For 75 years, The Banff Centre has welcomed and inspired artists, business and social leaders, scientists, environmentalists, and mountain enthusiasts from across Canada and around the world. The Banff Summer Arts Festival is our annual feast of performing, visual, and literary arts, new media, mountain culture, and leadership exploration. It’s our opportunity to showcase the talented artists who come to Banff, and the creativity developed and nurtured here at the Centre.

This summer is particularly special and action-packed, as we celebrate our 75th anniversary with a dizzying array of performances in dance, music, opera, theatre, and jazz, as well as exhibitions, literary readings, mountain films, and much more. We thank RBC, the presenting sponsor of the Banff Summer Arts Festival, for helping to make all this possible.

The 75th Anniversary edition of the Festival features jazz with Yosvany Terry, Dave Douglas, and the Bad Plus, as well as musical performances by the Gryphon Trio, Jon Kimura Parker, and Tracy Dahl. Dido and Aeneas, the first opera ever performed at The Banff Centre, is joined by Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Jane Austen’s perennial favourite Pride and Prejudice marks the return of classical theatre to our stages, while the new Alberta Ballet / Joni Mitchell dance collaboration, The Fiddle and the Drum, headlines the final days of the festival. We thank the Kahanoff Foundation, and lead corporate sponsor Chevron, for supporting The Banff Centre’s 75th Anniversary activities.

Please join us for our spectacular summer celebration!

 

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Banff Summer Arts Festival Presenting Sponsor

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Banff Summer Arts Festival Partners

      

   

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75th Anniversary activities are made possible with support from
the Kahanoff Foundation and 75th lead corporate sponsor Chevron

     

 

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The Banff Centre is supported by funding from the Government of Alberta, through Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, Alberta Infrastructure, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Arts programs are supported by funding from the Government of Canada through the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Departments of Canadian Heritage and Human Resources Development through the National Arts Training Contribution Program.