Every year, for the past few years, Toronto has been hosting an annual arts event called the Nuit Blanche. It is only a one night event where some of the main downtown streets are blocked to allow pedestrain traffic all night long starting shortly after 7:00p.m and last until sunrise the next morning.
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| People performaing on the street on Nuit Blanche |
Nuit Blanche is an event completely devoted to arts. This year it had over 160 exhibits and events throughout the main Toronto downtown core. I was at an eleven a.m. meeting downtown so I just went into Starbuck after the meeting and worked there until my husband came and we went together to enjoy the night of events.
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| A Social Experiment - Talking to Strangers |
Since there were over 160 events, in order to get the most out of the evening, we got the program book from Dundas Square and pored over the program to select the ones that interested us the most. There were quite a few art events concentrated around the City Hall area, so we bought a Subway pass for $10.50 which allowed two people unlimited travel for the day and into the wee hours of the next morning.
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| Floor Art, Outside City Hall |
We started at the Dundas /Yonge Square where hundreds of Torontoians already gathered. One activity we enjoyed was the social experiment of talking to strangers. At one corner of the square, there were instrucitons posted helping people to initiate conversations with strangers. It was a lot of fun and from the huge number of people practising the art of conversing with strangers, this was a popular activity especially with young people.
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| Watching the `Civilization` Exhibit on the floor of Toronto City Hall during Nuit Blanche |
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| Nuit Blanche, Dundas Yonge Square, Toronto By R,T, Toronto, Canada Sept.30, 2012 |
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