Nuit Blanche Devereaux

JAN AVENDANO's MAP & SCHEDULE

2011-06-23T13:41:00.000-07:00

Jan designed this map and schedule for handing out on Saturday.
This rules!! and is very helpful.
Check out more about Jan here

MAP & SCHEDULE of events for Saturday

2011-06-21T06:15:00.001-07:00

Visit this google map to get a sense of what is going on Saturday.
Our meeting spot is the gates at Parkside and High Park blvd at 1pm
we will hand out paper maps and schedules for the day from there.

View Nuit Blanche Devereaux 2 in a larger map

1 pm meeting spot at gates at Parkside & High Park BLVD

Laura McCoy - Help Nature
traveling installation, multiple locations

1-3:30pm installations:

Anna May Henry - Party Poetry
turn right (North) at the first path off High Park blvd

Naomi Hocura & Nicole Dawkins - Cosmic Mushroom Forest
turn right along the second path off High Park blvd

Stacey Sproule, site-specific garments

2 pm Amelia Ehrhardt & Heather McTavish - Ready and Morris, performance
in a field by the parking lot close to the zoo

3pm Yuula Benivolski

3:30 Aurora Stewart De Pena, short play
at the High Park Forest School

4:15 Misha Bower, reading
by the Yellow Circles Sculpture

5-7pm Iris Fraser Gudrunas & Mat Laporte, video art installation
at the Poutine shack

5:45 ADR - Contained Stream, improvised dance solo
on a path by the Allotment Gardens

6:45 Isla Craig & Minae Omi - Hair, performance
Grenadier Pond at the bottom of the cherry blossom hil

7:30 Meichen Waxer, installation
Bridge, South end of Grenadier Pond

8 Anna Silverstein & Barb Lindenberg - Correspondance, performance
Stairway that runs between Colborne Lodge Drive & Grenadier Pond

8:30 Zoja Smutny & Guntar Kravis - Betweentime (Girls on Film), dance film screening
Colborne Lodge courtard

9:15 Sojourner Truth Parsons, Julia Kennedy, Phil Hamilton - Astral Garden Party, cafe and music performance * delicious plates of food for $5
108 Sorauren Ave. Entrance on Pearson Ave

10:30- 11:15 Joyce Lau, Tele-Buddha-Tubbie, installation
25 Marion St. Porch

email invitation

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Nuit Blanche Devereaux II participating artists

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collage by Evelyn Pelayo
Jan Avendano creates the map and handbill for Nuit Blanche Devereaux II, available on site on June 25

Yuula Benivolski

Misha Bower reads short stories

Isla Craig and Minae Omi
perform a medley of songs form the hit musical of the 1960's - Hair. Invoking the sunshine, revolutionary spirit, life and.....HAIR.

Aurora De Pena
puts on a performance about exhaustion and the absence of love in the early pioneer days

Amelia Ehrhardt & Heather McTavish - READY & MORRIS
Amelia Ehrhardt and Heather McTavish perform a Morris dance in the rolling greens of High Park to celebrate the arrival of summertime.

Alicia Grant - THE MISSING LINK
This video is part of Silvy Panet Raymond's project, The Missing Link. The project offers some material that people manipulate, respond to and translate. Working with impulse and intuition, I translated the concealment and rhythm from Sylvie's short dance film into my own.

Iris Fraser Gudrunas & Mat Laporte
Iris Fraser and Mat Laporte make video art produced through methods of chance. Will and Fate also come into play.

Statestes Trailer from Iris Fraser on Vimeo.

Anna May Henry - PARTY POETRY
The 'Party Poetry' Celebration Banners turn our notions of beauty into a fun party room where the words we normally see in the confines of pages in books become a part of our social experience. There is so much more in life to celebrate than birthdays and weddings.

Naomi Hocura & Nicole Dawkins - COSMIC MUSHROOM FOREST
Last week a rouge spore landed in High Park and produced a mushroom garden with an unprecedented number of unclassified species. Mycologists are fervently trying to identify the origin of these foreign fungi and are baffled by the strong aromatic qualities of these species. Some scientists are hopeful that these mushrooms could be proof of life on a sister planet.

Joyce Lau - TELE-BUDDHA-TUBBIE
What happens when you combine a big Buddha with a teletubbie? Transport to the peaks of Lantau, enlightenment is a flicker away.

Barb Lindenberg & Anna Silverstein - CORRESPONDENCE
Anna and Barb will present some dance moves from another space and time.

Laura McCoy - HELP NATURE

Julia Kennedy, Sojourner Truth Parsons & Phil Hamilton - ASTRAL GARDEN PARTY
open a cafe in Phil Hamilton's Backyard featuring live performance by Beard Closet, good life macro vibes, positive whims, winning hearts.

Evelyn Pelayo - NUIT BLANCHE DEVEREAUX II POSTER
collages the poster for Nuit Blanche Devereaux II and sends it with love from Barcelona, Spain.

Aimée Dawn Robinson - CONTAINED STREAM
Aimée performs an improvised dance solo involving a set of fifty to seventy simple metal buckets filled with water

Zoja Smutny & Guntar Kravis - BETWEENTIME (GIRLS ON FILM)
A short contemporary dance film, six dancers explore the resilience of women through fashion, furniture and fairy tales.

Stacey Sproule
constructs site-specific garments that can be worn by a person and an element of nature at the same time

Meichen Waxer
Meichen installs a series of Yantra outlines made from rope made by finger crochet

Artist Bios

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Jan Avendano:

Jan Avendano is a designer and illustrator who enjoys the company of corgis, park napping and summer night bike riding.

Yuula Benivolski:
Born in 1980 in Moscow USSR, grew up in Northern Israel and currently live and work between Toronto and Montreal. I work with photographs, projection, video and installation. I'm interested in migration, tradition and ritual, comfort, acclimatization and survival, or stories and details from my childhood that shaped my views on important stuff like sex and death or any other transformative events.

Misha Bower:
Misha is a writer and singer living in London, Ontario. She regularly commutes to other cities for the pleasure of performing/collaborating with Bruce Peninsula, EONS and Daniel Romano. After a long stretch of theatrical writing, culminating with the staging of her play Georgia & Leona at the 2010 Toronto Fringe Festival, Misha has put performance criteria aside to see...what happens. She is currently working on a collection of short stories.

Isla Craig:
Like the sole of an elephant's foot, which feels the vibrations and drums of the earth, the line between dream and reality is no line at all. In the sounds of Isla Craig there is a dissolve of what we may think of as solid, where the edges begin to drift along a pulsing diaphanous beat. The bones begin to sway with the roots and leaves as the tales of spirit and moss runs through her blood and out her body and mouth, for she has both her feet in the stream of song. The strata and striations of Isla Craig draw on vocal traditions ranging from early vocal music to contemporary R&B styles. She may be found playing solo, or aided by her band The Continental Drift (Mike Smith, Colin Fisher, and Brandon Valdivia), and is also an active improviser and collaborator in the Toronto music scene.

Aurora De Pena:
Aurora Stewart de Peña is a playwright and director. She is the co-founder of The Birdtown and Swanville Group with Nika Mistruzzi. Some of Aurora's plays include Family Story, 36 Little Plays about Hopeless Girls and Lily-Rose, which is being produced here. Currently, she is working with polite, formally dressed teenagers at a teenager arts festival held at a private school. Upcoming, she and Nika will do a play at SummerWorks about violent men. She is so excited to work with her admired friends, Allison and Victoria, at Nuit Blanche Devereaux.

Nicole Dawkins:

Nicole Dawkins is a Toronto-based maker, curator and anthropologist preoccupied with the crafting of things, selves and social worlds. Recent projects include an ethnographic study into the politics of doing-it-yourself in Detroit (forthcoming article in the Craftivism issue of Utopian Studies), researching West African puppets and community spectacle for the ROM, and making sockmonkeys with magnetic genitalia (Monkey Business). She is curating an exhibit of contemporary fiber art (Heir/Looms) at Studio Beluga this summer.

Amelia Ehrhardt:
Amelia Ehrhardt is a contemporary dance interpreter and creator based in Toronto. . Her work has been presented at venues such as Extermination Music Night, Older & Reckless, and in an interdisciplinary performance event at DeLeon White Gallery. She has collaborated with Cara Spooner/Alicia Grant, Jonathan Adjemian and Sky Fairchild-Waller. As an interpreter, Amelia has performed in works by Susie Burpee, Bluemouth Inc., Zeesy Powers, Kathleen Rea, Menaka Thakkar, and Carol Anderson. Amelia is a graduate of the Etobicoke School fo the Arts and George Brown Dance, and has recently returned to school to complete her BA in Dance at York University.

Alicia Grant:
Originally from St. John’s, Newfoundland, Alicia Grant is a graduate of the York University BFA dance program. Her collaborative performance work with Cara Spooner has been presented at XPACE Cultural Centre, Harbourfront Centre and the Festival of New Dance. Her solo work has been presented at the Eastern Edge Gallery, Hart House, Rhubarb Festival and 7a*11d Festival. As a dancer, she has worked with Zoja Smutny/Passbo Dance Theatre, Jenn Goodwin, Meagan O'Shea, Diane Borsato and Daniel Cockburn. Alicia has been an artist-in-residence at CESTA in Tabor, Czech Republic and Caldera Arts Center in Sisters, Oregon.

Iris Fraser-Gudrunas:
Iris's art practice focuses on video, film, performance and curation. She has shown at, and curated shows with many groups in Toronto including PleasureDome, Fado, Double Double Land, Film Fort, Blocks Recording Club, Don Blanche Residency, Artscape Gibralter Point Residency, Images Festival, Hart House Film Club, Toronto Public Library, Splice This!, and various independent events. Iris also directed her first feature film which is to be completed sometime in 2011.

Anna May Henry:
Anna May Henry works in a variety of mediums in an endless exploration of the co-existance of everyday life with the fantastic. Her work often merges the natural environment with subtle human impositions as well as performance with documentary. She is currently working on an ongoing video series of intuitive, diaristic mood-movies which can be viewed at www.youtube.com/user/annamayday. She is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design and lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Naomi Hocura:
Naomi Hocura spends her time creating environments and events in the real world as well as in the imagined. Recent projects include curatorial and video work for the Nadja/Aidan Baker DVD White Nights/Drone Fields (Beta-lactam Ring Records 2010), Seconds Under the Sun Japanese art animation screening (2009 – 2010). She is currently is interested in the interaction of sound, scent and the body.

Julia Kennedy:
Through the seasons the maple tree filters light and rain until finally, in early spring, it will release it’s sap. The accumulated fluid is all those things the tree has taken in distilled into an essence which is new and pure and it’s own form. Through her work with drawing, sculpture, installation, social engagements, performance and writing Julia Kennedy explores feelings and reactions to interacting with the everyday as distilled through her own experience and processes. Julia M. Kennedy, March 28, 1984 attended Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax, NS) and Cooper Union (New York, NY) She currently lives and works in Toronto.

Mat Laporte:
Mat Laporte is a poet and intermedia artist. He is one quarter of the micropress publisher Ferno House and an undergrad at York University.

Joyce Lau:
Joyce Lau is a photo-based artist from Toronto. She received her BFA in photography at Ryerson University, but realized that she needed to go beyond the darkroom to create the pieces that floated in her mind. She resolved that she enjoyed using her hands too much and needed to explore techniques in that realm a little further. With paper as her primary medium, Lau has experimented with varying forms of construction and presentation with the intrinsic quality of the medium in mind. Lau’s work has been a consistent reflection of her fascinations with history, religion, pop culture, and iconography. Persistently themed around artifice, perceived ideals and expectations, and guilt, her works are cynical expressions about mass-production and “what ifs.”Lau has exhibited in Canada, the United States, and Europe. She has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council, and recently completed a residency in The Netherlands.

Barb Lindenberg:

For many years I have been performing short dances for small audiences. The earliest performance in my memory is a duet with Oli Edgar performed for the Edgar and Lindenberg families. It featured Cheerios as a prominent theme and we stuck our tongues out as far as we could. I'm sure we had other moves but I don't remember them. That was the '80s and a lot has happened since then but not much has changed. I'm just more serious.

Laura McCoy:
Laura McCoy, b. 1981 in Cambridge, Ontario. Currently lives and works in Toronto. Laura works in video, drawing, and performance, as well as with self documentation and an online identy that counts everyday stimulations as valid content in an ever growing visual library. more of her work can be found at lauramccoy.blogspot.com as well as at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lauramccoy/

Heather McTavish:
Heather Big T McTavish is a Librarian Archivist living and working in Toronto. She has participated in several dances choreographed by Allison Peacock, usually as the stationary figure in the background. In her grade eleven dance class she performed as a fish in a dance number of The Little Mermaid and laughed jovially when her friend Nikki had to prance across the stage to the "ATINA" part. Her artistic pursuits include singing in her room, thinking about sewing projects and bookbinding.

Minae Omi:

Minae Omi was born in Tokyo, Japan. Minae began dancing at the young age of three, taking ballet classes. Seven years later, Minae switched to jazz and hip-hop, hoping to become a Japanese pop star. In 2002, Minae was introduced to Miyako Kato and found the world of contemporary dance. Minae has been performing in the dance company which is called Miyako Kato Dance Space since 2004Minae is interested in exploring the relationship between multimedia art and the body in motions. Minae graduated from The School Of Toronto Dance Theatre in May, 2010.

Sojourner-Truth Parsons:
Sojourner-Truth Parsons is an artist living and working in Toronto, Canada. Her work has been exhibited at Khyber Centre for the Arts (Halifax), Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects (Toronto), and will be seen at A1C Gallery (St. John's, Newfoundland) this fall. She recently toured with neo-folk band Tasseomancy, creating site-specific installations at venues across Europe. She holds a BFA from NSCAD University (Halifax).

Evelyn Pelayo:

born and raised in toronto, Evelyn Pelayo has been involved in the creative for as long as she can remember. both a teacher and maker, her works delves into narratives and communication and the sometimes lack there of it. as a graduate of material art & design from ocad, her work involves a myriad of elements and has been shown in several galleries and art fairs. she now resides in Barcelona, Spain and gets up to good whenever she can.

Aimée Dawn Robinson:
Aimée Dawn Robinson is an improvising dancer, musician, landscape gardener, writer/
researcher and video artist. She has performed, studied and taught dance in Canada, the United
States, Malaysia and Japan. Aimée holds her MA from York University, Department of Dance
(thesis: “Forgetting Memory: The butoh of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno”). Aimée co-
founded Up Darling and is the director of the multi- disciplinary performance series, A Month of Sundays. Aimée has studied, and continues to study with dancer/farmer Min Tanaka on Body Weather Farm.

Anna Silverstein:
Anna can be seen from great distances, whole city blocks away, across ponds, maybe even lakes, from one mountain top to another. It’s her hair, each strand with a life of it’s own. Expanding towards you, back towards her and then to you again, not quite curls but something like that. There is a life force in this hair, a manifestation of an open curiosity and a discerning intelligence (with a special and particular aptitude for detail). Anna’s hair has taken on the character and spirit of her brain and for this we are all thankful! Seen in and experienced through this wild splay of human thread is Anna’s interest in all things unruly and encompassing. Though with closer inspection, with an eye to the many knots, caverns and twisty turns, one can see Anna’s commitment to the complexity of minutia; the intricate, well defined veins of a leaf. This orientation to the big and broad, alongside, the small and intricate has brought Anna to the study of both organic and inorganic structures; the building and the beehive, the scream and the tape recorder. Her mind topped with such a mass of hair has found itself in the world of architecture, entomology, noise making, puppetry and drawing. Following the direction of her locks Anna looks forward, sideways, backward, straight- up and straight- down.

Zoja Smutny:
Since receiving her BFA in Choreography from Concordia University in Montreal, Zoja has been living, making, teaching, and producing in Toronto, Montreal, Athens, and Prague. Zoja’s live and video work has been shown in international festivals in both Europe and Canada. Most recently she directed a Bravo fact dance video with Guntar Kravis, entitled Between Time. Currently she is working on a solo made with many collaborators, the main one being Jenn Goodwyn (Toronto). This solo will be presented at Uferstudios, Berlin July 2011. Alongside making dances, Zoja also teaches yoga at Udk in Berlin to the BA dance program. She is currently completing her master’s in Solo/Dance/Authorship in Berlin. Zoja was awarded a Harold Award in Toronto (2009).

Stacey Sproule:
Stacey Sproule is a performance and installation artist. Her work often involves the use of knitting, embroidery, and other tactile textile techniques. She holds a BFA in drawing and painting from OCAD and has exhibited locally and regionally for over five years. Her installations have been exhibited at Wynick Tuck Gallery, Xpace, and Gallery 1313 in Toronto; Awkward Gallery in Barrie; and Forest City Gallery in London. In 2007, Stacey Sproule and Diane Borsato collaborated on a piece for FADO. Stacey also collaborates frequently with Randy Gagne including performances at 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art and Peterborough’s Artsweek Festival.

Meichen Waxer:
Born in 1983 and raised in a decorated to era Victorian home in Aurora, Ontario. Meichen has always been fascinated with ideas of fantasy, constructed histories and turn of the century melancholy. Elements of female craft and body are interwoven into her interdisciplinary practice. Through juxtaposing several mediums; particularly photography, textile-based sculpture and painting, Meichen dances around the fine lines between anxiety, obsession and occupation. Meichen has spent time living in Montreal, in Paris France during the Summer Creative Residency 2010 at Parsons Paris as overseen by Charlotte Moth and is currently based in Toronto. She graduated from OCAD in 2007 with a major in photography, receiving The Faculty and Friends of Photography Award. Meichen has exhibited nationally and most recently in London, England, as a part of JVC (July Video Coalition). She is a recipient of the Toronto Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant.

Curators:

Victoria Cheong:

Victoria Cheong is a multi-disciplinary artist working in video, installation and performance. Her artistic practice also includes ongoing collaborative work with dancers and musicians, experimentation with textiles, jewelry and projections and the curation and organization of accessible, cross-disciplinary art happenings. She makes music as part of The Deeep. She collaborates with Anna Silverstein in the Improvisational Decorating duo, Discolor Festooning. She is also the Artistic Director of Healing Power Records.
She was born, continues to live and perhaps will even die in Toronto, Canada.

Allison Peacock:

Allison Peacock is a Toronto-based artist working with dance, site-specific performance, costuming and video. She is actively exploring pop cultural representations of dance, themes around time and duration, experimental dance’s relationship to the natural world, perspective, popular technology, questions of performance and visibility, feminism, intersections between video and dance, and friendship. Her work has been presented at Movement Research at the Judson Church (in collaboration with Victoria Cheong), Extermination Music Night, the Yukon Arts Centre, Danceworks CoWorks, Rhubarb and has been commissioned by the Canada Dance Festival. She holds a B.A. from the University of Toronto in Visual Studies, and completed professional dance training at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Allison has participated in residencies at the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts on Toronto Island, and most recently at Performing Arts Forum in St. Erme, France. A significant part of her practice is devoted to collaborative projects with artists from various disciplines: video and textile artist Victoria Cheong with whom she co-choreographed and performed Ic Mastic Gys Rhythm and co-orchestrated the dance-centric performance festival Nuit Blanche Devereaux, animator and musician Lindsey Ross, and an on-going international collaboration with Nadine Schwarz (Zurich, CH).

NUIT BLANCHE DEVEREAUX II

2011-06-06T15:21:00.000-07:00

video by Alicia Grant

We are busily planning the second installment of Nuit Blanche Devereaux
RIP Rue Maclanahan

Sat June 25
1-10pm
in and around High Park
stay tuned for meeting Spot and more information

Featuring work by:
Jan Avendano
Yuula Benivolski
Misha Bower
Isla Craig & Minae Omi
Aurora De Pena
Amelia Ehrhardt & Heather Mctavish
Alicia Grant
Iris Fraser-Gudrunas & Mat Laporte
Anna May Henry
Naomi Hocura & Nicole Dawkins
Julia Kennedy
Joyce Lau
Barb Lindenberg & Anna Silverstein
Laura McCoy
Sojourner Truth Parsons & Phil Hamilton
Evelyn Pelayo
Aimee Dawn Robinson
Zoja Smutny & Guntar Kravis
Stacey Sproule
Meichen Waxer

Curated by Victoria Cheong and Allison Peacock

Poster - Nuit Blanche Devereaux 2009

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Some Images from Davida Nemeroff's slideshow "Playing with Fur"

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Videos

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Laura McCoy, Straight up the Pipe

2009-06-08T16:40:00.001-07:00

Alicia Grant and Cara Spooner in an alley

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Zoja Smutny's Intersection

2009-06-08T16:30:00.000-07:00

Queen and Brock
Zoja Smutny, Guntar Kravis & Carlos González-Vio

Pictures from Nuit Blanche Devereaux, 2009

2009-06-05T05:53:00.000-07:00

Here are some photos courtesy of Kari Peddle...

THE YOUNGEST & LINDSEY GILLARD:

SNOWBLINK w. ISLA CRAIG & LUXURY POND:

JOYCE LAU:

IRIS FRASER:

Map & Schedule made by Yuula Benivolski

2009-06-05T05:47:00.001-07:00

Some Blanches

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WOW- and rain date

2009-05-31T08:53:00.001-07:00

Yesterday was amazing!! Still cannot believe the high caliber of works. Lots of videos of the performances to post next week. If anyone has photos it would be great if we could see them. Please send them to nuitblanchedevereaux@gmail.com
TODAY's EVENTS:
It did storm around the time that Up Darling was to begin and so they had to postpone their park dances till today- same time and same place (7:30-8:30 North West-ish end of Trinity Bellwoods Park). Also postponed by yesterdays downpour was Iris Fraser's video screening which will happen today after Up Darling from 8:45- 9:45 in the nearby backyard at 951 Dundas - to be entered via the laneway at the bottom of Grace/ top of Trinity Bellwoods. There will be delightful homemade cider available for sale.

it begins...

2009-05-28T07:47:00.001-07:00

Hi all,
the Nuit Blanche Devereaux schedule has changed only slightly.
Daniela's second set has been cancelled (sadly!!) and times changed accordingly.
There will be a paper map and schedule that will be available starting at 2:00 at the first location, (Trinity Bellwoods Park- at the Queen entrance gates) and then at every location throughout the events. The map is going to be beautiful and is being hand drawn- probably as I type- by Yuula B.
If for some weird reason it rains- we will tarp things up accordingly. If for some really weird reason it pours- we will improvise... please don't rain!!

Here is the new official schedule:

LAURA MCCOY, Performance
"Straight up the Pipe"
Trinity Bellwoods Park (various spots)
2:00- 3:00pm
20 min x 3 locations within the park

ZOJA SMUTNY, Site-specific performance
"Intersection"
Intersection at Queen and Brock
3x 20-minute performances 3:30, 4:25, 5:00 pm
performers: Guntar Kravis, Zoja Smutny, Carlos González-Vio

ALICIA GRANT & CARA SPOONER, Dance
"Untitled" (dance performance to be viewed from a distance)
Alley beside the Public Butter (1290 Queen St. West)
4:00-4:20pm
10 minute performance, once only

DAVIDA NEMEROFF, Slideshow
"Playing with Fur"
Backyard at 45 Fennings St.(enter through back laneway that runs off Humbert between Fennings and Brookfield)
4:30- 6:00pm
5 minute slideshow (loop)

DANIELA GESUNDHEIT, Musical interludes
"Little Portugal’s Storefronts Sing the Hits"
Luckily Cafe, 229 Ossington
5:00-6:15 pm
Sets by Snowblink w. Luxury Pond & Isla Craig

LINDSEY GILLARD & AMY LEARMONTH
"A Set by The Youngest + a Tree Installation"
Pierre Elliott Trudeau school- 65 Grace St. just North of Dundas
6:30- 7:15pm

UP DARLING 5: Dances
3 short pieces by Megan English
"Through Glass and Water "by Barb Lindenberg
1 improvisation by Aimee Dawn Robinson
Trinity Bellwoods Park (Near the NorthWest edge of the ravine)
7:30- 8:30pm

IRIS FRASER, Two new videos screening with affordable refreshments
"Ladies Night at the Concession Stand"
Backyard at 951 Dundas (to be entered via the laneway at the bottom of Grace/ top of Trinity Bellwoods)
8:45- 9:45pm
(featuring Adrienne Kammerer, Keith Jones & mystery man)

YUULA & XENIA BENIVOLSKI, Video & Installation
"OMER"
Charles G. Park, small parkette beside 56 Wright Ave. (near Sorauren)
10:20- 11:20
20 minute video (loop)

JOYCE LAU, Projection/ Installation
"untitled"
25 Marion St. front porch
11:30 - 12:30am

MISHA BOWER, video
"Biography of a Dozen Drinkers (part one)"
25 Marion St. Backyard
12:15- 12:45am

MAP OF EVENTS

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Here is an up-to-date map of Nuit Blanche Devereaux locations
check in before Saturday just to make sure nothing has changed...
getting excited! Click the blue balloons to see who/ what/ when.
We will be distributing printed maps/schedules on Saturday and they will be available at any and all locations on the Blanche Devereaux route.

View Nuit Blanche Devereaux in a larger map

Nuit Blanche Devereaux, 2009

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Saturday May 30th, 2009
Happening in various locations in Toronto's West end
PWYC
Hosted by Victoria Cheong & Allison Peacock.
Bring a blanket, a cooler with wheels, some friends and enjoy the amazing performances/screenings/awesomeness by:

LAURA MCCOY, performance
Straight up the Pipe
Trinity Bellwoods Park (various spots)
2:00- 3:00pm
20 min x 3 locations within the park

ZOJA SMUTNY, site-specific performance
Intersection
Intersection at Queen and Brock
3:30, 4:15, 5:00 pm
20 minute performance repeated x 3
performers: Guntar Kravis, Zoja Smutny, Carlos González-Vio

ALICIA GRANT & CARA SPOONER, dance
Dance performance to be viewed from a distance
alley adjacent to the Public Butter (1290 Queen St. West)
4:00-4:20pm

DAVIDA NEMEROFF, slideshow
Playing with Fur
45 Fennings st. backyard - enter through back laneway that runs off Humbert between Fennings and Brookfield
4:45- 5:45pm
5 minutes slideshow will loop for an hour

DANIELA GESUNDHEIT w. Luxury Pond & Isla Craig
Little Portugal’s Storefronts Sing the Hits
Luckily Cafe 229 Ossington
5:15-6:15 pm
2 half-hour sets

LINDSEY GILLARD & AMY LEARMONTH
A set by The Youngest and an installation in a tree
location: Pierre Elliott Trudeau school- 65 Grace St. just North of Dundas
6:30- 7:15

UP DARLING 5: dances by Megan English, Barb Lindenberg, Aimee Dawn Robinson
3 short pieces by Megan English
"Through Glass and Water "by Barb Lindenberg
improvisation by Aimee Dawn Robinson
Trinity Bellwoods Park (Near the NorthWest edge of the ravine, but not in the ravine)
7:30- 8:30pm

IRIS FRASER (featuring Adrienne Kammerer, Keith Jones & mystery man)
Ladies Night at the Concession Stand
Two new videos screening with affordable refreshments (snack and beverage = sandwiches and cider)
location: Backyard at 951 Dundas - to be entered via the laneway at the bottom of Grace/ top of Trinity Bellwoods
8:45- 9:45pm

YUULA & XENIA BENIVOLSKI, video & Installation
OMER
location: charles G. Park, small parkette beside 56 Wright Ave. (near Sorauren)
10:20- 11:20
20 minute video loop

JOYCE LAU, melting projection/ installation
location: 25 Marion st. front porch
11:30 - 12:30am

MISHA BOWER
Biography of a Dozen Drinkers (part one)
video
location: 25 Marion st. Backyard
12:15- 12:45am
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SOME ARTIST BIOs

Laura McCoy
laura mcCoy is a sometimes performance artist who also self-publishes her drawings and comics and currently lives and works in toronto. Recently she co-founded (with jesjit gill) an online store for zines called mishmish.ca.

Yuula Benivolski
Born in 1980 in Moscow USSR, grew up in Northern Israel and currently live and work between Toronto and Montreal.
I work with photographs, projection, video and installation. I'm interested in migration, tradition and ritual, comfort, acclimatization and survival, or stories and details from my childhood that shaped my views on important stuff like sex and death or any other transformative events.

Davida Nemeroff
Davida Nemeroff is a Canadian artist working in Los Angeles California. She holds a BFA in Photographic Studies from Ryerson University (2004) and a MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University (2009.) Nemeroff’s work is an ongoing investigation of the frame. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, The United States, Germany and South Korea.
She is the director of the nocturnal platform Night Gallery in Los Angeles.
Davida Nemeroff is represented by Annie Wharton Los Angeles in the U.S. and by Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects in Canada.

Alicia Grant
Alicia Grant is a recent graduate from York University’s dance program. Since then she has danced at TransformationDanse (Montreal), EDAM (Vancouver), ImPulsTanz (Vienna) and LaborGras (Berlin). She collaborated on The Residents, a dance/video installation at Casa Loma that was voted #1 Greatest Hit of Nuit Blanche by the Toronto Star. In June, Alicia will premiere the new work Rest or Rant at the Festival of New Dance (St. John’s) in collaboration with Cara Spooner.

Joyce Lau
Joyce Lau is a photo-based artist from Toronto. She is a graduate from Ryerson University’s Image Arts Photography studies program.
Lau’s fascination with iconography is prevalent in all her work. Although humour-driven, Lau’s works are highly pensive and curious renderings of what is often considered “common knowledge.” Consistently themed around artifice, perceived ideas and expectations, and guilt, her works are cynical expressions about mass production and “what-ifs.” Interaction between the viewer and the work is crucial. Whether by size, medium, or mechanism, Lau’s work entices viewers to touch, examine, and to participate.

Adrienne Kammerer
Hailing from the suburban cultural epicenter of Burlington, Ontario. Adrienne was born in 1985. She is a self-taught art school dropout currently residing in Toronto