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Thanks May, that’s an awesome suggestion. Here’s some background info on Nuit Blanche for anyone interested:

“Nuit Blanche” means White Night or All Nighter in French, and is an annual all-night cultural festival. The festival lasts from sundown until sunrise. It premiered in Paris in 2002, and has spread to many international cities, including: Brussels, Chicago, Miami Beach, Madrid, Montreal, Rome, Turin, Tirana, Tel Aviv, São Paulo, Skopje, Toronto, Valletta, Leeds, and Lima.

A Nuit Blanche will usually have museums, private and public art galleries, and other cultural institutions offering free admission to all. The downtown core of a city is turned into a de facto art gallery itself, providing space for art installations, performances (music, film, dance, performance art), themed social gatherings, and other activities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuit_blanche

Nuit Blanche Update:

There will be 750 art projects lined up for this Saturday night!

This night-light event will takeover many unlikely gallery spaces including, parks, alleyways, tunnels, brdiges, and abandoned warehouses across Toronto.

Remember: Museums and galleries will also be open to night owls.

It’s impossible to see it all in 12 hours, so plan ahead!

The Toronto Star lists their 12 exhibitions not to miss during Nuit Blanche!

Here’s what made the list:

1. Start at Nuit Blanche’s ground zero: Stereoscope (2008) by the Berlin-based trio, Project Blinkenlights. Employing “every single window in city hall,” Zone A curator Gordon Hatt explains, Stereoscope will use this vast grid-work of multiple light sources to create a unified light show that can be activated by smart phones and control mechanisms at the site itself.

2. Staying in Zone A, one can next walk north on Yonge St. to Domaine de l’angle #2 (2008), a theatrical drop ceiling suspended over an alley next to Massey Hall (178 Victoria St.), created by Quebec City’s remarkable art collective BGL.

3. Nearby one passes by In the Blue (2008), the pillowy stack of donut-shaped tubes by Fujiwara Takahiro floating in the Eaton Centre’s great open central space.

4. You next come to 15 Seconds (2002), Daniel Olson’s fame game at Yonge-Dundas Square. Situated high above the crowd in a wooden “guard tower,” à la many classic prison movies, the Montreal artist can brightly illuminate selected passersby allowing them to stand out from all the rest. Eat your heart out, Andy Warhol.

5. Heading to Yorkville by just about any route takes you past five or six more installations. One not to be missed by all accounts is Sound Forest (2008), just off of Queen’s Park Circle. In this leafy sound installation organized by Tova Kardonne and Christine Duncan, 10 choirs make their way through the trees, each following their own mysterious route.

6. Taking a southern course from city hall, one can dive into Zone B activities with a walk on the fright side down Horroridor (2008), Kelly Mark’s corridor of rage at Union Station’s York St. concourse. While making their way along a constructed tunnel, viewers are surrounded on all sides by people screaming and ranting in a riot of images and sound.

7. With all the noise, one might easily miss Larry McDowell. Keep your eyes peeled for the B.C. performance artist’s silent, motionless presence at Berczy Park (35 Wellington St. E.) for the nightlong performance installation, Corvidae Ibidem (2008). He’ll be the guy draped in black, blindfolded and barefoot, as the rest of Toronto rushes by.

8. Don Quixote, the 17th-century Spanish novel, provides the conceptual framework for Don Coyote (2008), the quixotic cowboy cabaret featuring Calgarians Matt Masters and Terrance Houle in a six-piece band at St. James Cathedral (65 Church St.).

9. If your chosen route takes you to the west end, guide yourself to the old building at 153 Dufferin St., using the Mowat Ave. entrance for Shilpa Gupta’s Untitled (2004-2005) video installation. Here the projected images of seven figures, all dressed in camouflage, follow with military-like obedience the orders of site visitors clicking on digital control devices.

10. Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree allows visitors to fix personal uplifting messages to a tree, with the New York artist’s Imagine Peace billboard (2001) looking down on the corner of Liberty St. and Jefferson Ave.

11. Then there’s the mordant playfulness found in Jon Sasaki’s performance/sound installation I Promise It Will Always Be This Way (2008). As fist-pumping rock blasts through Lamport Stadium (1155 King St. W.), Sasaki’s characters, dressed like goofy, cuddly sports mascots, dash this way and that, exhausting themselves.

12. If all this excess pushes things to the edge of the unreal, we suggest capping off with the relative normalcy of Andrew Harwood performing Madame Zsa Zsa, “the underwater oracle,” at The Social (1100 Queen St. W.). There’s nothing like a little “playing with gender, identity, nature and human connection,” as promised by the veteran Toronto artist, to get one ready for an ordinary Monday.

Nuit Blanche was one of the coolest experiences I have ever had! I only spent a few hours in one of the three zones, but it was so fun. There were lots of galleries open by local artists and even a fashion show by some young talent. There was a lot of interactive art too – I bought a balloon with a light and a love message inside it, I painted on people in suits, I painted on a large mural on a fence, etc. What was your favourite part of nuit blanche?

I’ve never seen so many people out on the street at 2 am in the morning!