Led by Curtis Peeteetuce

We are currently in a time where Every Child Matters and Reconciliation are of utmost importance. Mahihkanak Dancers wants to light up the night, welcoming viewers to experience the power of cultural dance, culminating with a round dance, allowing audience members to participate.

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Curtis Peeteetuce is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist from the Beardy’s & Okemasis Cree Nation. He is a storyteller, actor, writer, director, dancer, musician and playwright. He has also served as a cultural arts consultant and advocate for mental health and suicide awareness. He dedicates all his accomplishments to his son Mahihkan.

Location: Friendship Park

"by or as if by (Saskatoon)"

A site-responsive installation consisting of 9 wind-activated harps. The visually subtle components, articulated in the visual language of the city streets, are installed throughout the area to create a dynamic network of auditory experiences.

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Ada Denil is a visual artist working primarily in sculpture and installation. Her recent work explores the integration of wind-activated sound-producing components into both rural and urban landscapes. Ada grew up on the south shore of Nova Scotia (Mi’kma’ki).

Location: Along Spadina

“Notilucas”

Noctilucas is an Interactive video projection inviting local residents to animate larger-than-life self-portraits using a motion capture camera to light up the night. Noctilucas, also known as “sea sparkle,” use bioluminescence to glow in the dark.

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Allison Moore is a new media artist working in expanded cinema and based in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal and holds an MFA in film from Concordia University. Her recent projects involve thematic inspirations of storytelling narratives in digital arts, video-mapping landscapes and architecture, VR, site-specific public art and performance.

Location: Broadway Ave + 10th St E intersection

“Tidal Drift”

24 minute video mapping project.

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Allison Moore’s work has been programmed at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Tokyo Arts and Space (Japan), Society of Art and Technology (Montreal), OBORO (Montreal), Traverse Video (France), Museu de Arte de Belem (Brazil), Festival of Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal), FIFA Experimental (Montréal), MAPP Festival, MUTEK Montreal and ISEA 2020.

Location: Habitat for Humanity | 122 Avenue D S

“Plot Twist”

Plot Twist applies the six phases of the Maidens Tragedy to the experience of Motherhood by reinterpreting the phases of separation, seclusion, betrayal, wandering, atonement, and rescue and performing them as a series of cyclical gestures within a porcelain meadow installation.

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E. M. Alysse Bowd holds a BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts and an MFA from NSCAD University. She navigates an interdisciplinary creative practice with a focus on nonlinear narrative, female perfectionism, self-care and motherhood mythology.

Photographer Topher and Rae Photography

Location: Kiwanis Memorial Park

"Fantôme | Forêt"

Drawing inspiration from pagan Slavic mythology, Fantôme | Forêt is a video installation that explores the divinity of forests and the spirits within them. Within Slavic folklore, there is said to be a spirit of the forest named Leshy. As a deity, Leshy is the guardian of the trees and the animals. Although seldom seen, he is known as a shapeshifter with eyes made of stars. He is heard as the whistling wind and the song that birds sing. Using poetic storying telling methodologies, Fantôme | Forêt explores and reimagines this spirit of the forest through a contemporary lens.

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Anastasia Ferguson is a mixed media artist based in Treaty 4 Regina. She holds a master’s in Intermedia and a BFA in Film Production from Concordia University.

Location: Kiwanis Memorial Park

“Travelron 5000”

Traveltron 5000 is a large device that transports people from here to there, as well as hither to thither using the magic of augmented reality.

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Andrei is a multimedia artist who focuses mainly on animation and augmented reality. Since early 2018 Andrei has been experimenting and pushing boundaries by combining augmented reality with various art forms. What he loves most is the ability to explore space and narratives in new and interesting ways. His style consists of paper, cardboard, and fabric merged to create a handmade style that comes to life digitally.

Location: Vimy Memorial Bandstand

“The Elderflowers”

Revolving around the idea of being surrounded by beauty, the 7ft flowers will ask the viewer to look up into their giant petals. The larger-than-life flowers will look down on the viewer like a guardian or elder looking over someone in its care. Anna’s goal is to create a space where the viewer can fully immerse themselves in a beautiful floral, warm environment.

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Anna Setyo has always been drawn to the natural, feminine beauty of the world in her work. In 2018, her love of flowers manifested into a pink flower truck business attracting many to this mini mobile garden in BC. Today she explores flowers' expansion, creative energy into giant paper installations and light fixtures.

Location: The Broadway Collective | 733 Broadway Ave #101

“Platos Cave”

Using rear projection to create a way to connect with the street outside and experiment with the performative medium and the traces of the processes of photography. Using film, the non-toxic developing I have been working with since 2007, the projected images and colour bars, I hope to tell a story of the shadows on the wall, referencing the pandemic and loss of connection, as a communication device.

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Barbara Reimer predominately works with photography, digital media, and installation. Past and present work is influenced by documentary sculpture, “the responsible photograph”, the institution, travel; the processes, materiality, and the performative nature of photo. Educated in Saskatoon and Toronto, she has been researching a “darkroomless” and available analogue process, developing a non-toxic process since 2007.

Location: The Two Twenty | 220 20th St W

“Never gonna GIF you up”

Combining video projection equipment, a blank wall (indoors or out), along with my animated illustrations, Never Gonna GIF You Up is a semi-/interactive installation where users can dance with light, vivid colours, and unexpected movements.
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Chris Morin aka Chrix Morix is an illustrator, projection artist and screenprinter who lives, loves and works in Saskatoon // Treaty Six Territory // Traditional Homeland of the Métis. Maybe you’ve seen his art on posters, t-shirts or stickers?

Location: W.E. Graham Park | 602 Dufferin Ave

“The Galaxy Suite: New Directions”

‘The Galaxy Suite’ is a Jazz/Poetry project. Each musician will be playing separate from the rest, spread out across location yet playing in sync. Audiences are invited to listen at each point individually or take in the whole constellation of musicians.

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The Colin Grant Quartet combine their jazz roots with other genres, such as their jazz-folk fusion show with Ellen Froese at the Saskatoon Jazz Fest 2022. Dash Reimer is a poet/rapper who has performed across Turtle Island and Africa.

Location: Magic Lantern Roxy Theatre | 320 20th St W

“Laser Flavour Buffet”

Does music have a flavour? Can you taste a laser beam? Could you experience the brief satisfaction of a fantastic snack without using your tastebuds? The multi-media installation Laser Flavour Buffet toys with sensory perception by presenting concepts of flavour and taste using original music and state-of-the-art laser technology.

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The Cosmic Beat Chefs are a cross-discipline collaboration composed of Dylan Evans, a Saskatoon-based musician, filmmaker, and graphic artist and Dr. Isocellator (real name J.J Neufeld), a lighting designer, laser composer and situational installationist.

Location: The Broadway Theatre | 715 Broadway Ave

“Phase Shift - Pendant”

Pendant (2006) is from the first series of Phase Shift videos begun in 2005. They each followed strict generative rules, and were inspired by the music of Steve Reich.
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Dennis Summers has exhibited artwork in a wide range of media internationally for over 35 years (www.stage2001.com). In 2005 he began a series of digitally created abstract “color field” videos. They have been presented world-wide in typical and unusual environments.

Location: École Victoria | 639 Broadway Ave

“Phase Shift - Oscillating Boundary Layers”

Oscillating Boundary Layers (2023) is from the newest series called the Fusion videos. They are freely created with no inspiration other than exploring new possibilities. Focusing on how color interact, changes and moves in surprising, beautiful and psychologically absorbing ways. Each one tells a kind of “story” over time.
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Dennis Summers has exhibited artwork in a wide range of media internationally for over 35 years (www.stage2001.com). In 2005 he began a series of digitally created abstract “color field” videos. They have been presented world-wide in typical and unusual environments.

Location: Cohen’s Beer Republic | 101 20th St W

“nectere”

nectere (to bind, to bring together) will explore the space between passive and active connection and playfulness through video installation and durational sound performance – which encourages a soft collaboration with past, present, and future audience members by recording and looping their sounds throughout the night.

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Edie Skeard (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist working on treaty 6 in sound, installation, and durational performance. Their work focuses on the ephemeral and engaging spaces created by the intersection of light, sound, people, and tactile materials. They are 1/3 of the experimental sound collective Bell Dreams - playing the flute, piccolo, clarinet, found objects, and vocals.

Location: PAVED Arts | 424 20th St W

“The Clowns of Tomorrow”

Our concept is based upon the mistreatment and neglect of both natural and urban settings. We will be dressing up as clowns, one themed botanically, the other industrial. Both costumes will be garnered in garbage and appear sickly. Our performance will be handing fake money that you can plant, (recycled paper that contains seeds) as well as our illuminated wagon that contains the money, which will be pulled by the industrial clown, to show who controls funding within this issue. The botanical clown will act sad and tired, while the industrial clown will be cheerful under their sad makeup.

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Autumn (21) and Emily Collins (19) born and raised in Saskatoon, both attend the UofS. They have explored Nuit Blanche for years and surrounded themselves in the city art culture since childhood. This is thanks to their parents, who steeped them in the culture of weird and creative liberty.

Location: Wandering Broadway

"Wherever The Wind Takes Us"

This project will consist of five panels made of translucent paper hanging vertically side by side. These panels will be layered with drawings, text, mementos, and photos to generate a sense of togetherness through our collective journal.

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Emily Conlon (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist who works primarily in printmaking and drawing. She holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Saskatchewan and a BFA Honours in Visual Arts from the University of Windsor.

Narges Porsandekhial (she/her) is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist, studying her MFA degree at the University of Saskatchewan. She primarily works in installation, socially engaged practices, public art, and text-based work.

Location: École Victoria - SE corner on Broadway + 12th Street | 639 Broadway Ave

“Something in the Air”

On a 20 ft apparatus, aerial dancers will use a variety of silks, hoops, and more to dazzle viewers as they soar above. Our artists will showcase how we bring movement and dance to the air on various apparatuses with solo and pair performances.

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Fly Studios YXE is Saskatchewan's premier destination for aerial arts. We are an inclusive studio offering aerial classes to ages five and up. We offer classes, privates, and parties for new to aerial and experienced artists. We also perform indoors and outdoors.

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“There & Now, Here & Then”

This piece aims to aid viewers in visualizing the land they are on in a different time period, transporting them to another decade entirely. When visualizing this, the mind may be more easily able to connect the present and past, activating the imagination to think about what might have been in that spot many years ago. The historical image will help the viewer more easily connect their surroundings to the historical image and those individuals from the images of days past.

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Jenna Kachur (She/Her) resides in Saskatoon, SK, Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis. Working with immigrants and refugees, Jenna strives to challenge her perspective and connection to the land. With a background in film and video editing, Jenna’s main focus is photography. She is influenced by works that are interactive, challenge the viewer’s perspective, and strive for reflection, growth, and connection

Location: Calories Restaurant | 721 Broadway Ave

“Takey Takey Prize Machine”

Takey Takey is a free-to-play claw machine meant to recreate youthful excitement. Takey Takey transports players back to a time when prizes were still well within reach.

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Jacob and Jeni are a duo who build objects that reinvigorate childhood fun. Jacob is a local printmaker, furniture builder, and art educator. Jeni is an Emergency Room Registered Nurse who believes in the healing of fun.

Location: Chess Club Agency | 433 20th St W

“A forest is a company of wilderness: a ritual to bring winter.”

Dancers perform a ritual to bring winter to the fields, harnessing the liminal power of these trees and the wildness to be found outside of cultivated spaces. Reflecting upon the space between the wild and the domestic, this piece proposes that powerful magic may be found there.

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Jess Richter's multidisciplinary contemporary folk art practice explores the effects of empire, diaspora, collapse and trauma upon cultural identity, working out of the lands of Treaty 4 Territory.

Location: Peryton Books | 408 20th St W

“DiscoBallZoomCall”

DiscoBallZoomCall (Working Title!) is an opportunity to have a new-normal interaction with another person in a new-again way. 


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Jesse Fulcher Gagnon is a Métis experimental artist whose scattered mind leaves him frequently moving between mediums. With projects generally involving digital media, he combines performance and installations, projections and animations, or just junk food and bad jokes.

Location: Under the Broadway Bridge | Spadina Cresent E

A light sculpture referencing Cree culture and the phonetics of the language.

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Tony Stallard (U.K Public Artist)
Stallard Sculptures are site-specific sculptures in the United Kingdom, Europe, several years abroad in Canada and the U.S.

Joseph Naytowhow, (Saskatchewan Indigenous Multi Practicing Artist)
Joseph Naytowhow is a gifted Plains/Woodland Cree (nehiyaw) interdisciplinary artist.

Location: Broadway Shoe Repair | 638 Broadway Ave

“Electric Wire Everywhere”

Des fils électriques partout weave links among the intimate and the tangible and create a space within a space. Homes are built around a grid, even though it makes it hard to fly a kite because there are electrical wires everywhere.

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Working and living in Lévis, QC, Kamille Cyr has presented her work in Québec, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Notably, as part of Nocturne 2020 in Halifax, NS, and Third Shift in 2019 in Saint John, NB.

Location: 20th St + Ave B intersection

“Chrysalides”

This installation of large translucent sculptural chrysalides draws attention to the incubation we have been through for the last few years. For many, the period isolation brought about massive transformation. It forced many to pivot, adjust, and evaluate various aspects of their lives. This period of introspection brought about.. New relationships. New jobs. New homes. New aesthetics. Moving. Purging. Evolving.

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Karlie King (BA, MA, PhD Candidate) has received a variety of grants and awards - nationally and provincially. Her artwork has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the country. It covers a broad range – from a functional line of pottery, to large-scale community projects, to street art.

Location: Next to The Spirit Of Youth Statue | Kiwanis Park

“Fable of Pearls”

Fable of Pearls creates an immersive illusion of an underwater environment with light, installations, and interactive performance art. The project strives to present an alternative perspective from marine creatures to provoke questions and inspire dialogues surrounding multiple contemporary environmental issues.

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Kyuubi Culture is a multidisciplinary Artist Collective founded by Xiao Han and Qiming Sezava Sun. The collective practice to present visual narratives through Queer and immigrant artists' perspectives and establish an inclusive platform for emerging and early-career artists.

Location: Amphitheater at River Landing | 414 Spadina Crescent E

“Memory Palace”

Memory Palace is a Transformative Expanded Cinema Installation piece situated on a street of Saskatoon. Multiple channels of analog film are designed to project onto five different surfaces to create a collage of memories. The home movies, found footage and our own art films collaged on our constructed surfaces evoke obscure and interpretive narratives that compliment each other.

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Matthew Ripplinger and Ian Campbell are filmmakers who work with analog film and expanded cinema. They are organizing members of the One Take Super8 Regina event. Recently they presented Super8 Night, a live improvised analog film project presented in Victoria Park in September of 2022.

Location: École Victoria Rink | 639 Broadway Ave

“Slow Emergency”

Visitors will print plastic beverage containers on a large piece of canvas using silkscreen techniques. The concept is to have people actively involved in creating an image about the problem of plastics in our world so that when they are using plastic the visual image of the masses of plastic come to mind.

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Monique Martin is an internationally recognized multi-disciplinary artist from Saskatoon, Canada with a 25-year exhibitionhistory. She has exhibited her artwork in more than 270 significant solo, invited and juried group exhibitions in thirteen countries. More than 50 of these were solo exhibitions in public galleries.

Location: Cosmo Senior Centre | 614 11th St E

“Catalyst”

CATALYST is an immersive audio-visual sculpture that uses computation and human intervention to both build on and destroy a pre-existing work. Forming a relationship with the spectator through the physical space and mechanics, CATALYST blurs the line between artistic intake and output.

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Nano Clow and Factor Eight are multi-disciplinary artists who specialize in film and music, respectively. Together their collective practice uses time, the internet and immersion to highlight ironies within the creator-spectator relationship and encourage presence in artistic engagement.

Location : AKA artist-run studios | 424 20th St W

“Belonging Blocks”

Memory is the link connecting the new place to a person’s background. Lit-up paper suitcases carrying memories of displacement are now building a house, a house with no foundation, no roots. To further point out the instability in life and how it might lead to more changes, these blocks of suitcases would get disarranged constantly but you can help to build a Home again.

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Négar Devine-Tajgardan is a Saskatoon-based visual artist with a special interest in sculpture, and installation art. Tajgardan completed her MFA at the University of Saskatchewan. She has created works based on her memories and broader concepts of displacement as well as social and political issues with her personal and family ties with it.

Location: Alt Hotel Bokeh Lounge | 480 2 Ave S

“10 More Minutes”

Here the artist's bedroom is on display, complete with sleeping artist. An alarm clock goes off at regular intervals, and she continually pretends she will get up and engage with the festivities surrounding her the next time it rings. There is a disconnect between her inner world and external reality. When will she wake up?

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Nikki Sirett is a Saskatoon-based visual artist working primarily in acrylic paint, ink, and chalk. She received her Bachelor's of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, BC in 2015. In 2021 she moved to Saskatchewan, and quickly become known for her large public chalk pieces depicting colourful animals, which were featured on CBC News.

Location: Broadway Ave + 11th St intersection

“Touching Light 2”

The laser harp is a musical instrument created of light beams. Visually reminiscent of a harp, sound is produced by touching the light and blocking the beams with your hands. Two or more people can play the instrument at the same time resulting in fun movement, sound collaboration. The laser harp was a great success at Regina’s 2022 Nuit Blanche. The artists look forward to sharing their work at Saskatoon’s Nuit Blanche 2023.

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When an electronic musician teams up with a creative engineer, the result is a hands-on implementation of technology that is a catalyst for sound exploration. Rich Miller and Darryl Dennis create a memorable light and sound experience bringing two laser harps to Nuit Blanche, one framed and the other frameless. Come try the laser harp, crafted by these techo whizzes.

Location: 9 Mile Brewery | 402 21 St W

Museum of the Moon is a touring artwork by UK artist Luke Jerram. Measuring seven metres in diameter, the moon features 120 dpi detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface. At an approximate scale of 1:500,000, each centimetre of the internally lit spherical sculpture represents 5km of the moon’s surface.

Over its lifetime, the Museum of the Moon will be presented in several different ways, both indoors and outdoors, so altering the experience and interpretation of the artwork. As it travels from place to place, it will gather new musical compositions and an ongoing collection of personal responses, stories, and mythologies and highlight the latest moon science.

Location: St Johns Cathedral | 816 Spadina Crescent E

“Rolling Impressions”

Members of SKP will be printing linocuts using a steamroller as a printing press to transfer ink from the block to paper or cloth. In addition to printing lino blocks carved by SKP members, Saskatoon artists will be invited in advance to participate by bringing their own blocks to be printed on the evening of Nuit Blanche.

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Saskatchewan Printmakers (SKP) is a volunteer-run not-for-profit that exists province-wide to provide print artists at any stage in their career exhibition and networking opportunities. This member-based organization aims to connect artists working in print media across the province and country.

Location: 20th St W + Ave D

“Disintegrated Identity”

Distorting one's self-perception leads to fragmented realities, this concept will be explored by dissecting multiple layers to reveal the emotions underneath. Viewers are invited to examine feelings of loneliness and a fractured sense of self through light, sound, and visuals.

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Kirk Ford and Stephanie Dirpaul are Saskatoon-based artists. Kirk is an audio artist specializing in audience interactivity. Stephanie is a visual artist specializing in printmaking exploring thought-provoking subject matter. We are excited to explore the creative process as a team.

Location: W.E. Graham Park | 602 Dufferin Ave

“Alpha”

“Alpha” is composed of multiple letter-shaped light boxes, combined to create a seeming jumble of letters and colours. As in life, focus and patience will filter out unnecessary elements, and clear messages will appear.

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Multi-layered and focused on themes of perception and interpretation, Trevor Waurechen’s work spans multiple media, including installation, printmaking, painting and cartooning. While artists bring intention to a work, it is the audience, through response and reaction, who defines meaning.

Trevor gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund.

Location: École Victoria | 639 Broadway Ave

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Ahmad Majid is an Iraqi-Canadian poet who has been performing hip-hop and spoken word all over Canada for the last decade. His style combines intricate rhyme schemes with important social/political issues of human rights. He is a 3-time Slam-Team member and a Canadian Festival of Spoken Word 2013 Finalist

Location: Magic Lantern Roxy Theatre | 320 20th St W

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Julia Gonzalez is a 2nd generation Chilean immigrant. She grew up hearing stories of political turmoil and corruption which has influenced her worldview and the content of her work. She is a poet, musician, artist and mother. Her work incorporates language, humor and raw emotion with the hopes of giving her audience a glimpse of how she views and experiences the world around her.

Loation: Magic Lantern Roxy Theatre | 320 20th St W

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Danika Michael or ‘ahcahk iskwêw’ is a nêhiyaw iskwêw (Plains Cree woman) and is a member of the Okanese First Nation located in Treaty 4 territory but her paternal lineage comes from the willow Cree nation of Beardy’s and Okemasis First Nation. She is a proud urban Indigenous youth committed to community building and activism. Her poetry is a reflection of both the hardships and beauty prominent in the world around her. Her other passions include filmmaking, competitive Tetris, music festivals, and attending to the beck and call of her chihuahua.

Location: Magic Lantern Roxy Theatre | 320 20th St W

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K.$TONE delivers polarizing stories from lived experiences and memories of his hometown. He seeks to shed light on injustice as well as his experience growing up in La Loche.

Location: Magic Lantern Roxy Theatre | 320 20th St W

“Waterline: A Dance with the Surface of Water”

Inspired by regular walks along the Assiniboine River, hannah became fascinated by how the surface of the water creates a line between the above and below, the visible and invisible. Watch as dancers interact with the surface of water through looped video.

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hannah_g is a writer, artist, and curator. Her work explores collectivity, place, and recollection and is often site-specific.

PAVED Arts is a non-profit, artist-run centre and gallery that exists to advance knowledge and practices in what we call the ‘PAVED Arts’ arts: photography, audio, video, electronic and digital. We help artists and independent producers make and exhibit their work.

Video Pool Media Arts Centre aims to inspire curiosity and creative expression in all technology-based art forms through presentation, production, distribution, and education. We house the most comprehensive collection of prairie video art in Canada, and our facilities include Poolside Gallery, The Output venue, and our technology production centre. VP is Manitoba’s only artist-run centre dedicated to the exploration of technology-based art.

Location: Under the Idylwyld Bridge | River Landing

“Lantern Walk”

Presented in partnership, Persephone Theatre and Remai Modern are pleased to offer special art activities during Nuit Blanche. Come enjoy Persephone Theatre’s lighting feature, in partnership with Fandango, displayed in the theatre’s windows. Then visit Remai Modern’s atrium where participants are invited to make paper lanterns with a design of their choosing.

Attendees are invited to bring their finished artwork and join in a lantern-lit walk along the Meewasin Trail at 7 PM or 9 PM. The walks will begin outside in front of the window lighting display. All ages welcome.

Location: Remai Modern | 102 Spadina Crescent E

“Picasso: Becoming the Faun”

Remai Modern’s collection of Picasso linocuts is a nearly comprehensive holding of his work in this medium, including many stages and working proofs. His 1962 linocut, Tête de Faune, and the associated series of stages is a compelling sequence. It reveals the artist’s process and his technical exploration of the medium but, when viewed in series, it also builds an intriguing narrative of transformation. These linocuts provide the starting point for Becoming the Faun, a multifaceted exhibition that explores the formation of self, processes of change and ideas of becoming.

Location: Remai Modern Connect Gallery | 102 Spadina Crescent E

“Perspectives”

Perspectives is a collaborative exhibition by six artists (Ron Cooley, Roxanne Enns, Arbie Kepler, Robert and Elisabeth Miller, Mark Wells), working in photography, ceramics, metal sculpture, glass, and jewelry. The show is organized into six vignettes. Each includes a feature piece by one artist, and creative responses by the others. The aim is to explore the interplay of different craft media and artistic perspectives.
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The Saskatchewan Craft Council is a non-profit organization that represents and supports over 300 craft artisans in Saskatchewan through community, programming, and promotion. Located in Saskatoon, SK in the heart of the Broadway arts district, the SCC is a gallery space that shows six exhibitions a year. Its distinctive gallery gift shop and online store offers the handmade work of over 100 juried craftspeople from the province.

Location: Saskatchewan Craft Council | 813 Broadway Ave

“Beautiful Science”

Scientific images are captured using techniques with interesting names, like photomicrography, synchrotron x-ray imaging, ultraviolet fluorescence, or infrared luminescence. Some instruments can provide pictures from below the surface to reveal interior structures – even down to the atomic level.

These images are for information; visual data captured for specific communication or documentation purposes. Aesthetics is not the focus, but sometimes the images are so incredible that they deserve to be on display. Beautiful Science images come from many different researchers, working at the Canadian Light Source, University of Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Polytechnic, along with several individual researchers who submitted pieces.

Location: Alt hotel Indigo Lounge - 2nd floor | 480 2 Ave S

The Ukrainian Museum of Canada's recent exterior transformation centers on the Vikna Project Saskatoon (vikna is Ukrainian for "windows"). Artist Taras Lachowsky's vision in this project exemplifies the museum's evolution, bridging past, present, and future through Ukrainian traditions. His unique window designs, influenced by circle symbolism and ceramics, form a tapestry of heritage that includes mystical amulet dolls, twilight gardens, and more. Vikna Project connects ancient Ukraine with the stars and emphasizes healing. Explore this artwork at Nuit Blanche 2023, where the windows will be backlit, offering a fresh view of Ukrainian traditions while uniting history with contemporary art.


Taras Lachowsky, born in Canada in 1964 to Ukrainian parents, draws inspiration from his Ukrainian heritage. His artistic creations celebrate paper cutting (vytynanky), embroidery (vishyvanky), and Easter egg-writing (pysanky). Through a vivid palette and intricate patterns, Lachowsky offers a contemporary interpretation of age-old Ukrainian customs.
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The museum will also be open late (7:30-11 PM) to offer viewing of our current exhibitions, including a display of traditional Kosiv Ceramics and contemporary posters created by Ukrainian Illustrators about the current war. Come on in!

Location: Ukrainian Museum of Canada | 910 Spadina Crescent E

Chess Club presents Grandma's lounge