Younger than the new century, the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche contemporary art event may seem to have come out of nowhere but it hasn’t. This is its sixth year in our town. Nuit Blanche is Toronto’s annual all-night celebration of contemporary art, produced by the City of Toronto in collaboration with Toronto’s arts community. Since 2006, the event has featured more than 850 official art installations, created by nearly 3,500 artists and has generated more than $138 million in economic impact for Toronto With the public-spirited sponsorship of the Bank of Nova Scotia this all-night lighting up of visual and constructed art is a genuinely electrifying civic happening. (Sorry, couldn’t help how that came out). So when your son or daughter (or maybe you too) leave the house Saturday night to meet the archly chosen start time of 6.51 p.m. you will be in good company. Scotiabank and the City of Toronto website linked below appears to be an excellent planning tool. Few Nuit Blanche goers will want to miss the enormous Forever Bicycles structure created by the celebrated artist Ai Weiwei. It’s in Nathan Phillips Square. There have been a few changes. The Eaton Centre has said it will no longer stay open all night because it just took too much of a vandalism hit last year. So this year, a focus of much all night activity will be the south end of Queen’s Park. Police figure it will be safer for everyone and much easier to patrol. Nuit Blanche website Also here.Nuit Blanche gets plugged in at 6.51 Saturday
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Younger than the new century, the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche contemporary art event may seem to have come out of nowhere but it hasn’t. This is its sixth year in our town. Nuit Blanche is Toronto’s annual all-night celebration of contemporary art, produced by the City of Toronto in collaboration with Toronto’s arts community. Since 2006, the event has featured more than 850 official art installations, created by nearly 3,500 artists and has generated more than $138 million in economic impact for Toronto With the public-spirited sponsorship of the Bank of Nova Scotia this all-night lighting up of visual and constructed art is a genuinely electrifying civic happening. (Sorry, couldn’t help how that came out). So when your son or daughter (or maybe you too) leave the house Saturday night to meet the archly chosen start time of 6.51 p.m. you will be in good company. Scotiabank and the City of Toronto website linked below appears to be an excellent planning tool. Few Nuit Blanche goers will want to miss the enormous Forever Bicycles structure created by the celebrated artist Ai Weiwei. It’s in Nathan Phillips Square. There have been a few changes. The Eaton Centre has said it will no longer stay open all night because it just took too much of a vandalism hit last year. So this year, a focus of much all night activity will be the south end of Queen’s Park. Police figure it will be safer for everyone and much easier to patrol. Nuit Blanche website Also here.