Les Rues des Refusés

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!

Artist Dimitrije Martinovic is looking for multiple locations to place his 18 posters, APATHOT – All People Against The Hegemony Of Thought – “which pokes fun at Political Radicalism and certain notions we have about Faith and Hope”. 

Check the Events page for further details and contact info.

Thanks to the lovely folks at torontoist for giving us some props. {And no, we’re not “pretentious knobs”!} Read up, and help continue to spread the word. We’re 2 weeks away from submission deadline!

Cream Tangerine Gallery, located in the Great Hall at Queen & Dovercourt, is looking for artists for installations or performances in their gallery space for the night of Nuit Blanche. If you’re in need of a great venue for your art, give these cool cats a shout: lisalou720 {at} lycos {dot} com.

With the massive audience Nuit Blanche brings to downtown Toronto, many artists now choose to create their own installations, regardless of whether or not they are officially a part of Nuit Blanche.

We are looking for these artists in order to assemble and distribute a program for the renegade installations. This will offer people an alternative to the corporate-sponsored Nuit Blanche guide and provide publicity for independent projects. While we appreciate what Nuit Blanche brings to the city during those dark hours on an October night, we also understand the official event does not have the capacity to accept all artists into its program.

Les Rues des Refusés will aid in giving a voice to those artists who appear anywhere that night, from established venues to back alleys, from projections to poetry readings, from dance parties to anything your imagination can think up. The only criteria is a commitment to follow through.

This website will be our official listing for all renegade events. All events will also be culled into a pdf document that you can download from this site and print as a guide for the night of October 3rd, 2009.

If you are interested please contact ruesdesrefuses@gmail.com with a description of your installation, title, where and when it can be found, and any other pertinent information. We’ll get back to you with a confirmation, and may ask a couple more questions.  

Deadline for final submission is midnight, September 19.