Friday, January 6 SGDC Pre-Challenge Unity Workshop – Bone up on your Unity skills in the weekend leading up to the SGDC! The SGDC’s own fiendishly handsome Mike Daoust will be teaching a semi-guided workshop on how to use Unity to make a very simplistic game. And by that, mostly he means he’ll be swearing a lot and hoping things work out okay. 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. @ NORCAT – 1545 Maley Drive Ödora Unplugged Live – 10:00 p.m. @ The Durham Social – 80 Durham Street Saturday, January 7 Christmas Bird Count for Kids – Are you and your family always wondering......
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Do you think you could create a video game in just 48 hours? The Sudbury Game Design Challenge is the largest interactive media design competition in the north. This years competition takes place January 13-15 and 20 teams will be working together to create a video game on the platform of their choice. We spoke with the event organizers to find out more about the Sudbury Game Design Challenge. What is the Sudbury Game Design Challenge? The Sudbury Game Design Challenge is a 48 hour competition between teams of programmers, artists, musicians and writers who must all work together......
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Remember our Launch Party in July? Well we want to do that again except this time we’re celebrating one year of Our Crater and we have a lot to celebrate! Our first year has been pretty great and w cannot wait to s what 2017 has in store! So mark your calendars – Friday, January 20th we’ll be taking over the top floor of the Durham Social to party like it’s 1999! We are hosting a 90’s/2000’s throwback dance party, it’s Y2K all over! Spend January 20th with all your favourite Sudburians! Featuring a midnight countdown, prize draws, and......
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Monday, January 2 Doe(nte) live in Sudbury at The Asylum – Cover: $5 – 9:00 p.m. @ The Asylum Sudbury – 19 Regent Street Wednesday, January 4 Startup 101: Sales – Brian Vendramin, Professor and Program Coordinator for Cambrian College – 6:00 p.m. @ NORCAT – 1545 Maley Drive Thursday, January 5 Northern Lights Writes + Literary Tribute to Leonard Cohen – Regular spoken word open mic hosted by Northern Lights Festival Boréal. Spoken word, poetry, slam, novel excerpts, short stories, storytelling, hip hop, and beyond. Perform/read your own or someone elses. Performers are encouraged to include some Leonard Cohen lyrics/poetry/literature this......
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Friday, December 30 UFC 207 Pay Per View LIVE AT Boston Pizza – Rhonda Rousey IS BACK and set to fight on Friday December 30!!! Join us at 10 pm for the main fight card. You can win a VIP table for UFC 208 including a large pizza! Pick the winners and you could win! Plus, we have all the excitement of watching the fights live!!!! With a great crowd of fans and our amazing bar staff. 10:00 p.m. @ Boston Pizza – 120 Donna Drive Speakeasy Presents LOW GUNS – Dwayne Trudeau is a local icon of back woods and delta blues.......
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Monday, December 26 Boxing Day Bash (The Valley Reunion) – BOXING DAY NIGHT at Vinny’s is guaranteed the PACKED!!! The Valley Reunion continues with its famous Boxing Day Bash! DJ Bubba will be spinning tunes for you all night long. There is no tickets sold for this event but you must be early to miss the line-ups! Line-ups usually start at 9:00pm so try to be early! There is a $15 cover charge before 9pm and $20 cover charge afterwards which included shuttle service home. Please do not where an expensive coat because coat check is not included in the price.......
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The holidays have arrived and it’s time to bust out those ugly Christmas sweaters and sequins dresses. Can you believe 2016 is almost over? After one of the craziest years yet, we are really looking forward to kicking off 2017 so today we’ve rounded up some of the best ways to ring in 2017 in Sudbury! New Year’s Eve Family Fun Day – Science North is hosting a family fun day with giant board games, build your own game controller, dance party in the BodyZone, live science shows, face painting and Hands on with Exotics. Admission is $15 for members......
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There’s no way around it, the holidays are an expensive time of year! The expense of gifts for your friends and family is almost enough to send you into overdraft, then there’s the office Kris Kringle, and all the extra holiday get togethers. It may not be a blue Christmas but it is certainly is a blue January when you get your first credit card statement in. So if you’re feeling especially skint this time of year we’ve got a few suggestions on how you have still get into the spirit of the season! Check out the Lights Grab......
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Friday, December 16 Sudbury Metal Fest 8 – Tickets: $20 – @ The Asylum Sudbury – 19 Regent Street A Holly Jolly Christmas – It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Bring your Christmas cheer to Theatre Cambrian’s 3rd annual presentation of A Holly Jolly Christmas Concert. You will leave feeling in the spirit of the holiday season. 7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. @ Theatre Cambrian – 40 Eyre Street Dead Flowers – Tribute to The Rolling Stones – Members of Blue Rodeo and The Beauties among other Toronto music royalty, bring life to the Stones Country Era performing as Dead Flowers. Many......
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The 12 Days of Giveaways SHOULD be over BUT we still have two more awesome prizes to give away! We partnered with 14 local businesses to bring you some pretty amazing prizes. Today we are giving away the most adorable children’s Uggs from DeSimone Shoes and Spa! We’ll be announcing all of the winners each day on our Facebook page and through our email newsletter. If you haven’t signed up for the newsletter yet, you can do that here: http://eepurl.com/cqrZdX What is DeSimone Shoes and Spa? DeSimone Shoes & Spa is a family run shoe store that focuses on service and proper......
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