In its 18th year running, this year's Nuit Blanche will focus on the theme Bridging Distance, with more than 80 installations in public spaces across the city, showcasing the way we experience and overcome our distance from one another. The all-night celebration will take place Oct. 5 to 6, starting at 7 p.
m. all the way until sunrise at 7 a.m.
Nathan Phillips Square, often the place that attracts large crowds at the festival, will have no exhibits this year. Instead, the majority of the installations will be placed along the waterfront and south Etobicoke. It's a change that Jeanne Holmes, the manager of Toronto's cultural events programming, says will hopefully encourage spectators to see that part of the city in an entirely new fashion.
Nuit Blanche Toronto returns this October with a dazzling new artistic vision What to see at Nuit Blanche Toronto 2024 "Because it happens at night, because it happens in the public realm and it kind of transforms public space, it feels almost like it's a dream. Like, did it really happen? Was this thing so magically transformed yesterday and then today it's just a sidewalk?" Holmes says the best time to be at the festival is 4 a.m.
, when things slow down. But in case you miss out on some of this year's exhibits, a dozen of them will stay up until Oct. 13.
CBC is a media partner of this year's festival. Here are some of the installations you can expect to illuminate Toronto's streets this weekend: LUMI A thread of soft inflated balls lit wi.