10:30 pm - Meet up with Kay and we start at Charles Street at the top of the University of Toronto campus. The Canard Development Group is a concept of a development company office, but all I saw was a canvas roof suspended by balloons. It was a beautiful and strange thing to find floating over campus. "Strange" and "beautiful" would be the theme of the night.
11:30 pm Hollander York Gallery in Yorkville for Progression: Painting and Jazz
Midnight: The "art à la carte" all-nighter at the Metro Reference Library.
12:30 am Noite De Sao Joao: under a laneway of star flags, Brazillian field recordings immerse you in the Night of St. John
1:30 am The Distillery District where it wasn’t as packed as Queen or Yorkville. The site was lively with nightlife as many of the artists who operate out of the area opened their doors to the night. The glass sculptures by David Chihuly on display in the Sandra Ainsley Gallery are some of my favourite things.
2:00 am - The highlight: Dance Ontario presenting a live performance of the Michael Jackson "Thriller" dance number.
The crowd cheered them on as they thrilled into the night.
3:30 am – Ontario College of Art and Design had a number of works and installations on display
Lorena Salomé’s Closeness embeds autonomous technologies inside kinetic sculptures to probe temporality, randomness and mutual destruction
The view from the 6th floor of the OCAD structure, looking west on the city.
Some of the art on display at OCAD
4:30 am – After strolling through Grange Park behind OCAD we popped in to catch the last few minutes of the Theatre of Ephemeral Music in the Music Gallery. We’re in a church, with a guitarist, pianist, DJ’s and multimedia artists are mashing together in a mellow, trance-like way. The mood is relaxed, the visuals hypnotic, and the music otherworldly. A perfect end to the night.
Theatre of Ephemeral Music in the Music Gallery
5:00 am – Time to call it a Nuit. Off to catch the subway to bed.
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