The Banff Centre is a highly respected arts, cultural, and educational institution in Banff, Alberta Canada. The Banff Centre for the Arts was created as an autonomous institution in 1978 in one of Canada's three most important Arts towns, and is Canada's oldest major summer school of the arts. Famed for the theatre, the centre also has a rich history of concerts and teaching by resident string quartets often playing newly commissioned music, as well as opera and dance performances. Banff townsite (left) and Tunnel Mountain (right) on the Bow River as seen from Sulphur Mountain. ... A precise definition of the arts can be contentious, but the following areas of activity are usually included: Art / Visual arts Architecture Crafts Dance Drawing Film Literature Music Painting Photography Pottery Sculpture Theater Unlike art, design focuses less on the aesthetics of a thing and more on the functionality of... Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia The Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Distionary, with definitions, pronunciations, examples... The foyer of Charles Garniers Opéra, Paris, opened 1875 Opera refers to a dramatic art form, originating in Europe, in which the emotional content is conveyed to the audience as much through music, both vocal and instrumental as it is through the lyrics. ... A contemporary dancer rehearsing in a dance studio Dance (from Old French dance, further history unknown) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression (see also body language) or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. ...

The three divisions of the Centre are the Banff Centre for the Arts, The Banff Centre for Management, and the Banff Centre for Conferences. The Centre for the Arts is the largest and best known division and is Canada's oldest major summer school of the arts. The Centre has been a year-round facility since 1979. The centre holds the Banff International String Quartet Competition and hosts a number of art galleries and international art exhibitions particularly with a focus on contemporary prints and multiples. An art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art, and usually primarily paintings and sculpture. ... Printing is an industrial process for reproducing copies of texts and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. ...

History of the centre

The Centre was founded in 1933 by the University of Alberta, Department of Extension. It began with a single drama course, funded by a grant from the Carnegie Foundation. Its initial success led to rapid expansion of its fine arts programs and it became known as the Banff School of Fine Arts in 1935. University of Alberta on the south side of Edmonton The University of Alberta is situated along the south bank of the North Saskatchewan River in the heart of the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ... The Carnegie Foundation is named after Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-American idealist and industrial magnate, whose generous gift made it possible to carry out plans for the construction of the Peace Palace in 1903, the year in which it was founded. ...

The arts

See also

• Music in Canada
• Theatre in Canada

The contemporary theatre scene in Canada revolves around companies and summer festivals based at facilities in Canadian cities. ...

External links

• Banff Centre official site
• Banff International String Quartet Competition official site
• Walter Phillips Gallery
• Encyclopaedia of Music in Canada entry