Schedule of Events
Friday, September 26th
7-9pm
Artist Talks and Social
Eltuek Arts Centre – 170 George Street
Saturday, September 27th
1-4pm
Muin and the Seven Bird Hunters Installation Creation / Community Workshops in four locations at CBRL
Locations: TBD
Featured Artists
Sue Goyette lives in K’jipuktuk (Halifax) and has published several books of poems and a novel. Sue has been offering community writing workshops for over two decades and has been a faculty member of the Creative Writing Program at Dalhousie University for over fifteen years.
Jessie Donaldson is an interdisciplinary artist based in the Maritimes. Freedom to experiment, ample solitude, and occasional collaboration are essential to her practice, and she loves the delightful and unpredictable processes and results that come from interacting creatively with other people.
Isaac Gould and Chanelle Julian
Chanelle and Isaac are 2Spirit artists from Eskasoni, NS. Their Collaborations come from 2 different perspectives and art styles that merge well together.
Arjun Lal is an interdisciplinary artist based in K’jipuktuk. Through sculptural and performance based work they fuel discussions on themes including colonialism/post-colonialism and queer futurity through fantasy world building. Their past worlds include a forest of fruity people, a leather bar in Bangalore, investigative vibratory soundscapes and portals into space/time.
Lal is currently an MFA candidate at NSCAD University where they are dreaming about what a post-colonial world might feel like. Their work is driven by lived-experiences and collected sensations which manifest into sensory responses through his art practice.
Melissa Kearney is a multi-disciplinary artist in Unama’ki | Cape Breton. Reimagining how geography, and bygone industry tell the story of the soul, Kearney focus on the personal and community. Their practice includes painting, performance, installation and film. They have participated in exhibitions and festivals across the province and is currently the Artistic Director at Eltuek Arts Centre in the north end of Sydney.
Robyn Martelly is from Whitney Pier, Nova Scotia, which is located in Unama’ki (Cape Breton Island). Robyn is an artist, contributing author, poet, and a freelance writer. Some of her work has appeared in LOVE (Leave Out Violence) Newsletter, Teens Now Talk Magazine, Understorey Magazine, Montréal Writes an Online Literary Magazine, the Cape Breton Post, CBRM ConnectArts, CBC Information Morning Cape Breton, Wandering Autumn Magazine and ‘Magine: Unama’ki/ Cape Breton’s Literary Magazine.
Robyn has 15+ years experience creating art and writing poetry, her art and writing is inspired by her culture, community, and social issues.
Michel Williatte-Battet is a multi disciplinary artist based in St Joseph du Moine on the western side of Cape Breton Island. Inspired by his surroundings Michel’s art is often described as whimsical and humorous. He has been showing and selling his work since 1989 and it can be found in many private collections around the world.
Loretta is a self-taught artist from the Waycobah First Nation in Nova Scotia. Born and raised in a reservation in Cape Breton, she creates bright, beautiful pieces with fabrics, photos and acrylics. Her art is spiritual and her way to get her feelings on canvas. Her first paintings sold in Finland and Germany, and has been creating and exhibiting her pieces ever since.
She is currently working on a compilation of stories that go with each of her paintings, and 2 children’s books to help learn their native tongue. Today, she resides in Cape Breton with her husband Elliot Gould and all their children Dakota Jay, Shianne Snow, Savannah Sipu, Phoenix Lee, Ivy Blue, and Montanna Sky.
Daniel MacIvor is a Cape Breton playwright and filmmaker. He is the recipient of an OBIE Award, a GLAAD Award, a Governor General’s Award, the Siminovitch Prize In Theatre and a Canadian Screen Award.
Angie Arsenault is an artist and researcher from the deindustrializing island of Unama’ki (Cape Breton). Angie’s work engages with concepts of value, detritus, memory, botanical life, survival, folk wisdom and storytelling through interventions in the field and installation predominantly. She holds both a BFA (2004) and MFA (2017) from NSCAD University.
Call for Submissions

Curatorial Statement: Constellations
Lumière invites artists to explore relationships—among people, places, histories, and futures—through the lens of interconnectedness. Artists are invited to create/present works that examine patterns, navigation, storytelling, and collective experience, responding to a time of uncertainty and change. In an era marked by division, displacement, and uncertainty, the festival offers a space for collective reflection, where art shines as a beacon in the dark. Like stars forming patterns across time and space, artists, audiences, and places are connected, illuminating relationships that might otherwise go unnoticed.
The Constellations theme delves into how we seek meaning, find direction, and recognize ourselves within a greater whole. In times of fracture, artists respond with acts of connection, mapping relationships between the past and present, self and community, and the fleeting and the enduring. Through installations, movement, sound, and storytelling, art transforms public spaces into sites of exploration, where patterns emerge, perspectives shift, and transience becomes part of the spectacle. Lumière asks: How do we orient ourselves in the darkness? What guides us forward? In the glow of shared experience, we look up—and within—for the answers.

2024 Artist Map
Explore the 2024 Artist Map and discover all the exciting installation locations throughout the festival. View the interactive map to find out where each artist’s work is showcased, and plan your visit to Lumiere Arts at Night.
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Lumière Art-at-Night
Lumière Art-at-Night is a free, accessible, contemporary arts festival taking place in Unama’ki-Cape Breton on September 27, 2025.
Lumière at the Drive-In
Lumière returns to the friendly confines of the Cape Breton Drive-in for another edition of boundary pushing short films at the most unpretentious venue imaginable.
Join us for an evening under the stars on September 21, 2023.
Films begin at dusk.


Volunteer with Us
Lumière volunteers are community-minded, energetic and arts-oriented. Whether you’re organized, outgoing or prefer to communicate through your phone, we’ve got a job for you!
We are still looking for volunteers for the late shift from 10:30pm-12:30am.
Please contact info@lumierecb.com or arrive at room 209 at Eltuek Arts Centre at 10:15pm.

Host an Artist 2025
Lumière seeks friends in the community to host our visiting artists on September 27th and 28th. If you have a spare room or empty house you’d be willing to lend an artist for a night or two, please fill out the form below.
We love art at night, you love art at night - let`s connect! Our call for submissions for the 2025 Lumiere Art-At-Night Festival is open now.
This year’s theme invites artists to explore relationships—among people, places, histories, and futures—through the lens of interconnectedness. If you have any ideas for projects exploring interconnectedness and relationship this could be your call to action. Info about the festival and the submission form is live on our website now at lumierecb.com/. #ArtAtNight #CapeBreton #LumiereCB2025 #DowntownSydney

Join the folks at @eltuekarts for an evening of song and speech in honour of William Davis, the coal miner whose death marked a movement, and whose memory continues to echo through our communities. Come! Mark the one hundredth anniversary of Davis Day and of "Miners` Houses, Glace Bay" by Group of Seven artist, Lawren Harris (on view in Gallery 203, Eltuek) in community with art as a vehicle for connection. Wednesday, June 11 from 6-8 pm in @cafemariecafe at Eltuek Arts Centre with performances starting at 6:30 pm.
Cafe Marie will be open for drinks, and small bites will be served. The event is free, all are welcome.
#ArtInCommunity #PublicArt #DavisDay
Artwork by Karen Jeane Mills, adapted from her comic for Remember – Resist – Redraw at: https://activehistory.ca/.../remember-resist-redraw-15.../

A huge heartfelt thank you to everyone who showed up for Lumière this year! We are filled with gratitude for all of our artists, festival goers, volunteers, sponsors and vendors. Can`t wait to see everyone again next year!
📷 @coreykatz_

The New Waterford Library lantern making workshop has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control. Sorry for the inconvenience! Workshops at CBICI, North Sydney and Sydney Libraries are still happening!

Tonight`s the night! We can`t wait to see everyone downtown.

Tonight! Artist talks and social in room 211 @eltuekarts. Come hear our Spotlight artists Isaac Gould & Chanelle Julian, Sue Goyette, and Arjun Lal, talk about their work. We`ll have a few ciders from @islandfolkcider and @cafemariecafe will be open late for snacks.
Did you make it to the drive-in last night? Wasn`t it so great? A huge thank you to @nellysun for making that happen.
