{"id":6575,"date":"2012-09-21T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=6575"},"modified":"2012-09-19T09:44:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T13:44:38","slug":"ottawas-first-nuit-blanche-happening-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/09\/21\/ottawas-first-nuit-blanche-happening-this-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa&#8217;s first &#8220;Nuit Blanche&#8221; happening this Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6580\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/09\/nuitblanche.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6580\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6580\" title=\"nuitblanche\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/09\/nuitblanche-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/09\/nuitblanche-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/09\/nuitblanche-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/09\/nuitblanche-450x313.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/09\/nuitblanche.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The theme of Ottawa&#8217;s first Nuit Blanche is &#8220;Life is Beautiful.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What&#8217;s Nuit Blanche? A night-time festival of the arts. Just for one night, but happening <em>all<\/em> night. Ottawa will try that out this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>As the literal translation implies, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuit_Blanche\">Wikipedia says<\/a> these events are usually held in winter. But no matter. This one&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa Citizen&#8217;s arts-editor-at-large Peter Simpson\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ottawacitizen.com\/2012\/09\/17\/nuit-blanche-ottawa-things-you-need-to-know-to-make-it-through-the-night\/\">summarizes the event<\/a> thusly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The idea of Nuit Blanche, born in Paris and held in cities and towns around the world, is to put art installations in expected and unexpected places throughout the centre of the city. Most of the exhibitions \u2014 some are transitory installations and others are more familiar exhibitions of paintings, photography or sculpture \u2014 will be in the ByWard Market, with more in Hintonburg and a few scattered here and there. Some artists will roam throughout the city core, as organizers hope plenty of spectators will do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nuit Blanche takes place in several &#8216;zones&#8217; plus a bit of spontaneous roving. (details on locations, shuttles, etc. are on the <a href=\"http:\/\/nuitblancheottawa.ca\/\">main website<\/a>.)<a href=\"http:\/\/nuitblancheottawa.ca\/?page_id=1221\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It all takes place September 22 from\u00a06:22 p.m. and goes until 4:23. (Quirky times are intentional. To step outside ordinary, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s free and all are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s Nuit Blanche? A night-time festival of the arts. Just for one night, but happening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4863,880,7003],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6581,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575\/revisions\/6581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}