This weekend marked the 8th annual Nuit Blanche in Montreal. If you haven't heard of it before, Nuit Blanche is a day and night of festivities commemorating arts and performances around the city. Galleries, museums and other such venues are open all night long, which you can visit for free. STM also keeps metros and busses open in order to ensure safe travel. Visit the official website for more information.
Did you participate in Nuit Blanche this or any other year? What did you see? What did you like most?
Photo credit: Esther Gibbons
I went to the Nuit Blanche festival in Toronto city in 2009. My friend is a fan of art, like myself, and she goes every year. We went around 9 O’clock at night and the city was packed with hundreds of people walking around looking at all the different styles of art. Like I said, I really enjoy art, but for me art is painting, drawing, sculpture, music and poetry, what I saw at the festival was nothing I’ve ever seen before. There was a group of people dressed as ghost, they were slowly walking around a fire, holding note pads and reading out loud what was written. Another weird one was a little pool filled with vodka, it was in a building and people were randomly throwing pennies in the pool. Most of the kiosks were strange but it was still very entertaining.
I went this year and it was pretty fun (extra plus, the metro was still running) it was a fun moment for sure people were joyful and I saw people do a whole bunch of "tricks" which I enjoyed pretty much.