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Our dear friend David Wilson (@hidavidwilson) gave us one of the most epic closing-night keynotes / cabaret shows in Us By Night history back in 2024. ā¤ļø

This year, he was coming back simply as a visitor, partly to see one of his idols, Gary Card (@garycard), and partly to share some of his beautiful handmade animations with us.

Then we had a last-minute cancellation.

So… we asked David if he’d be up for doing a talk again. With basically no preparation time. 😬

But if you know David, you know he never shies away from a challenge. Of course he said yes.

David is also part of our Meta Smart Glasses project, sharing little pieces of his world for our Through Their Eyes page on our website. And this morning, he sent us this movie.

Too much love for this dude.ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø

DAVID WILSON. TONIGHT. US BY NIGHT. šŸ”„
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This is where we build Us By Night. From scratch.

I wanted to show you the completely empty warehouse before we start building. Turns out there was an electric go-kart event happening inside. šŸ˜… They couldn’t turn on the lights, so… obviously I asked if I could borrow a kart.

Welcome to the future Us By Night Nightmarket.

In just over two weeks, this empty concrete warehouse will become a completely different world: Stadium Stage, Teatro stage, XYZ club, @craigflemingphoto Portrait Studio, live printing, a 70m wheatpasting wall, tattoos @braboshandtattoo , massage, screenings, digital graffiti @rebel9_ , arcade games, ping pong, food, installations, DJs and a whole lot more.

And what you see here is only half of the venue.

The Teatro Stage sits in another huge hall behind this one. This year we’re completely reimagining it, with a scaffolding balcony wrapping around the entire hall, created in collaboration with @antwerpposterfestival and doubling as their exhibition space between the talks.

That’s maybe one of our favourite things about Us By Night. We don’t move into a festival venue. We build the whole damn thing.

From nothing.

Two weeks to go. šŸ˜…

24–25–26 September, Antwerp.

Captured with @oakleymeta @raybanmeta @joshto @half_earth_ 
Sound: @soundslikesonhouse
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