Nuit Blanche - Bringing together the differing views of Toronto

When travelling to downtown Toronto, you are greeted with two divergently opposite types of people in Toronto, and each has their own unique space in the Downtown core. On the one hand, you have the business people who always seem to be wearing a suit regardless of the season and can be seen looking very serious at all times of the day. These people have claimed the Business district including Bay Street. On the other hand, in the Entertainment district, you can see people who seem to either have gotten dressed in the dark or who simply want to look like they don’t care what they are wearing. These two sides don’t seem to want to have anything to do with one another and refuse to enter into eachothers’ space. This is the fact however, only 364 days a year. The 365^th day has come to be known as Nuit Blanche.

This year, I decided to go down for the first time to check out the festivities. While I am not really an artsy person, it was so nice to see the culture and art that had been blown into the otherwise stuffy bank buildings on Bay Street. In the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for example, the artists had removed the water from the water fountain in the lobby and replaced it with Vodka. I did not and continue to not understand the significance behind this art, but I was moved by the fact that, if for only one night, the two conflicting pictures of Toronto, converged into one.

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