{"id":19323,"date":"2022-10-04T23:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T23:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/torontos-nuit-blanche-returns-after-three-years\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T23:00:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T23:00:59","slug":"torontos-nuit-blanche-returns-after-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/torontos-nuit-blanche-returns-after-three-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto\u2019s Nuit Blanche returns after three years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The tradition of Nuit Blanche\u2014or whatever your particular area may call the events\u2014across cities is always one of buzz and mystique. Long gone are the days when the majority of holidays themselves were dusk to dawn affairs of celebration, entertainment, and spectacle. But in this particular way, art is given this deep and focused honour. After three years of absence, Toronto\u2019s Nuit Blanche returned to the city at its largest scope to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For the uninitiated, Nuit Blanche (French for \u201cwhite night\u201d) is a form of annual nighttime art festival. It sees city streets themselves turn into veritable galleries by hosting a plethora of installation pieces\u2014sculpture, performance art, anything truly\u2014as well as many of the city\u2019s arts institutions having free admission throughout the night. It\u2019s an interesting way to bring art and the public closer, removing some of the many modern barriers between the two.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Led by artistic director Dr. Julie Nagam, Toronto\u2019s Nuit Blanche held the conceptual theme of \u201cThe Space Between Us\u201d this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/explore-enjoy\/festivals-events\/nuitblanche\/2020-program\/artistic-director-julie-nagam\/\" target=\"_blank\">The festival\u2019s statement explains:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cPeople are the heart of their communities. This curatorial theme focuses on the connections to urban, polar and Pacific landscapes, revealing the space between us as a potential site for sharing knowledge. People have always commingled with different communities and nations \u2013 to build new spaces and families that shift their relationships and connections to each other and to place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">People disrupt and transform space, making meaningful connections with communities and places. The global crisis of displaced people brings communities together to stand up for humanity and support each other. Now, more than ever, it reminds us of our willingness to connect when our future is linked to the collaboration between cultures, knowledge, nations and practices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">With over 150 projects spread out across the Greater Toronto Area, it was the most extensive Nuit Blanche for the city to date. From Eugene Paunil\u2019s eerie A God Amongst Us, depicting an avian-human deity casually holding space amongst civilians, to Nike Onile\u2019s The Dinner Table, an expansive and ethereal take on the communal eating space, the perspectives on space are varied and surprising. What does seem to ring true across many of the works is the refocus we have on shared space in our new context, and both the exaltation of that relationship with each other and what lay between us.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Nuit Blanche is a valuable tradition in urban environments. With such a distinct lack of artfulness in many of our public spaces, it\u2019s hard sometimes to remember that our cities hold the potential for beauty and connection. Toronto\u2019s Nuit Blanche has returned with a keen focus on this fact and has even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/explore-enjoy\/festivals-events\/nuitblanche\/nuit-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">begun an online archive<\/a> as a reminder of all the beauty that has been brought to its city streets, and is keeping its presence felt with over thirty-five projects extended for viewing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tradition of Nuit Blanche\u2014or whatever your particular area may call the events\u2014across cities is always one of buzz and mystique. Long gone are the days when the majority of holidays themselves were dusk to dawn affairs of celebration, entertainment, and spectacle. But in this particular way, art is given this deep and focused honour. 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