Nuit Blanche – night of art appreciation
While Nick and I are often traveling and exploring different parts of the world – when there’s a chance to explore our own city, we take that chance. We do it via Nuit Blanche – an annual event that goes from 7pm to 6am in the morning. The entire Toronto downtown core (via zone a, b, and c) are covered with different art exhibits – some outdoors, some within different buildings. The art exhibits are a range of performance arts, light installations, visual arts, abstract art, interactive art, or other form of art that I do not have a name for.
Mostly we find it fun to bundle up (it gets cold at night in October), and wander the city street with hundreds and thousands of people on the streets of Toronto. some major roads are closed to cars, which makes it that much more fun to wander. This year we started our trek at 11pm, and wandered throughout until 4:30am. We decided to do the economical and environmental friendly thing by taking public transportation – TTC subway. with a family day pass, we can ride the subway and streetcar system as much as we want. and since parking is such a hassle with so many people wandering on foot, public transit is really the way to go.
Here’s selected pics – it’s really impossible to see everything – we stayed mostly in the core district of Yonge/bloor/front area.
From Toronto – Nuit Blanche 2010, posted by Out Exploring on 10/04/2010 (63 items)
- on the TTC with unlimited rides family pass
- 1st exhibit – Monument to Smiles
- at Yorkville – the normal rock turned into a human heart
- line up into an exhibit
- beautiful paintings
- large steel balls that is painted to represent different aspects of our lives
- exhibit "On the good red road".
- my Kortune was an emoticon of ":)"
- at Dundas Square – nice warm bonfire
- interactive design your own clay exhibit – grade 8 art class flashback
- other people’s creations
- My creation!
- my favourite exhibit
- the engineering and visual effects was very cool
- exhibit "Auto Lamp"
- cool cut out design
- the "let’s see how many people will wait in line just because" exhibit
- behind the curtain is what you’re in line to see
- apparently in 1850s, Toronto waterfront was at Front Street, not Lakeshore – light in…
- at BCE place – they take music sheets played by piano players and fold each one
- the piano player
- not part of the Nuit Blanche exhibit – but too cute not to take pics of
- circle of dancers
- at Nathan Philips Square – performance enhanced by different method to display the co…
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