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Featured Works
IMABOX is a large-scale public art installation by Winnipeg-based Kurdish artist Bîstyek, presented as part of Nuit Blanche Winnipeg. The installation features five illuminated inflatable characters, each standing approximately 14 feet tall, accompanied by an interactive augmented reality experience and an immersive soundscape.
The title IMABOX combines “imagination” and “box” and reflects the idea that while the body can be confined, imagination cannot. Drawing from childhood memories, animation, displacement and Kurdish identity, the work transforms Old Market Square into a space of light, movement, sound and collective imagination. Visitors can explore the installation and scan QR codes with their phones to activate the digital AR experience.
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Le loup et l’agneau
Jules-Camille Huvig, Manufacturing Entertainment, Julie Gendron & Emma Hendrix
Jules-Camille Huvig (France) and Manufacturing Entertainment (Canada) bring to Nuit Blanche Winnipeg a modern depiction of the classic fable and cautionary tale “Le loup est l’agneau” (The Wolf and the Lamb) by Jean de la Fontaine. When the wolf and the lamb meet at the river this time, the river is polluted, and the stakes are different.
NBW audiences can view this large-scale projection on the St. Boniface Cathedral on September 26th. Join us to see Winnipeg’s largest projection artwork to date. Presented in French and English.
This location will also feature three video artworks created by Red River College students in a one-week workshop taught by Jules-Camille Huvig.
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Basket Case celebrates the simple pleasure of craft activities and honest play. Referencing familiar crafts of paper constructions and basketry, this installation takes the form of two large woven baskets stacked onto one another, and topped with a fun hat.
Full of bouncy personality, Basket Case comes together through rewoven memories of childhood crafternoons, where unassuming sheets of paper are transformed into a kaleidoscope of improvised sculptures and masks. It’s deceptively simple: alternate one strip over its neighbour, keep going, and suddenly a basket appears. Simple enough for children to master and engaging enough to occupy us for an afternoon, paper baskets hold delightful secrets of community and physics. Vibrant colours and a warmly familiar form, Basket Case celebrates a spirit of play and discovery.
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Illuminate the Night
Illuminate the Night: óFukami - Ancient Future
Along the riverside path in Stephen Juba Park, a small glowing cabin appears among the trees, its translucent walls softly lit from within, glowing amidst the surrounding canopy. The cabin draws its signal from a nearby tree, which is connected to the forest, fed by the river, connected to everything. All of it holding memory in ways we don’t fully understand.
The tree’s own electrical charges are translated into ambient sound through the night. At the top of every hour, óFukami performs live, layering the ghostly wail of the theremin with her voice, in collaboration with the tree’s signal. Memory is absorbed and released into something colourful, growing, alive, before the space settles back into stillness.
The cabin’s form echoes the modest lodgings once given to displaced families, including the artist’s own. Move slowly alongside her, sit a while, or bring a blanket and stay. This is a piece built for wandering, resting, reflecting, alone or together, in movement or in stillness. To listen this closely, in a world bent on noise, is its own quiet act of resistance.
Illuminate the Night: Herd and Hive
Enter an immersive acoustic sanctuary where light, sound, and contemporary movement converge to honour the fragile balance of our prairie ecosystem.
A collaboration of Riel Gentlemen’s Choir and Ruah Dance Collective, this interactive installation operates continuously throughout the evening of Nuit Blanche, offering cycles of silent improvisational movement, full choral-dance collaborations, and quiet periods of rest.
Between site-specific performances, follow the collective as they illuminate the night in a procession through the historic streets of the Exchange District. This nomadic migration honours the memory of Blizzard, the beloved white bison who for a time called Winnipeg home, while evoking the historic movement of bison across the prairie.
Together, the expression brings a quiet, rejuvenating light to concrete urban spaces— a reflection on the gifts of the land, the interconnectedness of our ecosystems and communities, and the responsibility to care for what sustains us.
Whether you catch a passing procession in an alleyway or sit in quiet contemplation before the glowing hive, expect an immersive public experience that blends artistic wonder with remembrance, reverence, and reflection.
Illuminate the Night: Bearita : illuminated from within
Step into the glow. “Bearita: Illuminated From Within” is an interactive light sculpture standing 4 feet tall, covered in translucent handcrafted flowers that glow pink and purple from the inside. As you approach, the sculpture senses your presence — its light pulses gently, brightening the closer you get, as if it’s breathing with you.
Walk around it. Watch the colors shift across its iridescent surface. Notice how the light follows you, responds to you, welcomes you.
This piece is about what we carry inside — the softness, the fragility, the light we don’t always show. Come find yourself reflected in the glow.
Free to experience. All ages welcome. Best viewed after dark.
Illuminate the Night: The Light Within
The Light Within is an 40ft x 40ft installation where the public can walk through and interact with what they see. Life sized metal beings will radiate around an emanating monolith, as you begin being pulled into the mystery. When interacted with this project will glow brighter or duller, that depends on your light within…
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Illuminate the night
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Urban Shaman X GORGE Festival Present: Nuit Blanche Drag and Ballroom Showcase
Urban Shaman X GORGE Festival Present: Nuit Blanche Drag and Ballroom Showcase
Urban Shaman Gallery + Synonym Art Consultation's GORGE Festival
GORGE Queer Arts Festival and Urban Shaman Contemporary Indigenous Art team up to transform the construction site of the new Market Lands development into a one-night performance venue. The evening features projections by Uban Shaman Contemporary Indigenous Art artists, drag performances by the all-Indigenous collective The Bannock Babes, a showcase by the Winnipeg Kiki Ballroom collective and DJs.
Vincent Wolfgang’s exhibition SO BELOW at Urban Shaman opening in October.
Enter where James Street meets King Street and dance with us.
Winnipeg Fine Art Fair Pop-Up
As a community arts organization that supports artists, connects the public with original art, and contributes to Winnipeg’s cultural economy, the Winnipeg Fine Art Fair (WFAF) invites audiences to step directly into the creative process, viewing works by local WFAF artists while also engaging with the artists and learning about their process and what inspires them.
Come experience this showcase highlighting the diversity of art represented by local WFAF artists. Our goal is to promote creativity and community connection through public–artist engagement and to promote the upcoming Winnipeg Fine Art Fair event!
Canadian Museum
for Human Rights
Experience an unforgettable evening of art, light and connection at Nuit Blanche 2026 at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights on Saturday, September 26th.
From 6 p.m. to midnight at the Group Entrance, explore “Currents,” a site-responsive installation of sculptural figures, shifting coloured light, shadow and original sound, conceived for Nuit Blanche at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights by Anna Binta Diallo. The work explores ancestry as something in motion; a living current carried through landscapes, generations, memory and time.
Sculptural figures from Diallo’s “Shapeshifter” series become conduits for light, producing overlapping shadows and changing fields of colour across the surrounding architecture. An original sound composition extends this sense of movement through the space. As visitors circulate among the figures, their own bodies enter and interrupt the illuminated environment.
Developed in dialogue with the Museum’s “At the Knees of Our Ancestors,” an exhibit and ongoing initiative aimed at enriching Black content, programming and community engagement, “Currents” approaches ancestry through transmission: what is inherited does not remain unchanged. It moves, accumulates, transforms and continues.
Inside the Museum, the evening continues with an eclectic lineup of entertainment curated by Trinnipeg in Bonnie & John Buhler Hall on Level 1. Guests will enjoy live performances, creative energy, and an atmosphere that celebrates Winnipeg’s vibrant artistic community. Food and drinks will be available for purchase on site, making the Museum the perfect gathering place for friends, families, and art lovers alike.
This celebration of artistic expression is free and open to all!
The party continues inside the Museum with an eclectic lineup of entertainment curated by Trinnipeg. Enjoy live performances, creative energy and an atmosphere that celebrates Winnipeg’s vibrant artistic community. Food and drink will be available for purchase on site, making it the perfect gathering place for friends, families and art lovers alike. Find it all inside in Bonnie & John Buhler Hall on Level 1.
“Currents” is a site-responsive installation of sculptural figures, shifting coloured light, shadow and original sound, conceived for Nuit Blanche at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights by Anna Binta Diallo. The work explores ancestry as something in motion; a living current carried through landscapes, generations, memory and time.
Sculptural figures from Diallo’s “Shapeshifter” series become conduits for light, producing overlapping shadows and changing fields of colour across the surrounding architecture. An original sound composition extends this sense of movement through the space. As visitors circulate among the figures, their own bodies enter and interrupt the illuminated environment.
Developed in dialogue with the Museum’s “At the Knees of Our Ancestors,” an exhibit and ongoing initiative aimed at enriching Black content, programming and community engagement, “Currents” approaches ancestry through transmission: what is inherited does not remain unchanged. It moves, accumulates, transforms and continues.
Nonsuch Brewing Co.
“Liquid Light Projections” is a large-scale architectural mapping installation that transforms the façade of the Sport Manitoba building on Lily St into a dynamic canvas of light, colour, and motion.
Fluid forms ripple across the architecture, tracing and accentuating the contours of the building while responding to the rhythm and energy of Anthony OKS’ DJ set. The visuals bring Nonsuch’s Liquid Disco street party to life through an immersive fusion of music, architecture, and light.
Extending beyond the party itself, the installation transforms the surrounding streetscape into a vibrant part of the festival experience, captivating Nuit Blanche festival-goers and passersby alike.
Born in Winnipeg and currently based in Montreal, VJ Zef (Joseph Fiola) is known for his work as an audiovisual artist specializing in large-scale architectural mapping projects. Geometric forms and vibrant colours come together to create dynamic visuals, responding to live musical performances and DJ sets in real time. The result is a mesmerising audiovisual experience designed to captivate and energise festival audiences.