The Centre's focus is on professional working artists and practitioners of arts-related production or technology disciplines who require formal and informal dialogue with their peers in order to advance their creative practice. Production Professional production and performance are used as vehicles for training. Unlike institutions where the faculty perform and learners observe, The Banff Centre for the Arts facilitates experience through professional public performance or production of art works. Training Artists who come to the Centre range from accomplished artists and practitioners who seek advanced learning to younger artists and practitioners requiring entry level and intermediate skills.
New works require and generate new skills.
Underpinning all activities is advanced training for working professionals performers, composers, librettists, stage and musical directors, choreographers, coaches, designers and production personnel. Visit Theatre Arts Web Site Writing programs are devoted to all aspects of literary arts and to developing a forum for the exchange of ideas in contemporary art and literature. Fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, performers, editors, journalists, designers and other publishing professionals are involved in residencies, workshops, special projects and publications that stimulate discussion about writing and publishing, raise awareness of the written and spoken word, and make manifest the belief that art and ideas, must in various ways, be communicated to others. The Media and Visual Arts program focuses on professional development and training opportunities for artists and cultural producers in various disciplines. The program supports creative and critical endeavours, providing access to emerging and established technologies in new media, video, television, ceramics, painting, performance, photography, print media, papermaking, sculpture, 16mm film editing and textiles.