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

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

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

Social media, selfie culture, and the dawn of the influencer have created a compulsion to project a flawless reality to the world. The glitz-and-glam of Artificiality considers the allure of simulated realities in a world where CGI, AI, and other manipulated media technologies threaten human integrity. Take a selfie among the distorted reflections of the installation and add your silhouette to a collaborative drawing where each layer further abstracts the human form.

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Cristine Andrew-Stuckel

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Saskatchewan Crescent E, west of Eastlake Avenue

From the parkland of Northwest Saskatchewan emerges something you can't quite see. Look with me. Strain your eyes. Come closer. Let me tell you the Legend of Bearman.

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Luke Maddaford

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Eastlake Avenue & Saskatchewan Crescent E

Embrace the magic of Peaceful Occurrences! Join Peace Akintade and Aldeneil Española in an enchanting fusion of poetry and art at Nuit Blanche. Enter our vibrant visual world adorned with lively African prints and fabric. Let Peace and Aldeneil craft personalized poems and stunning illustrations just for you. Feeling shy? Dive into our creative frenzy with Afrocentric poetry prompts and ready-to-go poetry pages. With captivating sensories and warm light, immerse yourself in an evening of artistic exploration and community connection.

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Peace Akintade & Aldeneil Española Jr.

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Little Stone Stage, 639 Broadway Ave

Jokers Poker

Come one and come all to see comedians in their natural habitat. You will have a chance to see how the comedy sausage is made through lighthearted banter, conversations, collaborations, and suggestions from you of course! The poker game will be lit up for all to see and the comedians will be mic'd up so you’ll hear everything. Shawn Cuthand and Aimee Grimard will be joined by other relentless, money-grubbin’ comedians for a night of laughs you won't wanna miss.

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Shawn Cuthand & Aimee Grimard

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Broadway Avenue & 11th St E

“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.

Blueprints are important in the construction of any structure whether it’s a bridge, home, or public space. Without a plan, building materials can go to waste, key details may go unnoticed, and the original intention of the construction can become distorted or incomplete. Blueprints are the measured, visual representation of the hopes and goals of everyone involved in the construction of a project.

For this printmaking event, SK Printmakers will use the idea of blueprints representing planning, growth, and visualizing goals to create images that will be exposed onto silkscreens. Throughout the evening, Nuit Blanche participants will work with SKP members to screenprint these images onto 10” x 10” sheets of recycled blueprint paper.

Nuit Blanche participants will be able to take their printed blueprints with them.

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Patrick Bulas with SK Printmakers

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École Victoria Rink, behind 639 Broadway Ave