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Nuit Blanche

Good point. Toronto is made of outsiders, roc-ers and otherwise. Toronto is built and lived by 'others'. It is a place that people move to from other places, maybe this is where a certain part of the resentment comes from?
 
Nuit Blanche Redraws Boundaries

Not sure I like this news. For one, it takes Nuit Blanche away from Toronto's "artsy" nabes. The West Queen West / Liberty Village installations may have been off the beaten path for some (and perhaps more edgy and less popular), but that's part of what made them so great too. It was a completely different vibe in the west end. I'm not sure putting everything in the core will produce as varied a night.
 
Darkstar416 said:
Nuit Blanche Redraws Boundaries

Not sure I like this news. For one, it takes Nuit Blanche away from Toronto's "artsy" nabes. The West Queen West / Liberty Village installations may have been off the beaten path for some (and perhaps more edgy and less popular), but that's part of what made them so great too. It was a completely different vibe in the west end. I'm not sure putting everything in the core will produce as varied a night.
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The article is a bit vague - how far west does it go? To the Gladstone? Is the Distillery out too?
 
http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/zone.shtml

Nuit Blanche at the Royal Conservatory:

The Royal Conservatory Orchestra, conducted by Uri Mayer, performs a work by R. Murray Schafer in Koerner Hall at 8pm. In the atrium, visitors will interact with a massive sculptural light installation by visionary Toronto architect Philip Beesley. And thanks to TELUS support, the Conservatory and the CFC Media Lab will present "Musical Rumble: Jazz vs Classical," where projections of larger-than-life jazz and classical musicians battle for votes and everyone in the Bloor Street courtyard will vote with their smart phones to see more of their favourite version!
 
I loved going to the far-out "exhibits" in Liberty Village and surrounding area-- it was even more surreal there in some cases.
 
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Nuit Blanche Toronto returns September 23 showcasing ‘ground-breaking’ art

News Release August 23, 2023 The 17th annual Nuit Blanche Toronto will transform the city’s neighbourhoods and streets on the first day of fall with dazzling art installations, from 7 p.m. on Saturday, September 23 to 7 a.m. on Sunday, September 24. The all-night celebration of contemporary art...
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August 23, 2023

The 17th annual Nuit Blanche Toronto will transform the city’s neighbourhoods and streets on the first day of fall with dazzling art installations, from 7 p.m. on Saturday, September 23 to 7 a.m. on Sunday, September 24. The all-night celebration of contemporary art will feature exhibitions in Etobicoke, downtown Toronto and Scarborough, with more than 80 art projects from close to 250 artists from a variety of disciplines. Entry will be free for the public to engage with the art projects.

Theme and exhibition areas

This year’s Nuit Blanche theme, Breaking Ground, encouraged exploration within the arts community to focus on issues related to nature and pioneering change. Specifically, Breaking Ground invites artists to explore themes of climate change, the impact of urban development on communities and collective responsibilities around land and stewardship.

Three Toronto-based curators will present unique exhibition areas with their distinct perspectives:

  • Shoaling, curated by Lillian O’Brien Davis: The Etobicoke exhibition (sponsored by Humber College) is a multivocal exhibition focusing on connections between land and water that link threads of memory, climate, race and labour through performance, video, sculpture and technologies.
  • Disturbed Landscapes, curated by Kari Cwynar: The downtown exhibition unearths centuries of development within Toronto’s financial district, as artists enact a series of creative reversals and disruptions to our built environments.
  • In the Aggregate, curated by Noa Bronstein: The Scarborough exhibition (sponsored by Scarborough Town Centre) explores ideas of togetherness, friendship and collectivity that point to Toronto’s unique urban topography and public spaces transformed through the assembly of shared experiences.
Artists

Nuit Blanche aims to uncover and highlight artists who challenge the status quo through media, form or content, to transform public spaces and inspire audiences to experience Toronto in new and meaningful ways, featuring works from award-winning artists, Divya Mehra, Bonnie Devine and Alvin Luong, along with emerging talent including Joy, Par Nair and Tristan Sauer.

Notable artworks

  • Leeroy New’s Balangay Starfleet reimagines ancient Philippine boats into futuristic bamboo and plastic vessels suspended mid-aerial encounter.
  • Caementarium, a multimedia installation by Dana Prieto and Reza Nik, engages with the former site of the Mimico Asylum, now Humber College’s Lakeshore Campus.
  • Wellspring, by Jenine Marsh, upends Nathan Phillips Square, revealing the forgotten space beneath. (Funded by the Government of Ontario).
  • Your Wish is Your Command, by Divya Mehra, pokes at colonial underpinnings in the Financial District with a magic lamp.
  • Suzanne Morrissette’s light and screen installation to notice urges visitors to pause and observe the shapes of leaves and movement of trees as they trace the movement of wind.
  • Lifelines showcases work by the Black Arts Fellowship’s inaugural cohort at the Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism.
More information about Nuit Blanche and a complete list of art projects can be found on the Nuit Blanche website.
 
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