Description

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity runs this cultural leadership program for professionals examining how cultural policy shapes access, equity, and influence. Participants explore Canada’s colonial policy foundations and ongoing systemic inequities alongside international trends and policy shifts. The goal is to reimagine policy as an inclusive, responsive framework reflecting diverse worldviews, lived experiences, and community priorities.

Through dialogue, case studies, and international comparisons, Indigenous and non-Indigenous decision-makers examine local, provincial, federal, and Indigenous governance systems. The program develops tools for engaging government policy cycles, forecasting cultural funding futures, and advocating for institutional transformation. Human-centered and regenerative design, public engagement, and cross-sector collaboration inform practical work grounded in responsibility, equity, accountability, and right relations.