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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.
Katie 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.
Yung 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.
Festivals 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!
West Coast Métis artist Jean Paul Langlois’ cinematic, Western-meets-Sci Fi-meets-Sunday morning cartoon-ness with both Indigenous and settler undertones.
Sudburian-turned-Torontonian, Franco-Ontarian-Métis multidisciplinary artist Maxine Lemieux is bringing her fantastical world-building aesthetic home for Up Here 9.
JUURI 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!
We’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.
Over 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.
If 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.
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Up Here is a laboratory for the creation and presentation of new works of art.
Up Here is town animated into a boutique festival with the live creation of large scale murals, the presentation of over 50 concerts by emerging artists, and pop-up shows in surprising locations.
It is an intimate multi-venue experience on a human scale and an immersive urban adventure distinct from traditional festivals. Up Here is powered by one hell of a generous and passionate community.