Sept 23

Dana Mount

Dana Mount is an Associate Professor at Cape Breton University where she teaches English and Environmental Studies. She is currently working on a novel about the world of animal research. She loves books, walks, and her two kids. She enjoys typing and her favourite word to type is ‘power’ because it runs along the top of the keyboard in a very satisfying manner.

QWERTY: A Love Letter to Typing

Artist Project

Type a message and watch it appear, not as words, but as pops of colour. Dana Mount’s ‘Love Letter to Typing’ asks us to think about the physical act of pressing the keystrokes. In our effort to write, our fingers tap-tap along the keyboard in comforting, busy ways, creating little habits and tactile moments that we shouldn’t take for granted, and sometimes even little mistakes that we need to correct.

What’s your favourite word to type?

Lumiere Arts Festival 2024 // The Art of Caring

Lumiere Arts Festival invites artists and community members to reflect on the concept of care.

In a polarized landscape, care can lap like a brook, or pound like large waves crashing ashore. To care is to tend, to root, to rebel, to share and to endure. This year, the festival is encouraging artists to submit works rooted in solidarity, with community building as resistance, that explores the need to care for ourselves, others, and the earth, both locally and globally. The Lumiere Arts Festival makes space for joy, contemporary art, and meaningful dialogue.

Land Acknowledgement

Lumière Arts Festival, on behalf of the board, the artists, and the communities we represent, acknowledges that we work, live and play in the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people, in Unama’ki Cape Breton, who have stewarded these lands since time immemorial.

We are grateful not only for the strong and ongoing stewardship of these lands we call home, but also for the stories, music, and art that Mi’kmaq people continue to create and share, carrying ancestral voices, sacred teachings, and legacies of interconnectedness and resilience forward into the present and on to the future.

We aspire to reflect that sense of connection between past and present in our festival. We are inspired by L’nu artists to foster connection and self-reflection in our work. We will work to ensure that art is accessible, inclusive, and integrated into public spaces so that we can share our collective stories, recognizing the challenges of our past and imagining brighter futures.

We are all Treaty people.