The legendary Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is launching an Emerging Writers Intensive program this coming October, and I’ve hired on to teach the CNF side of things. It’s a one-week gig, October 2 – 9, and if you want to sign up, you have until July 5 to do so.
On the personal side, I have been to this place before. Once especially. I was maybe 10 or 11, on a family trip, car camping. We had just been to Jasper, where my rambunctious brothers and I chased bear cubs in the woods (now I perceive how eminently stupid this was). We drove into the Banff Centre and walked around and I was bored until my mother led us into a ballet rehearsal studio. I had never seen anything like it in my life (I was raised on a farm). An instructor was teaching young male dancers how to lift young female dancers (you know, just older than me, fairy-tale beings, I could almost see their gossamer wings). The memory still electrifies my imagination (where, yes, I remain twelve forever).
Now that I think of it, I feel a memoir coming on — “My Life in Ballet.”
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Here’s a link to the Emerging Writers Intensive page. And here’s a link to the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
And here is the faculty:
Does this mean we can get together for coffee or a drink while you’re in the “neighbourhood”?
I sure hope so, Joe. That would be a delight.