Nuit Blanche turns 20 this year, and the City of Toronto published the lineup on Tuesday. The free all-night art event runs from 7 p.m. on Saturday, October 3 to 7 a.m. on Sunday, October 4, with more than 70 projects around the theme Tomorrow’s Memories.
The anniversary edition brings back works that defined earlier years. Kelly Mark’s Everything and Nothing from 2014 returns — two performers reading a hundred phrases each, one beginning “everything” and the other “nothing” — with guests including former mayor David Miller. Couzyn van Heuvelen’s Avataq, inflated foil sculptures reworking a traditional Inuit hunting tool, is remounted at Nathan Phillips Square and the Chelsea Toronto. Brendan Fernandes restages On Flashing Lights in the underground parking garage at City Hall, where a formation of police vehicles becomes the backdrop for a dance party.
Among the new commissions: a crashed flying saucer, complete with smoke and strobes, at Queen Street West and University Avenue — Brandon Vickerd’s UFO. Maggy Hamel-Metsos fills Old City Hall with a pipe organ emerging from industrial air compressors. At Queen and Bay, Francesca Nocera’s I Miss You: T.Dot Memories is a large illuminated inflatable covered in drawings of Honest Ed’s, Ontario Place, Sam the Record Man and MuchMusic.
The festival also spreads out of the core. The Aga Khan Museum shows Sacred and Profane; a large origami boat at North York Centre invites visitors to write wishes into it; and Kendra Yee, the City’s artist in residence, turns a storefront at 1643 Dupont St. into a tribute to family-run corner shops using material from the Toronto Archives.
If you cannot get out to it, the Nuit Blanche Remote Access Hub returns — a disability-led live broadcast on the City’s YouTube channel with artist interviews, tours, live description, ASL interpretation and captioning, run with Tangled Art + Disability. Tactile experiences, captioning and audio description are available at selected projects downtown.
The full project list and map are on the City’s Nuit Blanche page.
Source: City of Toronto, “Nuit Blanche’s 20th anniversary edition features new commissions and remounts of iconic past works”, September 8, 2026.
