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Nuit Blanche Toronto marks 20 years with downtown remounts and an all-night marching band
The free 12-hour art marathon returns Saturday from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., centering Tomorrow’s Memories around City Hall with more than 70 projects.
Published: October 2, 2026 · 1 min read
The face of this year’s campaign is Band Band Clock, a marching-band-of-bands conceived by designer Lisa Kiss with up to 70 musicians from SHOUT! The Band and Gayly Forward, performing hourly around the exhibition site in costumes by Susan Dicks. City programming lead Johnson Ngo told CBC the anniversary edition deliberately celebrates temporary public art’s transformative role. Full schedules and maps are on the City of Toronto Nuit Blanche site. Sources: CBC Arts; City of Toronto.
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