high calibre instructors In 1965 Rolston was 1974: Legendary jazz Clayton. In 2012, Jordan 2008 with Indigenous
Legacy
for Alberta Schools, from across Canada and appointed head of composer Oscar received the National Women, including Tanya
initiating the first the world, including faculty the strings program Peterson co-founds the Endowment for the Arts Tagaq. These events
writing programs from renowned institutions in Banff— brass jazz program at Banff Jazz Masters Award—the attract audiences
at Banff unrelated The Juilliard School, Cornell, and woodwinds with composer and jazz most prestigious U.S. of over 80,000 from
to theatre arts. and New York University. classes followed. clarinetist Phil Nimmons. award for jazz music. Alberta and beyond.
1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
has an extraordinary legacy
spanning over 80 years of support
and inspiration to thousands of Early 1930s: New Canadian 1974–1986: W.O. Mitchell, 1997: Jim Prentice joins 2016: The Banff Centre
author of Who Has Seen 1983: Banff Banff Centre as faculty 2003: Banff Centre becomes Banff Centre for 2021: Banff Centre
artists from across all disciplines. families who have settled in
1946: The inaugural 1954: There are The Wind, leads Banff’s Centre celebrates for its Indigenous launches the Arts and Creativity. Banff has completed it’s
The history of Banff Centre is the Alberta express a desire to
celebration of Banff now over 500 literary arts program. its 50th Leadership program. Banff International alumni continue to occupy five year strategy,
share their cultural legacies
story of some of the most iconic Centre’s official home in participants anniversary. Translation Centre to The Creative Voice.
with the next generation; key positions at, and
and outstanding artists from across the University of Alberta Banff National Park, at annually attending The first Banff help connect authors contribute to, every major
1975: The first Mountain 1999: The Banff Centre to the best translators
Canada and around the world who Extension Program applies which Group of Seven programs at Banff International arts centre, festival, and
Film and Book Festival String Quartet is declared a National from around the world.
have helped forge our Canadian for a grant from the US- members A.Y. Jackson and School of Fine Arts. Arts Training Institution cultural organization in the
Dance: In 1967, with is hosted celebrating Competition Alumni from this
cultural identity. Eighty years of based Carnegie Foundation Lawren Harris are present, country, including Toronto
the arrival of a new mountain culture from is held. First place by the Department of program now include
artists learning, teaching, and to fund an experimental along with other faculty International Film Festival,
theatre complex that around the world. laureates since Canadian Heritage. Ann-Marie Macdonald,
creating work that inspires others. training program for and hundreds of students. Stratford Festival, National
included facilities for then include the Margaret Atwood,
community theatre. Arts Centre, National
It is with great admiration and costume, wig and 1976: Banff Centre opens its St Lawrence String Joseph Boyden, Yann
1948: Betty Farrally and Theatre School, Shaw
1933: The Banff School set construction, contemporary art gallery, Quartet, Dover, Martel, Madeleine Thien,
respect that The Creative Voice Gweneth Lloyd, founders Festival, Canadian Stage
holds a single summer a more for mal Walter Phillips Gallery. Cecelia String and Lawrence Hill.
builds on this legacy. of the Royal Winnipeg Company, Citadel Theatre,
course in theatre arts — 130 production-focused Quartet, Rolston
Ballet, established L’Opera de Montreal,
students attend; seventeen training program was String Quartet
the dance program. 1978: The Province of 2006: Some impressive The Winnipeg Symphony
plays were rehearsed. offered in addition to and more.
Alberta declares the statistics reveal the Orchestra, The Walrus, The
the existing training
Banff Centre a formal depth of alumni impact Globe and Mail, Random
1935: Painting classes program. During
post-secondary arts on the arts in Canada: House Canada, CBC, The
are added to the theatre this era, dance
training institution, over 75 percent of Canadian Opera Company,
program, and the productions were
cementing its role as a Alberta Ballet are Banff University of Toronto, Royal
summer school officially fully designed and
vital cultural institution alumni; one-quarter of Conservatory of Canada,
becomes the Banff realized at The Centre
and an indispensable the National Ballet of Art Gallery of Ontario,
School of Fine Arts. and performed with
resource in the education Canada are alumni; over the National Gallery of
full orchestra.
1937: The writing program system for passing a third of the musicians Canada, and more.
is introduced, beginning creative wisdom and in the Toronto
with playwriting, instructed skills from one generation Symphony Orchestra
by Dr. Frederick H. Koch, of artists to the next. have attended or
head of the Department taught in programs
of Dramatic Art at the at Banff Centre.
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The Plan
In the next five years Banff Centre for Mission
Arts and Creativity is proud to support the
Albertan, Canadian, and global creative Banff Centre exists to inspire artists and
landscape through six priority initiatives. leaders to make their unique contribution to
society. We aspire to be the global leader in
arts, culture, and creativity.
1. A commitment to advancing
artistic learning
Vision
2. Banff Centre as a cultural destination Human potential is realized at Banff Centre.
As a unique creative and learning experience,
3. A centre of excellence for Indigenous we curate innovative programs that develop
programs artists and leaders, inspiring them to
conceive and create powerful works and
ideas that are shared with the world.
4. A destination for creativity in leadership
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and conferences Banff Centre is a catalyst for knowledge and
creativity through the power of our unique
5. A creative home on sacred and environment and facilities in the Canadian
protected land Rocky Mountains, our rich learning
opportunities, cross-disciplinary and cross-
sectoral interactions, outreach activities, and
6. An adaptive and resilient organization
This spot on the earth performances for the public.
has its own little bit of As part of The Creative Voice, Banff Centre
magic and we are all has developed a distinctive graphic identity
to best represent its mission and vision as a
trying to tap into it in leading arts and cultural organization.
some way.
— Jonathan Butterell,
choreographer/director
Shary Boyle and Christine Fellows’ Spell to
Bring Lost Creatures Home from Banff Centre
Children’s Festival. Photo by Rita Taylor.
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Strategic Priority 1:
Banff Centre’s Commitment It has been a great pleasure
to Advancing Artistic Learning
to work with program
participants after having
myself been on the receiving
end of that mentorship.
I hope I’ve been able to
Banff Centre’s arts learning Stemming from many of our educational guide them in the same
and creation programs
programs are the creation of new works,
co-productions, and commissions which
wonderful way.
are foundational to the play a critical role in supporting artists, and
— Alison Pick, Author,
contributing to the cultural fabric of Canada.
Centre’s creative soul. As we look forward to the next five years,
Banff Centre faculty and alumna.
Banff Centre programs make a unique we will focus the arts agenda on our role as
contribution to the value, importance, and Canada’s home for arts learning and creation
vitality of cultural life in Alberta, Canada, with the core commitment being to train both
and the world. By developing the next emerging and established artists at every
generation of artists for 21st Century careers, stage in their careers.
and supporting the creation of new work,
Banff Centre programs contribute to the To achieve distinctiveness in our artistic
diversification of Alberta’s and Canada’s programming in the next five years we will:
economy, and to the health and well-being
1. Optimize impact, excellence and access
of our country.
by balancing the arts programming mix.
The strength and impact of Banff Centre’s
educational programs lies not only in the 2. Provide 2-3 co-production residencies
exceptional calibre of our Canadian and per year through an application and
international faculty who mentor, train, and adjudication process.
develop the artists in residence but also in
the unique diversity of our artistic offerings.
3. Establish an enhanced fund to further
This wealth of artistic opportunity allows
support development of new work with
Banff Centre to support Canada’s creative
commitment to 1-2 new large scale artistic
voices, and advance careers and artistic
creations annually, most in partnership with
practice, regardless of discipline.
a wide range of artistic organizations from
across Canada and the world.
4. A focused community outreach strategy that
shares arts and creativity with new
audiences in the Alberta community.
Renata Minoldo, in her studio as part
of the thematic residency, Food Water
Life in 2015. Photo by Rita Taylor.
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Supporting all
artistic disciplines
Banff Centre supports post-graduate level Performing Arts Music program highlights include:
artists through learning, training, and creation • Classical Piano
programs that offer the time and space Banff Centre’s performing arts programs
• Chamber Music
needed, in a holistic learning environment, support artists in theatre, music, dance,
• Classical Improvisation
where artists can develop their skills and and opera.
• Strings and Winds
practice across all arts disciplines. In all • Composition
programs, artists engage with mentors, Theatre • 21st Century Ensemble
peers, technical and technological experts, Theatre programs support performance • Jazz
and audiences through workshops, and technical training as well as the creation • Brass
residencies, masterclasses, performances, of new works. • Independent singer songwriter
one-on-one mentoring, and more. Artists at • Self-directed Residencies
Banff Centre become members of a peer Theatre program highlights include:
to peer community that fundamentally • Playwriting
Opera
influences their work and their lives. • Lighting and Sound Design
Opera programs explore new approaches to
• Stage Management
As this plan is implemented, Banff Centre the art form in collaboration with national and
• Prop Building
anticipates that the programs offered will international partners, and the best creative
• Wardrobe, Wigs, and Make-up
evolve to deliver on our goals outlined but minds in the field. Banff Centre’s opera
• Scenic Carpentry
also will increasingly serve today’s artists. programs, in partnership with the Canadian
This programmatic evolution is something Opera Company and Against the Grain
that has been taking place since Banff Centre Music Theatre, are designed to truly challenge the
opened in 1933, and will continue as we conventions of opera design, production, and
“
Music programs will continue to be a
work with innovative new learning models cornerstone of Banff Centre’s artistic performance and train today’s artists with the
and programs that support more artists. offerings, the vast majority of which focus skills the need to respond these challenges.
Building on the legacy of outstanding on training classical musicians. Building on Opera program highlights include:
teachers who have made Banff Centre’s the legacy of our renowned international jazz
• Opera in the 21st Century
training programs a rite of passage for workshop, founded by the legendary Oscar Banff Centre is a national
• Self-directed Residencies
artists, this evolution will both honour our Peterson in 1974, the jazz and creative music
treasure. I know of no other
legacy and ensure the relevant training program will continue to evolve alongside
many other genre-based residencies. Dance place in the world that is this
opportunities for today’s artists.
beautiful and this well set up,
“
Music programs at Banff Centre welcome Banff Centre’s Dance programs explore new
over 500 musicians from all over the world directions in choreography, design, dance, with its doors always so wide
each year, and present more than 200 and performance, while bringing world-class open to so many different types
concerts to audiences on campus and in talent to Banff Centre through learning,
presenting, creation, and workshop-based
of creatives from an extremely
the community.
The world of opera is evolving residency model. diverse variety of backgrounds.
and I’m proud that through Banff Dance program highlights include: I am extremely thankful to have
Centre programs we are able to help • Dance for Emerging Artists spent time at the centre, both as
provide today’s artists with the skills • Dance for Established Artists a participant and as faculty, and
they need to have the successful
• Choreography intend to keep doing so for the
• Choreography Across Disciplines rest of my life.
careers they deserve. Richard Reed Parry performing Music for Heart and • Designing for the Moving Body
— Joel Ivany, Against the Grain Theatre,
Breath at the thematic residency Stillness in 2016. • Self-directed Residencies — Richard Reed Parry, Arcade Fire,
Music for Heart and Breath was also created at Banff Centre faculty and alumnus.
and Artistic Director of Banff Centre’s Banff Centre. Photo by Rita Taylor.
Opera program.
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Visual, Digital, and Media Arts
Banff Centre’s Visual, Digital, and Media
Arts programs focus on professional artistic
development, research, and creative production.
Being at Banff Centre and being able to curate an Banff Centre provides access to rich facilities in
exhibition is a really wonderful opportunity as an emerging photography, sculpture, printmaking, papermaking,
ceramics, textiles, painting, performance, video,
curator, because it does give you the opportunity to and digital media, as well as curatorial and critical
studies. Residencies are designed for professional
produce something concrete from its inception and artists, curators, and arts researchers with an
conceptualization all the way to its installation. exhibition/publication record who have had formal
training in visual arts, or equivalent experience and
— Natasha Chaykowski, on the recognition from their peers.
Curatorial Research Practicum at Banff Centre.
Visual Digital and Media program highlights include:
• Sculpture
• Ceramics
• Curatorial Research through Walter Phillips Gallery
• Photography
• Painting
• Print Making
• Video Editing
• Post Production
• Audio Engineering
• Animation
• Preparatory
• Thematic Residencies
• Self-directed Residencies
Literary Arts
Literary Arts offers flexible residency models that
include short workshops and intensives as well as
longer-form programs for a range of participants
at different stages in their careers, and led by the
highest-calibre Canadian and international writers
and translators.
Literary program highlights include:
• Literary Journalism
• Emerging Writers Intensive
• Literary Translation
• Mountain Wilderness writing
• Thematic Residencies
• Self-directed Residencies
Indigenous Arts
James Kirkpatrick in his studio during A key priority of this strategy is the creation of a
the thematic residency Convergence, Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Programs,
Banff Centre, 2016. Photo by Rita Taylor. encompassing both arts disciplines and
leadership. See page 24 for full details.
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Leighton Artists’ Colony Located within the heart of Banff Centre’s campus is the truly outstanding Leighton Artists’ Colony. The Leighton Artists’ Colony is a collection of nine studios made available to established, senior artists and participants from select programs. Studios provide all the amenities and support needed for artists to advance and fully immerse themselves in their craft. Each studio is custom-designed for specific artistic disciplines, and all were designed by Canadian architects including Douglas Cardinal, Ian Davidson, Michael Evamy, Peter Hemingway, Richard Henriquez, Walter Painter, Guy Gerin-Lajoie, Ron Thom, and Fred Valentine. The Leighton Artists’ Colony has long been a creative haven for artists including Joni Mitchell, Daniel MacIvor, John Adams, Jonathan Young, Joseph Boyden, Ken Lum, Jonathan Dove, Yann Martel, Crystal Pite, and k.d. lang. Information about all our arts programs and how to apply is available at banffcentre.ca The Henriquez Studio in the Leighton Artists’ Colony. Photo by Donald Lee. 20 < The Creative Voice Strategic Plan 2016 – 2021 > 21
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Strategic Priority 2:
Banff Centre as a The Centre is a special place
and the closest we have to a
Cultural Destination national arts hub.
— Macleans Magazine
Over the decades Banff has become more
than an exceptional centre for artists — it’s
To become known as a leading Canadian
cultural destination we will be focused on: A Mountain
now a vital Alberta-based platform for
performers, artists, leaders, and thinkers
1. Delivering an audience-focused, world
class festival series with specific festivals
Gallery
connecting to audiences in Alberta and including:
around the world to share their ideas and
works. This is a crucial part of the artistic • Reintroduce the Summer Arts
Festival as a 10 day festival of Banff Centre is a living art gallery,
cycle — the presentation of artistic works
arts and creativity in 2018 with 14 public works of art,
for audiences.
including: Rebecca Belmore’s iconic
Our commitment to sharing new work — • Expand BISQC to mount a summer megaphone, Ayum-ee-aawach
whether created here in Banff, or from across chamber music festival in the years Oomama-mowan: Speaking to
the world — with our audiences means we in between BISQC competitions Their Mother (1991, 1992, 1996);
offer year-round public events: concerts, starting in 2017 Peter von Tiesenhausen’s decaying
film screenings, readings, dance, opera • Banff Children’s festival each spring canoe; Brian Jungen’s contemporary
and theatre performances, talks, and interpretation of benches using
• Banff Mountain Film and
art exhibitions. antler forms as his inspiration. This
Book festival each fall
In addition Banff hosts iconic festivals is in addition to the entire campus
such as the Banff Mountain Film and Book which acts as an immense, multi-
2. Developing a world class public event venue gallery of Banff Centre’s
Festival that sees 20,000 guests experience series featuring main stage performances permanent collection and Walter
the world’s best in mountain culture films, and exhibitions from international artists, Phillips Gallery, dedicated to the
panel talks, exhibitions, and books. The and an open studios series providing a exhibition of contemporary art.
triennial Banff International String Quartet behind the scenes of the work created in
Competition (BISQC), which celebrates the programs. With your support and through
art of the string quartet in a competition with
Banff Centre programs we have
10 of the world’s finest emerging quartets.
3. An enhanced focus on public art by laid the groundwork for a truly
Over 7 days of competition quartets compete
commissioning new temporary and world class cultural destination
for the prize of First Place Laureate and an
permanent works for exhibition for artists and audiences here
international Concert Tour.
on campus. This will begin in 2017. in Banff National Park.
Concert attendees during Banff Centre alumni
Tribe Called Red concert in the Shaw Amphitheatre.
Photo by Rita Taylor.
22 < The Creative Voice Strategic Plan 2016 – 2021 > 23Strategic Priority 3:
A Centre of Excellence Truth and
Reconciliation
for Indigenous Programs
Banff Centre was honoured to host a
Truth and Reconciliation Summit in 2016.
The summit allowed over 300 participants
— both Indigenous and non-Indigenous —
to explore their roles in the reconciliation
Indigenous Arts and Leadership programs have Over the next five years Banff Centre will:
process and develop an approach for
a vital role to play in the future of Canada. 1. Become a leader in implementing the repairing Canada’s relationship with
Banff Centre campus is located on sacred Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Aboriginal Peoples.
Treaty 7 land, and its history is connected Calls to Action and training others
The Truth and Reconciliation Summit brought
with First Nations communities and cultures who will do so as well.
together members of local government,
— both here in Alberta and across the country.
education, business, heritage and culture,
Banff Centre is thankful for the wisdom 2. Expand Indigenous arts programming to offer justice, health, and social services providers
and relationships we have with Canada’s more year round training and creation for this full day event featuring keynote talks
Indigenous Peoples. The Centre continues to opportunities. from TRC commissioner Dr. Marie Wilson,
offer a diverse range of programs, conferences,
and other notable speakers, including
seminars, and platforms that support 3. Develop a more holistic approach to Phil Fontaine, former National Chief of the
Indigenous culture, leaders, and artists. Indigenous culture and art forms and build Assembly of First Nations.
Over the decades, Banff Centre has a centre of excellence across Arts and
These talks, breakout sessions, workshops,
supported and hosted hundreds of innovative Leadership Indigenous programming.
and facilitated discussions led by Banff
Indigenous creative voices; from across
Program highlights include: Centre faculty equipped our participants with
Canada, and around the globe, who come
new knowledge and tools to take action and
here to learn as we in turn learn from them. • Indigenous Negotiation Skills Training incorporate reconciliation into their own lives,
Informed by Indigenous cultures and • Good Governance for Indigenous families, organizations, and communities.
worldviews, we offer programs in all disciplines Councils and Board. Findings from the summit will also inform
for emerging, mid-career, and established Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s
• Inherent Right to Indigenous Governance
Indigenous artists and leaders. Programs are approach to reconciliation.
transformative and inspired by the power of • Indigenous Women in Leadership
Long term, Banff Centre will build on its
place here in Treaty 7 land. Banff Centre’s • Indigenous Strategic Planning strong legacy of celebrating and learning
new strategy renews and expands Indigenous
• Indigenous Leadership and from Indigenous cultures and leaders, and
programming in both arts and leadership.
Management Development renew our Indigenous programs as a core
area of our strategic plan and an important
• Indigenous Dance part of building Canada’s future as a
• Indigenous Visual Arts resilient and diverse nation.
Thomas Fanua in a performance of Backbone,
created at Banff Centre in co-production
with Red Sky in 2015. Photo by Rita Taylor.
24 < The Creative Voice Strategic Plan 2016 – 2021 > 25Strategic Priority 4:
A Destination for Vision for
Leadership
Creativity in Leadership Programming
and Conferences Integrating the power of the arts, the
wisdom of Indigenous practice, and the
extraordinary beauty of Banff National
Park, Banff Centre Leadership programs
will empower and prepare the next
generation of Canadian leaders. Programs
Almost as soon as Banff Centre’s campus Three core initiatives for leadership will help participants bring creative and
had permanent buildings, it began hosting programming in this plan include: reflective approaches to a rapidly changing
conferences and management courses. world, and connect them with others
1. Introduce a world class cultural who share their commitment to positive
These courses were quickly followed by a leadership program. change in Canadian businesses, nonprofit
cultural leadership program — established
organizations, cultural institutions, and
in 1971 by David Leighton, the President
2. Grow and enhance the Indigenous government. Programs are supported by
of the Banff Centre. Cultural leadership
leadership and management offer. the Peter Lougheed Leadership Program
at Banff Centre has always been naturally
partnership with the University of Alberta.
congruent with artists’ training; it’s an
essential contribution to strengthening our 3. Establish a conference offering for the
arts ecosystem in Canada. Banff Centre business community based in arts and Program highlights include:
will launch, in autumn of 2017, a cultural leadership practices.
• Indigenous Leadership Programs
leadership program for mid-career leaders,
“
• Indigenous Arts and Leadership
cultural governing bodies and board
volunteers. Banff Centre will also partner • Cultural Leadership Programs
with leading cultural organizations across • Environmental Leadership
Canada to provide the greatest public
value and impact in cultural leadership. • Systems Change Programs
...for seeking leadership the ordinary
The work in cultural leadership will won’t cut it. You have to strive for • Community Leadership Program
continue a proud Banff Centre tradition the extraordinary. • A suite of Peter Lougheed Leadership
here, built on the founding principles for Programs made available to the public
these programs from so long ago: giving — The Honourable Peter Lougheed
(1928 - 2012), Banff Centre alumnus. • Custom Programs for corporations,
cultural leaders the tools they need to
government and nonprofits
create outstanding organizations and to
position Canada as world leader in arts • K-12 educational support program
culture creation and management. • Global convening on important
leadership topics
Participant on the ropes course as part
of the Indigenous Women in Leadership
program, 2015. Photo by Rita Taylor.
26 < The Creative Voice Strategic Plan 2016 – 2021 > 27Conferences
at Banff Centre
Conferences have been a longstanding
offering that supports the financial
sustainability of our brand and mission.
Over the course of its evolution,
conferences has also become a
programming initiative that not only
supports Banff Centre financially but as
a priority of this plan will align with our
mission, culture and strategic objectives.
Sunshine Chen participating in
the Hope Decoded leadership
summit. Photo by Donald Lee.
28 < The Creative Voice Strategic Plan 2016 – 2021 > 29Strategic Priority 5:
Stewarding Our
Creative Home on Sacred
and Protected Land
Careful consideration has gone into a Over the next five years Banff Centre will
long term plan that delivers a connected, focus on stewarding, maintaining, and
cohesive campus demonstrating our creative updating the buildings on its campus.
potential and identity, celebrating shared
space, and improving opportunities for 1. Renovate Lloyd Hall residence to provide
access and outreach to our communities. quality accommodations that will increase
The focus of this priority will be exclusively Banff’s capacity to house participants
on the facilities and buildings on our campus. while reducing operating costs and
This will be achieved through respectful environmental impact, and contributing
and attentive work with Parks Canada, First to financial sustainability.
Nations and community partners that steward
our home in the Canadian Rockies with us. 2. A vision for a revitalized Performing Arts
and Learning Complex will ensure Banff’s
continued prominence for world class
arts learning.
• Create flexible learning spaces
for performing arts disciplines.
• Creation of an innovative digital lab.
• An reimagined audience experience
in the theatres.
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity campus
from above. Photo by Paul Zizka.
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Strategic Priority 6:
An Adaptive Our ability to train artists and
leaders needs to always be
and Resilient at the forefront of our minds.
Organization
It’s a promise we have made
to all Canadians and it’s our
job to structure and manage
the operations to continually
deliver on this commitment.
Banff Centre will become more resilient — Janice Price, President and CEO,
and adaptive in order to meet the needs Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
of all our Creative Voices — the emerging
artists and leaders we train, and the high
calibre staff, faculty and performance artists
we welcome to our campus every year.
As part of this priority we will:
1. Banff Centre will renew and refit its
business to build our strengths as a
post-secondary institution with a
sustainable operating model and a
strong balance sheet.
2. Banff Centre will improve and invest in
our existing facilities and information
technology systems, many of which
require significant financial support to
adhere to the standards required by this
plan’s aspirations.
3. Create efficiencies by avoiding
duplication of roles and centralizing
shared services to better serve all our
artists, leaders, clients, and audiences.
Dancers in rehearsals during The Creative Gesture
residency in 2016. Photo by Donald Lee.
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Thank
You Banff doesn’t belong to Alberta
alone, or to Canada; it belongs
to the world . . . A place where
people’s souls are stirred and
As we look five years ahead their minds inspired by Nature’s
to the completion of this beauty and grandeur.
strategic plan it will not be — Donald Cameron
without the dedication of Campus in the Clouds 1956
our outstanding supporters.
Without you none of this
will be possible.
Dancers Brighton Collins, Julie Pham,
Valentin Chou, Saeka Shirai, Mark Dennis
in rehearsals during the 2015 Dance
Masters program. Photo by Donald Lee.
34 < The Creative Voice Strategic Plan 2016 – 2021 > 35Banff Centre
Banff Centre Executive Team Banff Centre Foundation Board
Janice Price, President & CEO Larry Fichtner (Ex-Officio)
Team Dan Buchner, Vice President
Leadership (until March 2016)
Bruce Byford, Vice President,
J. Mark Macdonald
Andrew MacNiven
Janice Price (Ex-Officio)
Administration & CFO
Beth Reimer-Heck
Michael Code, Vice President, Operations
Jackson Von Der Ohe
Lisa Cooke, Vice President,
Marketing & Communications David Weyant, Q.C. (Ex-Officio)
Banff Centre Board of Governors Banff Centre Board of Governors
- Strategic Planning Team As of October 2016 Neil Johnston, Vice President, Development
Strategic Plan Facilitators
Valerie Kapay, Vice President,
Larry Fichtner Larry Fichtner Human Resources Adrian Ellis, Director, AEA Consulting
Gay Mitchell, ICD.D Eric Harvie Luke Sunderland, Vice President Daniel Payne, Senior Consultant,
Evaleen Jaager Roy Elmer Hildebrand, O.C. & COO (until July 2016) AEA Consulting
Andrew Molson Evaleen Jaager Roy Carolyn Warren, Vice President, Arts
Robert D. Walker, Acting Chair Board Andy Kenins, ICD.D Russell Willis Taylor, Interim Vice President,
of Governors (until April 2016) Leadership (from June 2016)
Judith LaRocque, ICD.D
David Weyant, Q.C., Chair Board of
Governors (from April 2016) Leroy Little Bear
Ralston E. Macdonnell
Letha Maclachlan
Gay Mitchell, ICD.D
Janice Price
Andrew Molson
Patricia Ruby
John Snow
David Weyant, Q.C.
Sleeping Buffalo Mountain in the
winter. Photo by Donald Lee.Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is generously supported by many passionate individuals, corporations and foundations. Banff Centre is also grateful for the funding from the Government of Alberta, through Alberta Advanced Education, Alberta Infrastructure, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Arts programs are also supported by funding from the Government of Canada through the Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Arts Training Fund and the Canada Arts Presentation Fund.
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