Experiencing Nuit Blanche Toronto 2025: In the City and Online

October 4 – 5, 2025 | 7pm – 7am
Free | Across Toronto
toronto.ca/NuitBlanche

The Nuit Blanche Remote Access Hub, 2025 by Tangled Art + Disability. Photo by Michelle Peek Photography. Image courtesy of The Centre for Art & Social Justice at the University of Guelph.

This October, Toronto transforms into a city-wide gallery as Nuit Blanche, the free, all-night celebration of contemporary art, returns for its nineteenth edition. From 7pm Saturday, October 4 to 7am Sunday, October 5, more than 80 projects by over 200 artists will take over and animate spaces across the city.

Whether you’re a local, a visitor from out of town, or another country, Nuit Blanche offers many ways to engage—with the city, with art, and now, for the first time, remotely through a hybrid project by Tangled Art + Disability that extends the festival beyond Toronto’s streets.

Translating the City

Envisioned by Artistic Director Laura Nanni, this year’s theme, Translating the City, invites you to explore how art interprets, decodes and reshapes urban life. In a city where more than 200 languages are spoken, artists consider how communication happens not only through words, but also through images, sound, gesture, and collective experience.

City-Produced Exhibitions & Event Centres

Nuit Blanche 2025 expands beyond downtown with three major exhibition areas, each anchored by a City-produced exhibition:

• North York: Collective Composition, curated by Laura Nanni
• Etobicoke: From here, there, everywhere, curated by Renata Azevedo Moreira and sponsored by Humber Polytechnic
• Downtown: Poetic Justice, curated by Charlene K. Lau

At the heart of each exhibition area, an Event Centre provides maps, information, rest areas, food, washrooms, and accessibility support, including ASL interpretation—making it easy for you to navigate the night and plan your route.

Experiencing Nuit in Person in Toronto

If you’re visiting Toronto, you can craft your own path through the night. Printed maps are available at Event Centres, and an interactive online map lets you search projects and experiences by neighbourhood, theme, medium, or accessibility feature.

Volunteers in high-visibility vests and staff are on-hand to help with wayfinding, accessibility needs, or guidance on projects.

Families with young children, visitors seeking low-sensory experiences, or anyone looking for a quieter atmosphere may wish to attend during off-peak hours (typically 3 – 7am).

Humans Build the Biggest Nests by Isaac King, Nuit Blanche 2024

Planning Your Visit & Accessibility

Whether you’re onsite or online, the Accessibility page and the Getting Around page are essential resources for planning your experience.

The Accessibility page: Offers downloadable Access Guides with visual stories for each exhibition as well as details on accessibility features across various projects and venues.

The Getting Around page: Helps you navigate between neighbourhoods, Event Centres, and exhibition areas across the city.

Printed maps at Event Centres and onsite signage highlight features like wheelchair access, tactile elements, audio description, and ASL interpretation. An interactive online map enables you to filter projects by accessibility features, neighbourhood, or theme, ensuring that you can navigate the festival in ways that work for you.

Volunteers are available throughout the night to assist with wayfinding, tactile or sensory experiences, reading project descriptions and translation support.

For a perfect retreat after a night out, Nuit Blanche Host Hotel – Chelsea Hotel, Toronto offers exclusive rate packages.

Image courtesy of Tangled Art + Disability

Experiencing Nuit from Anywhere

For those who can’t make it to Toronto—or who want to experience Nuit Blanche from home—the Nuit Blanche Remote Access Hub, created in partnership with Tangled Art + Disability, offers a first-of-its-kind hybrid experience. Part livestream, part art tour and part gathering, the project reimagines accessibility within the city’s celebration of contemporary art and is led by members of the disability arts community.

Throughout the night, correspondents share reflections, lead viewers through projects across the city and provide live audio description, ASL interpretation, and collective access strategies. The broadcast will also include contributions from Independent Projects and Major Institutions.

Onsite in North York, the Remote Access Hub functions as a watch party for the livestream and is a welcoming space to listen to music, rest, self-regulate and connect with others. Remote audiences can participate in real time; links will be available on the Nuit Blanche website on the night-of the event.

Choose Your Path

Whether you wander Toronto’s streets until dawn, focus on a single neighbourhood, or tune in online from anywhere in the world, Nuit Blanche 2025 offers countless ways to experience the night. Admission is free, projects are open to all—to experience Toronto through contemporary art, community and connection.

Learn more and plan your night: toronto.ca/NuitBlanche

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Image Descriptions:
1. A person dressed in glowing, neon-colored clothing dances under blue and purple lights, with streamers and bright decorations surrounding them in a lively setting.
2. A person with green hair reaches toward a wall covered in rows of small, illustrated cards, while others line up behind them to interact with the installation.
3. A person wearing a face mask holds up a tablet on a stand, showing a video call with another person’s face, inside a gallery space with artworks on the walls and a projection in the background.

Akimbo is a media partner of Nuit Blanche 2025.