Jen Power, Jeff Erdman, John Kennedy and Kate Ward

John Kennedy is a musician interested in exploring sounds to create electronic music. Kate Ward is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose research driven practice investigates the relationship between art, ritual spaces and cultural meaning. Together they create temporary, transitory experiences and spaces in which their audience is invited to engage with, and contemplate. John and Kate have teamed up with Jen Power , a self-taught artist from Truro, Nova Scotia. Working primarily in acrylics, Jen’s recent body of work has been local wildlife and landscapes, drawing inspiration from our beautiful province and the wild spaces within. Jen’s artistic practice has been focused on skill building, learning to create the illusion of texture, light and depth in her work. Jen is proud to serve on the Cobequid Arts Council and is a member of the Truro Art Society.

Displacement

Artist Project

Displace, utilizes ocean sound samples combined with visuals is projected upon a whale painted on sailcloth. Both natural and human made, it is an ambient piece intended to be an immersive reflection about how the seas behave sonically and how we chose to connect with those sounds.

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.