Siobhan O'Flynn's 1001 Tales http://1001tales.posterous.com tracing the roots & tendrils of storytelling today posterous.com Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:04:00 -0800 Philip Beesley's Aurora Featured!: Interactive sculpture is a template for carbon-negative homes (Wired UK) http://1001tales.posterous.com/philip-beesleys-aurora-featured-interactive-s http://1001tales.posterous.com/philip-beesleys-aurora-featured-interactive-s
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Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:40:00 -0800 WHOOT! Aurora, Installation by Philip Beesley wins People's Choice Award in Nuit Blanche. Well deserved! http://1001tales.posterous.com/whoot-aurora-installation-by-philip-beesley-w http://1001tales.posterous.com/whoot-aurora-installation-by-philip-beesley-w

Attendance held steady at this year’s Nuit Blanche, and the all-night arts festival pumped tens of millions into the local economy, according to figures released by the city Tuesday.

A little under a million people came to the event, which saw 130 art installations set up across central Toronto on Oct. 2 and 3, the same as last year. Slightly more of those attendees came from out of town – 140,000, compared to 100,000 in 2009.

While the festival itself is free, the sheer number of people on the streets and out-of-town tourists were estimated to have generated $34.7-million in revenue for businesses, up from $18-million last year.

The city also announced the winners of this year’s Nuit Blanche Peoples’ Choice Awards. They included Aurora, a series of chain-mounted lights suspended in the atrium of the old Royal Conservatory of Music building, that lit up based on peoples’ movement; XXIX, where scores of speakers played 29 singers singing in different languages in the lobby of the Royal Ontario Museum; and Flux and Fire, a platform near Lamport Stadium that, using motion detectors, would spew forth three-metre-long columns of flame.

Curators are also accepting submissions for next year’s installment, the festival’s sixth. The deadline for submitting ideas for city-produced projects in Dec. 15, while those hoping to create independently-funded works have until Feb. 15.

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