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returning to the everyday
grind in the classroom.

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BANFF, Alta. (CP) -- You
can't hear yourself think in
the buildings: of the Banff
School: of Fine Arts at the
Banff Centre. The rooms
vibrate with jazz or classical
musie or actors talking.

The sounds are part of the
Almosphere. :

The idea of the school Is

Hot to compete with other

universities or Institutes of
fine aris, administrator Neil

. Armstrong says. .

Nodegrees are offered and
no academic qualifications
are needed, But artists have
to be highly recommended

‘and need a wide range of

practical experience to be

Until 1979, the activities

occurred during the six-week

, Summer course.

‘The year-round Banff con-

servatory, which is begin-.

ning this fall, will change the
school into. a place where
musicians and actors can
finish polishing their skills,

Armstrong says. ;
The first group of about 25

professional musicians will
move into the residences in

retirement 10 years ago.
At 77, that drive is still
there, .

“T don’t do much around
here now. I’m the’ r
emeritus of this-and-that. I
think I’m an honorary
member of the board,"

Though he devoted his life
to the arts, Cameron makes
noclalm tobean artist. “The
arilstic staff has always had
the discretion not to involve
me in their work. I did take
part in one play. Manpower
was so scarce that year that
anybody who wore pants was
recruited, ‘

“What I liké to do," he

says, is mobilize, organize

and coardinate resources. If
you look around, there are
usually more-resources than
you ever dreamed of,”
Cameron hadn't 8 thought
in his head about en-

. couraging the arts when he

ined the department of
a eaton at the University
of Alberta in 1930,

“l was travelling in-

Alberta, lecturing about
farm science. Bul the
‘questions that were asked of
me, after the talks, around

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questioned my activities.

The school never cost them |

much money and they
realized it was good public
relations. The folllea always

same down on my own

bead,'
He made the school seli-

supporting and often had an-

operating surplus.

_ Part of the reason was his
pursuit of corporate
donations. ‘I rattled the tin
cup furiously every time I
was in the East,” he saya. “A
lot of money fell in."

He also had a knack for
Picking artistic staff to bulld
the reputation of the summer

] Banff hears art boom

school. As a board member
of the National Film Board
he met many artists.

IL, the first decades of the
school, Cameron attracted
palnters like J.E.H. MacDo-
nald and A.Y. Jackson of the
Group of Seven. .

then.

This year the operating
budget for the school is $6
million and Armstrong
estimates it will probably
double within five years,

By 1965, Armstrong ex-
pects to have 379 atudenta at
the school on a year-round

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actors, directors,
playwrights and technical

This is probably the
greatest change aince the
school was founded in 1933 by

Donald Cameron, who has.

since been appointed to the

” "He started the school and

‘was the driving force behind
the school

‘ their

until his”

“Most of the people had
come from older com-
munities in Europe or in the
East. They realized what

children wera
missing

The first school was estab-
lished under the auspices of
the university extension
department in 1933.
bead af the department bit

ent bu
continued to run the school.
- “The university’ never

KITIMAT |
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SEES A DECADE

Tocommemorate its 10th anniversary, the
Kitimat museum will hold a local art show on

Oct. 5. All Terrace

and Kitimat - artists,

Photographers and crafts people are being in-

vited to take part.

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