Nuit Blanche
Toronto's favourite all-night contemporary arts festival is back!
Nuit Blanche is returning to Toronto on October 3! From 7 PM to 7 AM, locals and visitors can explore the city transformed by artists.
Nuit Blanche is completely free and available to the entire public. Each year, Nuit Blanche has a theme, guiding the artists under an umbrella.
This year's theme is 'Tomorrow's Memories', inviting you to look back to the artists and curators who've defined Nuit Blanche and its twenty year history.
Toronto’s waterfront will feature 5 different art installations that can be visited and explored:
Nuit Blanche Installations on Toronto's Waterfront:
Large Scale Projection, Melting Temporalities - Canada Malting Silo
The world premiere of Melting Temporalities, by Claire Brunet and Johnny Ranger, transforms the Canada Malting Silos into a monumental glacier that slowly fractures to reveal forests, waterways, geological formations, and microscopic life. As the frozen landscape dissolves into digital meshes before reassembling, the work reflects on climate change, resilience, transformation, and regeneration.
Melting Temporalities marks the first collaboration between Canadian sculptor Claire Brunet (a professor at OCAD University) and Montréal-based multimedia director Johnny Ranger, founder of Studio Mindroots. Bringing together sculpture, creative research, immersive media and large-scale projection, they create poetic experiences exploring ecology, temporality, environmental change and the convergence of technology, nature and human experience.
Location: Canada Malting Silo, 9 Eireann Quay
Art Medium: Video projection
Artist: Claire Brunet and Johnny Ranger
Ascension
“Ascension” invites audiences into a magical world of suspended goddess sculptures, mirrors, glittering jewels, gold, silver, soft fabrics, light and sound. Two hundred handmade mixed-media sculptures hang throughout the space, creating a dreamlike environment filled with reflection, colour and movement.
Location: Toront's Music Garden, 479 Queens Quay W
Art Medium: Multimedia Installation
Artist: Ilene Sova
The Grandmother Project
“The Grandmother Project” draws from intergenerational memory and storytelling, referencing passed down narratives from the artist’s grandmother about their family’s immigration to Canada 120 years ago.
Location: HTO Park, 375 Queens Quay W
Art Medium: Interactive Installation
Artist: Peter Dillman
Dance Stoops
Dance Stoops is a playful series of music-making structures that turn public space into a stage, inviting everyone to join in, experiment and make a little joyful noise.
Location: Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West
Art Medium: Interactive Installation
Artist: Daily tous les jours
parol-parolan
“parol-parolan” is a canopy of responsive lanterns that evoke memories of traditional crafts and gathering. Chinese lantern berries, balloon vines and their relatives inspire the shape of the lanterns, reminding us of traditional lantern festivals.
Location: Love Park, 96 Queens Quay
Art Medium: Light Installation
Artist: HOT A!R ATEL!ER