Marketing & Communications Team

Melanie Busby, Director of Marketing & Communications

Strategic planning for marketing and communications
Branding and positioning strategies
Community and government relations
Budget management
Department management
Leadership Council participation
Liaison with President’s Office

Communications

Debra Hornsby, Director
Jill Sawyer, Communications and Media Relations Officer
Heather Belot, Communications Officer

Inspired: Report to the Community
Annual Report
Banff Mountain Film Festival Magazine
Quarterly reports to Board
Fast Facts
Self-guided tour
Christmas cards
About The Banff Centre
Internal communication/Centrepiece
Final edit/proof of most Centre publications
Communications support to Development, Library and Archives, Community Services, and Human Resources
Revitalization communications
Media relations and media tracking
Crisis communication
Speeches
Campus signage (in co-operation with Jim Olver)
Tour Backup

Web

Chris Lamothe, Senior Web Specialist
Stephen Nelson, Web Specialist
Jim Swanson, Web Specialist

Internet
Intranet
HTML email
ITS liaison

Marketing (Events)

Lachlan Mackintosh, Team Leader
Jaimee Webber, Marketing Officer
Kevin Duncan, Marketing Co-ordinator/Information Officer

Promotion of:

Banff Summer Arts Festival
Music concerts
Presenting Series
Mountain Festivals, Mountain Photography Competition,World Tour, Mountain Speaker Series
Walter Phillips Gallery exhibitions/Visual Arts open studios
Reel Time film series
Banff Centre Press
WordFest
Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC)
Fitness and Recreation
What’s On bi-monthly calendar, monthly poster
Event listings for external web sites and media – bi-weekly
Postering and distribution of What’s On materials in Banff, Canmore, Lake Louise – bi-weekly
Public relations with town front line staff

Marketing (Participant Recruitment)

Sarah Fabbri, Team Leader
Nicki Youroukos, Marketing Officer
Danielle O'Hanley, Marketing Assistant

Aboriginal Arts
BNMI
Music and Sound
Theatre Arts
Visual Arts
Literary Arts
Leighton Artists’ Colony
Mountain Culture
TV Festival and NextMedia Festival
Community Services support

Shari Bishop Bowes Marketing Officer

Leadership Development
Aboriginal Leadership and Management

Deborah Whittle, Marketing Officer

Conferences
Hospitality

Design

Diana Skrepnyk, Design Director
Christine Majer, Graphic Designer
Natalie Bourgault, Graphic Designer
Other designers as required on contract (Laurie Buxton, Kelly Stauffer, Mary Squario)

Design of marketing and communications materials
Visual identity
Co-ordination of contracted design projects
Production co-ordination
Design assistance to the web

Box Office

Linda Wittchen, Box Office Manager
Zarah Meehl, Box Office Coordinator
Catherine Perron, Senior Ticket Seller
Beth Woolley-Monod, Ticket Seller (Cabin)
Sonja Reich, Senior Ticket Seller
Aaron Vanderlip, Ticket Seller (Cabin)