Festival Grants

The festival received a grant from the City of Ottawa to:

Foster the creation, development and presentation of the work of local emerging performing and visual artists. The Lumière Festival has been central to developing the link between community-based arts activity and professional practice, a key element of the CCCC mandate. When professional visual artists and performers are woven in with community members, Lumière blurs distinctions between audience members and participants.

The artistic objectives of the Lumière Festival are:

i) to provide opportunity for collaboration between artists from a variety of disciplines.

ii) to provide local emerging visual artists with an opportunity to showcase their artistic expression through installations and to gain experience through their involvement in artistic and community projects - an “experience of the whole” – an experience, which makes the links between the professional practice and the community-based participation.

iii) to improve Lumière as a multi disciplinary artistic event with strong links to the community, where community members are encouraged to develop their own creativity through direct contact with professional artists.