Lighthouse Immersive, in Association With Luminato Festival Toronto Presents: Robert Lepage’s the Library at Night

April 15 – May 29, 2022
Virtual

An immersive virtual reality journey that takes you inside iconic and mythical libraries throughout history.

Inspired by Argentinian Canadian writer Alberto Manguel’s acclaimed 2006 book The Library at Night – which explores the theoretical, architectural, and social dimensions that underlie any library’s existence– the exhibit was initially designed by Robert Lepage and his production company Ex Machina to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Montreal’s Grande Bibliothèque in 2015. THE LIBRARY AT NIGHT has since toured internationally, including stops in Brazil and Paris, as well as an engagement in Quebec City, now arriving in Toronto, the city Manguel made his Canadian home from 1982-2000.

The Library at Night is an immersive and sensory virtual-reality journey that whisks you away to ten libraries, real or imagined, throughout time and across the globe – from Mexico to Japan, Copenhagen, Sarajevo, and beyond.

Libraries are monuments of knowledge and ideas, and as the guardians of books, they contain worlds within worlds. But what happens when the doors close and the lights go out? What lingers at the edges of what is known and understood?

At The Library at Night, you can unravel the mysteries for yourself. This virtual experience, created by Robert Lepage and inspired by Alberto Manguel’s book of the same name immerses you in the wonder and whimsy of iconic and mythical libraries throughout history.