Jonathan Goldstein: inspired by “reality”
Have you ever thought about how great it would be to gift the world with the hilarious banter you and your friends come up with? Well, Jonathan Goldstein has the follow-through that you lack. Goldstein...
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“Architect” built with patterns by Morlove
Morlove is Miss Emily Brown and Corwin Fox. Photo: Friday Design Corwin Fox and Miss Emily Brown, of the band Morlove, came to The Banff Centre on an independent music residency in 2011. The resulting...
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Barbara Kapusta: close casting call
Leighton Colony resident Barbara Kapusta’s film Helen, shot and produced over the summer at The Banff Centre, is a film without a protagonist. There’s no obvious Helen in this silent film, which...
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Tim Cope: Writing authentic adventure
Tim Cope with his faithful travel companion Tigon (left) and one of his pups. We just saw Tim Cope onstage accepting the Grand Prize in the 2013 Banff Mountain Book Competition for his book On the...
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Artist Janet Egan: Behind the line
Janet Egan spent eight weeks working in a studio in the Leighton Artists’ Colony, and five of those eight weeks were spent despairing. “I worked and worked and worked – I just couldn’t find myself at...
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Helen McClory: Banff in glitter and grey
Scottish author Helen McClory is currently at The Banff Centre as part of a Creative Scotland Creative Futures residency. In addition to working on a multi-step project and her third novel, she’s put...
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Mary-Rose MacColl’s creative winter retreat
The day I met with Australian author Mary-Rose MacColl it was -40°C — the point at which mercury freezes. Despite the 70°C temperature difference between The Banff Centre and her hometown of Brisbane,...
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Mo Srivastava: getting to The Gods of Scrabble
Mo Srivastava is a geostatistician by trade, which means he travels the world applying statistics to the field of earth sciences – helping Florida’s state government count its alligator population,...
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Kelly S.Thompson: ‘Torn between loyalty to the military and to my work’
Discipline might be considered the greatest virtue a writer can possess, and Kelly S. Thompson has it in abundance. Consider her output during her recent stint in The Banff Centre’s Leighton Artist’s...
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Séan McCann: The creative gift of -30°
Séan McCann, formerly of the band Great Big Sea, was finishing up a two-week residency at the Leighton Artists Colony. I asked him about his time at The Banff Centre, his recently released album Help...
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Futurologist Mark Stevenson in residence at The Banff Centre
Futurology (noun) definition: The study or forecasting of potential developments, as in science, technology, and society, using current conditions and trends as a point of departure. Definition from...
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Time and Space
Kate Hennig is one of three playwrights currently in residence at The Banff Centre Playwrights Colony to develop new works. Her latest play, The Last Wife, premieres in July 2015 at The Stratford...
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A Writer’s Life Discovered by guest writer Trey Anthony
Being fully committed to a writer’s life is a new experience for me. I arrived at Banff with my third polished draft of my play, when Black Mothers don’t say I love you. To have the uninterrupted time...
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Getting to tiny by guest writer Bruce Barton
As I just told anyone who happened to be listening on Facebook, I’m in withdrawal. Yesterday I finished my second of two weeks at the Banff Playwrights program, first at the Retreat (in March) and last...
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I destroyed the play again… A guest post by Joanna Garner
I destroyed the play again. Another draft, another 60 pages into the recycling. I have been writing Dead Leaves — a play about ghosts with original bluegrass and mountain gospel music — for over a year...
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A Turg’s Eye View Or, What I’ve Noticed During My Week at the Banff...
Here at Banff, faucets flow. I don’t just mean the pure crystalline tap water from your mountain glaciers, but rather the pure, unadulterated creativity that is released here. At the generous...
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Sitting with nothing. A guest post by Jeff Ho
I’m trying to recollect some of the most memorable moments I experienced at the Banff Playwrights Colony 2015 and somehow they all involve my present action: Sitting, lots and lots of it. Sitting on...
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TIME. Reflections on the Banff Playwright Colony. A guest post by Jani Lauzon
I have been contemplating the idea of TIME for many reasons while nestled in my writing studio, the Evamy, in the Leighton Colony at the Banff Centre. Blessed to be here with the Playwrights Colony as...
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Magic in the Mountains. A guest post by Michael Greyeyes
I count myself extraordinarily lucky to have been to Banff, Alberta, even once. When I mention coming here, there is a typical response that reminds me, strikingly, of my good fortune: ‘Ohhh, I’ve...
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