Up Here 11 runs August 15-17, 2025, in weird and wonderful Sudbury, Canada.
Up Here is an independent urban art and emerging music festival that transforms Sudbury into a boutique festival experience and urban art gallery.
With the live creation of large-scale murals, immersive art installations, over 50 concerts by emerging artists, and pop-up shows in surprising places, Up Here brings creativity to every corner of town.
It’s an intimate, multi-venue journey on a human scale—an immersive urban adventure unlike any traditional festival. Powered by a generous and passionate community, Up Here is as much about discovery as it is about connection.
The festival is a project of We Live Up Here, a non-profit organization founded in 2012 around the simple idea that art can playfully reshape our community.
What’s up?
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Discover this year’s lineup, find the murals around Sudbury, build your own schedule, and be the first to find out about pop-up shows and other surprises.
Designed to be your festival buddy, FEST brings a whole bunch of different festivals together into one convenient, easy-to-navigate ecosystem.
Snag some swag.
Soft t-shirts, cozy sweaters, local stickers, bucket hats, mural postcards, stupid little buttons, and more.
Volunteer! Give us a hand! Free high fives!
Volunteer! Give us a hand! Free high fives!
We need eyes, brains, hands and butts to help make Up Here 11 the coolest festival on earth.
Do you have those things? Well, sounds like you’d make a great volunteer!
Legal Graffiti Wall
From locals shaking a can of spray paint for the first time to seasoned street artists ripping burners as they pass through town, Sudbury’s only legal graffiti wall has seen a lot of action since 2018.
We live up here in N'Swakamok, in Robinson-Huron Treaty of 1850 territory, the traditional territories of the Atikameksheng Anishnawbek and Wahnapitae First Nation.
N'Swakamok, meaning “where the three roads meet.”
We are privileged to continue to gather on this land and commit to uplifting the voices of First Nation, Inuit and Métis artists and community members, amidst ongoing systemic violence and oppression.
We also acknowledge this country’s history of slavery, its role in establishing the colonial state, and its continuing legacy of systemic anti-Black racism.
Black Lives Matter, and from Turtle Island to Palestine, land back.
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