Basic Idea
For one night downtown London will come alive with contemporary arts activities, exhibits, and whatever. We'll start at 9:00pm on Saturday, June 18 and run until 3:00am on Sunday, June 19.
Galleries, museums, laneways, sidewalks, alleys, parks can all become locations to engage audiences in a variety of artistic experiences. Unusual or forbidden spaces become sites of contemporary art open for all-night discovery and rediscovery. The audience is given free access to explore, discover, debate, and participate in contemporary art.
Participating artists will create installations, interactive art, film, sculpture, street theatre, music, anything that will encourage participation from audiences. The diversity of the art is unlimited.
Nuit Blanche is a free contemporary arts event.
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Site #1 – Museum London, 421 Ridout Street
Art Party /Hide and Seek Show and Tell
Visual Artists: Jason McLean, Sarah Scope, John Porter and Giles Whittaker Musicians: Thesis Sahib, Dreamspoitation, Disleksick, DJ Turkey Neck, Richard Moule & Bernie Koenig, Lafidki
Museum London hosts Hide and Seek Show and Tell, an art and music event inciting public participation. An open mic and bands throughout the Museum give inspiration to an Art Party, where people gather to make and enjoy art. The Art Party also spotlights the work of a few artists, encourages interactive artmaking and hosts a zine table. Materials provided. Cash bar.
Site #2 – Dundas Street
AudioForge
A collaboration of metal and music featuring Blacksmiths Scott McKay and Jeff Werkmeister accompanied by members of Exit 2012 including Jeremy Hobbs. Using traditional methods of forging, a rhythm is created for improvisational sound overlay in an experimental manner.
Site #3 – Laneway between Dundas Street and Market Lane
The Photo Circus
Artists: Andy Berdan, nik harron, Ed Jackman, Kevin Van Lierop
The Photo Circus is an opportunity to dress up, act like a child and create instant moments that will last forever. Captured on-site, these moments will be projected onto a nearby wall throughout the night for everyone to enjoy. When Nuit Blanche is over, the images will serve as a memory that EVERYONE, not simply those listed in the program, were part of the art that is Nuit Blanche.
Site #4 – The Met, 140 Dundas Street
A Gaze Returned
Artist: Charles Vincent
Using the reassuring unease of security TV, "A Gaze Returned" is art that looks back at the artist and the viewer. Unlike Galatea in the familiar Pygmalion myth, she does not explode her status as art object by coming to life, but instead rebels by closing her eyes and handing me an image of myself, repeating this action for each subsequent viewer.
Site #5 – St. Paul's Cathedral, 472 Richmond Street. Front Lawn
Inside Out
Artist(s): Flux Dance Company ~ A division of Dance Extreme
Choreographer: Richelle Hirlehey
Dancers: Kennedy Confurius, Jenna Denomy, Mckensey Hanmer, Kirsten Maczko, Natalie Toll
Our site specific contemporary dance piece explores conformity and the willingness to step outside the box and become who you are really meant to be. The dancers work within the confines of a larger-than-life cardboard box to strip away stereotypes, peer pressures and the fads that can sometimes shadow our own true selves.
Choreographer: Richelle Hirlehey
Music: Mad Rush, Phillip Glass
Dancers: Kennedy Confurius, Jenna Denomy, Mckensey Hanmer, Kirsten Maczko, Natalie Toll
Site #6 – St. Paul's Cathedral, 472 Richmond Street. Cathedral
H2Woes
Artists: Dennis Siren, Wendy Saby, Penn Kemp, Bob Burchill, Geoff Johnson, Nina Davis, Jake Levesque, Julia Webb, A Mythfish, Gaetan LaBelle
H2wOes is a Multi Media performance dealing with Humanities relationship with WATER. We are 70% water, an excellent conductor of vibration, but we keep ourselves clinically fascinated by distraction. We will explore this distraction through spoken word, sounding, song, video and movement to find our way back to harmony.
Penn Kemp, London's Poet Laureate will weave her poetic magic and teach us how to sound the cathedral, for one special performance at 9:30pm.
Site #7 – The Lounge, 178 Dundas Street
NO Show
An avalanche of entertainment featuring sketch, music, monologue, stand-up, interviews, and performances by Fringe artists. Anything can happen (and probably will). Hosted by Jayson McDonald.
Starting at 11:30pm
Site #8 – The Arts Project, 203 Dundas Street. Theatre.
ON THE HARMFULNESS OF TOBACCO by Anton Chekhov
Artists: AlvegoRoot Theatre Company, Adam Corrigan Holowitz, Chris McAuley
A hen pecked husband is forced by his wife to give a 10 minute speech for a charitable objective. Over the 10 minutes he strays from the subject on the harmfulness of tobacco, to talking about how he is mistreated and his past hopes. A comedic whirl wind, the play-let examines the spirit of revolution and home life.
Starting at 10:00pm; 15 min. long, performed in cycle by 3 different actors.
Site #8 – The Arts Project, 203 Dundas Street. Main Gallery.
VisualFringe
The works of 35 emerging and established artists create a visual experience that will spark the curiosity and imaginations of visitors.
Site #8 – The Arts Project, 203 Dundas Street. Main Gallery.
Hand Prints for Creating a New Reality
You are invited to be one of the Reaching –Out Child Abuse Monument artists though your HandPrint contribution in the Give Kid a Hand Visualization workshop. In perpetuity the Monument will hold our collective national visualization of our intention to protect children.
The Reaching Out – Child Abuse Monument will be:
A Vignette of Two Standing Figures with arms reaching out and upward implies nurture and safety -- victory and celebration -- presence and inclusion. Together the figures measure over 10 feet tall by 30 feet wide.
Sculpted Quilt Squares, each with some form of "hand" motif, are a major theme of the work and allow the Monument to be truly collaborative. Nearly 200 of these 300 quilt squares were created by survivors of child abuse and their supporters. Each square has a person's cast hand. Some of the squares are filled with detailed imagery. Others have simple, but poignant forms.
Give Kids A Hand Visualizations that will individually and collectively have a real impact on preventing child abuse will be permanently sealed inside the Monument. From coast to coast, tracings of hands on a sheet of paper along with a message are being collected for inclusion inside the Monument.
The "Reaching Out" Monument will be a voice and an important work of art for generations. And you can be part of it- come and join us at The Arts Project.
Site #9 – Dundas Street
The Odd Olympics
Odd Act Theatre Group
Odd Act Theatre Group's internationally touring actors play referees and competitors in a dada-esque series of events designed to show up the absurdity of competition and stretch the imagination to out-perform rather than out-compete the opponent. Racing against a tree, compete at anything but cricket, not fall our of a chair, survive the gauntlet of pancakes, and attempt the death-defying triple-loop one-legged belly squat.
Site #10 – Dundas Street
Skydiving in Suburbia
Artist: Matt. Miller
"Skydiving in Suburbia" is a one-man slam poetry play by Matt. "Lip Balm" Miller, member of the 2011 Toronto Poetry Slam Team.
This play makes light of suburban life, while building the tools necessary to create one's own personal truth. "Skydiving in Suburbia" is a 50 minute rollercoaster ride of emotion, humour and discovery. Miller pushes himself to the brink of sanity in hopes that he might rise above it.
One performance per hour.
Site #11 – Rotary Reading Garden, Wellington Road Doors to access
Trouble in Paradise – Five Films by David Hall
"The Romance is Dead," 2007. "Axis of Eden," 2008. "Disgorge, Mexico," 2009. "Sexually Frustrated Satanic Landscapes," 2010. "Pain is a Warning," 2011.
On June 18th, the London Public Library's Rotary Reading Garden will be transformed into an interactive out-door movie-house of psychedelic and abstract expressionist cinema courtesy of underground, heavy metal filmmaker David Hall. Explore the Rotary Garden as the gonzo and uncanny, yet beautiful quintet of Hall's London-shot feature films are projected into the night – bathing viewers and surroundings alike with visions of dysfunctional love, nefarious characters and maximum rock n roll.
Site #12 – APKLive, 340 Wellington Street
apk live will be showcasing local multi-media and art and culture programming.
The line-up includes:
Lonnie in The Garden
Thesis Sahib
Its a Gamble
Erynne Gilpin
Erin Woodgate
Pat Tiffin
and more ... There will also be Ladyfest art exhibitors, merchants and performers all night.
...And our Wandering Artists. These artists will be appearing all night and in different locations. Keep your eyes open!
(re)moving graffiti
Artist: HerciniArts Collective
Dressed in graffiti painted bodysuits, "Guerilla aerial" (or art-y parkour) performers Molly Keczan, Natalie Parkinson and Emily Hughes roam the street and climb and perch on existing structures, bringing an awareness of the line between vandalism and art. HerciniArts is a multidisciplinary performance company. Find out more at www.herciniarts.com
Mysteries of the Unexplained
Artist: mr.eman
A magic show tribute to the world of the unknown; where things are not always what they seem. Mr.Eman invites you to join him in a program that explores a brief history of unexplained phenomenon. Engaging and interactive with encouraged audience participation
Rover: E. Ruth Strebe
Ruth Strebe will wander the streets of downtown London's Petit Nuit Blanche with camera in hand - capturing moments of the night. The raw footage (video and still images) will be edited into short snippets and then uploaded onto youtube.com. Three videos from her first Nuit Blanche London experience can be seen on YouTube at: Waldoodle, The Fan Secret Admirer 2 and Overview of Nuit Blanche