{"id":2143,"date":"2007-09-30T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:19:34","slug":"nuit-blanche-deux-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=2143","title":{"rendered":"Nuit Blanche Deux"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLast night was Toronto’s second Nuit Blanche – an all night “Art Happening” that started at 7:00pm and ended at 7:00am. There was some discussion throughtout last year as to whether Toronto would stage another Nuit Blanche after the first which attracted almost half a million people – double what had been predicted – did I mention that it also poured rain last year – WOW – for the love of Art or midnight madness – take your pick!!!<\/p>\n
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\nWell we have a very short sighted mayor – taller than our previous mayor but with limitations of a more conservative kind – unless you are talking about renos to his office and then 6 million is OK.<\/div>\n

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\nAnyway, knit-picking aside, if .5 million turned out in the rain last year – 2-3 million had to have turned out last night on a balmy Indian summer evening – let me tell you, there was ART, MUSIC and DANCING in the street!!! I take my Art where I can get it and it was free and on the street – sometimes you actually stumbled over it – such as, the projections on the sidewalk of man-hole covers from around the world – Art for people of the street. We, my husband & I, as Elizabeth would say, spent a good deal of time looking at the art installations within OCAD – the Ontario College of Art & Design – where our eldest was accepted, in the Spring, as a mature student.<\/div>\n

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\nAfter, we followed crowds of people carrying white ballons and visited museums, galleries, parks with projection screens for anyone who wanted to do their artistic “thing” and basically, as I had said in my post last year, became the children that Art makes of us – we were again des tableaux blancs. We could re-write the script, re-draw the image – seldom are we given that oppotunity – thank you Toronto for the chance!<\/div>\n

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\nUnfortunately, I was not able to get to Zone C where the knitting was! Well I knit so much that to make everyone go to a knitting event on family time was too much. But I have to say the The Knit Cafe had the “Great Pom-Pom Event.” You could create a pom-pom and then palm it off to someone else for theirs – no pom – err pun intended. Janet Morton – resident knitting artist (she knit the original house cozy – as in tea cozy and actually covered a house with it ) re-did a building in pink – no knitting here – I think that she has moved onto foam – please do not tell me that this a direction for knitting.\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

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\nThere was also another knitting event – not sure; but rumour has it that it may have been the result of 10-12 women knitting and riding the Queen street car from one terminus to the next and back again – a very long knitting journey or maybe it was something else – sounds like a lot of knitters lost in thought – you wonder how anything ever gets done – or does it?<\/div>\n

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\nAnyway, I always spend a good deal of time thinking about how to dress for Art and this year I wore a lace scarf that I had knit. Maybe 2 of the 3 million that came out for Nuit Blanche wore scarves. I am estimating that 1 million were men – a few of them wore scarves but I would say that ALL but 10% of the women who came out for the event wore a decorative scarf – this was a warm evening – the scarf lives – as an Art form, even.<\/div>\n
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\nKnit on…and thank you Esther…this one’s for you. <\/div>\n
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\nCarol<\/div>\n
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