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Bring to Light Fest Shines on Brooklyn

Bring to Light Fest Shines on Brooklyn

If New York is the city that never sleeps, how come it took us so long to get around to hosting our own Nuit Blanche (French for “Sleepless Night”)? The global all-night festival of arts began in Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg way back in 1997, and has spread around the world in the years since.

This Saturday, October 2, starting at 7:00 p.m., Brooklyn will host our city’s first Nuit Blanche, rechristened “Bring to Light” by local organizers DoTank:Brooklyn and producers Furnace Media. Over 50 artists and performers will converge on Greenpoint’s Oak St. between Franklin St. and the East River, taking over street corners, galleries, vacant lots, and rooftops to showcase their work.

Although the range of media is broad — some visual, some performative, some interactive — the common threads running through them are light and sound. Among the highlights are Kant Smith’s Small Explosion, a fiery cloud, a trompe-l’oeuil oil painting brought to life with rear illumination. Roselyn Anderson’s Giant Puppet in His Natural Habitat is an installation comprising a giant puppet, three sculptures of illuminated meat, and a fluttering crowd of animatronic birds. And for ten percussive minutes, Tom Peyton enlists the help of a dozen drummers to turn Oak Street’s scaffolding into a musical instrument. The event is free and open to the public; more info here.


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