« From Nov. 18th to Nov. 24th 2015 inclusive, the 40th annual Labrador Creative Arts Festival takes place in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. The LCAF is known as ‘Canada’s longest-running children’s arts festival’. For a full week, artists from various disciplines will be gathering in Happy Valley-Goose Bay and spreading out to schools all throughout Labrador, offering workshops in theatre, creative writing, music, video production, set and lighting design, graphic arts and textiles.

At the same time that the artists are traveling to schools across Labrador, participating children from 19 different schools will be meeting to take workshops and be inspired by contact with people in the arts industry. Twelve of these schools will be performing original scripts on a professional stage at the Lawrence O’Brien Arts Centre.

Unique for the 40th anniversary, LCAF’s visiting artists are all home grown. These professional artists were all exposed to creative arts through participation in the LCAF in the past and are now working practitioners in the arts industry.

The Festival theme for 2015, Coming Home, was chosen to reflect how young Labrador artists have been inspired by their ties to the values and cultures of this remote area of the world. Through the LCAF, Innu, Inuit, Settler, Métis, and immigrant children come together to share their cultures, their languages, their stories and the experiences that have shaped their hopes for the future.

For the grand finale on Tuesday Nov 24th, the artists and students will perform “We Are Coming Home”. This collaboration features vignettes from the Festival’s scripts collected over the last 40 years.

For more information, contact…
Fiona Andersen
Festival Coordinator 709.896.0642
fiona.andersen@hotmail.com
www.labradorcreativeartsfestival.ca
or visit our Facebook page« 

Posted with permission from Fiona Andersen
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