Over the course of one night, 100+ artists will collaborate with the Twin Cities' arts community to showcase new art installations in public places. The schedule of events follows;
Opening Ceremonies (8:55 p.m.), Upper Landing Park, St. Paul: Philip Blackburn’s car horn fanfare will be performed by the Art Cars. This will be accompanied by the ‘lighting’ of Jim Campbell’s ‘Scattered Light’ instillation—more than 1600 suspended LEDs encased in standard light bulbs programmed so that, depending on a viewer’s vantage point, they “play back” a video in a very low resolution.
Opening Ceremonies (8:55 p.m.), Stone Arch Bridge, Minneapolis: 100+ musicians on brass, percussion, woodwinds, and tiny whistles crowded end to end on the Stone Arch Bridge. This ceremony will mark the beginning of 10 art projects scheduled to take place at or around the Stone Arch Bridge including the visually stunning MURMUR: a display of select photographs projected onto the iconic Gold Medal Flour silos and visible from many points along the river and Stone Arch Bridge.
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‘Nightmare’ on Mississippi River: Nightmare is the eerie and unexpected vision of a white horse galloping on the Mississippi River at night. Produced by towing a video screen on the river, it will light up the Mississippi and begin its trek between Mpls and St Paul after the St. Paul opening ceremony
Mpls Photo Center, ‘Writing with Light’, Central Bridge East Bank Underpass: A continuous slide show of over 1,000 images from photographers around the world and across the U.S. documenting dusk’s last to dawn’s first light.
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The Walker Art Center Lawn: The Walker has nine projects happening throughout the night, including events for the entire family out on their lawn like ‘The Shape of Night: The Language of Sleep’, where visitors can try to invent their own sleeping positions. The Walker lawn will be crowded with activity throughout the night and a great place to capture crowds (whether sleeping on the lawn and enjoying lullabies and storytelling by local artists or eating donuts in the early morning after the event).
Bonfire in Loring Park (4 a.m. – 5:30 a.m.): A bonfire will cap ‘GLOW-a-BOUT’, a participatory event combining the spirit of nostalgic neighborhood night games and the Indian Holi Festival. This event is sure to be a great new perspective of Loring Park after dark.