This year’s theme, which was coincidentally chosen before pandemic isolation, is ‘the space between us.’ Here are a few highlights.
Can the suburbs save Nuit Blanche? After a two-year hiatus – 2020 was virtual; 2021 was cancelled – the all-night public art event returns at sunset Saturday, Oct. 1, running until sunrise Sunday, Oct. 2, and expanding well beyond the downtown core.
Prepandemic, the event that drew more than a million visitors in 12 hours was increasingly derided as an excuse for a drunken all-night street party that had little to do with visual art. The way forward, it seems, is both a clearer focus and more hubs. Nuit Blanche had already expanded to Scarborough in 2018 and 2019; now it reaches out to Etobicoke and North York too, plus the outlying Toronto neighbourhoods of Don Mills and East Danforth, alongside the usual downtown and uptown sites.
With more than 170 projects by 150 artists, this is the largest Nuit Blanche offering since the event was established in 2006. Organizers are prepared for a return of prepandemic crowds, but are also offeringThis year’s theme, which was coincidentally chosen before pandemic isolation, is “the space between us.” Works about land and indigeneity will meet up with ones about the urban experience. Expect some earnestness, and some fun. Here are a few highlights.
Artist and architectural designer Haneen Dalla-Ali considers the Canadian landscape from the perspective of a Middle Eastern immigrant in, a digital projection in which she layers Arabic script onto images of Southern Ontario’s limestone cliffs. At the TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W.This year, works about land and indigeneity will meet up with ones about the urban experience.
at the Scarborough Civic Centre, enlivening a dull concrete corridor with a colourful stage for performers who will be dressed in various kinds of work gear for a show about the daily grind. At 150-156 Borough Dr.
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