Nuit Blanche 2023: What to know before heading out in Toronto
Global News
Nuit Blanche, an all-night free art installation event, will take over Toronto from 7 p.m. Saturday to 7 a.m. Sunday.
Nuit Blanche will be lighting up Toronto streets as more than 80 contemporary art projects decorate the city.
The free all-night celebration includes special exhibitions concentrated in Etobicoke, the downtown and Scarborough as well as installations in several other neighbourhoods. It runs from 7 p.m. Saturday to 7 a.m. Sunday.
Attendees can find information about artists, complete programming, as well as an interactive map on the city’s website.
Those preferring a a printed map can collect one at Bay Adelaide Centre at 33 Bay St. in the downtown core, at Humber College’s E Building at 11 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Dr. in Etobicoke and at Albert Campbell Square at 150 Borough Dr. in Scarborough.
Art projects will be clustered in Don Mills, East Danforth, Bloor-Yorkville, North York, Sterling Road, Fort York, Weston, West Queen West, as well as the downtown waterfront. Etobicoke, downtown and Scarborough will host full exhibitions.
Shoaling curated by Lillian O’Brien Davis, The Disturbed Landscape exhibition curated by Kari Cwynar and In the Aggregate curated by Noa Bronstein make up this year’s exhibitions.
Shoaling in Etobicoke 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.”
The Disturbed Lanscape downtown will highlight “the ever-present relationship between land, economy and power in urban environments.”
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