From Data to Relational Direction: Evaluative Practices for Cultural Leaders
Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity
- Deadline
- 1 day left
- Entry fee
- $65
- Award
- $2,500
- Location
- Alberta, Canada
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Apply for a 6-day residency program at Banff Centre focused on evaluative practices and data strategy for cultural leaders.
Overview
From Data to Relational Direction: Evaluative Practices for Cultural Leaders is a 6-day residency program at Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity designed to build leadership capacity through evaluation and data strategy. Participants engage in a dynamic, practice-based learning environment featuring hands-on labs, peer exchange, reflexive praxis, and case studies. The program equips cultural leaders to clarify priorities through learning agendas, design integrated data approaches that balance numbers with narrative, and use evaluation to activate strategic plans.
Program Highlights
- Build learning agendas that clarify what matters most
- Design integrated data strategies that balance numbers with narrative
- Use evaluation to activate strategic plans
- Explore arts-based, participatory action and AI-supported methods for reflection and storytelling
- Strengthen internal systems for transparency, adaptability, and shared learning
Eligibility
Open to arts and culture professionals working in organizations of any size and across any art form (visual arts, galleries, museums, theatre, dance, opera, film, music and literature) at any stage of career. Particularly suited for Indigenous, Canadian, and international artists; administrators, managers and directors; policymakers; creative producers; education and engagement specialists; community-based cultural workers in urban and rural settings; and consultants.
Residency Details
- Duration: 6 days
- Average number of participants: 28
- Housing: Private bedroom in a shared housing facility on campus
- Meals: All meals provided
- Languages: English
- Accessibility: Partially accessible (50% or more)
- Pets: Not allowed
- Collaborative residency: Must apply and be accepted individually
Fees
- Application fee: $65 for individuals, $35 for applicants who identify as Indigenous (non-refundable)
- Residency fee: $3,683 CAD per person (tuition, accommodation, and meal plan) plus GST
Funding Support
Funding of up to $2,500 is available to support participants. Those working for non-profits and smaller organizations are encouraged to apply. To be considered, complete the Financial Aid section when uploading supporting materials.
Key Dates
- Submission deadline: July 14, 2026
How to Apply
Complete the open application through SlideRoom. For more information and to apply, visit http://url.banffcentre.ca/bgOxDY
- Award
- Funding of up to $2,500 available to support participants; those working for non-profits and smaller organizations encouraged to apply.
- Entry fee
- Application fee: $65 for individuals, $35 for applicants who identify as Indigenous (non-refundable). Residency fee: $3,683 CAD per person (tuition, accommodation, and meal plan) plus GST.
- Theme
- Acting, Animation, Architecture, Art Conservation, Art Education, Art History, Augmented Reality, Blacksmithing, Book Arts, Ceramics/Clay Arts/Pottery, Choreography, Computing, Costume/Fashion Design, Criticism, Dance, Digital Fabrication, Digital Media, Documentary, Drawing, Electronic Arts, Environmental Arts, Fiction, Film, Fine Metals/Jewelry, Glass Arts, Graphic Design, History, Illustration, Industrial Design, Installation Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts, Journalism, Landscape Architecture, Literary Nonfiction, Literature, Mixed Media, Moving Image, Multimedia Arts, Music, New Genres, Nonfiction, Opera, Painting, Paper Arts, Performance Art, Philosophy, Photography, Playwriting, Poetry, Printmaking, Public Art, Science, Screenwriting, Sculpture, Social Practice, Sound Art, Storytelling, Symphony, Textile & Fiber Arts/Weaving, Theater, Translation, TV + Radio, Virtual Reality, Visual Arts, Woodworking, Writing
- Eligibility
- Any stage of career — The program is designed to cater to arts and culture professionals working in organizations of any size and across any art form (visual arts, galleries, museums, theatre, dance, opera, film, music and literature). This program is suited to those who are looking to build skills that will allow them to run effective organizations, build healthy and sustainable communities, and drive change, including: Indigenous, Canadian, and international artists Administrators, managers and directors Policymakers Creative producers Education and engagement specialists Community-based cultural workers in urban and rural settings Consultants
- Audience
- Arts and culture professionals working in organizations of any size across any art form
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