WELCOME TO ZONE A
Start your art adventure at the Zone A Scotiabank Information Hub Get cozy with art at this boudoir-inspired location. Curl up on one of the inviting beds, read through the Nuit Blanche Guide, and nap with your neighbours in between exploring exhibitions. At this hub, located in the Village of Yorkville Park, you will find: an information tent, an audio-tour listening station, a tour sign-up tent, a snack and refreshment booth, washrooms, first aid and exhibition staff to guide your way and help plan your route into the wee hours of the morning. Don't miss the wall-size artwork by Alberta visual artist, Derek Michael Besant. Taken from his innovative Fifteen Restless Nights Collection, this captivating image is real and unreal at once, a visual experience rich with ghostly folds, shapes and dream-like highlights that excite the imagination - a 21st Century tapestry. Every time you purchase a refreshment or merchandise at the hub, you make a donation to one of Scotiabank's designated charities for the night. These charities are committed to helping the homeless of Toronto. So enjoy a beverage or snack and please give generously.

Maize Barbacoa, 2006 Ron Benner Ron Benner studied agricultural engineering at the University of Guelph before embarking on a career as an artist. Working in a variety of diverse media he produces compelling and provocative works that examine colonialism and biodiversity.

Pharma©opia, 1992 General Idea General Idea's Pharma©opia was first created for an exhibition in Barcelona. The installation is one of a series of works by General Idea using the pill form as a sculptural element, and refers directly to the AIDS pandemic, here animated by the colours of the Catalunya province of Spain: red and yellow.

Bedtime Tales: Fables and Fantasies, 2006 Emily Pohl-Weary, Artistic Director More than twenty of Toronto's literary stars and provocateurs read their favourite bedtime stories at the Toronto Heliconian Club for Nuit Blanche. Under the artistic direction of author Emily Pohl-Weary, the literary fantasy delights, entertains, and heats up the wee hours.

I Am Curious – Yorkville, 2006 Annette Mangaard and Ihor Holubizky In Toronto, Yorkville is the centre of the Hippie community and 2,500 people stage a sit-in for a pedestrian mall. I Am Curious - Yorkville relives this era in an exciting combination of vintage film, sound and music. Live camera feedback puts you into the picture - a moving image of citizens yesterday and today. All You Need is to be here.

HOLD THAT THOUGHT, 2006 Kelly Mark Installed at a street intersection, where people are forced to pause, this sign asks one to also pause one's mind . . . to "hold that thought" . . . if for only a moment.

Nuit Blanche, 2006 Holger Lippmann and Alekos Hofstetter Related to their earlier Toronto Project (commissioned by Goethe-Institut Toronto as part of their "Urban Deconstructions" series in 2006) this complex and dynamic new computer animation is projected outdoors for Nuit Blanche with Daniel Libeskind's "Crystal" (currently in construction) as dramatic backdrop.

One Garden One Night One Wish, 2006 Andrew Zealley and Chrysanne Stathacos A majestic Manitoba maple is transformed for Nuit Blanche into an interactive cross-media artwork.

Fog in Toronto #71624, 2006 Fujiko Nakaya Fog in Toronto #71624 is an atmospheric sculpture created by artificially produced water fog and shaped instantaneously by the microclimate of the place where it is created.

Counting Sheep, 2006 Michael Snow Counting Sheep is an adaptation formatted for Nuit Blanche from the video installation Sheeploop, initially shown at White Box, New York (2001) and most recently at the Whitney Biennial, New York (2006).

Garden of Light, 2006 Jamelie Hassan Garden of Lightreflects on the idea of the garden, with the floating lily as a symbol of peace. The light within the flower illuminates the water garden, interspersed with night-blooming lilies. Ceramic texts of individual letters, spell out the word "eventually" and are placed randomly around the pool.