Sudbury Design Society has established itself as a hub for all things design in our city. Whether you’re a student, graduate or professional looking to network this SDS creates a community in our city for designers of all sorts! SDS is preparing to for their biennial Sudbury Design Awards: Refined exhibition opening May 24th at The Open Studio – a fantastic showcase of the best in local design! The categories for the competition are just as varied as you’d expect when you consider the many facets of the title: Identity & Branding, website & interactive, apparel & fashion, architectural......
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Up Here is geared up to turn Downtown Sudbury into an immersive dreamscape once again! For a third year the fest will get to work beautifying our city with guest muralists visiting to bestow our bare walls with one of a kind pieces of art and buzzworthy shows from an eclectic group of performs of all genres. You want art installations? Check! You want multiple venues to choose from for shows? Check! You want surprise pop-up shows? Check! You want to have the absolute best time with people who love Sudbury as much as you? DOUBLE CHECK! Be there......
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Celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary with the Kaha:Wi Dance Theatre’s latest production, The Honouring! Commemorate this beautiful country’s First Nations warriors of the War of 1812 through a fascinating mix of dance and theatre production. That’s right – Canadian history will come alive and hit the STC stage on May 12th and 13th. Tickets are available online and we can assure you that you will not want to miss out on this multi-disciplinary performance. In celebration of Canada 150, STC’s mandate this season is to bring Canadian stories and voices to the stage right here in Sudbury. The Honouring will......
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You may remember our interview with Caitlin Gringas of Ornate by Cait last year. Now, her business has expanded and many of her shawls, capes, and dresses are available for purchase online! We asked Caitlin to tell us a little more about her new website and what pieces she is getting ready to release this spring and summer. We are so excited that we are now able to purchase items from your online shop! When did the site go live? My online shop ornatebycait.com went live February 1st of this year (2017). I’m very excited to be taking this......
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Nostalgia, Awe, +Laughter-why yes, these are three of our favourite sentiments, but that’s not what we’re here to discuss! After wrapping up their 45th anniversary season, the Sudbury Theatre Centre is looking forward to a season that will “induce laughter, tug at your heart strings, and have you reminiscing over the good old days”. Nostalgia, Awe, +Laughter, a celebration of entertainment from decades’ past, is the theme for the STC’s new 2017|2018 season and it’s sure to be spectacular! “The new season is a chance for patrons to relive and reconnect with many stories and characters they’ve grown to......
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Its big anniversary for Playsmelter! Celebrating their fifth year the folks at Sudbury’s own new work theatre festival have worked hard to compile a roster of original plays to prove once again that theatre is not dead in the North. Two staged productions and first readings of three new scripts by Northern Ontario writers, this is sure to be a jam packed week! Making its world premiere will be Lara Bradley’s Blind Nickel Pig, and in its first Sudbury presentation Receiver of Wreck by Matthew Heiti. And don’t forget to sit in on an exciting first reading of one......
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Celebrating 46 years of kicking off Sudbury summers Northern Lights Festival Boréal is ready to ramp things up again! With new artistic director Max Merrifield at the helm this year takes an exciting new direction as the festival includes a Thursday night concert addition! That’s right if you couldn’t contain your excitement before good luck now – that’s FOUR solid days of music at the beautiful Bell Park! A tribute to Canada’s founding nations the night will feature a special multi-disciplinary experience to get you in the mood for a full weekend of festival fun! The rest of the......
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It’s that time of year again where for the second time Sudbury becomes a literary haven! Reading Town is a week-long celebration of the wild the wonderful world of books! Maybe you’re an avid bookworm, maybe you’re looking to make enjoying reading a part of your regular routine. This is the week to do it! This week will not be short of activities to take part in a ignite your passion for the written word all over again. Read on for all the details on the events around town put on by Reading Town Ville Lecture in association with......
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Last week we had the opportunity to check out Rise 2017-Design and Visual Arts Grad Show hosted by Cambrian College students, and it’s safe to say we were blown away by the amount of artistic and creative talented that filled the room! The exhibit was held on Thursday, April 20th, from 6-9pm at Cambrian College’s downtown Open Studio, located at 93 Cedar Street in Unit 303. The Open Studio’s large gallery space allows students to have the opportunity to mount their exhibitions, work alongside professional artists in the community, and also offers students real world experience. From the moment......
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Our Crater was invited to attend the opening of the Emergence 2017 art exhibit at the Art Gallery of Sudbury last Wednesday and obviously, I checked out all the excitement and today I’m sharing a recap of my visit. The exhibit is composed of works of art from students of thirteen participating secondary schools from the various school boards in the area: Rainbow District School Board, the Sudbury Catholic District School Board, Le consiel scolaire du Grand Nord de l’Ontario, and Le consiel scoliare du Nouvel-Ontario. The Emergence exhibit started in the 1970s and speaks to the process of......
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