Wayne D's Blog

Sunday at midnight I put my bike in the trunk of the car and headed to downtown Toronto to experience Nuit Blanche the dusk to dawn art extravaganza that is entering it's third year in Toronto. After getting stuck in a traffic jam on Yonge Street I found a tiny parking space in a lot near Church and Carlton, reassembled my bike and peddled off into the night. Six and a half hours later I returned to the parking lot with a sore knee, an appreciation that I need a new bicycle seat but no regrets about staying up all night to explore the art of the city with the other Arterati of Toronto. Click the picture below to see the other photos I took throughout the night. They barely begin to document the experience of the night.

I was particularly struck with the Sound Forest created by Tova Kardonne and Christine Duncan at Queen's Park. After hearing them once I went back a second time and took a short piece of video which is terribly lit and has pretty muddy sound. The drums you hear in the background aren't part of the Sound Forest. The drummers had set up to do some drumming in the park as an unofficial member of the Nuit Blanche experience.