This year, the City-produced exhibitions will be located in familiar and new locations including around University of Toronto and College Street over to Carlton and Jarvis Streets; City Hall and down Bay Street; along the waterfront (between York Street and Parliament Street) and at key cultural organizations across the city.
"For the 10th edition, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche will transform Toronto with one of its most interactive and exciting programs yet," said Mayor John Tory. "Since 2006, the city has come alive through contemporary art for this one sleepless night, creating magical experiences and resulting in an impressive economic impact for Toronto."
"Scotiabank Nuit Blanche makes contemporary art accessible to a local and out-of-town audience of over a million people each year," said Councillor Michael Thompson (Ward 37 Scarborough Centre), Chair of the Economic Development Committee. "The event has received many accolades including this year’s Economic Developers Council of Ontario (EDCO) Awards of Excellence for Public-Private Partnerships."
City-produced Exhibition Projects
This year the City-produced component features an engaging lineup of 50 contemporary art projects, which are part of the four exhibitions:
Agustin Pérez Rubio's HTUOS/HTRON - The New Coordinates of the Americas; JR's Black and White Night; Christine Shaw's The Work of Wind and Che Kothari's 10 for 10th - Memory Lane.
Extended Projects in 2015
Fourteen artist projects will be extended to October 12: Aziz + Cucher's Time of the Empress; Francisco Fernandos Granados' "refugees run the seas…"; Luis Jacob's Sphinx; JR's Campbell's House: Your Eye Inside Out, Inside Out and Nuit Talks: Putting the extra-in-ordinary; Los Carpinteros' Frio Estudio del Desastre; Carlos Amorales' Black Cloud; Ekow Nimako's Silent Knight (only until October 10); Amanda McCavour's Pattern Study; Sean Martindale's There Is No Away; Michael Howatson's Mímir's Well; Pascale Peyret's EMPREINTES; and An Te Liu's Solid States. A complete list of times and locations is available at
http://ow.ly/Rjx5u.
Nuit Talks
A series of themed talks, scheduled to run from September 27 to October 28, offer a unique look behind the scenes of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche.
Featuring one-of-a-kind talks, experiences and films by remarkable artists, curators and thinkers from this year's event, Nuit Talks will be presented in partnership with organizations such as The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, AGO's First Thursdays and Art Toronto. A full list of events, speakers, locations and ticket information will be available on the website soon.
Arts community produced Independent Projects The arts community produced portion of the event responds to the curatorial theme of Kothari's Memory Lane and features more than 60 projects created by cultural and educational institutions, neighbourhoods, and individual artists and producers. This year is the first time this program will be produced under a curatorial vision.
These exciting projects will expand the boundaries of the event and showcase the diversity of Toronto’s art communities.
