La Nuit Blanche

It is a festival that celebrates performing arts, culture, art, architecture and cuisine in a night full of activities. Discovering art galleries, museums and unexpected places transformed by artists at night appealed to hundreds of Canadians that on Saturday Sep 30, 2007 that went to the streets to check La Nuit Blanche out.

The whole event concept is great but the execution lacked excitement. I went discovering the Queen street west -Trinity Park, Mocca Art Gallery, and I was expecting to see a bit more. More night clubs and bar supporting the event, more performing artists, more architecture interaction, more. Having experienced different cultural manifestations in various countries, I must confess that I had a higher expectation for this event. I was expecting to walk into a night club full of sleepless people like me, have a martini or a beer while enjoying a DJ playing, a performing artists dancing all surrounded by a neon installation lighting the club dance floor background. Regardless of my high expectations the event was quite appealing for the majority of the public and at least we had an opportunity to once a year stay up all night enjoying the city.

Despite lacking excitement, the event had proved that the city is hungry for different experiences and a more intense night life. The metropolis is not sleeping at 2:00 am when the bar doors are being closed and hundreds of sleepless people are willing to enjoy the freedom of being alive.