Let It Shine: inaugural Lumière Festival aims to light up downtown Sydney this October

in Arts & Entertainment by Ken Chisholm — May 19, 2011 at 10:22 am | 0 comments

 

A new, innovative arts festival is coming to Sydney this fall and its organizers are looking proposals from groups and individuals seeking to participate.

Lumière: Contemporary Art, Unconventional Spaces is set to take place on October 1, 2011 between 6:57 pm to 12:57 am and means to infuse Sydney’s downtown core with the vibrancy and excitement of theatre, dance, music, visual and fine craft.

The organizers of Lumière will partner with artists with unconventional indoor and outdoor spaces (venues) in downtown Sydney to create a unique nighttime cultural event. Current plans are to have the event in the area between Townsend Street and Dorchester Street, and Charlotte Street and the Esplanade.

Lumière brings to the Cape Breton Regional Muncipality an arts festival concept made popular around the world with events the Nuit Blanche festivals held in cities like Rome, Paris, and Toronto.

The Lumière organizing committee is led by Lori Burke from Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design, Kent Senecal from Centre Communautaire Etolie de l’Acadie, and Laura Schneider from Cape Breton University Art Gallery.

The committee is now seeking submissions from artists (theatre, dance, music, visual art and fine craft, and film) to participate in Lumière.

For anyone interested in learning more about Lumière, there will be a public information session on Friday, May 20, between 12 noon and 1 pm at the Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design, 3rd Floor.

For more information visit www.lumiere2011.ca or email submissions@lumiere2011.ca.

Related posts:

  1. Planning underway for second annual Lumière in downtown Sydney – Information session, April 23
  2. Center for Craft and Design’s winter workshop schedule begins January 18th
  3. Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design offers Fall courses – registration open until September 16
  4. Myth in the Mist begins at the Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design on October 5th
  5. Lumière submission deadline extended to May 14

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Sydney native and resident Ken Chisholm has written plays, songs, reviews, columns and magazine articles. He has been contributing to WGO since the third issue of What's Goin On Magazine in August 1995. Over the years he has written regular movie reviews and a monthly theatre column, as well as articles about a variety of other topics.

 
 
 
 
 

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