Labrador Creative Arts Festival
114 Hamilton River Rd A0P 1C0 Goose Bay, NL, Canada

This coming Sunday, 4pm Atlantic Time! Please email [email protected] to receive the zoom link to attend :) Thanks :)

Do you have your free ticket booked? Get it here (no livestream, so you’ll need a ticket!): https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QsbKtx-zQLWMfL81i-DUjQ

Great opportunity to hear music & talk to Music NL's Indigenous Artist of the Year award winner Silver Wolf Band

Keeping these cultural art forms alive are so important! We've had many youth participate in LCAF to share & learn art, including Ella :) We're super happy to see this story!

Awesome opportunity for youth ages 15-20 who are in the Goose Bay area!

Great opportunity for youth to connect and enjoy music together. Free for ages 12-18 at the Lawrence O'Brien Arts Centre every Thursday from 3:30-5pm hosted by Anthony Elliott from the LFC Shield Project

Youth opportunity to enjoy music at the Lawrence O'Brien Arts Centre

Wonderful opportunity to partner for youth events in Labrador!

Excellent opportunity for youth in Nain :) Click on post for details

Important opportunity for Indigenous artists! Please click on attached event link for more details.

What an opportunity! Please share! Calling all Labrador singers & musicians ages 12-18! ... SHIELD & CYN presents Labrador Unplugged virtual performance! Send us your video performance, must be 3 minutes or less in length. Use only your own voice & instruments, no backing tracks or karaoke. All accepted Videos will be part of the Labrador Unplugged live zoom show! Top 3 videos will be chosen by a panel of professionals. Prize bags for all entries. Amazing prizes for 1st, 2nd & 3rd including cash, a recording session at the Lawrence O’Brien Arts Centre in Goose Bay & more! Not in Goose Bay, no worries, we’ll bring you in! DEADLINE for entry is August 7th, 2020. REGISTER to perform by contacting Denise at 709-896-8302 Ext 224 or email [email protected] You can also message us through our social media sites @LFC Shield Project. Labrador Unplugged will be aired on August 16 at 7pm Atlantic Time through Zoom Webinar. You will need to reserve your free virtual seat (details to follow) in order to be an audience member! Find more details the Labrador Unplugged Info Centre FB event at https://www.facebook.com/events/1743178315830973/ YouTube How to Enter:

Plans for the next Festival We are convinced that maintaining a vibrant cultural scene is essential to the well-being and the development of our schools and communities throughout Labrador. Therefore, the Festival as it has been will be in quarantine for the fall semester. We are hopeful that in the winter months of 2021, we will be able to offer the 45th Festival with a mixture of virtual and live experiences that will be beneficial and safe for all. ... The 45th annual Labrador Creative Arts Festival will explore the theme of respect. In Labrador the communities are largely rural, Indigenous and northern. In places such as these, survival has long been predicated on respect for the environment, for land, and for community members and neighbours. This is a lifestyle that requires mutual trust. It is both independent and resilient and yet can provide rich rewards in spite of tremendous challenges. The youth participants of the Labrador Creative Arts festival have always learned, displayed and taught each other respect for language, culture and tradition, but they have also been notable for demanding and showing respect for individual rights and freedoms. In recent years the festival has spearheaded youth conversations around gender identity, sexual and racial minorities, and differing abilities. Theatre and other art forms have led the way in asking difficult questions that have opened the way to discussion for their peers and elders. In the 45th festival, we will invite artists who will work with youth to extend and expand their exploration of respect, including the respect we owe to the creative arts and its practitioners. Emphasis on artists' selection will be on the inclusiveness of the arts. We expect that the plays students will write on this theme will provide opportunities for new examinations of the value systems youth hold and approaches youth will take to demonstrate the enduring importance of respect as a first principle in the arts and in their lives. See you soon!

Visit our website to download Asiangutitsijuk Takunnausigijannik: Changing Your Perspective "This is an anthology of play scripts from the festival, spanning the early years of its existence to the present day. The collection features scripts from the five communities of Nunatsiavut, selected to show the ever-evolving sense of being an Inuk over the course of the 44 years since the festival began." http://www.labradorcreativeartsfestival.ca/home/projects.htm

Almost a year ago, an incredible performance was held that highlighted all youth performers from central Labrador! Please share and take the time to watch, it's beyond worth it!