Of all the autumn events in Toronto, the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche arts festival may be the largest in terms of geography and popularity. Nonetheless, I’ve managed to pick one “must see” exhibit.

(Updated Oct. 12, 2013): Four of the exhibits remain available on “extended viewing” and can be seen through Canadian Thanksgiving Day 2013. See my “2013 Thanksgiving Family Activities in Toronto” for the details.

(Updated Oct. 7, 2013): My friend Murray Lumley took this set of photos of Nuit Blanche 2013. In his words, he and his wife “had supper and then walked around until about 10:30 pm and took the subway home”. He captured these images on a “Canon Powershot S80 set to ISO 400, (nighttime) the maximum the camera has for low light conditions”. Thanks, Murray!

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The Basics for 2013 Nuit Blanche Toronto

Here are the basic facts for Nuit Blanche 2013 in Toronto.

Every art installation or exhibition is free, as far as I can tell. So are almost all the lectures or seminars; I noticed one “ticketed” event. So add “Nuit Blanche in Toronto” to your list of free or frugal annual events in Toronto!

There are a lot of art installations. You have to pick a group that are geographically close to each other, or plan to spend all night getting from one to another. The Scotiabank Nuit Blanche web site, linked below, includes a really useful map. They also offer maps at several downtown locations, and a PDF version that you could print and bring along. (Or keep that map on your smartphone).

Nuit Blanche Scotiabank organizes the art exhibitions into several groups. Most have commissioned and open call projects.

• Ai Weiwei is a group unto himself, with the “Forever Bicycle 2013” at Nathan Phillips Square (City Hall on Queen Street at Bay). This bicycle installation is one of the “extended projects” that you can visit through Oct. 14. Additionally, the film, “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” will be screened inside City Hall six times during the one night of Nuit Blanche 2013.
• The central downtown Exhibitions group has three sections. See below for more details.
• The many installations in the Independent Projects group cover a more scattered area.
• The “(Re)Generator Project 2013” is the entry in the Special Projects group. Go to the southwest corner of Yonge and Dundas, and look over at the Eaton’s Centre.

I’d mentioned that the Exhibitions group has 3 sections, each of which depends on rather clever artistic visioning and curating:

1. “Off to a flying start” takes objects which artists had originally found “on the streets”, and then placed into museums or galleries, back onto the street. After all, Toronto will become an outdoor museum for Nuit Blanche 2013; why not return those found objects back into their natural habitat?
2. “PARADE” is a series of floats that you would enjoy seeing go past you in a parade. But it’s not a parade; those floats stay in their fixed locations. Instead, you are the parade: you walk past the floats. The stationary floats are installed between the north-east curve of Queen’s Park Circle, along University Avenue down to Queen St. West.
3. “Romancing the Anthropocene” makes art by documenting what humans (“anthropo-“) have done to shape the current epoch (“-ocene”) of the world.

My Pick for 2013 Nuit Blanche in Toronto

My top choice for the 2013 Nuit Blanche Toronto art festival is “PARADE”, for two reasons.

First, it’s a brilliant idea for Nuit Blanche to re-invent a parade as “spectators walk while the parade’s floats remain stationary”. Second, that makes for an easy, straightforward walk to see a connected series of installations. It’s concept art that’s easy on the brain.

From having run north on University to finish the Toronto Goodlife Fitness Marathon in years past, I’d recommend taking the subway to the Museum station on the Yonge-University line. Cross to the east side, then walk south along Queen’s Park Crescent and University Avenue. (Of course you could start from Osgoode Station and walk north, but that’s just a bit more work).

The Official Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Web Site

You really should check the details in the official Scotiabank Nuit Blanche web site. It includes details on each art installation, their map(s) and where to find them, as well as an online planner. Downtown Toronto restaurants will vie for your patronage; you need to eat to keep walking! If you plan to cover a lot of ground, use a TTC day pass to save yourself money versus paying a token for each short trip.

I’d covered a few other tips for Nuit Blanche Toronto, mainly on comfortable clothing, last year when the “2012 Taste of St. Joseph Ukrainian Catholic Church in Oakville” ran on the same weekend.

What’s Your Pick for 2013 Nuit Blanche Toronto?

Have you planned your route for Nuit Blanche 2013 in Toronto? What would you pick as the must-see art installation at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche in 2013?

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