Art All Night, D.C.’s annual overnight arts festival, will return this year in a — gasp — modified online format.

In a normal year, the festival pulls together a night’s worth of artistic events involving hundreds of artists and thousands of participants in neighborhoods all across the city. Fire dancing, body paint, and glow-in-the-dark dance parties are typical mainstays of the evening.

Due to coronavirus, the city has reimagined the 2020 festival as a “two-week virtual activation,” per a release from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office, featuring online workshops, performances, and exhibits. The mayor’s office says the event will still feature hundreds of artists and businesses, as well as promotions from local restaurants.

This year marks Art All Night’s 10th anniversary. Local organizers Ariana Austin and Alexander Padro launched the festival in Shaw with grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities in 2011, modeling it on Paris’ Nuit Blanche. It soon expanded to neighborhoods around the city, becoming one of the area’s largest public arts events.

The Arts and Humanities Commission took it over in 2016 (to the dismay of some of the original grassroots organizers) and these days, it’s branded as “Mayor Muriel Bowser Presents Art All Night.” The city’s Department of Small and Local Business Development and the Arts and Humanities Commission are its co-sponsors.

The festival kicks off on Sunday, when 10 business corridors in the city’s Main Streets program will launch online marketplaces featuring local artists’ work.

Over the following two weekends — Sept. 18-19 and 25-26 — the city will put on virtual performances by D.C. artists. So far the headliners include the musician Aaron Abernathy, go-go group TakeOvaBand (TOB), hip-hop artist Christylez Bacon, and the CPU Congo Players.

The virtual event will have more of a focus on promoting local businesses than in previous years. Sundays through Thursdays, the festival will promote deals from local businesses and live-streamed events like yoga classes and fashion showcases. These events will be organized by themes (“Date Night” and “Kid-Friendly Events” are two of the options).

“This year, our virtual celebration will showcase the unifying power of art, even in these unprecedented times,” Bowser said in the release.

Art All Night is the latest in a lineup of annual city events that have moved online during the pandemic.

Two awards shows — the Mayor’s Arts Awards, which honors local creatives and arts organizations, and the Wammies, a local version of the Grammys — have both gone virtual. The Funk Parade was canceled, but organizers still managed to present an in-person gallery of photos from past parades at a downtown hotel late last month. Other arts events were canceled outright, including the Capital Fringe Festival.