Nuit Blanche in Toronto promises to be a refreshing experience.

Given all the bad news lately, I am looking forward to tonight's Nuit Blanche experience in Toronto. If you don't know what Nuit Blanche is, well, it's an all night celebration of Art, described by the organizers as "a free all-night contemporary art thing." Only a few cities in the world stage this event, Paris and Madrid being the biggest. But Toronto is right up there now. Last year's success convinced organizers (City of Toronto and sponsor ScotiaBank) that this type of event is not only great for us residents of Toronto, but also for visitors from all over the world. I am looking forward to visiting two of the three Art Zones tonight. I will be experiencing the exhibits and installations around Yorkville, Dundas Square and the Financial District.
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I hope to lose myself in new worlds provided by the imagination from some of the most creative artists from around the world. I hope to see, among others, Ricardo Ocaranza, the photographer from San Sebastian, Spain's exhibit Toronto Nocturnes I, 2008; Mexican artists' Nahum Flores, Erik Jerezano and Ilyana Martinez' Z'otz* Collective at Mexican Days of the Dead: Food for Thought; New Yorker Marisela La Grave's Business Class 2008; Japan's Fujiwara Takahashi 's Into the Blue, Daniel Olson's Fifteen Seconds; Michel de Broin's Overflow and Kelly Mark's Horroridor.

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Jaime

(images courtesy City of Toronto)