It’s been five short months since Up Here 9, and it feels like it was just yesterday and also a million years ago. As we suffer through the seven long months until next year (Up Here 10!), we found ourselves looking at one of the special projects from last year: Polaroid portraits of the festival by our intrepid junior photographers—Tommy and Liz.
Read MoreKatie Green’s eerie but whimsical watercolour personas somehow blend daintiness and grit, pleasure and pain, grief and joy in colourful smears that put any bouquet to shame.
Read MoreYung Yemi made his way north (from Toronto) to give us one of his Afro-futuristic portraits that marry intersectional concepts and ideologies from pre-colonial times to present day, across regions, religions, and political lines for this year’s festival.
Read MoreFestivals are for fun, and it’s not always fun thinking about things that could go wrong, but by keeping safety in mind, we actually maximize funness for all! Truly!
Read MoreWest Coast Métis artist Jean Paul Langlois’ cinematic, Western-meets-Sci Fi-meets-Sunday morning cartoon-ness with both Indigenous and settler undertones.
Read MoreSudburian-turned-Torontonian, Franco-Ontarian-Métis multidisciplinary artist Maxine Lemieux is bringing her fantastical world-building aesthetic home for Up Here 9.
Read MoreJUURI transforms bare walls into powerful, Japanese-themed artspaces. This week, she took a few minutes to talk to us about what inspires her and what she thinks about while she’s painting!
Read MoreWe’re not really sure how Ra’anaa Ekundayo finds time to help us with Up Here, but we’re not going to question it. We’re just beyond stoked.
Read MoreOver the past couple weeks, we faced unexpected challenges, but through your unwavering community support and the steadfast commitment of our partners, we are thrilled to share a remarkable turn of events.
Read MoreIf you’re always looking for new music and you live in Sudbury, you’re in luck. You never have to look far for true talent up here. Our pals over at RBC know this better than anyone, which is why they’re back presenting the RBC Northern Series this year.
Read MoreWe’ve all heard it before. The infamous “Just wait till you have kids!” rhymed off by a jaded boomer aunt, reminiscing on all the sacrifices she made. She’s right, sort of.
Read MoreWe teamed up with photographer Braeden Martel and curated a photography installation centred around those historic, faded ghost murals scattered throughout Sudbury.
Read MoreWe have some heartbreaking news to share. Four days ago, we learned one of our major funding sources—one we’ve successfully received from the Province of Ontario, year after year—was cut, outright.
Read MoreWhen we agreed to transform the old St. Joseph’s Hospital into Canada’s largest mural in 2019, we were under the impression the building would be demolished the following year.
Read MoreGrab your squad, slap on your best walking shoes, and prepare to be swept off your feet by Sudbury’s new guided mural tours. Up Here festival is thrilled to announce they will be hosting guided mural tours once a month, every month, until October.
Read MoreSave the date: Up Here returns to downtown Sudbury this summer from August 18 to 20, 2023, and they already have a full lineup of muralists and the first wave of music that’ll be echoing off all those freshly painted walls.
Read MoreLe festival Up Here revient en force du 18 au 20 août et dévoile sa liste complète de muralistes et une première vague de musiciens qui feront résonner le centre-ville de Sudbury.
Read MoreWe Live Up Here, a non-profit urban arts organization and the presenter of Up Here urban art and music festival, is absolutely thrilled to announce the hiring of Jaymie Lathem as its first General Manager.
Read MoreWe Live Up Here, un organisme sans but lucratif voué à l’art urbain à qui l’on doit le festival de musique et d’art urbain Up Here, se réjouit d’annoncer l’embauche de Jaymie Lathem à titre de première directrice générale.
Read MoreOn cherche depuis longtemps des lieux pour présenter des spectacles de très haut calibre, impressionnants et intimes.
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