Here are some suggestions of where to look for things to do:
The Parks Canada website lists some great day hikes in the Banff area, as well as info on self-guided interpretive trails, and information about current conditions and safety tips. http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/ab/banff/activ/activ1.aspx
The Banff area also boasts some fantastic white water rafting on the Kicking Horse River. http://www.wildwater.com/rafting-trips/
If you prefer something a little less adventurous, how about a beautiful gondola ride to see the sights from the air - http://www.explorerockies.com/banff-gondola/
or a dip in Banff’s famous Hot Springs - http://www.pleiadesmassage.com/banff/index.html
The Banff Springs Hotel is a lovely place to enjoy afternoon tea. - http://www.fairmont.com/banffsprings
And the hotel also maintains one of the best spas in Alberta - http://www.fairmont.com/banffsprings/GuestServices/SPA/
Banff has all kinds of restaurants and bars worth checking out, as well as lots and lots of shopping, if that’s your thing. Lots of info on wining, dining and shopping can be found on the Town of Banff website - http://www.banff.ca/visiting-banff.htm.
The Banff Centre has all kinds of entertainment, year round. Check out their website for listings of other activities going on at the centre during the time of the LMDA conference. Summer programming may not all be listed until June, so check back closer to the time of the conference for more details. http://www.banffcentre.ca/events/
July 1st is a big holiday in Canada. It’s Canada Day, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the 1 July 1867 enactment of The British North America Act, which united two British colonies and a province of the British Empire into a single country called Canada. Canada Day observances take place throughout Canada. Activities scheduled in commemorate the day in Banff can be found here: http://www.banff.ca/activities-events/festivals-special-events/canada-day.htm
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John Gentile is a writer, director, actor, and storyteller. His stage adaptations of folk and literary narrative, include: “Over Nine Waves: Celtic Mythtelling from Ancient Ireland,” “Jack of Beech Mountain: Folktales from Southern Appalachia,” “Tales from the Brothers Grimm,” “Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice Told-Tales,” “The Bell Witch and Other Legends: Ghost Stories from the American South,” and “The Hero’s Journey: Mythic Stories of the Heroic Quest,” which was featured at the International Mythic Journeys conference celebrating the centennial of Joseph Campbell’s birth. His adaptation of Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” won the Jury award as Best Performance at the 21st Annual Festival International de Theatre Universitaire de Casablanca (Casablanca Theatre Festival). His essay, “The Pilgrim Soul: Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick,” was published in Text & Performance Quarterly. Most recently, he adapted and directed “Redwing: Voices from 1888,” a collection of poetic monologues by Katharyn Howd Machan.
He is the author of Cast of One: One-Person Shows form the Chautauqua Platform to the Broadway Stage (University of Illinois Press), a history of American solo performance, and a founding co-editor with Joseph Sobol of the Storytelling, Self, Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies, for which he now serves as book review editor.
John is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre, Performance Studies and Dance at Kennesaw State University, where he teaches classes in solo performance, storytelling, myth, performance art, and adapting literary texts for the stage.
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