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For well over twenty-five years, writers from around the world have spent time at The Banff Centre, some in programs and others in self-directed residencies. During this time, some of Canada's finest writers have visited the retreat with lasting effects on their work and careers. Intersections brings together fiction and poetry from thirty-four Canadian, American and British writers who have all worked independently at The Banff Centre's Leigh...

Hall of Mirrors is an examination of Canadian museums and their relationship with the public which they attempt to represent. This book examines a number of questions, issues, and controversies surrounding some of Canada's major institutions. Whose interests do museums reflect and whose do they distort? Do museums provide a "social good" that should be publicly supported or should they be forced to survive in the free market? Hall of Mirrors a...

Wild Theatre: The History of One Yellow Rabbit is a breezy, irreverent chronicle of the company considered by many to be English Canada's foremost creation theatre. The book begins in 1982, with a ragtag collective of ambitious young Calgary rebels bent of founding an avant-garde theatre in a cultural wilderness. The book follows their fortunes through two decades of daring experiments, national controversy, and international success. Friends ...

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Each summer, The Banff Centre's Literary Journalism program takes in eight senior journalists and writers and charges them with a simple, if daunting, task: Write about something you really care about. In this third installment of the Banff Centre Press's literary journalism series, participants push boundaries and arrive at some of their most passionate work.

Each summer, The Banff Centre's Literary Journalism program takes in eight senior journalists and writers and charges them with a simple, if daunting task: Write about something you really care about. In this installment of the Banff Centre Press's literary journalism series, participants push boundaries and arrive at some of their most passionate work. Taking Risks collects the work of twelve accomplished journalists on a range of subjects as...

Staking Land Claims, curated by Patricia Deadman, was the first in a series of exhibitions by Aboriginal curators at The Banff Centre. In it, four Aboriginal artists explored past and present relationships between the land and its dwellers. They addressed issues of cultural perception, tradition, memory, ecological fate and identity. Their concerns bridge all cultures and ask every person to stake a claim to a shared responsibility for the lan...

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Digitopia Blues is a sawy analysis of music, poetry, and the digital scene that may frame the future of cultural politics in America. It is a story of orality and literacy--their individual histories and their individual histories and their individual histories and their blended futures. Musician and poet John Sobol tells this tale interwined with stories about the blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll, the African-American struggle to find a language of...