The annual free all-night contemporary art event, Nuit Blanche, is back!
And for the first time, it'll be expanding well east of the downtown core.
Nuit Blanche takes over the streets of Toronto Saturday night through early Sunday and with it will bring some road closures.
There will be five major art installation areas including areas on or near Nathan Phillips Square, Queen's Park, Yonge-Dundas Square, Bay Street and a new installation in the area of the Scarborough Civic Centre and within various Scarborough RT stations.
Here are the roads affected as of 8 a.m. Saturday morning.
- Bay Street from Richmond Street West to Dundas Street West
- Hagerman Street from Elizabeth Street to Bay Street
- Elizabeth Street from Foster Place to Hagerman Street
- Albert Street from Bay Street to James Street
- James Street from Queen Street West to Albert Street
- Temperance Street from Bay Street to 30m west of Bay Street
- Dundas Square Street from Yonge Street and O'Keefe Lane
- Borough Drive between Brian Harrison Way and Town Centre Court
- Borough Approach East between Borough Drive and Ellesmere Road
Later Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. more roads will be closed for the event including:
-Queen Street West from Yonge Street to University Avenue
- York Street from Richmond Street West to Queen Street West
All roads are expected to be reopened on Sunday at approximately 11 a.m..
The road closures will also mean a diversion of a number of TTC routes in the area.
Police suggest if you're driving anywhere downtown, be prepared to take alternative routes with traffic delays in the area very likely.
In addition to downtown sites the event will extend to Scarborough with a city-produced Nuit Blanche Toronto exhibition at Scarborough Civic Centre, Scarborough Town Centre and neighbouring institutions within the community.
The fun starts Saturday, September 29 at 7:00 p.m. and runs until sunrise Sunday morning.
Adventurous residents and visitors are invited to take to the streets to experience Toronto transformed by hundreds of Canadian and international artists. One night only, all night long.
This year's theme - "Nuit Blanche 2018: You Are Here".
This year's installations will focus on Toronto as a city of change and progress.
Since 2006, this award-winning event has featured nearly 1,400 art installations by approximately 4,900 artists, generating over 311 million dollars in economic impact for Toronto.
The official Nuit Blanche Toronto website has all the details:
With files from Claude Feig, The City of Toronto and Nuit Blanche