NUIT ROSE celebrates its 4th year of LGBTQ Art and Performance during Toronto’s Pride Month.
Friday June 16 & Saturday 17, 2017
Charlena’s Performances:
Saturday, June 17, 2017
7:30pm and 11:00pm
562 Church St, Toronto, ON M4Y 2E3
Charlena Russell has been selected from a juried panel to be a feature performer with two musical performances!
Charlena’s Documentary Screening:
“Making of the Light Suit” documentary
Sunday, June 18, 2017
2:00pm
562 Church St, Toronto, ON M4Y 2E3
Charlena Russell will holding the first ever Toronto Screening of “The Making of the Light Suit”, highlighting the unique art-meets-tech DIY process between herself and inventor Bernie Rohde as they designed and created the suit from scratch.
Come experience Charlena’s self-directed and self-produced “Making of the Light Suit” documentary! After there will be an open talk about the suit and a Q&A.
Charlena's Performance & Documentary
562 Church St, Toronto, ON M4Y 2E3
Charlena will be performing after dark in the Sound Activated Light Suit she created with inventor Bernie Rohde and self-produced-and-directed video projections!
Expanding to two nights for the first time, the theme of this year’s Nuit Rose festival is “What Lies between Venus and Mars?”.
An international call for artist submissions exploring this theme was distributed in late 2016, with an expert jury evaluating the submissions. Last year, the festival presented 65 projects with 23 Featured Artists, ranging from visual art, to dance, literature and music and was the largest and best-attended Nuit Rose to date.
With a variety of venues downtown, Nuit Rose spotlights Toronto neighbourhoods as well as provocative, cutting-edge work in various mediums by diverse artists., with indoor and outdoor venues across the city.
This year, guests will be treated to Wiggle, a wearable art & performance extravaganza in partnership with Michael Venus and Never Apart of Montreal. Wiggle takes place on June 16th at Barbara Hall Park beside the 519 Community Centre.
The Light Parade, the first official parade of the Pride festival, returns for its third year on Saturday, June 17th at sunset. The Nuit Rose Light Parade is generously sponsored by Pride Toronto.
Attendance at Nuit Rose is FREE and open to all. As always, Nuit Rose attendees can expect transformational encounters with art that shifts perceptions, paradigms, identities, and realities. The Festival promises two nights of celebration and adventure reflecting all things that happen between dusk and dawn, and between Venus and Mars.
The Nuit Rose festival is presented by the Throbbing Rose Collective, a volunteer group of artists, curators, producers and art advocates.