LUCAS — The Lid Off Film Festival has been scheduled for September 25 to 27 in Lucas. A wide variety of films — in-state, out-of-state, international, grassroots artists and 90-second phone videos — will be featured during the weekend.

“The Red Pearl” was partially filmed in Lucas. Scarlet, an aspiring fashion designer moves west to her first job in a new city. El tiempo nublado is a supremely personal film from Paraguay about a universal issue, we all have to face: What are we going to do with our parents, once they are old and ill? The LaRosh Farms documented their wheat harvest in Osborne, KS, with a camera attached to a drone. Longtime Lucas grassroots artist Florence Deeble and her Rock Garden will be featured in a film segment. Part road movie, part inspirational art documentary, “Called to Walls” celebrates the potential of community-based art in Middle America!

There will be an opening and closing reception as well as special screenings and art exhibitions around town in pop-up temporary galleries. The majority of programming will take place at the Lucas Area Community Theater, 116 S. Main.

There will be a heavy visual arts component to the festival as four (con)temporary art galleries will emerge on Main Street throughout the festival featuring dozens of local, regional and international artists.

For a complete list of activities, click HERE.