Lumière 2022

Walk through the Lumière Art-at-Night virtual tour from the festival on November 12, 2022. While the usual festival lights up the streets of Downtown Sydney to celebrate and showcase the local and regional arts community, this year was a little different. Due to Hurricane Fiona, we moved indoors this year, taking over Eltuek Arts Centre and transforming the building with artists’ installations, films, theatre, dance, and more. You can explore the full tour and length digital projects below.

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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.