Host an Independent Project at NBYXE!

In addition to our call for submission artists, we are excited to partner with businesses, organizations, galleries, museums, or non-profits like yours to host Independent Projects. This is a unique opportunity for you to showcase your work and contribute to the vibrant atmosphere of the 2025 Nuit Blanche Saskatoon festival.

Independent Projects are self-produced, self-funded works presented by a business, organization, gallery, museum, or non-profit as part of Nuit Blanche Saskatoon’s overall event. They can activate and transform spaces across the city in traditional and non-traditional spaces, including the public realm, parks, galleries, storefronts, office towers, streets, sidewalks, etc..

Host a project during our event on Saturday, September 20th, 2025, from 7 pm to 12 am!

HOSTING Guidelines

Any business, organization, gallery, museum, or non-profit interested in hosting an event that celebrates art and culture, fosters connection, or builds community is welcome to apply as part of Nuit Blanche’s event. Your project will be showcased as part of the main event. You or your organization will be responsible for securing funding, planning, preparing, and presenting your project.

This is an excellent opportunity to share a pre-existing project with a new audience or to modify an idea to take it to a different level. You will meet with the Nuit Blanche Saskatoon Team to discuss your project and receive guidance on planning. We will work with you to secure a location for your project and promote the event. We are open to all submissions showcasing arts and culture or building a sense of community. Below are some ideas for inspiration, but please submit any ideas you think might work.

  • Collaborative Art Projects

  • Cultural Demonstrations

  • Dance

  • Film Screenings

  • Hands-on Workshops

  • Interactive Installation

  • Performances

  • Participatory art

  • Showcasing paintings/ drawings

  • Street Art demonstrations

  • Storytelling

ELIGIBILITY

We encourage proposals that reflect NBYXE’s core values as an independent, non-commercial Arts, Culture and Community-based, family-friendly event.

  • You are an individual artist or submitting on behalf of an artists’ collective.

  • You are submitting on behalf of a business, organization, gallery, museum, or non-profit interested in creating a project, presentation, workshop or installation during the Nuit Blanche’s event.

  • These projects should allow for audience participation, encourage interaction, and provide safe spaces for learning, entertainment, creativity, exploration, discussions, and/or community building.

  • You agree to handle all needs, set up, supervise, attend to any issues throughout the event and take it down at the end of the night.

  • Installations/workshop projects must be up from 7 pm to midnight. Performances - should occur 3-7 times throughout the evening. The Curator will assist with finalizing a schedule.

  • You agree to share images of yourself and/or your work to promote the event and allow Nuit Blanche Saskatoon to use images taken during the event in promotional materials.

  • NBYXE will not fund these projects, but we will provide logistical and promotional support. NBYXE supports include securing a location for your project within the festival route, assisting with scheduling and coordination, and promoting the event through our website, social media channels, and other marketing platforms.

  • Independent projects must fairly compensate artists when displaying their work.

  • Your independent project must be free and open to public, and not be a fundraiser.

  • All independent projects selected for Nuit Blanche Saskatoon must be appropriate for all ages.

 Why Submit an Independent Project?

  • Engaged audience - The 10,000+ annual Nuit Blanche attendees are passionate about arts and culture. By hosting a project, you have the opportunity to connect with this passionate and engaged audience, who are respectful and excited to explore, engage and participate in your project.

  • Promotion - Our communications and marketing team will create social media posts to amplify each project. Reach new audiences, 18,000 unique website viewers, and 4,000+ Instagram followers, sharing your work/organization with a new audience.

  • Space and place - Test new ideas using site-specific practice and event-based experiences. Transform spaces within our city. Have people reconsider the city and our shared spaces.

  • Support - The NBYXE team will help you secure a location within the festival route and provide some support to help plan things efficiently. We will handle logistics for the festival as a whole, so you will only need to worry about your project.

  • Celebrate arts and culture - NBYXE is a celebration, and we want you to participate!

HOW TO SUBMIT

  • Fill out the 2025 NBYXE Independent Project submission form.

  • If you have any questions or require additional information, do not hesitate to contact our curator, Xiao Han, at programming@nuitblanchesaskatoon.ca

  • Submissions must be received by June 30, 2025, at 11:59 pm.