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162 records from November 1996 to December 2004
2004
Controversy surrounds Banff Mountain Film Festival winner
December 16
Banff Centre, Fairmont Hotels among top Canadian employers
December 15
Public looks at makeover plans for Banff Centre
December 14
Banff-bred musical
Constantinople
opening in Toronto
November 5
Canadian authors portrayed in Banff Centre Press book
November 4
Banff Centre symposium to explore informal architecture
October 26
Walter Phillips Gallery hires curator Sylvie Gilbert
October 15
American quartets take Banff by storm
September 7
Jupiter String Quartet wins first prize in String Quartet Competition
September 6
Jupiter String Quartet makes it to Banff final round
September 5
String Quartet finalists announced
September 5
The Olympics of strings begins
August 26
Conference focuses on human use of mountains
August 26
String quartets to serenade audiences
August 24
Engineers, designers create fashion technology
August 2
Banff Centre v-p moving to Cirque de Soleil
June 28
34-year veteran of Edmonton Symphony departs for Banff
June 7
Banff Centre announces Fleck Fellows
May 25
Prominent writers reading at Centre
May 18
Walter Phillips Gallery curator off to Ontario
May 14
Banff Centre initiative boosts new media
April 16
Provincial government earmarks $20 million for Banff Centre
April 6
Long time Banff Centre faculty member Lorand Fenyves passes
April 5
Province providing $20 million for capital project at Banff Centre
April 2
Funding seen as first step in redevelopment of Banff Centre
April 2
Writer applauds opera effort at the Banff Centre
March 23
Alberta artists storm Ottawa; Centre’s
Filumena
leads way
March 18
Centre recording earns Juno nomination
February 19
Toronto choreographer awarded Clifford E. Lee Award
February 19
Lord of the Rings
sounds of Banff Centre successes
February 4
Banff Centre attracts world water forum
January 28
Banff Centre to offer violin and bow repair workshops
January 28
Banff Centre, One Yellow Rabbit producing “webcam cabaret”
January 14
Exhibition features never-seen-before work by Roy Kiyooka
January 14
2003
The public face of Edmonton’s symphony is off to Banff
December 2
Banff Centre appoints Edmonton Symphony's David Hoyt director of Music & Sound
December 1
“Mountains as Water Towers” features presentations, celebrations
November 19
Local films make Mountain Festival finalist list
October 22
I don't get mountains (opinion about Banff and the Banff Centre)
October 21
Banff Centre among 100 top Canadian employers for fourth year
October 16
Album dedicated to retiring Rolstons of Banff Centre (bottom of page, under Gryphon Trio)
October 15
Casting pearls before pedants (musician recalls time at Banff Centre)
September 27
New cultural discovery program kicks off at The Banff Centre
September 21
Classics and jazz highlight fall concert series
September 21
Centre’s
Filumena
wins big at the Bettys
August 26
Prize-winning architect to speak at the Centre
August 15
Centre’s nanotech forum mixes art, science
August 11
Centre opera to benefit fire victims in Alberta
August 8
Banff Centre declares “Canada Day” on August 1
July 30
Centre musicians display orchestral talents
July 25
Lesbian Park Rangers featured
June 18
Supercomputer grid to include Banff Centre
June 2
Banff Centre producers finalists for New Media Awards
May 13
Ceramic artist to donate proceeds to Aboriginal arts scholarship at the Centre
April 9
Designs unveiled for “Banff Centre of the East”
April 4
Centre’s Music Makers take to the road
March 5
Former Banff Centre artistic head receives Governor General award
March 4
Yale likes Banff Centre’s production of Figaro
February 16
Clifford E. Lee Choreography Award presented
February 14
Sara Diamond represents Centre at international art fair
February 12
Fifteen artists win Fleck Fellowships at the Centre
February 10
1923 Alberta execution inspires new opera
January 30
Group to gather for Women in the Director’s Chair
January 15
Corporation offers bursaries to attend The Banff Centre
January 15
2002
Banff Centre hosts global mountain network
December 7
Banff Centre donates bathtubs to worthy cause
December 7
The Second Step
takes grand prize at Mountain Film Festival
November 4
Climbing autobiography tops Banff Mountain Book Festival
November 1
Banff Centre scores four audio awards in L.A.
October 29
Daedalus Quartet wows ’em in Toronto
October 25
Verdi’s Requiem a finished work
September 9
Lawsuit filed in Banff Centre lease dispute
September 4
Banff Centre meeting yields new jazz recording
August 30
Mountain ecosystems subject of conference
August 28
Banff Centre celebrates International Adult Learners Week
August 23
Centre’s Sara Diamond presented “Woman of Vision” award
August 19
“Requiem 9/11” marks tragic anniversary with hope
August 17
Mountain projects receive grants from the Banff Centre
August 17
September mourning
August 6
Atanarjuat runs away with another award
July 17
Zacharias Kunuk honoured at Banff Centre
July 16
Requiem 9/11 ballet turns heads
July 9
Requiem 9/11 to break new ground
July 6
Rachel Wyatt named member of Order of Canada
July 5
Murder mystery set at Leighton Colony in Banff
June 22
New board chair for The Banff Centre
June 12
Centre garners provincial funding for research initiatives
June 6
New chair appointed for Banff Centre board
June 6
Banff Centre alumnus wins poetry prize
May 31
Composer Werner helps jazz learners
May 30
Centre’s Sara Diamond named educator of the year
May 28
Sara Diamond nominated for new media awards
April 30
Centre announces National Arts Award winner
March 28
Interactive Projects Lab includes Banff Centre
March 21
Banff Centre on new computer link
March 14
Banff Centre to be part of computing grid
March 14
Banff Centre among federal arts funding recipients
March 9
Banff New Media Institute one of best new media schools
March 6
Centre appoints new director of Walter Phillips Gallery
February 21
High school students to make use of Centre
February 13
Centre announces recipients of Fleck Fellowship
February 11
Centre announces choreography award winner
January 24
Top women directors chosen for Centre Workshop
January 14
2001
Controversial performance comes under fire
December 13
Graeme D. McDonald succumbs to leukemia
December 10
Banff arts centre pays for Mexican to bottle his fluids
December 5
Banff Centre’s Sara Diamond receives Spotlight Award
November 28
Banff Centre announces new directors of dance
November 19
Banff Centre appoints new chief financial officer
October 26
Music world mourns the loss of composer Zoltán Székely
October 11
Banff Centre to offer course after waste management conviction
October 5
Math think-tank opens at Banff Centre
September 26
Banff Centre choreographer Brian Macdonald wins prize
September 25
Banff Centre awaits fate on PCB charges
September 23
Banff quartet competition stirs musical debate
September 8
A cabin in the woods (Banff Centre's Leighton Studios)
September 7
Banff Arts Festival offers play, ballet
July 25
Sara Diamond named one of 50 most influential Albertans
July 23
John Murrell draws funding to Banff Playwrights Colony
July 18
Banff Centre changes include names
July 4
Centre drops management
June 27
Walter Phillips partners win at Venice Biennale
June 12
Graeme McDonald steps down as president of The Banff Centre
May 17
Hofstetter appointed president of Banff Centre on McDonald’s resignation
May 17
New funding shows federal commitment to Canadian arts
May 10
Veronica Tennant receives Banff arts award
May 2
Paul Fleck Fellowships awarded
May 1
Banff Centre, Cancom announce Ross Charles Award criteria
May 1
String Quartet competition announces competitors
April 23
Banff-Calgary opera story of rum-runner's bride who went to gallows
April 12
Banff Centre shares $5 million from Bell Globemedia
April 10
Banff Centre awarded CanWest Global endowment
March 20
Banff Centre presents management award to Alberta Treasury Branches
March 12
Banff Centre moves forward with Environmental Management Plan
February 20
Recipients of the 2000 Banff Centre National Award named
February 14
Top women film & TV directors selected to direct in Banff
January 24
2000
Banff Centre invited to present at international new media festival
November 15
Banff Centre Theatre Arts and Alberta Theatre Projects renew partnership
November 15
The Banff Centre’s fashion show struts spring line by Escada Sport
November 3
Banff Centre charged with illegal dumping
November 1
Former Banff Centre governor Jenny Belzberg receives Award of Excellence
October 17
Banff Centre named one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers
October 16
Event raises $100,000 for Paul D. Fleck Fellowships in the Arts
October 16
Banff Centre and Calgary Opera co-commission new opera
October 11
Banff meets Berlin: Artists demonstrate “the lost cool of modern women”
October 3
No jail time for love tryst embezzler (Philson Robart)
September 28
Award recipients for aboriginal screenwriting workshop announced
September 15
Sex tryst costs plenty
August 30
Canada Council member named as Banff Centre VP
August 23
Banff Centre for the Arts names Joanne Morrow as new director
August 23
Joanne Morrow new head of The Banff Centre for the Arts
August 22
Confederation Centre names Jon Tupper new director
August 10
Long search nearly over for Banff Centre director
August 3
Award added to recent gift of life (Graeme McDonald)
July 15
Rhombus Media wins Banff Centre award
June 5
Sara Diamond to talk to computers with her body
February 10
1999
Carol Phillips leaving Banff Centre
November 29
Government pledges funding to Banff Centre
November 29
Royal Bank wins award for support of Banff String Quartet Competition
September 14
Banff Centre donor Eric Harvie to be honoured in millennium stamp
September 1
Banff Centre receives du Maurier grant
April 25
1996
CIBC lends a hand to aboriginal programs at Banff Centre
November 16
December 26, 2004
