Sept 28

The Young Surrealists

The Young Surrealists are a collective of youth with a passion for art making and creative exploration. Based in Eltuek Arts Centre in Sydney, they collaborate to bring their artistic ideas to life and share in their learning. The Young Surrealists learn about art historical movements and inspiring artists, explore contemporary ideas within art and practice artmaking in a variety of mediums. The Young Surrealists learn from volunteer artists from Eltuek Arts Centre and beyond.

Degenerate Art Exhibition

Community Project

Taking inspiration from the infamous Degenerate Art Exhibition of 1937, in which modernist art was censured, and artists persecuted for their ideas, the Young Surrealists propose to assemble an exhibition of their work that seeks to empower and challenge.

Under the guidance of volunteer artists and art educators, the young artists will learn about art movements such as graffiti, street art, pop art, political art, etc. and will create work that reflects their feelings on the issues that they care about most and will learn how to express their ideas.

In collaboration, the Young Surrealists will explore a variety of art expressions that encompass protest, societal critique, and activism to create large scale painting(s) and paper-based work. The artists will make and wear surrealist-inspired costumes.

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.