Art After Dark: Toronto is Alight at Night with Public Art Free Tour

Toronto's public art doesn't clock out when the sun goes down. Some of it was built specifically for the dark: sculptures that catch streetlight differently than sunlight, a beacon that's been quietly broadcasting the next day's weather for over 70 years, and at least one piece hidden behind glass that most people walk past every single day without knowing it's there.

This free tour walk takes you through some of downtown's most iconic public spaces and into a few corners even longtime Torontonians have never noticed. Along the way you'll hear about a sculpture so controversial it may have cost a mayor his re-election, a 22-tonne artwork shipped across the ocean in pieces, and a wall made of over a million hand-made ceramic fragments that looks like a simple black circle from a distance and something else entirely up close.

This is a companion to my daytime tour, Hidden in Plain Sight. If you've done that one, come see how the same city reads completely differently after dark. If you haven't, come as you are: no art background needed, just curiosity and comfortable shoes.