Well, it was a dark and stormy night for the 20th annual “La Nuit Blanche à Paris,” which also happened to coincide with the launch of the Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad.
La Nuit Blanche, held the first Saturday of October each year all over Paris, incorporates concerts, art installations, dance, exhibitions, staged scenes, video shows, neon light shows, disco-rollerblading (I kid you not!), etc. - mostly performing events but some participatory ones - from both French and international artists. It was canceled last year due to the pandemic and apparently was a bit underfunded this year, yielding more video productions of performances than actual live performances. Still, about 200 artists registered for the event. It’s an all-night festival - the buses and Métro run through the night and some streets are closed.
Sad to say, after a week of glorious sunny and warm weather, it drizzled all day today, started raining more heavily tonight, the wind picked up, and the temperature was in the low 50s F. I had thought about venturing out to see something - there were some dance/orchestral events scheduled for Place de l'Hotel de Ville just a few blocks from my apartment, but I wimped out. A sad response for a Duluth native - what happened to that old Nordic toughness?!? In any case, I read that some events were canceled at the last minute. Hey, I wouldn’t have wanted to be out performing in those conditions either!
https://quefaire.paris.fr/nuitblanche
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