Nuit+Blanche


 * [|NUIT BLANCHE] ** Volunteer Opportunity with ** [|Blackwood Gallery] **
 * October 3rd 7pm-7am (sunset to sunrise)
 * [|DROP OUT] @ Hart House (St.George campus)
 * Free shuttle leaving Oscar Peterson Hall @ 6pm, returning at 2am (email blackwood.gallery@utoronto.ca to reserve a spot. Preference goes to people who are volunteering!)
 * Looking for people to fulfill 4 hour shifts (11pm-3am, 3am-7am, or work out something different if you want to take the free shuttle back at 2am)
 * Assist with installation, welcome visitors, answer questions about the works on display, help manage the high volume of traffic over the course of the night
 * Gain valuable professional experience & get a chance to make new friends & contacts in a stimulating context!
 * An excellent opportunity to be part of Toronto's most exciting and popular cultural event!
 * To sign up please email Carly @ cm.anderson@utoronto.ca
 * Indicate experience/ special skills/ area of interest in your email
 * Refreshments & snacks provided
 * [|More information]

Highlights of some of the work being shown at DROP OUT (opportunity to assist and work with the artists themselves!)   >>
 * **Kenny Goldsmith -** The F Papers
 * //The F Papers// will consist of a continuous reading of school papers which have received an F. At least that was the original idea, but we quickly found that an F graded paper is a chimerical entity—often the grade is given to a paper that failed to be written. What quickly became more interesting to consider was how a teacher would write what they would assess to be an F paper. Thus, two teachers have been commissioned to write papers for Goldsmith's project. Goldsmith's is renowned for his controversial notion of uncreative writing as creative plagiarism—a position which provocatively prods the standard grading scheme of educational institutions. Appropriately, //The F Papers// question and undermine the adulation for originality. The performance will simultaneously dismantle and praise the equations //F is for Failure// and //F is for Fake// (nod to the film by Orson Welles).
 * **looking for volunteers to read papers for 30 minute shifts**
 * **Emily Gove & Alison S. M. Kobayashi & Jennie Suddick -** Cry School Yearbook
 * //Cry School Yearbook// is a collaboration between Gove, Kobayashi and Suddick where the artists will provide goth, metalhead and stoner makeovers to willing participants. The participants will then have their photographs taken in traditional graduation gowns. The portraits will then be assembled to create the ultimate yearbook of high school drop outs.
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 * **Food Jammers** - 2x4 Ferris Wheel
 * //2x4 Ferris Wheel// consists of off the shelf standard-sized lumber turned into a makeshift fantastical apparatus. The Ferris wheel will be used as an absurd delivery system for food and drink—a kind of vending machine that is more dreamy than functional. The Hart House courtyard will temporarily resemble the backyard of mad garage scientists.
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