sUp Here 4 is right around the corner and about to blow both our minds (and eardrums) with all the weird, wonderful and often surprising spectacles we’ve come to expect from their crew! Mark your calendars for August 17th – 19th because you are officially booked. One of the best things about Up Here is that the music selection, which runs the gamut from punk, electronic, hip-hop to just plain old experimental. With so much selection (not to mention overlapping show times) it can be tough to decide what acts to check out over the weekend. Lucky for you......
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Northern Lights Festival Boréal is on the horizon! In just a few more days Sudburians will be treated to not three but FOUR jam packed days of fun in the sun at Bell Park! But the fun doesn’t end at the park. The William Ramsey will be ready for boarding on Saturday and Sunday afternoon if you feel like cooling off on the water and a slew of after hours shows will keep you out well into the night (if you think you can handle it). From hip-hop to acoustic and even surprise performers there’s almost as much to......
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The Sudbury Theatre Centre announced John McHenry as their new Artistic Director last December and he is delivering on his promise to bring some of the hottest shows and playwrights on stages across Canada to Sudbury. They recently announced their lineup for the 2018/19 season and we think you’ll be excited. They also announced a new Membership program to create a community of like-minded people who share in the magical experience of live theatre. Subscriptions are now on sale. Call the DiBrina Box Office at 705.674.8381 or stop by in person at 170 Shaughnessy Street in Downtown Sudbury. Mainstage......
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Julieanne Steedman is a colour-loving, coffee-drinking Northern Ontario visual artist. Her new collection of work ‘Among the Trees’ opens at Salute Coffee Company this coming Tuesday, May 15th from 5-6pm. Open to the public, the event is sure to inspire with colourful northern landscapes, snacks, swag bags for the first 40 attendees and a fun door prize. Your art show at Salute is called Among the Trees – can you explain a bit about how did you come up with this title? The winters here in Northern Ontario can be long, like really long (this year!). Sometimes I struggle......
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Arts & Culture, Film |
April 16, 2018
IT MUST BE SPRING: NATIONAL CANADIAN FILM DAY RETURNS TO SUDBURY
In Wiarton, they have a groundhog who predicts spring based on seeing his shadow or not: Willy where are you? In Sudbury, for me anyway, spring has come to be associated with the annual #CanFilmDay April 18th. Bring on a dose up of great Canadian-made movies on the big screen. It feels like the start of many great things to come that are grassroots and local as the weather warms up. Normally, I‘ve finished exams and still don’t have my summer job routine set, so I can slow down and smell the -not exactly roses- but the grit in......
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With mother nature teasing us with the promise of warmer weather to come we can’t help but get excited for all the music festival fun the summer has in store for us here in Sudbury. Northern Lights Festival Boréal (NLFB) has been working hard all year carefully selecting an electrifying lineup of performers for the 2018 festival – they are after all the kick off to your summer in the Nickel City! After a record breaking turnout for the 2017 edition, NLFB is adding an extra night of festival fun for the second year in a row with a......
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Each year Northern Lights Festival Boréal (NLFB) challenges its audience to expand their musical horizons, introducing attendees to music from all sorts of different cultures, disciplines and wonderfully weird sounds. Heading into 2018 it’s clear to see this year will be no exception. NLFB Executive/Artistic Director Max Merrifield is taking us on a journey into his own music collection and the African music that has captured his imagination. “For the past few years, I have been fascinated with various styles of music from the African continent, I wanted to share that sincere love with the festival audience,” says Max,......
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Get ready to bust a gut! Its the most hilarious time of the year here in the Nickel City as LOL Comedy Festival gears up to present another weekend full of stand up March 15th-17th! The LOL crew has been scouting all year looking for the funniest acts, the best satire, the wittiest commentary – its a tough job but someones gotta do it. Between club shows, headlining acts, Francophone comedians, there’s something for everyone’s taste. There’s a lot to take in so here’s a break down of all the shows going on this weekend. It’s not too late......
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Have you been to a dinner theatre production at Theatre Cambrian yet? We think this next production is one you’re going to want to check out. From March 16-24 you can catch Building the Wall – a political drama written by award winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. On January 20, 2017, Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. Over the next sixteen months, events would unravel that test every American’s strength of character: executive actions, an immigration round-up of unprecedented scale, and a declaration of martial law. Rick finds himself caught up as......
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We all love going out for dinner and a good show so why not mix the two and check out Theatre’ Cambrian’s dinner theatre production this month? “Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Her” runs January 12-13 and 19-20. Doors open at 6pm with dinner served at 6:30pm. This wild bedroom farce involves infidelity, double standards, midnight rendezvous and a hungry bear. Danny and Kathy halt their night of sultry passion when Kathy reveals she is dating another man. Paul and Jennifer play a mad slapstick scene of frustration because she is reluctant to cheat on her husband.......
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