Tonight at 6:52pm, art takes over downtown Toronto for 12 hours with Nuit Blanche. For tips and starter schedules, check out me and Mark Medley's "Nuit x 3" published in the National Post Toronto section today. Also helpful could be the great Gabrielle Moser's summary of her Nuit Blanche tips over at www.canadianart.ca.
In an interesting turn, there are a few unofficial Nuit Blanche projects that will place a focus on political issues:
- The Ordinary People project encourages art supporters to stop at the stroke of midnight and hold up a sign reading "art" for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. While it's obviously a part tribute to John Cage, it's also intended to underline the idea that ordinary Canadians do like art. (Stephen Harper, of course, has suggested the opposite.)
- Over on Facebook the one-namer Alize is suggesting a group of people wear T-shirts reading "I'm part of gentrification. Fuck!" Apparently iampartofgentrification@gmail.com will hook you up if you're more against Facebook than Starbucks, or something like that.
- And the Department of Culture, in a mock memorial, encourages folks to drop by 100A Ossington from 7pm to 2am and light a candle for "all that would be lost if the Harper Conservatives win a majority government".
No matter what you do, have fun! And bring snacks!
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