Les Rues des Refusés

It’s hard to believe it’s been a week since Nuit Blanche. I want to send out a huge thank you to everyone who has helped make Les Rues Des Refuses a success. It could never have happened without the participating artists. You took the initiative to create your own art, independent of the funding and publicity provided by official Nuit Blanche. You’ve shown that public art is possible even without corporate sponsorship. Thank you to the press for seeing potential in my little idea and helping share it with Toronto, bringing publicity to the unofficial art, events, and venues of the night. An enormous thank you to Sonya, my media maven. Without your help there is no way we could have reached as many people as we did. I cannot thank you enough. And, finally, major props to official Nuit Blanche. Regardless of the politics of public art and it’s corporate presence, you have created a spectacular night that cannot compare to any other Toronto event. This is a night like no other, where a million people want to see a city transformed! Without you, Nuit Blanche, Les Rues des Refuses would not, and maybe even could not, exist.

The folks at LRDR are going to take a breather and gather ourselves for next Nuit Blanche. Our web site, Twitter and Facebook are going to be dormant for a while but, after our much needed hibernation, we’re going to make LRDR even bigger and better!

See you next year,

Steph

Just wanted to give a big shout-out to all LRDR peeps. We hope your night was amazing and your experiences a success. We also hope you’ve caught up on your sleep!

Please let us know how your night went by commenting on our blog, or our Facebook page, and send us pics!

We hope you got a good night sleep last night, because you’re going to have a verrrrry long day. Maybe you should take a nap before all the festivities begin, but make sure you dress accordingly, take some snacks and a drink along with you, and put your art-patron’s hat on; you’re in a for a really good night.

Les Rues des Refusés founder Stephanie Avery will be tweeting throughout the night; and we hope that you will, too, to tell us all about what you’re seeing. Please use the hashtag “#LRDR” when possible!

We look forward to seeing everyone tonight!

woohoo!

Don’t you just love technology? You can either view our Event Listings page or download your very own LRDR Guide. So nice to have options…

How awesome is it that Les Rues Des Refusés is being mentioned in the local media? Really awesome.

Read up on what Leah Sandals of The National Post has to say about LRDR founder Stephanie Avery and our renegade project.

Within a few short days, you’ll be able to print a pdf of Les Rues Des Refuses events to coincide with Nuit Blanche. Download from this site, or pick one up at certain designated LRDR Guide locales. Watch this space!

The days are counting down fast. If you or anyone you know would like to have a renegade Nuit Blanche event listed in our PRINTABLE guide, you have until midnight tonight to submit your info to ruesdesrefuses {at} gmail {dot} com.

The Guide will be available for download in pdf format from this site by early next week. It will also be placed in strategic locations around town on the night of the 3rd. Watch this space for deets!

We may still submit listings to the website-only version of the Guide as late as next week, if you’re lucky…

Wow, the time is nigh. We’re working on culling all our amazing submissions for the Les Rues Des Refusés guide in print format. This will be a great companion when the entire creative community descends on the streets of downtown Toronto.

If you’re having an event that is not officially part of Nuit Blanche proper, submit it. NOW.
Deadline Extension: You have til midnight Thursday, September 24th.

Insert Jack Bauer-esque, 24-style “beep… boop… beep… boop…” here!

Les Rues des Refusés founder, Stephanie Avery, along with her media maven, Sonya JF Barnett, will be on CIUT’s Take 5 program. Tune in on Friday, October 2nd at 9:30 as we chat about the next day’s big event!

Thanks to all you amazing peeps who are following us on this journey down Les Rues des Refusés, we now have an official Facebook domain, making it even easier to find us.

So when you mention this project to anyone on FB, you can direct them easily to facebook.com/LesRuesDesRefuses.

cheers!