The seventh edition of Nuit Blanche North lit up downtown Huntsville on July 28, 2018. There were aerial acrobats and fire artists, dancers and hula hoopers, futuristic jetpacks and a retro Silver Elvis, all answering (in their own way) the question, ‘So What Now?’
More than 30 installations brought Main Street, River Mill Park and the Town Docks to life. A projection show lit up Town Hall while inside Partners Hall a month-long show of vintage Ringling Brothers images were a perfect complement to the night. Musicians transformed Club 55 into a lounge for the evening.
On Main Street, festival-goers could witness amazing feats by buskers, feel the beat of the drums with Barry ‘Bazza’ Hayward, consider ‘what will I change?’ in an interactive fibre arts exhibit, or belt out their best tunes at karaoke backed by a live band.
In River Mill Park, toe-tapping music rocked the bandshell stage, aerial acrobats took their acts to new heights, interactive film project documented the night, and a-maze-ing answers could be found.
The centrepiece of the event was the late-night NorthFIRE show at the Town Docks, featuring fire artists wielding their dangerous tools with humour and aplomb.
Check out photos and video from Nuit Blanche North 2018 below and let us know in the comments what your favourite part of the night was!
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Bill Paterson says
Perhaps this is just a personal “bitch” but you have two articles from Saturday that leave me wondering about how much you support “local” talent and businesses. The Baysville walk about is a fantastic local event featuring just about any arts and crafts one could want to see. It was amazing to see the wall to wall crowd pouring down the street in teaming rain. What dedication.
Janice (Painted Kids) face painted 71kids on this rainy day, paid for by the organizers, so, face painting was free. Yet no comments except from the parents who continually remark that Jan’s face painting is the best anyone of them has seen. There was one picture that showed a painted face but the comment was about the Henna being applied to the arm of the girl we face painted .
Move on to the evening in Huntsville at Nuit Blanche where face painting was partially sponsored by the Festival and was half price, $5.00 . Janice was joined by our partner Melissa (Fluffyface Face Painting) and they painted 90 kids, again, to comments about the amazing faces we were turning out. Yet, no comments or pictures from Doppler.
These are two Local Professional and very talented women making kids and parents happy in our local community. Perhaps we are not local enough? Janice Paterson is from Emsdale and Melissa Alfano is from Dorset. Most people consider this local .
As I suggested at the top, perhaps just my biased opinion.
Dawn Huddlestone says
Bill,
Both Nuit Blanche North and the Baysville Walkabout are large local events organized by local people. If you scan through the coverage of both, you’ll find that it includes many local faces, but also those of visitors to our town because to exclude them tells only half the story of what the local organizers have worked so hard to accomplish. With the scale of these events, it is impossible for us to capture everything and instead we strive to share the flavour of the festivities with images and text representative of what was offered and enjoyed by both locals and visitors alike.
(p.s. If you look back to our coverage of this year’s Midnight Madness and the Maple Festival, you’ll find photos of Painted Kids in both. So yes, Bill, we support local.)