BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL
Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the world! Hot on the heels of the Festival that is held every fall in beautiful Banff, Alberta, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits the road. With stops planned in over 600 communities and more than 40 countries across the globe, the Banff World Tour celebrates amazing achievements in outdoor storytelling and filmmaking worldwide.
From the over 400 entries submitted into the Festival each year, award-winners and audience favorites are among the films that are carefully selected to play in theatres around the world.
Traveling to remote vistas, analyzing topical environmental issues, and bringing audiences up-close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports the 2023/2024 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world.
TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 24TH 2023
JUAN MARTIN
General Admission: $40.00
Student/Senior: $35.00
"Voted into the top flamenco guitarists by the magazine Guitar Player for two years running and was invited to perform at Picasso’s 90th birthday celebrations which later led him to record his ground breaking album Picasso Portraits."
Juan Martín learned his art in the land of its origin, Andalucia in southern Spain where he spent his early formative years and where he still retains a home. As a teenager he played in local fiestas, weddings and baptisms, developing his knowledge and skills in the disciplines of the purest traditions of flamenco.
Reviewers have compared his compositions to those of the great Spanish composers Tarrega and Turina and his compositions often reflect the historic sense of places, people and paintings that characterise the remarkable range and depth of his artistry today including his profound sensitivity to the beauties of sound and rhythmic ímpetus of which his guitar is capable.
THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 17TH 2023
local talent showcase!
Tickets: $20.00
Mother Tongue Documentary HALF/ASIAN & Amy the CODA, plus special guest Ben Coyle.
She's the child of a mother who is Deaf. He is mixed race. Together they are HALF/ASIAN and Amy the CODA, a synth-pop duo turning the spotlight on Deaf culture in the music industry. Join them on tour and discover how Amy's experiences became the driving force behind the band.
A mixture of film & music, this is a night to not be missed! Sit back and feel yourself being moved by this 22 minute documentary, followed by a set by Ben Coyle & HALF/ASIAN & Amy the CODA.
THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 22ND 2024
THE WARDENS
General Admission: $30.00
Student/Senior:$25.00
The Rocky Mountain-based band’s stories and songs rise from the very land they’ve protected as Canadian national park wardens. With haunting three-part harmonies and chilling tales, the band’s mountain music - blending folk, roots and western styles – reflects Canada's protected wilderness areas. Celebrating the return of wild buffalo, wrangling grizzly bears, lonely nights on the packtrail and reflecting on an environment in crisis, a performance by The Wardens has been dubbed “the quintessential mountain-culture concert experience."
Following the 2021 release of their third full-length album Sold Out at the Ironwood, band member Ray Schmidt was nominated Traditional Singer of the Year by the Canadian Folk Music Awards. The band has also received numerous regional nominations including 2022 Touring Artist of the Year by the BC Touring Council and Album of the Year by Country Music Alberta.
FRIDAY,
MARCH 8TH 2024
Vancouver international mountain film festival
Tickets: $20.00
For the second year in a row we will be showing the Vancouver Mountain Film Festival.
Grab tickets to this action packed award winning evening of mountain adventure films.
Driven by a passion for film, culture, and the outdoors, the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival (VIMFF) Society seeks to advance appreciation of films and film-making while inspiring, informing, and educating the public in these areas.
VIMFF achieves its aim by producing film festivals and photo exhibits, and providing a forum for film-makers and photographers to present and discuss their works. Its instructional seminars on films, film-making, and photography provide further education for those seeking to develop their skills.
THURSDAY,
APRIL 18TH 2024
AMAI KUDA ET LES BOIS
General Admission: $30.00
Student/Senior: $25.00
Amai Kuda et Les Bois don’t fit into the usual boxes. Breaking boundaries is part of their superpower. Not a band or a solo act, they prefer to call themselves ‘a movement.’ Led by Amai Kuda, their shows and albums always begin with the pouring of libations and the invocation of ancestors. This spiritual element weaves its way throughout all their music, whether that be soothing acoustic ballads, dancy electronic grooves or alt-rock-hiphop-infused political tracks. Ecouché, for example, the “stunning new single” (Indie88) off the new album EmUrgency! is sung entirely in a language of ancestral communication and can’t be delivered the same way twice. It embodies what NOW magazine has called the group’s “tantalizing Afro-soul” fusion sound, "earthy and rootsy and good for your ears" (Errol Nazareth CBC in reference to AfroSoul Volume II: MaZai). Indeed, it is the genre-defying nature of their work which led their debut album, Sand from the Sea, to be named “one of the year's most exciting discoveries” (Nicholas Jennings - Canada's foremost music journalist).