Want to discuss? Please read our Commenting Policy first. Nuit Blanche is an annual event that transforms parts of Toronto into an all-night arts destination for a jam-packed weekend, and as the event marks its 14th edition organizers are promising more of the large-scale projects that visitors have come to know. In just a few days the 14th edition of Nuit Blanche begins! Explore nearly 90 art projects created by over artists, across 9 neighborhoods.
All ages. All night. All free! For the second year, there will be a cluster of exhibits in the area of Scarborough Town Centre under the theme Kings and Queens of Scarborough.
With projects across the city, she suggested starting out the evening in Scarborough before working south through to downtown. Inayet also suggested rounding out the event in the Fort York neighbourhood, noting the area will be a good spot to take in the sunrise.
Perhaps nowhere with more, well, urgency and innate wariness that precedes the start of anything significant than in Edmonton and Toronto. In Edmonton because the Alberta capital, Canada's fifth-largest population centre, is hosting its first-ever Nuit Blanche on Saturday, beginning at 7 p. MT and running until 4 a.
In Toronto because the Ontario capital, Canada's largest city, is mounting its 10th annual Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, a sunset-to-sunrise epic starting at p. Toronto is not the Canadian metropolis with the longest-running Nuit Blanche. That honour is held by Montreal, which, inspired by the original Nuit Blanche "white night" in Paris in the fall of , hosted the country's first free "all-night contemporary art thing" in late February, , and has kept on keeping on ever since.
But it's Toronto that is now considered "the mother ship of Nuit Blanche," not just nationally but internationally, observes Gwen MacGregor, a Toronto multidisciplinary artist who has participated in Scotiabank Nuit Blanche twice and, in , published a research paper on Nuit Blanche Toronto as perceived by artists and curators as part of her cultural geography studies at the University of Toronto.
A few statistics should suffice to explain Toronto's status. Close to, or more than, one million attendees every year from onward, including almost , out-of-towners in attendance: , More than projects scheduled for the viewing in , involving an estimated artists.
After consulting with the artists, some projects were deferred to , which shares the same curatorial theme as the edition " The Space Between Us ". Others were adapted for a stay-at-home format. In an alternate timeline, Nagan says this piece — Mana Moana — would have been projected onto a water screen; now, it's an interactive website. And some were always meant to be augmented-reality experiences. It draws over a million people to come out," says Nagam. More than 1. Of course, Nuit Blanche Toronto isn't the only "art at night" festival that's been forced into an extreme makeover.
But others haven't embraced digital so completely — sometimes to their peril. Just last week, Nuit Blanche Winnipeg was abruptly cancelled. Originally scheduled for September 26, the event focused on a slate of physical projects, with various distancing and sanitation measures in effect. But in light of Manitoba's rising COVID counts, organizers called it off, announcing the news on social media the day before go-time.
According to that statement , programming will now be spread over a month, though event details remain TBA. Michelle Harazny, Nuit Blanche Regina's artistic director, says her team was inspired by the sudden popularity of all things drive-in, including Immersive Van Gogh, that " Gogh by car " light show in Toronto.
Drivers were led through the route by a volunteer on a blinged-out bike , and given three minutes at each of the event's eight project locations. At times, the line stretched four blocks long, says Harazny. See fact sheet. More info. Voir la carte. Tout Paris Paris 75 Paris See the map. Extend your search.
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