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The Clifford E. Lee Choreography Award recognizes outstanding emerging Canadian dance choreographers or companies.

The Barbara Spohr Memorial Award for Photography provides financial and creative assistance to a mid-career Canadian artist.

Deep Winter Writers residency is a self-directed program that offers time and space for writers to retreat, reconnect, and reenergize their writing practice.

Banff Artist in Residence Winter 2026 offers visual artists the time and space to engage in intensive, self-directed research and studio practice.

Mountain Writers Intensive is a three-week residency for writers working in any genre on mountain narratives, environmental journalism, or stories of adventure.

An exceptional opportunity for independent and emerging filmmakers to turn projects into reality, guided by two of the world's premier adventure filmmakers.

Banff Artist in Residence Fall 2025 offers visual artists the time and space to engage in intensive, self-directed research and studio practice.

New Writers of young adult and children's books will expand upon their practice in the 12-day, self-directed residency.

The Comics and Graphic Novels residency considers how creatives use this unique media as a place for personal narrative, memoir, and exploration.

The five-week hybrid residency will engage 12 visual artists whose artistic practice includes land-based themes, environmental sustainability, Indigenous narratives of the land, and/or use of natural materials.