Mountain Guide

If the February blues have passed you by, there’s no need to feel you’re missing out.

A call of the wild is going out to Canmore and Exshaw students from Wildsmart for art submissions.

Banff Town Hall’s exhibition of artwork from Bow Valley community members offers an annual outlet to showcase local talent at all levels and through multiple artistic mediums.

There once was a girl who was “seriously single.” It was the summer of 2013 and Corrie DiManno couldn’t help but notice couples.

Relax; the Christmas season is not coming back to the Bow Valley on March 1. But Stuart McLean is setting up shop in The Banff Centre’s Eric Harvie Theatre where The Vinyl Café will be open for business.

To the people of the Stoney Nakoda First Nations, the Bow Valley is their everything. "(It) forms the centre of our culture, our economy, our families, and our way of living off the land," Nakoda elder and artist Roland Rollinmud and Ian A.L. Getty, Stoney Nakoda Nation research director, write in the foreword of Spirits of the Rockies: Reasserting an Indigenous Presence in Banff National Park by Courtney W. Mason.

If you wish to exorcise some demons from your young imagination, or celebrate your adolescent inventiveness, you’ll soon have such an opportunity to do so at The Banff Centre.

A mixed-media opening exhibit with cowboy flare is being rustled up at Canmore’s Elevation Gallery. The opening reception of Canmore Rodeo ’82 (Feb. 28, 2-5 p.m.

With a name like Cobra Ramone, chamber quartets, electronica, jazz and gospel likely weren’t going to be found at the end of a musical road.

Banff has been the scene of many big events – performances in the park, premieres at The Banff Centre, sporting events large and small, even the swearing in of brand new Canadians during citizenship ceremonies.