NUIT ROSE returned for its fourth spectacular year with the question: What Lies Between Venus and Mars? This festival turned to the stars and spanned across four Toronto neighbourhoods (the Church-Wellesey Village, Regent Park, Kensington Market, and West Queen West) featuring free exhibitions, performances and parties.

Featured Artists

• NUIT ROSE – Light Parade

• Counterpoint Community Orchestra – Between Venus & Mars

• Wiggle – Co-presented by Never Apart

• Bunker 2: Vacancy – Curated by John Elammar

• Aylen Scriver – Smudging Ceremony

• Charlena Russell – Sound-Activated Light Suit Performance

• Long Branch – Looking up, a Constellation

• Shawn Postoff – Praise The Gods!

• John Simone – RuPaul: Evolution of an Icon

• Canmanie Ponnambalam and Zohar Freeman – Kissing Booth

• Evan Tapper & Scott Sørli – Gay Alien Shame Parade (GASP!)

• Laura Jane Petelko – T

• Mark Sepic – The Junkestra

• RT Collective – In Your Pocket

• Morgan Sears-Williams & Maddie Alexander – Femme4Femme

• Irem Harnak – Made This Way

• Jieun-June Kim – Floating Home

• Rob Croxford – HOMOnym

• LOVED Collective – LOVED: Heroic Stories of Passion & Acceptance

Exhibition Partners

• The 519 Church Street Community Centre

• Daniels Spectrum

• akasha art projects

• Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

• Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives

• Glad Day Bookshop (Tease)

• The Black Eagle

• The Window Gallery

• Ignite Gallery/ OCAD University

• The Gladstone Hotel (10X10 and That’s So Gay)

• Toronto Art Book Fair

• Church-Wellesley Village BIA

• John B. Aird Gallery (Queer Landscapes, Queer Intersections)

• Our Future is Queer