NightShift Placehacking Festival 2016

Tues. Nov. 1st to Sat. Nov. 5th \\\\ HELP #Placehack #DTK

75+ artistic contributors will occupy 18 venues with their ideas & imaginations on Saturday November 5th to create Downtown Kitchener’s 4th annual free pop-up art & performance crawl! + 4 nights of PWYC live music Nov 1st-4th at the INFINITY TUNNEL interactive installation (44 Gaukel)

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Indoor

Outdoor

Drink

Food

Washrooms

Limited Capacity

Interactive!

Performance

Live Music

No Touching!

1 INFINITY TUNNEL \\ Bernie Rohde & nik harron

Explore a trippy, infinity-mirrored hallway with sound-activated LEDs strung overhead

2 INFINITY TUNNEL music showcase \\ various artists

15 musical acts turn the INFINITY TUNNEL into their own kaleidoscopic sound gauge.

3 Analog Arsenal \\ VERSA [Alex Ricci & Monika Hauck]

Get lost in Guelph-based duo VERSA's immersive abstract visuals.

4 Collage Party! \\ Stephen Lavigne

Craft your own playful image with an artist's stash & insights.

5 24-Hour Dolly \\ Dylan Reibling

A participatory project that is equal parts endurance test & cinematic star-maker.

6 Reconstruction \\ Mobile Art Studio

Recast the city landscape as a riotous choreography of live animation, projection and sound.

7 Vaudevillian Variety Show \\ various performers

Step right up into another era as a mixed bag of entertainers take over an urban fishbowl.

8 Car Park \\ Hanna Negami, Adam Francey, Richard Marion & Stephen Trothen

The winning project – a subversive sound installation – at CriMeLab's ART\HACK-a-thon on Oct 21st/22nd.

9 Coffee After Dark! \\ Matter of Taste

After the sun goes down the fun pumps up with a glow-in-the-dark party.

10 Dance Your Own Adventure \\ Green Light Arts & Tilted Arts

An immersive performance piece that fuses theatre, live music and contemporary dance.

11 Night Creatures \\ Meaghan Olinski

Strange (& beautiful) animals invade downtown consignment store!

12 Psychedelic Mushroom Forest Portal \\ Kate Cox

A playful, vibrant invitation to go deep into eye-popping colours and visual rhythms.

13 The Bloody Theatre \\ Meg Harder & Dan Root

A modern retelling of Mennonite-Amish martyrdom with music and live projection art.

14 CUT+ PASTE \\ Allie Brenner, Ellie Anglin & Alex Lobraico

A visual trip into the taking apart, restitching, reformatting and reanimation of place.

15 Chattering Chimes \\ Brent Marshall

Subtle sound art that plays with city space and one of Kitchener's iconic structures.

16 Life-sized Comic Strip & Crowdsourced Colour-In \\ Trevor Waurechen

Cafes and comic strips share a well-established history as windows into modern life.

17 Cent une tueries de zombies \\ Colin Geddes & Michael Lane

Soak up some bloody gruesomeness & craft beer during a #NightShift16 intermission.

18 All Atmosphere, No Song \\ Ballantyne/Harms

An invisible space within a space where sounds take on a life of their own.

19 DTKreAXE \\ 10 tech firms + remade guitars!

A collaborative challenge that reimagines old guitars as multimedia canvases.

20 DTKreAXE music showcase \\ Jennifer Castle + Cousins

Two killer Canadian songsmiths rock the KPL main lounge in celebration of the guitar.

21 Night Light Path \\ Magdalena Milosz

An irreverent pathway of movement and colour that flips city lighting standards upside down.

22 Infinite Change \\ Edward Burtynsky

A troubling visual insight into the huge beauty and horror of our consumerism.

23 Infinite Change music showcase \\ GlassEYElashes + Mooons

A Hamilton-based experimental trio & two-piece drone marathon go up against Burtynsky's darkness.

Site 1: INFINITY TUNNEL \\ Bernie Rohde & nik harron Site 2: INFINITY TUNNEL music showcase \\ various artists Site 3: Analog Arsenal \\ VERSA [Alex Ricci & Monika Hauck] Site 4: Collage Party! \\ Stephen Lavigne Site 5: 24-Hour Dolly \\ Dylan Reibling Site 6: Reconstruction \\ Mobile Art Studio Site 7: Vaudevillian Variety Show \\ various performers Site 8: Car Park \\ Hanna Negami, Adam Francey, Richard Marion & Stephen Trothen Site 9: Coffee After Dark! \\ Matter of Taste Site 10: Dance Your Own Adventure \\ Green Light Arts & Tilted Arts Site 11: Night Creatures \\ Meaghan Olinski

Site 12: Psychedelic Mushroom Forest Portal \\ Kate Cox Site 13: The Bloody Theatre \\ Meg Harder & Dan Root Site 14: CUT+ PASTE \\ Allie Brenner, Ellie Anglin & Alex Lobraico Site 15: Chattering Chimes \\ Brent Marshall Site 16: Life-sized Comic Strip & Crowdsourced Colour-In \\ Trevor Waurechen Site 17: Cent une tueries de zombies \\ Colin Geddes & Michael Lane Site 18: All Atmosphere, No Song \\ Ballantyne/Harms Site 19: DTKreAXE \\ 10 tech firms + remade guitars! Site 20: DTKreAXE music showcase \\ Jennifer Castle + Cousins

Site 21: Night Light Path \\ Magdalena Milosz Site 22: Infinite Change \\ Edward Burtynsky Site 23: Infinite Change music showcase \\ GlassEYElashes + Mooons

Night\Shift Placehacking Festival 2016