Nuit Blanche Ottawa-Gatineau

[dewline]

I just got home from a kick-off organizational/Q&A meeting at Arts Court in downtown Ottawa.

It was for a group that's looking to set up Ottawa-Gatineau's very own Nuit Blanche-style all-night arts/culture festival. Looks like they've thought through a great many things, have admitted to others they haven't thought through yet but are making plans for that to be done in due course. Not unlike the organizational session I sat through last week with the Can-Con organizing committee. The gathering even drew CBC's official news-gathering attention, as well as people representing independent business, arts groups, museums, City Hall, the National Arts Centre...and others whose affiliations I'm memory-blanking on right now.

Will see how things go over the next few weeks and months with the Nuit Blanche Ottawa-Gatineau crew.

More on other stuff in different postings later on...

Comments

[orleans.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I've long thought of attending Nuit Blanche in Toronto, but poor planning and other obligations keep getting in the way. I'd like to see one here, and I wish them luck!

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Seeing how it works out over the next year or so - however long the run-up to first launch of an actual Event takes - should be an interesting thing in its own right.

Hoping it works for everyone involved myself!