In this first collection of poetry and short fiction from The Banff Centre's Writing Studio program, 41 of the program's most accomplished alumni are gathered in an unforgettable anthology.

Meltwater: Fiction and Poetry from the Banff Centre for the Arts (Fiction and Poetry from the Banff Centre, 1)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Banff Centre Press

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 diverse as their voices: the curious nature of the celebrity interview, writers "borrowing" material from other writers, the extinction of Aboriginal languages, a jazz musician's troubled life. Offering unique insights, the writers take risks with style and substance, laying themselves on the line with an intimacy seldom seen in contemporary journalism.

Taking Risks: Literary Journalism from the Edge

History & Criticism

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 land and its ecology.

Staking Land Claims

Arts & Photography

In this second collection from The Banff Centre's Writing Studio program, forty-one accomplished writers share some of the poetry and fiction that grew from their Banff writing experience. In celebration of the Writing Studio's twenty-fifth anniversary, Rip Rap joins Meltwater as an important gathering of Banff Centre alumni, a tribute to the continuing influence of Banff on the lives and careers of writers across the country. The selections in Rip Rap are infused with a fresh perspective, offering a rare and intelligent clarity of vision. In joining the path travelled by so many before them, each writer adds his or her voice to the bedrock--both of Banff's writing community and of Canada's literary landscape.

Rip Rap: Fiction and Poetry from the Banff Centre for the Arts (Fiction and Poetry from the Banff Centre, 2)

Contemporary

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.

To Arrive Where You Are: Literary Journalism from the Banff Centre for the Arts

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Intersections: Fiction and Poetry from the Banff Centre for the Arts

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 assesses the identity crisis that faces Canadian museums in an analysis that has implications for all public cultural institutions.

Hall of Mirrors: Museums and the Canadian Public

Gillam, Robyn

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.

Why Are You Telling Me This?: Eleven Acts of Intimate Journalism (Literary Journalism from the Banff Centre, 1)

A lyrical analysis of the intersections between poetic speech and music, intertwined with the history of black/white relations in America.Digitopia Blues is a fluid narrative about orality and literacy -- their individual histories, and their blended futures. Musician and poet John Sobol pinpoints the African American struggle to find a language of revolutionary power through orality and music, as well as the literate poet's impulse to transcend the printed page. Then he locates literacy and orality in the new digital media, in rap, in rave and even in Napster. Sobol's book is intertwined with the stories of the blues, jazz and rock 'n' roll, the powerful world of the printed word and the potential dangers and advantages that digital communications technologies offer people of colour.

Digitopia Blues

Sobol, John

Few public venues exist for the contemplation of curatorial research and development in Canada, and there are even fewer forums for reflection by Canadian curators within an international context. The Edge of Everything is the result of a book project designed by Catherine Thomas to provide such a space for curators. It is a surprising collection of political, personal, quirky and humorous commentary by Canadian and international curators on their individual practices. The collection is (as Canadian curator Ihor Holubizky writes) a "chain of incidents, heliocentric worlds at the edge of everything." From the pathos of Anthony Kiendl's approach to curatorial work, to the punk origins of Matthew Higgs's work, and the contemplation of Aboriginal curatorial practice in Canadian institutions, independent curator and art historian, Catherine Thomas has collected a fantastic sampling of thoughts on curatorial work. The curator surfaces from this book as a figure who dwells both in the institutions of the art world, and also in its fissures, its edges and gaps--as Matthew Higgs writes--"between the audience and the stage, between the spectacle and its reception." "Revealing, often funny and, above all, sincere, this collection explores the critical and personal motives of a varied group of senior and emerging Canadian and international curators."--Christina Ritchie, Director/Curator, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.

The Edge of Everything: Reflections on Curatorial Practice (Naming a Practice)

Thomas, Catherine

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