Festival Grants
The Crichton Cultural Community Centre is extremely grateful for the support it receives in the form of grants. The 2008 Lumière Festival has been fortunate to receive the following grants:
Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage
http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/dcap-bcah/index_e.cfm
Project title: Ottawa Lumière Festival 2008
The main objective of this project:
The main objective of the Ottawa Lumière Festival is to use the enchantment of light to celebrate community creativity and participation. The festival begins in July with a series of workshops for volunteers, artists and community members of all ages and artistic abilities. Within these artists run workshops, costumes, performances, installations and lanterns are created. These creations are showcased on the final night of the festival in beautiful New Edinburgh Park.
An annual artistic theme informs the performances and installations. During the festival workshops over 2000 lanterns and installations are created and these are displayed in the park. Performing artists, chosen for the degree to which their performance and costume will enhance the magical Lumière atmosphere perform along the route.
Finally, attendees participate in the final festival evening by wearing costumes and carrying their own hand made lanterns. Throughout the night interactive activities such as a lantern labyrinth, transformation tent, and wishing trees reinforce the participatory nature of Lumière.
Community Foundation of Ottawa
http://www.communityfoundationottawa.ca/site/site_en/grant/cg_apply.htm
Project title: Allumez Vanier/Light Up Vanier
For the fifth anniversary of the Lumière Festival, the CCCC will strengthen ties with the Francophone community in Vanier, a locality close to New Edinburgh, through workshops and targeted bilingual promotional materials. This is one step in the CCCC strategy to involve the immediately adjacent communities, beginning with Vanier, in the planning and implementation of its flagship community activity.
The Allumez Vanier/Light Up Vanier Coordinator will initiate collaborative partnerships with Vanier community organizations to plan and produce lantern workshops and other community building activities. The product of these activities will enrich the Lumière Festival and strengthen the CCCC relationship with community partners.
City of Ottawa - Art Funding
http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/arts/funding_awards/cultural_funding/arts/index_en.html
Project title: Lumière Artist-in-Residence
The goals of this project are:
i) The mandate of the CCCC is to “provide for and facilitate the professional creation, development, production, public presentation and dissemination of works of art by professional artists in a community context.” This project is the realization of this mandate. The CCCC is a presenter and the Lumière Festival is an expression of a multiplicity of artistic visions as we intend. The festival includes a broad range of community-based artistic practice and professional practice and our artistic goal for this project is to provide opportunity for the expression of the artistic goals of the artist who is selected and present this work at Lumière among and beside the other presentations.
This is the third project of this nature for the CCCC and it demonstrates our recognition of the importance of the role of professional artistic practice in a community-based event and activity. The decision to focus on visual art for 2008 was made in part; because of the positive steps that were taken in 2007 to engage visual artists to assist with the overall artistic feel of the festival site and to create large installations.
ii) Also, it is our objective to provide a local emerging visual artist with an opportunity to showcase their artistic expression through installations and to gain experience through their involvement in a large artistic project and community project - an “experience of the whole” – an experience, which makes the links between the professional practice and the community-based participation.
iii) To continue to improve Lumière as a family based artistic event with strong links to the community
