Ce Soir Noir 2017 – A Free Public Picnic at Crab Park
Created by artists George Vergette and Graeme Berglund in 2015.

Welcome to the second eclipse of August.

Ce Soir Noir.
This Black Night.
(translation into The English)

It’s as easy as this: Wear all black clothing. Food. Drink. Micro-dosage. Friends. Big Blankie. Thursday, August 24th. 5pm till 10pm.

For the third year running we invite you to do next-to-nothing on Thursday, August 24th at CRAB Park. Just show up whenever you feel like it, but probably when you’re hungry, feeling pretty loose and you’ve got a few decent looking friends with you who are dressed toque to toes in the blackest clothing from your walk-in closet. Celebrating the near inane, yet also the taurine bolstered energy that a communal gathering can provide – the annual picnic of darknessness is back in black. We actually got a permit this year, so we’re essentially Airbnb’ing all of Crab Park for the collective experience of asses on patches of grasses in masses eating stashes in blackness. People of all races, sensual orientations, genders, ages, and blood types are welcome – except for Swedes. We’ve done the research.

This is not just a picnic; this is a picnic based art installation. If you show up, you are part of the art project and we ask that you surrender to it. So; be analogous to art. Every conversation, every time you swish thatt hott butt – it is performance. Be you Modernist, Minimalist, Net-Artish, Fluxus-y, or that weekend warrior artist from Dunbar that paints crappy nasturtiums that you couldn’t even give away; you are art, or will simply become it with little to no effort.

CRAB Park (which includes legendary Sean Orr’s Beach) is one of the most grandiose parks in East Van. We want to ensure that it stays that way. We ask that you please take with you what you brought so as to leave the park spotless for the next day’s international witnesses to it’s splendour.

For the third year in a row we have partnered with Backpack Buddies, an organization that distributes food to children in need in the DTES. We’ve worked with them to help raise hundreds of dollars and hundreds of pounds of food in the last couple years. This is a free public event. If possible, in return, we ask that you bring a child oriented food item (healthy gooshy fruity thingy rather than another can of basil infused tomatoes) or a cash donation and drop it off at their booth.

*** We are looking for a few volunteers this year. If you’re down, please hit us up direct.

Brought to you this year by Bri Proke, Sarah Tesla, Ernesto Kut Gomez, Tyrone Lingley, Greg Mindorf; Graeme and George.
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Our hashtag last year was #TAMMYANDCHADSWEDDING. This year we are proud to announce that we’ve secured #CESOIRNOIR2017

CRAB Park (which includes legendary Sean Orr’s Beach) is one of the most grandiose parks in East Van. We want to ensure that it stays that way. We ask that you please take with you what you brought so as to leave the park spotless for the next day’s international witnesses to its splendour.

Thank you. Looking forward to chilling with you.

Postscript: If you don’t get why we’re doing this, you don’t get much.