Nuit Blanche Eve weaves creativity and community at USask – USask News
Sep 4, 2024
For third-year USask psychology and art student Mileva Elias – the chair of Nuit Blanche Eve – the exciting event is a celebration of inspiration and artistic adaptation and performances from students, faculty and staff of colleges and groups across campus.
“I think Nuit Blanche Eve is a unique opportunity for artist to show their work in interesting spaces for the installations,” said Elias. “It is great having such a breadth of artwork from the USask community being celebrated. We have artists from the Colleges of Arts and Science, Engineering, and Education involved for this upcoming festival … It is very exciting having this event come together throughout the year, with Eve primarily being a celebration of USask community engagement in the arts.”
Held the night before the city’s Nuit Blanche arts festival – which began in 2014 in Saskatoon and originated in Paris back in 2002 – this year’s Nuit Blanche Eve event at USask will spotlight 17 installations/performances and four museum/gallery spaces open to the public from 6-9 pm. The festival features 11 locations across campus, including the Observatory, Upper Place Riel, Nobel Plaza, The Bowl, and Gordon Oakes Red Bear Student Centre, as well as the Agriculture, Arts, Geology, Murray, Peter MacKinnon and Thorvaldson buildings.
