E Y Y D N AN N S EE NUAL W FR CON D O W N T O A TEM PO RAR , 28, Y A L , 27 20 RTS STIVA 26 19 FE ER S EMB T EPT 7PM- MIDNIGH WELCOME MESSAGE FROM MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR THE BOARD Welcome to the ninth edition of Lumière, Sydney’s contemporary On behalf of Cape Breton Regional arts festival, held on the traditional Mi’kmaw lands of Unama’ki, Municipality Council, I welcome all guests Cape Breton Island. Each year, the festival grows as a signature to Lumière 2019. cultural event, bringing our community together to celebrate and experience the arts. Artists from Cape Breton and around This annual festival transforms Downtown the country will transform everyday spaces into something Sydney; expanding our appreciation of art. extraordinary. Experience the magic during Lumière 2019. Many thanks to the local business Wla maqamikew anquna’toq wla ta’n teluisik “Ankuo’mkewey community for embracing this outdoor Wantaqoti aq Witaptultimkewey” ta’n Mi’kmaq aq Wulustukewaq show, to the artists who share their talent (Maliseet) mimajuinu’k amkwesewey ewi’kmi’tip wla ta’n and to the organizers and volunteers, qame’kewaq aklasie’wk pekisitu’tip 1726-ek. Ankuo’mkewe’l without whom, this would not be possible. kisna teplu’taqn mu eteknupn iknmuetasik maqamikew aq wla ta’n apoqnmask mimajuaqn nasik mikwaptasikɨp Mi’kmawewey Enjoy the beauty, spectacle and flair of aq Wulustukewey wisunkewey aq kisa’tu’tɨpn ptlutaqn wjɨt Lumière 2019. wela’matultimkewey. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) people first signed with the British Crown in 1726. The treaties did not deal with surrender of lands and resources but in fact recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations. In 2018, Lumière presented the first of its annual festivals with a curatorial theme: Erosion. That theme was inspired by the physical and cultural character of Unama’ki / Cape Breton, an island shaped by the forces of nature and the peoples of many nations who have, over centuries, occupied this land. The 2019 curatorial theme, Transitions, builds upon this idea by inviting artists and the community at large to reflect upon the changes that have shaped this place and those that are leading us into the future. 2 3 SPONSORS AND PARTNERS The Lumière Arts Festival gratefully acknowledges community, business and MOONLIGHT SPONSORS government partners for their generous contributions to the Festival. Keltic ELECTRIC SPONSORS Kubota MEDIA SPONSORS SUNLIGHT SPONSORS PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS SPOTLIGHT SPONSOR FLOODLIGHT SPONSORS GOVERNMENT FUNDERS 4 5 CAPE BRETON BETTER BITE THE LUMIÈRE EXPERIENCE ISLAND CENTRE COMMUNITY HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE The Lumière Arts Festival is three full days of art, culture, and community FOR IMMIGRATION KITCHEN spirit. Use this guide to plan your festival experience. Explore Lumière’s free public programming including short film screenings on Thursday crafted around our theme, Transitions, hosted by Nelson MacDonald at The NEW DAWN NEW DAWN Highland Arts Theatre. On Friday night join us at the Old Sydney Society for Artist Talks featuring Skye Goodden, Megan Stewart, and David Peters. Finally, map your route through the Saturday’s art-at-night event, and study HOMECARE PROPERTIES up on featured artists. Some of the events at Lumière are time sensitive performances. For a listing of the events that take place at scheduled times NEW DAWN NEW DAWN throughout the evening, please see the Performance Schedule on page 29. COMMUNITY MEALS ON PROJECT TYPES ENGAGEMENT WHEELS SPOTLIGHT ARTIST COMMUNITY NEW DAWN PROUD SUPPORTER Spotlight projects Artist projects Community projects are hand picked and are presented are presented by local organised by the by emerging and organizations, youth ENTERPRISES OF LUMIÈRE Lumière team to professional artists groups, and clubs. offer new aesthetic whose projects have experiences for been assessed by an Lumière’s audience. independent jury. IMPORTANT INFORMATION FIND YOUR WAY ACCESSIBLE Volunteers sporting bright Lumière is committed to giving Lumière toques and t-shirts all persons the same opportunity are available to answer questions to experience our art-at-night festival. and give directions at the art-at- This year, all of our artist projects are night event. accessible, along with all the other programming such as our workshops BATHROOMS and artist talks. Public toilets are listed on the art-at-night map (pg See you at the Convent 26-27). during Lumière 2020 7 NEVER UNDERESTIMATE FESTIVAL AT-A-GLANCE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 CAPE BRETON. Short Film Screenings with Nelson MacDonald 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm See Page 11 The Highland Arts Theatre, 40 Bentinck Street Nelson MacDonald is a Cape Breton born filmmaker best known for producing the internationally acclaimed feature film Werewolf. In 2017, he THE WORLD’S MOST released an experimental short documentary about company houses that premiered at the 71st Edinburgh International Film Festival and is still on the festival circuit. Come see the program of short films from across North EXCITING FESTIVALS America Nelson has curated around our theme, Transitions. Like all of our Lumière events, this is free of charge. ARE POWERED BY FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 MARCATO Velo Cape Breton Artist Talks international online Bike Parade 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm art publication that 6:30 pm start Old Sydney Society promotes art writing Open Hearth Park, Museum, 173 Charlotte and journalism, and via Ferry Street Street stresses a return to art criticism. We Light up the night with Hear Lumière artists will also hear from the Velo Cape Breton Bike speak about their work Megan Stewart of Parade. Start and end at and artistic process the The River Clyde Open Hearth Park. during the Lumière Pageant and David Artist Talks. This year’s Peters, originally from special guest speaker is Dunvegan but residing Sky Goodden, founding in Manitoba. editor of Momus, an SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Lantern Workshops Art-At-Night Official After Party See page 22 7:00 pm - Midnight 11:00 pm - 2:00 am Make Lumière magic. Visit Downtown Sydney Keep the magic going one of the CBRL branches Lumière’s signature at the official Lumière below or the Membertou art-at-night event lights after party. 19+ event. Heritage Park and create up Downtown Sydney’s Location to be + 250 OTHER WORLD CLASS EVENTS a lantern to carry in the civic spaces with art, announced. Lumière Lantern Parade. culture and community All materials will be spirit. LEARN MORE ABOUT MARCATO AT: provided. Workshops are free. Visit lumierecb.com MARCATOFESTIVAL.COM to register. 9 SHORT FILM SCREENINGS Nelson MacDonald Thursday, September 26 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm The Highland Arts Theatre, 40 Bentinck St. Lumière 2019 opens with a screening of short films selected on the festival theme of Transitions. The program is bookended by a pair of films examining familiar movements in the natural world – avian and lunar. In between, we examine societal flux via an animation drawn with the filmmaker’s own blood, a documentary that draws on 100 years of archival footage, and a work assembled entirely of satellite images. The transformations are more personal in three realist dramas that round out the evening; We view aging through the lens of a young transgender woman caring for her grandmother, immigration via a group of Arab teens searching for a pool in their new city, and the generational gap between a young Cree man and his traditional father. Lunar Almanac 4 mins. Malena Szlam Wapawekka 16 mins. Danis Goulet Best of Luck With The Wall 7 mins. Josh Begley For Nonna Ana 13 mins. Luis De Filippis Blood Manifesto 2 mins. Theodore Ushev Graven Image 10 mins. Sierra Pettengill Rupture 18 mins. Yassmina Karajah The Art of Flying 7 mins. Jan van IJken 11 SPOTLIGHT ARTIST PROJECT SPOTLIGHT ARTIST PROJECT SPOTLIGHT ARTIST Cynthia Martin and Anke Fox Tensile Treaty The Civic Centre, Co-operators on Charlotte Street and the YMCA of Cape Breton Cynthia Martin is a Mi’kmaq artist from Millbrook Reserve. Inspired by the indigenous beauty of Nova Scotia, she hopes to reflect it in her work as a Mi’kmaq textile and ceramic artist. Anke Fox, is a landed immigrant from Germany. Through her exploration of cloth, she has acquired a broad range of techniques, from felting to screen printing large scale photographic imagery, from dyeing with lichens and rust to heat transfer dye sublimation, from back-strap weaving to digital The River Clyde Pageant weaving. Undercurrents New Dawn, 37 Nepean Street Watch weavers, Cynthia Martin and Anke Fox weave together on a backstrap loom. Backstrap weaving is an ancient form of weaving used in many cultures around the The River Clyde Pageant is an outdoor, community-created theatre world. This unusual and innovative collaborative process of weaving requires the production based in New Glasgow, Prince Edward Island. Founded in willingness to stand strong, work together in unison with respect and trust, and tune into one another to work collaboratively with each other's subtle body movement. 2016 by Megan Stewart and Ker Wells, the Pageant explores historic and contemporary relationships between humans and our environment. Marten and Fox will weave at three different locations throughout the festival route Using story, song and spectacle on land and water, The River Clyde on warps that represent Sky, Water and the Earth; the elements we walk under, drink Pageant poses questions of how to live sustainably on this planet, what of and wander on. The tightly spun wool will be carefully prepared and hand-dyed to reflect the colours of the elements. defines our relationship to place, and how we might work together to protect our ecosystems and communities for generations to come.