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NUIT BLANCHE TORONTO - 10.05.2024
Artistic Director: Laura Nanni
BRIDGING DISTANCE
Distance - how do we understand it? How do we feel it? How do we bridge the gaps? Explore the multifaceted ways we experience distance and find new perspectives that reconnect us to the city through art. How can art bring us closer to the thoughts, feelings and experiences of those outside our geographic, social and political realms? Zoom out for perspective, take a closer look and go where the art takes you.
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⇡ VR panoramas are taken at the spots marked with #01 to #04 on the map.
This first one, as well as a photos bellow, are taken at the first area visited, just as you enter Sherbourne Common, near the George Brown College buildings. South George Brown campus were actually hosting 5 exhibits [we visited only 4 of them].
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⇡ This installation is created by Noque Jordan, and it is called "I'v come to find this place". This sound-based installation explores the relationship between surrealism, spirituality and sites of folklore across and from the Cribbiean.
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⇡ These two creations were inside the George Brown South Building. It was really pleasant to sit for a while in this small auditorium at the lower level.
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⇡ We are watching this sound-based installation by Toronto artist Anique Jordan inspired by Caribbean folklore, and for the piece, Jordan is written her own surreal fairy tale, called "Where is it?"
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⇡ On the south side of George Brown College building plenty od people are enjoying these visuals, from insde and out.
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⇡ Fatherless hymn, motherless cacophony, figurless cradle.
Witness a live, overnight game of Cat's Cradle at Sugar Beach. Using industrial rope, performers create monumental, temporary string figures as a way of honouring overlooked labour and traditions.
Blending choreography, vocalization and string figures, this performance presents original designs inspired by Toronto's urban infrastructure — a poetic tribute to the labour of those who keep our city moving. Artistic creation by Ivettta Suny Oung Kang.
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⇡ Moving along Queens Quay we are observing this inspirational artwork. Who did it we don't know. The other one is inside, queue to get in was huge, image is still leaving very very good impression.
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⇡ Queens Quay was perfect opportunity to fulfill your food desires. Kids, adults, in-between, all of us.
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⇡ Harbour Square East. We are familiar with this area, this is where my daughters art studio is located and this is where both of our granddaughters take ferry boat to the Toronto Islands where they go to school.
Now with all those lights it looks totally different. This gigantic table in the park is ideal location for indigenous story telling, check it out. VR panorama was taken at #02 on the map.
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⇡ If you are curious what this is all about you can ask a question.
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⇡ Just few meters away, under this purple tree, unknown artists/ performers are pleasing them-selfs and us, just passers by.
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⇡ On this unusual spot, on the plateau over the lake Ontario, Mishann Lau, created interactive installation that bridges multiple locations with video chat stations. If you really whant to know how I look like check it out, here I am ->.
What are you saying? - It is very hard to hear you with all this people.
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⇡ Third Diganta Collective; Sandu Hudson, Ziyan Hossain, and Plini. Toronto,canada; Los Ageles, USA; Sudney, Australia; Dhaka, Bangladesh.
WE REMEMBERED YOU, TOO
Enter an immersive garden of wonder and a multisensory experience that contemplates memories and interconnections. We Remembered You, Too transforms T-Zero Design's The Sundial Folly permanent public art sculpture (artists Paul De Figueiredo and Jonathan Fung) and adjacent parkette into a space for interaction, reflection and connection. Explore themes of beauty, grief and memory on personal and collective scales. #03 on our map. If you pay attention you will see my hand and the shadow of my camera.
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⇡ Two more images from Third Diganta Collective. I am there somewhere too.
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⇡ Now we are walking towards the Harbourfront, last area that we are planning to visit. I just turned 75 last month, have that in mind.
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⇡ Harborfront is closest to the Union Subway Station and understandably most crowded. Food stands are most popular here.
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⇡ Surprisingly for October in Toronto weather was very pleasant 18 degrees C, so we are enjoying this refreshing mist here.
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⇡ Love Park, newest addition to the collection of parks in the city, was on our way back home.
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⇡ Love Park is of course in our collection of urban squares.
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⇡ Walk was taking us along Harbour Street and then up the Bay Street, under the bridge from the Union Subway Station. Was this also part of Nuit Blanche exhibits we are not sure.
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⇡ This is an opportunity to remind ourselfs and our visitors that this was not our first experince with Nuit Blanche Art Nights. Images from 2008 and 2009 are above, and images from 2010, 2011 and 2012 are bellow.
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⇡ We visited in 2025 Nuit Blanche again, check it out bellow
or open in a new screen => Nuit Blanche 2025
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Our photo gallery from the 2025 visit is available on our photoblog.
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We are strongly recommending those other >psycho<geographical> walks listed bellow, all of them in the very close proximity.
~ 34 ❖ Church Street Walk for 4thWCoP, Toronto, 2022 ~ 35❖ Fifth Block Gardens, Toronto, 2022 ~
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October 8, 2024
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