Good News

I have been lucky and privileged to be both a participant and a lecturer / workshop leader at the Banff Centre, an unique facility in Banff, Alberta that offers programs in management development, residencies for artists and a new media institute that carries out research and hosts a handful of connections-making summits.

It's longer-term future has often been a subject of speculation, and has included the possibility that it become even more of a world-class incubator of innovation and talent ... in the case of management development, there is a very interesting cross-disciplinary approach that places significant emphasis on the arts.

This generous gift should help with some of the crucial steps towards that longer-term vision.

Via the Toronto Globe & Mail

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Banff Centre hits $10-million gusher
DAWN WALTON
September 11, 2007

CALGARY — The venerable but aging Banff Centre in Banff, Alta., in the middle of a massive makeover, received its largest-ever individual gift yesterday, a $10-million pledge from a Calgary oilman that will aid an expansion of the facility.

"When the opportunity came along, I jumped at it," Jim Kinnear, president and chief executive officer of Pengrowth Energy Trust, said yesterday in announcing his donation. "It's really the co-existence of the arts at the Banff Centre and management development. There really are, interestingly enough, some synergies between the arts and development of management."

The money will be dedicated to building the Kinnear Centre for Creativity and Innovation, a key element in an overall $164-million revitalization project aimed at transforming the Rocky Mountain campus into a state-of-the-art facility.

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