NUIT ROSE 2016: NIGHT SHIFT

NUIT ROSE took over Toronto on Saturday June 25th, 2016 with a night of queer contemporary art and performance across the city. This year’s them was NIGHT SHIFT and featured transformational encounters with art that shifted perceptions, paradigms, identities, and realities. It was a night of celebration and adventure reflecting all things that happen between dusk and dawn.

Featured Artists

  • NUIT ROSE Light Parade – Led by Red Pepper Spectacle Arts

  • Bruce LaBruce – DJ Set

  • Britt Howlett & Tanya Herbert – Duo Trapeze “Angles and Curves”

  • Proud Pride Rainbow Bangs – Bruno Billio presented in partnership with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

  • Counterpoint Community Orchestra – Music, Night Shift, Queer Culture

  • Darren Creech – Steinway Piano Gallery Toronto presents Darren Creech: Resilience

  • Evan Tapper & Scott Sorli – Analog Pride Pavilion (APP)

  • Janessa Pudwell & Tanya Svazas Cronin – By Chance

  • Karen Miranda Augustine & Ilene Sova – Don’t You Forget About Me

  • Kinsfolk – The deconstruction/ reconstruction of identity

  • M. Mohamed – objects kept / a feeling of home

  • MAGT – Bureau Of Power And Light Showcase

  • Melissa Major – (infi)NITE Stirrings

  • Michael Caldwell & David Kraft – SLOW DANCE

  • Natalie Black – Kapow!

  • Never Apart – Colour By Icons

  • Olga Guse – in search of sexual identity

  • Polynomials – Near Strangers

  • Reading Salon – RAID: OPERATION SOAP

  • RT Collective – In Your Pocket

  • Shawn Skeir – Queering Language

  • Simone Harris – The TRIBE

  • Stephen Chen – BROADS WAY

  • WEAVE – We are Part of the Fabric

Partner Events

  • 6th Annual 10×10 Photography Project at the Gladstone Hotel

  • Hazel Meyer & Cait McKinney – Tape Condition: degraded at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives

  • GO WEST – ALT QUEER FEST presents Queen’s End Pride at the Grand Trunk

  • Iain Downie/Sculptors Society of Canada at the Canadian Sculpture Centre

  • That’s So Gay – Come Together at the Gladstone Hotel

  • Through the Looking Glass: In Search of Identity at the Propeller Gallery

  • Zachari Logan – Blood Cells, after Lady Mary Delany at Paul Petro Contemporary Art

Independent Artists

  • Alan McIntosh – Sticks and Stones

  • Alexander Scott – Anthromorphic

  • Amber Helene Müller St. Thomas – NOITADILOSNOCER

  • Aurelio Monge – Anima Obscura

  • Beck Pura – Failure to Resuscitate

  • Brad McDermott – Zodiac Man

  • Bruce Eves – now and then/then and now

  • Chris L. Williams – Night Garden

  • Craft Action TO

  • Eric A.G. Jackson – True Patriot Love

  • Georgia Kirkos – Vestige

  • Gun Roze – Randy The Stripper

  • Iaboni Priftaj Design Associates – Sit 2 Get-There

  • Iain Downie – 360°

  • Jeffrey Canton & Marcus Peterson – Coal From Hades

  • John Elammar – Toilet Project (Cruising)

  • John Simone – Queens of Manhattan/Subterranean Society/A Fashion Cares Retrospective

  • Jordan Clayton – The Safety Tryst Twist

  • Joshua Bauman – Intimacy

  • Kim Atlin – Narrative: Night Shift

  • Larissa Monique Hauck – Blush

  • Maddie Alexander – Straddling The Line

  • Maximilian Suillerot – Aether Martyr

  • Michael Thompson – Adele’s Send My Love (To Your New Lover): Clown Parody

  • Michel Dumont – They Come Out At Night

  • Parow Pictures – Cast Me

  • Sarah Hunter – Night Time Ramblings

  • Sue Lloyd – PROTOTYPE for a LIST of ALL the WOMEN’s BARS

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