The organizers of Nuit Blanche held a launch event at OCAD this morning to announce this year’s curators—Wayne Baerwaldt, Director and Curator of Exhibitions at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery at the Alberta College of Art and Design; Dave Dyment, Director of Programming at Mercer Union, Toronto; Gordon Hatt, a writer and curator who lives in Kitchener; and Haema Sivanesan, Executive Director of Toronto’s South Asian Visual Arts Centre—and allow them to outline their individual visions for the event.
In 2007, some 800,000 people took to the streets to participate in this extravaganza of culture and light, the work of 500 artists. Torontoist was among those bleary-eyed thousands and had a slightly mixed time of things. Some of us marvelled at the sheer scale of the event, at the feeling of being witness to a truly historic happening in the city’s cultural history; others expressed disappointment at events that didn’t quite live up to expectations. Mayor Miller’s 12 year-old daughter, who accompanied him last year, summarized it most succinctly: “Everything at Nuit Blanche is weird.”
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