Collaborators
Le Pays de la Sagouine and Moment Factory offer our warmest thanks to the many community collaborators who participated in the creation of Akadi Lumina. Their generous contributions to this project are beyond measure.
We also thank the teams from Le Pays de la Sagouine and Moment Factory, who together brought this ambitious project to life.
And thanks to you, for visiting Akadi Lumina.
Until next time!
Artistic consultant and narrator: Jac Gautreau
Writer and story developer: Matthieu Girard
Dancers, Gathering Table: Christiane Thériault, Mylène Comeau, Émilien Cormier, Aimée Després, Anique Wagner, Adrien Comeau, Dominique Dupuis
Musicians: Dominique Dupuis (violin), Emmanuelle Leblanc (foot rhythms, bodhràn, tin whistle), Pascal Miousse (violin, guitar), Marie-Andrée Gaudet (violon), Hubert Francis (frame drum)
Jeunes chanteurs d'Acadie conductor: Nadine Hébert
Choral arrangement: Marcus Lowry
Jeunes chanteurs d'Acadie: Adèle Poitras, Alexa LeBlanc, Alexandre Cormier, Alexanne Ward, Alicia Thériault, Alizée Doucet, Anna Castonguay, Annie Maillet, Antoine Vautour, Ariane Chiasson, Audrey LeBlanc, Audrey Parker, Charlotte Lagacé, Cloé Arsenault, Emelie Martin, Emily Richard, Emma Bourque, Ève LeBlanc, Ève-Line Belliveau, Flavie Surette, Geneviève Michaud, Hélène Boudreau, Jacem Léger, Janie Maillet, Jasmine Boudreau, Josiane Castonguay, Josianne Thériault, Laurence Belliveau, Madeleine Picard, Madison Belliveau, Maélie St-Onge, Marjolène Logelin, Maya LeBlanc, Mélodie Boucher, Océane Laforest, Olivia Bourque, Olivier Émond, Raemiel Ashtyn Paitan, Sophia Daigle, Starr Melanson, Valérie Martin, Zoé Babineau-Julien, Zoé LeBlanc
Recordings: Danny Bourgeois, François Émond
Singers: Zachary Richard, Caroline Savoie, Hubert Francis, Pascal Miousse, Nada Kehat Mabiala, Émilien Cormier, Aimée Després, Emmanuelle Leblanc, Milène Robichaud, Jac Gautreau
Actors: Matthieu Girard, Tanya Brideau, Louis Émond, Émilien Cormier, Aimée Després, Mylène Comeau
Voices, Echoes of Acadie: Zachary Richard, Jonathan Roy, Brian Francis, Maude Sonier, Clémence Langlois
Archives, Gathering Table: Édith Butler, Kassim Doumbia, Léon Thériault, Pierre Robichaud and Roland Gauvin
Archives, Gathering Table:
Directors: Léonard Forest, Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault, Raymond Garceau, Herménégilde Chiasson, Ginette Pellerin, André Gladu, Colette Blanchard
Archives, Roots of Home:
Directors: Léonard Forest, Herménégilde Chiasson, Phil Comeau and Andréanne Germain
Thanks to the National Film Board and Radio-Canada Archives for their support and collaboration
It is with this team's immense passion and energy that this luminous dream has become a reality.
Archives and Sources
Gathering Table
Le reel du pendu (1972) | Producer: André Gladu | Source: Office National du Film
La quadrille acadienne (1978) | Producer: Laurent Comeau | Source: Office National du Film
Frolic 73 (1973) | Producer: Léonard Forest | Source: Office National du Film
Les acadiens de la dispersion (1968) | Producer: Léonard Forest | Source: Office National du Film
Chéticamp (1962) | Producer: Raymond Garceau | Source: Office National du Film
L'Acadie l'Acadie (1971) | Producer: Pierre Perreault & Michel Brault | Source: Office National du Film
Robichaud (1989) | Producer: Herménégilde Chiasson | Source: Office National du Film
Mathilda Blanchard, la passionnaria acadienne (1997) | Producers : Ginette Pellerin / Léonard Forest | Source: Office National du Film
Echoes of Acadie
Edith Butler aux Eloizes (2022) | Author: Édith Butler | Source: Archives Radio-Canada
Acadie à venir (1992) | Producerr: Herménégilde Chiasson | Source: Office National du Film
À Shippagan, Kassim Doumbia devient le premier maire noir au Nouveau-Brunswick | Reportage /Source: Archives Radio-Canada
Voix Rurales (extraits), Éditions Perce-Neige | Auhor: Jonathan Roy
Phrase-phare de 1755 en spectacle (1994) | Authors : 1755 (Pierre Robichaud & Roland Gauvin) | Source: Live à Moncton 1994
Roots of Home
Les Acadiens de la dispersion (1968) | Producer: Léonard Forest | Source: Office National du Film
La noce est pas finie (1971) | Producer: Léonard Forest | Source: Office National du Film
Bicentenaire acadien (1955) | Report /Source: Archives Radio-Canada
En août 1955, à Moncton et partout en Acadie, c'est la tenue du premier tintamarre! (1955) | Report /Source: Archives Radio-Canada
J'avions 375 ans (1982) | Producer: Phil Comeau | Source: Office National du Film
Engage-toi! Le blogue - Le Grand Tintamarre (2009) | Producer: Andréanne Germain | Source: Office National du Film
Antonine Maillet reçoit le prix Goncourt (1979) | Report /Source: Archives Radio-Canada
La Sagouine interprétée par Viola Léger | Source: Pays de la Sagouine