Toronto is staying up late tomorrow night for the third annual Nuit Blanche. With so many exhibitions in all the galleries and museums around the city, we thought we would take a look at some of the exciting things happening outdoors, in the parks and streets of Toronto.
WHAT: Art and music at St Thomas’s Anglican Church
WHERE: 383 Huron Street (map)
Musicians, poets and visual artists will be taking over the church and its surrounding area. What seems most interesting about this exhibit is that the church itself will become part of the performance as the art intermingles with the architecture and projected throughout the entire space.
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WHAT: Zombies in Condoland, 2008
WHERE: College Park, 444 Yonge Street (map)
The outside of College Park will be recreated into an apocalyptic scene as participants become the walking dead for the night, turning the area into something reminiscent of a low-budget horror film set. Makeup tents are available on location, so anyone can join in on the corpsifying fun, but participants are encouraged to do their own makeup and come “in character” — as a baseball player or punk zombie, for example. Instructional video can be found here.
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WHAT: Nuit Blanche Cabbagetown
WHERE: Along Parliament Street, and in Wellesley Park and Riverdale Park (map)
An entire neighborhood will become immersed in Nuit Blanche with artists and writers performing throughout the streets. The Cabbagetown group exhibit seems like one of the most interesting places to go tomorrow night since it will be a festival on its own. Performers in the parks, Shakespeare on Parliament Street, film projections along the buildings, and liquor store parking lot readings will all be taking place among the streets, trees, and fixtures of Cabbagetown, all of which will be decorated and turned into works of art on their own.
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WHAT: Glow Worms
WHERE: Trinity-Bellwoods park (map)
The natural, outdoor spaces of Trinity-Bellwoods will be taken over by over a thousand battery-powered red lights in an exhibition that looks to create an ethereal version of the green space. The atmosphere created by the shifting lights and all the spectators should make for an interesting new way to perceive the familiar park.
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photo by wvs.
