A centuries-old story will play out on a nearly-four-story structure this weekend in one of the largest displays ever presented at Nuit Blanche Winnipeg. Visitors to the St. Boniface Cathedral during Saturday night’s annual immersive art outpouring will see Le loup et l’agneau (“The Wolf and the Lamb”), a transatlantic collaboration between French artist Jules Camille Huvig and local duo Manufacturing Entertainment (sound artist Emma Hendrix and projection artist Julie Gendron). Gendron notes that Saturday’s night installation has been a project months in the making. “I was sent over to France to work with Jules Camille and we came up with a story,” she says, adding that the cathedral was the perfect place to share it. “It obviously has a French background, it’s culturally important to bring the English and French together, and that’s how it got going.” .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Projecting old lessons into 2026 Although the original story of Le loup et l’agneau can be traced back to Aesop’s Fables, the true inspiration for the Nuit Blanche installation came from the version that Jean de la Fontaine recreated during the court of Louis XIII in the early 17th century. “Those times are kind of similar to our times right now,” Gendron illustrates. “Louis XIII was very involved with controlling culture for the French people, and we have similar things happening now in North America with our leaderships in different countries.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nuit Blanche Winnipeg (@nbwpg) With the use of high-powered projectors and video mapping software, the collaborators have set out to put a modern take on the fable that Gendron says takes on a quality more akin to satire. “There’s a lot of humour in what we’ve put together, and we’ve made it so that you can make clear connections to what we’re trying to say,” says Gendron. “The wolf and the lamb reflect these societies and also talks to the power dynamics that we are dealing with.” RELATED STORIES Culture Days Manitoba celebrates collective creativity, resilience WSO opens 2026-2027 season with famous fifth symphonies U of M jazz faculty, RWB team up for 'Balanchine and Gershwin' Animating the next generation During her time working with Manufacturing Entertainment earlier this year preparing for Nuit Blanche, Huvig (one of the leading artists in her field in the world) also led workshops in projection mapping for aspiring artists studying at RRC Polytech’s Schroeder Institute of Entertainment and Media Arts. The result of those workshops were three smaller-scale projection mapping pieces that will also be on display at the same Nuit Blanche site as Le loup et l’agneau. “Their work is very, very interesting because they really took advantage of the building and how they animated,” Gendron shares. “It’s very interesting and quite different than ours because ours has a message to it and theirs is really fun.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nuit Blanche Winnipeg (@nbwpg) The students are not the only ones benefitting from Huvig’s knowledge and experience. Gendron notes that she and Hendrix will also leave their collaboration with more skills to add to their craft. “Jules Camille taught us how to do the 3D printing in order to do the maquette [a scale model of an unfinished piece of architecture],” she says. “There’s a lot of technical stuff that we got out of it.” Le loup et l’agneau will be on display at St. Boniface Cathedral beginning at sunset on Saturday. Nuit Blanche Winnipeg visitors can learn more about it and the rest of the evening’s exhibitions at Nuit Blanche’s website.