A live art demonstration featuring performance, visual arts, lens-based and sonic media artists.

The Hopes and Fears Assembly, produced by STO Union, is a live art hive featuring diverse artists from performance, visual arts, lens-based art, live art and sonic media. In response to curator Laura Nanni’s 2024 Nuit Blanche theme, Bridging Distance, the artists explore new ways of sharing the space, creating accessible experiences for the public to engage with.

Through this collective, relationships are meant to be explored – with others, yourself and your creative energy. The bridge is in the body; the distances are within it and creativity is the force that does the bridging.

We can inspire each other to remember how creativity makes us feel and then see what happens. The following installations will be onsite all night:

Karaoke Practice!

By Prem Krishnamurthy / Department of Transformation

Empty Stage / Play with Me

By Nadia Ross / CJ Fleury / George Acheson / Sam Johnson / STO Union

Phantom Opera

By RYTHM CORP

People Watching Station

By Nadia Ross / STO Union

Wish You Were Here

By Lisa Klapstock / Something to Think about

Entwined/Distilled

By Harri Thomas / Other Hearts

If there is Light, we can Play

By Nadia Ross / STO Union

Merch

By Nadia Ross / Harri Thomas / STO Union

Aphorisms

By Nadia Ross / STO Union

While you’re here, check out Harbourfront Centre’s Nuit Blanche Night Market for delicious bites, drinks and local artisanal crafts available throughout the night into the early morning.