On Saturday, October 14, the 10th annual Nocturne: Art at Night casts its light across Halifax and Dartmouth for an evening of innovative, immersive, interactive installations. Featuring over 100 exhibitions across five zones, you’ve got just six hours on Saturday to soak up all the culture you can. This year’s theme is vanish—“an act of slow magic”—so get out there, and disappear.
For the complete guide to all that is Nocturne, click with the official site here. In case that’s overwhelming, we’ve put together a sampling of picks. You can read them below by clicking the name of the project.
- Folded River
- Long and White, ‘the road twists like a snake toward the far-off blue places’
- Opera From Scrap
- Prism
- Pushback
- Revisionist Landscapes: Luminary Forestation
- Striving for Light-Based Connections
- Toqolu’kwetijik
- Trophy
- Wait Outside with Your Necklaces On
- Watch Us Vanish
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Trophy
A world-roaming storytelling city pops up in Dartmouth.
Prism
Transitus theatre company creates a theatrical choose-your-own-adventure at Northwood.
Folded River
Part of a lifelong study of place, Alex Balkam’s immersive cinema experience lets you step right into it.
Watch Us Vanish
Andrea Puszkar and Marla Benton do what they can in support of dying right whales.
Opera From Scrap
Building a brand-new opera in one night, with Janice Jackson and Arianne Pollet-Brannen.
Long and White, ‘the road twists like a snake toward the far-off blue places’
Sarah Burwash celebrates the uncertain in an hypnotic animated piece.
Striving for Light-Based Connections
Highlighting history—overt and hidden—via Mark Hines’ uphill beam.
Revisionist Landscapes: Luminary Forestation
The Young Naturalists Club offers paper trees in a communal, symbolic reforestation effort.
Wait Outside with Your Necklaces On
Turning a violent incident into a shared experience, Martha Cooley’s roving A/V exhibition aims to connect.
Toqolu’kwetijik
A dance piece led by Ursula Johnson draws attention to the unseen labour of landmark maintenance.
Pushback
Habiba El-Sayed creates both a doorway and a barrier at the gates of the Public Gardens.
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A Nocturne 2017 round-up
Did you miss this year’s event? Check out some of the highlights.
This article appears in Oct 12-18, 2017.
