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

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

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

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