Festival Grants

The Crichton Cultural Community Centre is extremely grateful for the support it receives in the form of grants. The 2006 Lumière Festival has been fortunate to receive the following grants:

Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration’s program Ontario’s Community Builders

This project is supported by the Government of Ontario

A grant from the Ontario’s Community Builders program will be used to support an initiative to target outreach and ultimately increase participation from diverse groups and individuals. Expenses associated with this initiative arestaff salaries, artists’fees, art supplies, printing and distribution expenses and communications. The project duration is June 1 to August 31, 2006.

Project Objectives

1. To build community partnerships to broaden the participation of diverse cultural communities in Lumière Festival, with a view to securing an on-going relationship with these communities, not only for participation in future festivals, but also for the development of the CCCC.
2. To increase the diversity of the audience and the participants in the festival.
3. To broaden the CCCC partnerships in the region.
4. To improve the CCCC’s capacity to fulfill its mandate.
5. To provide works of art, specifically created for the festival, that represent the cultural diversity of the communities of the region.

City of Ottawa Arts Funding Programs

The artistic goals of this project are:

1. To present Lumiere 2006 as an artistic event which expresses the artistic vision of the guest artistic director. This vision will have its expression through the choice of artists, the schedule of their appearance, the layout of the venue, the orchestration of the interface between the professional artists, the community-based artists, other festival participants and the viewer/visitor/audience to the festival.
   
   
2. To accomplish the first project of the CCCC which gives voice to the pivotal importance of the role of professional artistic practice in a community-based event and activity.
   Over the course of the last year, CCCC has had many discussions with the artistic community in Ottawa and we have been advised against our original model in which we had intended to create an Arts Advisory Committee to further the objectives of this pillar of its mandate. It has been our decision to engage an artistic director for Lumière as our initial engagement.
   
   
3. To provide local emerging professional artists with a creative leader whose vision will enhance, broaden and enrich their artistic experience at Lumière. It is our expectation that new artistic partnerships will emerge from this experience.
   
   
4. To provide community-based artists and other participants in the festival with an “experience of the whole” – an experience, which makes the links between the professional practice and the community-based participation.
   
   
5. To continue to improve Lumière as a family based artistic event with strong links to the community.