Nuit Blanche 2024 Artists

Threads: Cultural Conversations

Threads is a cross-cultural educational platform inspired by the uncertain times we’re living in. Weaving together knowledge, art, and storytelling,Threads delves into what it means to flourish and belong as diverse peoples while exploring the issues, challenges and desires for Newcomers, Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures to live in harmony.

Summary of Projects

At Threads, we feature speakers, artists, and storytellers from across the globe and all walks of life. Past speakers include former Governor General Michaëlle Jean, award-winning writer Kim Thúy, Chief Cadmus Delorme and former news host Ginella Massa. Recently, we have created Thread Studio, a virtual space for artists to showcase their work. Artists are selected from an open Call for Submissions.

Join PAVED Arts for their annual members’ screening!

This event celebrates the creative video production of PAVED Arts members, including artist-controlled and independent works that are made with equipment and other resources that PAVED Arts has to offer.

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PAVED Arts

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Alt Hotel, second floor

Remai Modern presents a new performance and exhibition by Southern California-based artist, taisha paggett. An interdisciplinary dance artist, paggett’s work contemplates and interrupts fixed histories of Black and queer embodiment, desire, placemaking, possibility and survival. Her practice is rooted in the body with a deep understanding of how the complex social, historical and political implications of her body relate to the production of knowledge.  

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Remai Modern

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102 Spadina Cres E

Sausage Party is a participatory installation in front of Art Placement Gallery. A soft sculpture delicatessen will fill the window. On the street, folks will have an opportunity to assemble their own visually tasty treat to take home: a soft sculpture hot dog complete with a full assortment of topping options with a high probability of googly eyes. Think food truck meets Build-a-Bear, all infused with a Xanadu roller-disco vibe.

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Bratwurst

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The Gallery/art placement inc. 228 3 Ave S

Experience a canvas come alive. A painting that can tell the rest of its story. "From Dawn 'till Dusk 'till Dawn" will present animated visuals in tandem with static works of art to tell a fixed yet moving story as old as the cosmos: The eternal romance/reckoning between light and dark, day and night, love and hate, and the creatures that inhabit these spaces. Put yourself in the middle of duality and enjoy a world of asymmetrical chaos in harmony.

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Dan Dan Art

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Cafe Del Rey, 345 3rd Ave S

What might the city look like if trans people used digital media to speak to one another in everyday urban spaces? The Trans cARe billboard project is an augmented reality (AR) scavenger hunt for 3D digital billboards that radiate joyful messages of trans care and affirmation. Using AR, trans artist Evie Johnny Ruddy has located four digital billboards on the festival grounds. When you find the locations, you can view these life-size billboards through an AR app, and it will look like Saskatoon is adorned with playful, trans-affirming messages.

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Evie Johnny Ruddy

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3rd Ave S, across from Meewasin Valley Authority

Micro Drag is here to bring you the beauty and creativity of drag and gender performance, no matter how big, on a stage suitable for mice. But that won’t stop these funky performers! This stage is no barrier, just like your gender roles. Featuring a variety of genderqueer/trans performers from Saskatoon and area, this little stage is ready to give you the biggest show to grace the streets of Nuit Blanche.

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Queer'd Al with Chaos Encouraged Productions Inc.

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Friendship Park

Dreamscapes is an ethereal installation made from over fifty non-traditional dreamcatchers. Plains Cree tipi poles hold the pieces as they dance with grandmother wind, providing a safe space to Indigi-queers and all who enter. Materials for Dreamscapes are sustainably foraged from recycling, second hand economy, and the land. This installation promotes sustainability and spirituality in a surreal articulation of Indigenous queerness.

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Kamisha Alexson

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Friendship Park, south of Spadina Crescent E near Victoria Bridge

What does a door mean to you? Does it evoke feelings of opportunity or anxiety? How did a door become such a metaphor for success, failure, opportunity, family, home, change, transition, and so many other moments of emotional connection? This project explores the greater meaning of a door, and its ability to change our path in life when we have the courage to open it. After all, it’s just a door.

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Big Art

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K W Nasser Plaza, 2 Spadina Crescent E

Let's make faces. Stretch your imagination and bring your idea or concept for a face into Blatant Space. This installation will turn your prompt into a vivid image for the world to see.

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Blatant Space

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Outside Meewasin Valley Authority

Hand bind your own glow-in-the-dark, passport-sized, field notebook with bookbinder and artist Susan Mills, using mostly recycled materials. For adults, or kids with full adult participation. It glows AND it's OG! For everyone who loves books.

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Susan Mills with JackPine Press

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Remai Modern Atrium

How can we animate space and build connections in public in ways that seem so easy to do online? I explore this question through an interactive engagement with the practice of tagging, from social media to graffiti. In this installation, I encourage folks to "tag" a friend, write a message or sketch an image onto a public body while thinking about communication and community between digital and physical public space.

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Jared Epp

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River Landing, Spadina Cres E

Eight local poets will be sharing the stage to throw down some original poetry! These poets come from all walks of life with varying degrees of experience. The prairies are alive with the sound of poetry, and these artists believe wholeheartedly in its power to transform and nurture the human spirit. Whether you’re an avid reader or a first-time listener, there’s something in it for everyone.

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Write Out Loud

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River Landing Amphitheatre

Boreal Echo: Encased Spectres is a spiritual successor of our previous artwork, Savage Growth, which focuses on the exploration of human relations with the natural environment and the personification of the sorrow and lamentation of the earth's destruction. The project aims to personify nature's unseen emotions and forces through performance arts, sound, and movements to raise awareness of how detrimental human activities can impact our planet if we are not cognizant of our actions.

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Kyuubi Culture

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Traffic Bridge, Victoria Avenue

“Ilaw ng tahanan” (light of the house) is a common Filipino idiom about mothers and the role they play in the household. Cardboard boxes are common travel packages used by many OFWs (Overseas Filipino Workers); the balikbayan boxes being an integral part of the culture as a way to send gifts to family back home. The immigrant experience is represented by combining both ideas into a giant lamp built of cardboard.

This performance explores the idea of communicating with family back home, and how the hardships are often disregarded or omitted from the pretty pictures of being abroad, carrying the weight of expectations and commitment for the sake of family.

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Abraham Galman

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Starting on 3rd Ave S, ending on Broadway Ave and 11th St E.

An avant-garde marching band of experimental musicians exploring the unexpected art spaces of Nuit Blanche. They will be travelling throughout the festival spaces presenting impromptu, mobile, mini-concerts. They will play with the expectations that come with a marching band, including costuming, relating sound to movement, playing as part of a cultural ritual, and accompanying the spectacle of the festival, all through the lens of an experimental improvising music ensemble that finds itself outside in downtown Saskatoon.

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Saskatoon Experimental Music Ensemble

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Throughout Broadway and Downtown