2008 Event Highlights
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2008
In January during the Banff Winter Festival, Bison Courtyard played host to a popular slide show by Chic Scott. "Powder Pioneers" tells the story of some of Banff's earliest skiers.
The late spring this year allowed some people to celebrate Earth Day on skis. Others gathered at the Courtyard with dead electronics for recycling and incandescent lightbulb to exchange. Bow Valley Waste was on hand with info about composting, biodegradables and how to safely get rid of "stuff". For the kids in attendance, Whale Tales was the main event. The concert by Peter Puffin, a family entertainer who uses music to celebrate environmental science, community building and the wonderful world in which we live, was a rousing affair.
On May 14, Banff Elementary School's Grade Two Class took over the Courtyard for a couple of hours to promote sales of their own environmentally-friendly cleaning products. The students created and sold the cleaning products as a part of a joint math/science project.
Later in May, the Willock & Sax Gallery hosted a reception and walkabout tour with internationally-acclaimed watercolorist Robert Sinclair. The event was in conjunction with a workshop at the Whyte Museum.
Opera was a strong theme for the July 2008 "Concerts in the Courtyard". The weekly plein air events featured performers participating in operas at The Banff Centre: Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell; Phaedra by Benjamin Britten; and A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten. The one non-operatic concert highlighted the skills of the brass band M5.
July also found actors from Pride and Prejudice in the Courtyard, sharing scenes from the play.
As always in August, Bison Courtyard was a favourite stop during Banff's Culture Walk and Doors Open Banff.
On October 4, Bison Courtyard hosted the beginning and end of a 350 bike ride. The goal of the ride was to bring attention to 350, a significant number in the survival of our planet.
350 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is the theoretical safe line we must not cross. Right now we are at 387 ppm. Find our more at www.350.org
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