Sept 23

Cass Boutilier

Cass Boutilier is an emerging dance artist from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. They have been training under Painted Dance Collective for 4 years, becoming a proud company member and teacher at the studio. Cass values determination, authenticity, and love for oneself and for each other, and consistently strives to create safe spaces for people to share their experiences and emotions through movement.

How Do You Love?

Artist Project

What is love? Is love really all you need? How do you express your love in different types of relationships? How do you want to receive love? Is attachment always love? Is love always attachment? Can love be harmful? How Do You Love? is a contemporary dance piece exploring love languages, attachment styles, and various relationship dynamics.

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.