Things To Do at Nuit Blanche in Toronto 2025
From 7 p.m. on Saturday, October 4 to 7 a.m. on Sunday, October 5, 2025, Nuit Blanche will transform public spaces into an extraordinary, city-wide gallery. This free, all-night art festival returns for its 19th edition with installations, performances and interactive works across Toronto
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Event Highlights
- Collective Composition (curated by Laura Nanni)
- Poetic Justice (curated by Charlene K. Lau)
- From Here, There, Everywhere (curated by Renata Azevedo Moreira)
- A diverse array of art installations spanning large-scale light works to pop-up performances by local and international artists
Bridging Distance – This Year’s Theme
This year, the theme “Translating the City” invites artists, curators, and audiences to decode and reinterpret the rhythms, textures, and stories woven into Toronto’s urban fabric.
Through installations and performances by local, national, and international talents, Nuit Blanche 2025 will ask you to consider how art can serve as a language—turning streets into sentences, buildings into paragraphs, and public spaces into living texts. From expansive light sculptures that spell out new narratives across the skyline to intimate, site-specific encounters that draw you deep into hidden corners of the city, each work will translate familiar places into fresh experiences.
What meanings lie hidden in the patterns of our sidewalks? How can a single gesture of light or sound reframe our understanding of a familiar block? As you move from one installation to the next, you’ll be invited to read Toronto anew—and to find the poetic connections that bind us all.
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Here’s a glimpse from 2024:
Event Details:
- Where: Various locations across Toronto — from Etobicoke and North York to Scarborough, with the majority of installations clustered in downtown Toronto
- Date: October 4, 2025 (7 p.m.) to October 5, 2025 (7 a.m.)
- Website: https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/festivals-events/nuitblanche
- Tickets: Free
**Featured Photo via @nuitblancheto / Instagram
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