Sub-series consists of material relating to summits and workshops hosted or created by The Banff New Media Institute in 1997. Includes administrative planning materials, workshop materials, and audio recordings. According to the BNMI's website, the following programs took place that year:
Women in the Director's Chair, January 18 - January 29
Writing for Series Television, January 19 - January 30
Aboriginal Electronic Publishing / Multimedia Workshop, February 19 - February 22
Screenwriting for Storytellers, May 03 - May 04
Marriage or Divorce? Television and the Web, June 07 - June 08
The Selling of Silly and the Future of Funny: Television, Interactive Media & Comedy, June 13 - June 14
Banff Television Festival, June 09 - June 13
The Summer Summit at the Summit: A RealWorld/Banff Centre Think Tank on the Future of Interactive Media, June 17 - June 19
Visual Design for Interactive Media/CD-ROM, June 22 - June 26
Interactive Screen '97, July 01 to July 11
Instructional Design for New Media, August 02
Developing and Designing Educational Multimedia, August 05 - August 09
Java Authoring, August 14 - August 16
mTropolis Authoring, August 17 - August 19
Play to Win! Developing Interactive Games, August 21 - August 25
SGI Presents The Third Dimension: VRML and the WWW, August 26 - August 28
The Digital Burgess, August 26 - September 01
Interactive Multimedia Authoring, September 08 - September 14
Creative Computing, September 19 - September 20
Vicom Presents Nereus Multimedia Publishing System, September 19 - September 21
Financing Multimedia Software and Content Projects, September 27 - September 28
SensAble Technologies Presents Artist New Media: Haptic Interfaces, September 22 - September 24
Developing Cultural Product for Television October 25 - October 26
Animation: An Exploration of Japanese ANIME, November 14 - November 16
Flesh Eating Technologies, December 06 - 07