October 19th started out as a relatively quiet Sunday by Toronto standards. Sure, there was some sort of fashion week thing happening at Phillips Square, and somewhere in the city a marathon was happening, but little did we know that by the end of the day we would have an insatiable thirst for sweet, tender, under-nourished human frontal lobes.
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- Toronto Zombie Walk
- Music by Jonathan Coulton
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Frigid weather, unclosed streets and some poor woman having been run over by a streetcar notwithstanding, Toronto’s 2008 edition of Nuit Blanche was successful in keeping many of us way out past our bed times. This vid represents what we saw outside of La Momma Morta which Adam caught on his stumble home.
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- That Night in Toronto
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Update: I couldn’t find the actual names of the artists who put this together when I initially posted the video, but thankfully they came to me! Cheers to Gigi and Pipi for the marvelous performance!
Nuit Blanche is an annual “all-night contemporary art thing” that sees hundreds of thousands of people come out to see public art sprout up along the city streets. This is my second Nuit Blanche, having missed the first, and it’s always a really great feeling being out and seeing the streets packed with people who are all so excited to see what the night’s got ahead of them.
I was about to throw in the towel and call it a night at around 5am when I came across a stunning display at St. James Park on King Street East that really made the night for me. Enjoy the haunting performance “La Mamma Morta” staged right next to Toronto’s historic St. James Cathedral and look forward to more video from Nuit Blanche coming soon!
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