{"id":5782,"date":"2022-05-30T12:48:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T16:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/panl\/?p=5782"},"modified":"2022-05-30T17:03:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T21:03:51","slug":"banff-centre-and-social-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/panl\/2022\/banff-centre-and-social-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"“It’s Part of Our DNA”: Banff Centre & Social Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three leaders from Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity<\/a> recently spoke to PANL Perspectives<\/em> about arts and social issues in Canada. Janice Price (President and CEO), Mark Wold (Dean of Arts and Leadership) and Valerie Kapay (Vice President of Talent Management and Culture) discussed issues and initiatives at Banff.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Which social issues has Banff Centre dealt with more deliberately in recent years?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"ValerieValerie Kapay<\/strong>: Banff Centre has always had inclusion, diversity, equity and access as part of our DNA. In fact, I’ve been here for more than 20 years now, and I recall, at one point, we had 52 cultures on campus. It’s something that’s part of us. You’ll see in our strategic plan that we’ve included that in our roots and in various pathways, so we’ve codified it for future commitments, even though it’s always been a commitment in the past. We now have an Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access Advisory Committee that has met three times, and we’re drafting a terms of reference for it.<\/p>\n

\"MarkMark Wold<\/strong>: The main issue is reparative justice. We’re entertaining individual programs and artists’ projects on climate change, but inclusion, diversity, equity and access are priorities as an institution, and a distinct category is Truth and Reconciliation. We’re celebrating 50 years of running Indigenous Leadership programs<\/a> and do year-round Indigenous arts programming<\/a>. Out of that work, we have adopted a Right Relations framework<\/a> that we introduce to every artist cohort to create safe spaces. And for programs, we ask, “How are you factoring in Truth and Reconciliation? How are you factoring in Equity, Diversity and Access?” We call those “transparency metrics” and challenge our program directors to say how those manifest in the program content, the faculty they choose, and in their recruitment strategies for participants.<\/p>\n