TIFF Celebrate Nuit Blanche and Culture Days

It's that time of year again in Toronto. Well that second other time of the year. The TIFF Festival is done, however the greatest city in the world doesn't just simply stop after the festival. Right around the corner we have Nuit Blanche and Culture Days. A time when the city embraces it's cultural soul while also turning into an all-night Art Gallery.

The folks at TIFF are not staying out of it by offering a great program of events.

Oh Look! A Press Release:

TIFF CELEBRATES NUIT BLANCHE AND CULTURE DAYS

Toronto â€" On October 1 from 7:00 pm â€" 7:00 am TIFF Bell Lightbox will take part in the City of Toronto’s 6th annual Scotiabank Nuit Blanche with an action-packed all-nighter of interactive programming that will have visitors of all ages singing, acting, making music and seeing Toronto in a whole new way. To celebrate Culture Days on October 1 and 2, TIFF presents a full weekend of interactive activities at TIFF Bell Lightbox from 11:30 am â€" 3:30 pm a with a variety of activity stations.

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche activities include:

  • The Movie Studio Playhouse: A collaboration between TIFF and the Canadian Film Center Media Lab, the Movie Studio Playhouse is an interactive installation that allows participants to make and play with moving image stories in real time. As participants act in spontaneously-created films, the images they create will be projected live onto various surfaces at TIFF Bell Lightbox . VJs will then mix, manipulate, mash, and multiply these live video streams and turn them into moving digital paintings.
    Drop-in, runs from 7:00 pm â€" 7:00 am
  • The Royal Canadian Chiptunes Orchestra: TIFF's all-night salute to the music of the video game kicks off with exciting performances by the Royal Canadian Chiptunes Orchestra playing on custom-hacked Gameboys and homemade circuit-based instruments. In addition, a thrilling line-up of top chiptunes artists will fill the giant stage and screen of TIFF Bell Lightbox's Cinema 1 to the brim with bits, bytes, and beats as a mix of live music and scheduled sessions of giant-screen video games come together on stage.
    Runs from 7:00 pm â€" 7:00 am
  • Singin’ in the Dark: ’80s Edition: Visitors will have the time of their life as stand-up/cabaret artist/professional ginger Shawn Hitchins hosts a full night of sing-alongs to ’80s classics like Fame, Footloose, Flashdance and Dirty Dancing.

Show begins every hour, on the hour from 7:00 pm

  • Man With A Movie Camera: Local artist Darren Copeland performs a live digital re-scoring of Dziga Vertov’s iconic city symphony, setting Vertov’s kaleidoscopic depiction of bustling 1920s Russia against the sounds of Toronto circa 2011.
    Live performances at 7:00 pm, 10:00 pm, 1:00 am and 4:00 am. Recorded performances at 8:30 pm, 11:30 pm, 2:30 am and 5:30 am

Culture Days activities include:

 

  • Be in the Scene:  offers visitors the opportunity to immerse themselves in some stunning film scenes through the magic of green screen technology.
  • Buttonography:  visitors become their very own buttonographers by capturing a film scene of their choice on a button and having it made on site.
  •  Wonders and Wardrobes:  a fun costume activity that will get visitors ready for the paparazzi .

TIFF is generously supported by Lead Sponsor Bell, Major Sponsors RBC and BlackBerry, and Major Supporters the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, and the City of Toronto.

 

About TIFF
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $170 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family  (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels ), The Daniels Corporation, Major Sponsor and official bank RBC, Major Sponsor BlackBerry and Visa†. For more information, visit tiff.net.

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