Sept 27

Holly Ann Schaller

Parking Lot Players prioritizes pop-up theatre in unconventional spaces around CBRM

"Zoltar" By Parking Lot Players

Artist Project

In a “Zoltar” style fortune-telling machine with live actors, you can approach Cepheus (Past), Cassiopeia (Present), Andromeda (Future), and Perseus (Bonus Fortune) for a message from the stars! Collect all four to complete your celestial passport.

Receive a message from the stars! Find the fortune boxes around town to receive a message from the stars about your past, present, and future… and perhaps a bonus message if you happen to catch Perseus in his box!
Our live actors will be channeling members of the Perseus family, all of which are visible in the sky in late September in North America, to give mysterious fortunes to those that approach their booth.

Lumière Arts Festival 2025 // Constellations

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.