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Media Production Training: Digital Constellations 2026

Overview  

The Media and Production: Professional Training Program (PTP) combines mentorship and formal instruction to help emerging practitioners refine their technical expertise while contributing to innovative digital storytelling in a collaborative professional environment.

Participants will work closely with lead faculty to collaborate and support the projects of the participants in the Indigenous Arts Digital Constellations: Production & Post-Production Residency 2026. The program offers practical experience and formal instruction in the areas of video production and post-production, audio, animation & graphics.

"We Are Still Here" 4th Annual Indigenous Arts Showcase

“We Are Still Here” Moves into its third year in a new location. Featuring native artists from across Turtle Island, “We Are Still Here” brings to the fore the life, histories and politics of what it means to be Indigenous in the 21st Century.

This show is juried by local indigenous artists, elders and community leaders.

Application Deadline: Sept 15th, 2023
Artist Notification: September 20th, 2023
Work Delivered to Gallery: October 25th, 2023
Exhibition Reception: November 3rd, 2023

JURY FEE: $20 Please contact heather@friedliarts.com if you are unable to pay the jury fee. Help is available!

Indigenous Arts Residency: Digital Constellations 2023

Overview

The Digital Constellations Residency supports the development and research phase of a digital media project wherein you can apply as an individual or with a collaborator. 

The residency offers time and a supportive environment to focus on the early concept stages of your project and to research and experiment. The digital media project can intersect with a visual arts practice.

With guidance from faculty, our Media Production team and the support of visual arts facilitators, the goal is for you to create samples of work and develop your project throughout the program. You will also have the opportunity to share projects and network.

What Does the Program Offer

Write Over Here: Screenwriting Residency - Fall 2022

Overview

Write Over Here is a three-week hybrid screenwriting residency, that offers participants the opportunity to focus on tools to create the time and space to write from home and at Banff Centre through online and in person programming.

Intermixed with faculty to support their practice as required, participants will meet with the cohort online for the first week, and on campus for the following two weeks. These will include daily gatherings, where we share readings, workshops, deeper discussions around process, and Q&A sessions. 

What Does the Program Offer?

Indigenous Classical Music Gathering | In Person

Overview
Banff Center is excited to invite folks to the third iteration of the Indigenous Classical Music Gathering (ICMG), led by faculty members Cris Derksen and Eliot Britton. Building on the groundbreaking work previously established by the Canadian Classical Indigenous Music Gathering, Indigenous composers and performers will come together to cultivate their individual crafts through collaboration and personal development. 

Participants will spend time each day to gather and discuss current classical music issues, unpack our shared history of being Indigenous within the genre, and shine a light onto where we would like to see classical music go. 

Call for Indigenous artists for permanent sculpture at the Dairy Arts Center

The Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, Colorado invites artists’ proposals for a new public artwork for a permanent public art sculpture dedicated to Indigenous people in our community and region. The intent is to acknowledge the traditional Indigenous inhabitants of the land occupied by the Dairy.

“Acknowledgment is a critical public intervention, a necessary step toward honoring Native communities and enacting the much larger project of decolonization and reconciliation. Join us in adopting, calling for, and spreading this practice.” – Honor Native Land: a guide and call to acknowledgment, US Department of Arts & Culture

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