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The Banff Centre Press is a publisher of books on contemporary art and culture. It is a literary press reflecting the commitment to creative excellence, in form and content, at The Banff Centre. Titles are intended to contribute to the world of ideas by stimulating critical thinking about the culture and creative life in Canada and the world. The Banff Centre Press publishes books under its own imprint as well as WPG Editions from the Walter Phillips Gallery
The Press supports the mission of The Banff Centre's Arts Programming: to promote lifelong learning and professional career development in the arts, with The Banff Centre acting as site and catalyst for creative activity and experience. The values of creative excellence, lifelong learning, and critical inquiry shape decision making about acquisitions.
Titles:
- Reflect a passion for creativity and the arts and the place of the arts in a cultured and thoughtful society.
- Move beyond a scholarly who, what, why, where, when, and how reporting of events and ideas to inject a more literary turn of phrase and creative presentation.
- Make available some of the best thinking and writing on art, creativity and culture in Canada.
Create a legacy of contemporary creative practice as it is played out at The Banff Centre.
Subject areas covered include, but are not limited to: visual arts, media arts, digital theory and practice, Aboriginal arts, literary arts, music, performance, dance, theatre arts, sound, and culture studies.
The Banff Centre Press is a member of the Literary Press Group of Canada.
