Toronto Life

6 An all-night art party

Ninety installati­ons will take over nine neighbourh­oods. Here’s where to wander for the most spectacula­r sights

- Nuit Blanche

Scarboroug­h Town Centre

For the second year, Scarboroug­h will be an eastern hub for the festival, with the action clustered around Scarboroug­h Town Centre, where Instagram sensation Hatecopy (right) will host an interactiv­e feminist game show (test your wokeness!) and Kent Monkman will unveil the “Miss Chief Eagle Testickle Picture Show,” a cheeky collection of six videos starring his titular gender-twisting alter ego.

Nathan Phillips Square

When artist Daniel Arsham got new glasses that corrected his colour-blindness, he could suddenly see subtle shades, like fuchsia that fades into flamingo. His new perspectiv­e inspired “Lunar Garden,” a massive Japanese Zen garden, filled with pink trees, white sand and lit by a 30-foot moon.

City Hall and Old City Hall

“Peace to the Past, Reach for the Future” is an 18-foot sculpture celebratin­g the Raptors’ 25th birthday. The specs of the monument are still unknown, but creative producer Bryan Espiritu and sculptor Esmaa Mohamoud promise the work will explore the players’ “tenderness and vulnerabil­ity.”

Eaton Centre

In “Chasing Red,” Anishinaab­e artist Bekah Brown lights up the bridge crossing Queen with glowing hues that mimic the aurora borealis. Scarlet lights will intensify throughout the night, symbolizin­g Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls; they’ll be bookended at sunset and sunrise by live dancers performing a jingle dance, a sacred ritual of hope and healing.

MOCA

For “It All Makes Sense,” Stephanie Comilang turns the lobby of the Sterling Road museum into a potent sense memory. Using video, textiles, light and scent, she aims to recreate the flash of inspiratio­n she experience­d as a teenager watching Perfumed Nightmare, a 1977 film made by a fellow Filipino filmmaker.

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