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UP HERE 4: Mauno / Victime / Boyhood

Townehouse Tavern 206 Elgin Street, Sudbury, Canada

A merry-go-round of twisted grunge-pop, acid-punk and heartbreak. Presented by Stack Brewing. MAUNO Mauno (pronounced Mao-no) is ironically named after bassist/vocalist Eliza Niemi’s completely unmusical Finnish grandfather. They have a wandering sound that refuses to be pinned down. They strayed from twisting grunge-pop to raw, guttural, emotional punches. Their tales of botched romance and misdirected dreams play out above a bed of crunchy guitars and crashing cymbals. They’re charming af. VICTIME Acid-punk on a bed of ‘90s nostalgia. It’s discordant, wild, and probably what it feels like to get hit by lightning. Their noisy dance-punk madness shifts from fast-paced, punchy percussion to slow, carnivalesque electronic noise all filled out with some serious Riot grrrl vocals (but en français). Boyhood When Caylie Runciman started calling herself Boyhood, it was a nod to childhood nostalgia. Tough-kid guitar grit and deadpan verses give way to whimsical synth lines and delicate harmonies. But like an off-kilter merry-go-round, or a candy shop in a seedy part of town, there’s a shady layer to Runciman’s perfect pop. Her black magic is raw, equal parts ecstasy and heartbreak. In amongst the bright colours, there’s the joy and the pain in knowing what it means to grow up. TICKETS $15 advance / $20 at the door UP HERE Up Here is an urban art & emerging music festival in weird and wonderful downtown Sudbury that takes place from August 17-19. Follow Up Here festival, RSVP Up Here 4. 🔺🔺🔺 MAUNO Depuis sa création, Mauno a un son errant qui refuse d'être épinglé. L’ambiance du piano et de la brume des cordes, en partie inspirée par le violoncelle du rock progressif, évoque un punch brut, guttural et émotionnel. Ses pistes mettent en lumière des histoires de romance bâclée et de rêves mal dirigés, le tout joué au-dessus d’un lit...

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$15

Mudmoiselle Sudbury

Adanac Ski Hill

Get ready for a day of mud, sweat and cheers. The Mudmoiselle obstacle course is a 5 km stretch of Canada’s muckiest, filthiest, slimiest mud. It’s where your inner child runs free while testing your endurance, strength and ability to keep a straight face. This women’s only event is open to all fitness levels. Whether you’re used to running 10k or just running after your toddler, you can take on this challenge. Get ready for a day of mud, sweat and cheers. Go the extra muddy mile and reach the minimum $150 fundraising goal and then some! Early Bird Price - $50.00 (Ends July 18) Standard Price - $75.00 (Starts July 19) We encourage teams of 4 or more participants. The minimum age to participate in the event is 13. Those participating between the ages of 13-16 MUST be accompanied by a parent or guardian on the course. A waiver must be signed prior to participating. Vendor and sponsorship opportunities are available. Contact the Sudbury Community office for more details: (705) 670-1234 sudbury@ontario.cancer.ca

$75

UP HERE 4: Free Family Day / Journée familiale w/ Random Recipe

Memorial Park 163 Minto Street, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Saturday’s Family Day returns with free family-friendly programming in Memorial Park and all around Downtown Sudbury. Presented by Downtown Sudbury in partnership with the Greater Sudbury Public Library. ACTIVITIES FOR ALL We're bringing tons of great kids activities to Memorial Park. We'll be announcing more details over the coming days. - Free concerts by Random Recipe, Debbie Tebbs, White Hot, Ocean City Defender - Downtown Sudbury Art Crawl - Mini-mural making and cardboard dome building for kids - Robots en Route in collaboration with Science North - Story Mob (Interactive story) - Splash Pad Story Time - Button Making - Fun Drums with Kylie Klim - Painting with Julie-Anne Bolduc - Giant Bubbles - Giant Memory Flash Cards - Guided mural tours at 12 (noon) and 3 pm (meet at the Dome on Durham) - Slack Lining with Kristen Lavallee - Coding For Kids - and more! Taking the stage on Family Day: RANDOM RECIPE Formed by Frannie Holder (who’s back after her performance with Dear Criminals last year), Fab, Vincent Legault, and Liu-Kong Ha, this band has seen the world thanks to extensive touring. Random Recipe is a journey from folk-hip-hop to groovy pop that hits all the right notes. They’ve come a long way since their start jamming in Montreal’s metro stations. After 10 years as a band, they’ve just released Distractions, a new album with such collaborators as Prince’s bassist Rhonda Smith, and Up Here alumni Foxtrott and Marie-Pierre Arthur. DEBBIE TEBBS Looking for a fun party time? Look no further: Debbie Tebb’s electro-pop will transport you to the dancefloor, if not into the 22nd century. Half retro, half futurist, Debbie is ahead of her time, or a blast from the past, one of the two, or two of the one. Her multi-instrumental production blends synth with...

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Pop Up! Downtown Sudbury Art Crawl

Downtown Sudbury Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

POP UP! DOWNTOWN SUDBURY ART CRAWL SAT AUG 18, 11AM–4PM in partnership with Up Here 4 Urban Art + Music Festival & Downtown Sudbury FREE ADMISSION! FEATURING 11 am–3:30 pm: Pop Up! Music Performances at many DSAC venues 10 am & 12:15 pm: Latitude 46 Publishing local author readings 11am–12 pm & 1–2 pm: Dani Star live music at the Greater Sudbury Market 12 & 3 pm Guided mural tours presented by Up Here 4 (meet at Memorial Park) 1. Greater Sudbury Market – 233 Elgin St. (at Minto St.) open 8 am–2 pm (705) 674-4455 | featuring artist Helen Townsend + Myths and Mirrors Community Arts with their community project Home Is Where the ____ Is + Latitude 46 presents published books and author readings (times noted above). Sudbury Arts Council // Conseil des arts de Sudbury presents a temporary collaborative mandala to be created on site. 2. The Townehouse Tavern Stage | 206 Elgin St. www.uphere.com | Up Here 4 presents “Glitchy Neon Night Forest” by Kristina Rolander. 3. Laughing Buddha Offsite Venue (Art Gallery of Sudbury / Galerie d’art de Sudbury) – 194 Elgin St. 705-675-4871 | Featuring landscape and portrait painting by S.K. Gusani. 4. Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario – 174 Elgin St. (705) 673-4927 | Featuring “La nébuleuse” by L'eau du bain. 5. Monique Legault Studio – 172 Elgin St. (705) 507-1352 | Featuring “From Big to Small” fine art to home décor; new works by Monique Legault, Tarun Godara + additional guests TBA. 6. Artists On Elgin – 168 Elgin St. (705) 674-0415 | Featuring “Alone/Together” collage & mixed-media exhibition by Sydney Rose. 7. Sudbury Paint & Custom Framing Co. – 164 Elgin St. (705) 675-7493 | Featuring artist(s) Jay Favot (painting), Richard Haywood (painting), and Lori Wall (stained glass). 8. Good Luck General Store...

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UP HERE 4: Frederick Squire

The Laughing Buddha 194 Elgin Street, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

The RBC Northern Series presents some of the best acts from Northern Ontario in intimate settings between 5 and 7 pm. FREDERICK SQUIRE Frederick Squire is a singer, songwriter and guitarist who channels old folk music. His quiet, warmly atmospheric, experimental and meandering rock vignettes are personal, poetic and often open-ended. It’s sometimes spooky and ghostly. Originally from Ajax, Ontario, he is based in Sudbury following a number of years living in Sackville, New Brunswick. FREE! Thanks RBC! UP HERE Up Here is an urban art & emerging music festival in weird and wonderful downtown Sudbury that takes place from August 17-19. Follow Up Here festival, RSVP Up Here 4 🔺🔺🔺 FREDERICK SQUIRE Frederick Squire est un auteur-compositeur-interprète qui évoque la vieille musique folk. Ses vignettes rock atmosphériques, expérimentales et chaleureuses sont personnelles, poétiques et ouvertes, parfois un peu troublantes. Originalement d'Ajax, en Ontario, il est maintenant basé à Sudbury après un bon nombre d'années à Sackville, au Nouveau-Brunswick GRATUIT! Merci RBC UP HERE Up Here est un festival d'art public et de musique émergente dans l'étrange ville de Sudbury, Ontario qui a lieu du 17-19 août. Suivez: Up Here festival et RSVP: Up Here 4.

UP HERE 4: Patrick Watson / Jeremy Dutcher / Blood & Glass

The Grand 23 Elgin Street, Sudbury

It's Saturday night. The sky is slag red. Fall under the spell of Patrick Watson in the intimacy of Sudbury's century-old Grand Theatre. This is the internationally acclaimed artist's very first time in Northern Ontario. PATRICK WATSON He’s an internationally acclaimed singer, composer, songwriter, and producer. Patrick Watson is also the name of this mad genius’ band, fleshed-out like Frankenstein. Both the man and his monster have received international acclaim. After a decade as a band, it has been an interesting journey for Patrick Watson and his cohorts. The band played to over 100,000 people at the 2009 Montreal Jazz Festival, performed in front of a full orchestra in 2011 in Amsterdam, received the Polaris Music Prize in 2007 for their critically acclaimed debut album Close to Paradise, and a Polaris long-list nomination in 2015 for their most recent album Love Songs For Robots. “…Patrick Watson has defined himself – and by extension the band – as a consummate and reliable performer who couldn’t do a bad show if he tried.” — National Post JEREMY DUTCHER Jeremy Dutcher is a classically trained operatic tenor and composer who takes every opportunity to blend his Wolastoq First Nation roots into the music he creates, blending distinct musical aesthetics that shape-shift between classical, traditional, and pop to form something entirely new. Dutcher’s debut release, Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, involves the rearrangement of early 1900s wax cylinder field recordings from his community. “Many of the songs were lost because our musical tradition was suppressed by the Canadian government. I'm doing this work as there are only about a hundred Wolastoqey speakers left. It's crucial that we're using our language because, if you lose the language, you're losing an entirely distinct way of experiencing the world.” THE BLOOD AND GLASS QUARTET From the broken-yet-magical city of Montreal,...

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$30

UP HERE 4: Chandra / Bleu Nuit / TV Freaks

Townehouse Tavern 206 Elgin Street, Sudbury, Canada

A night of weirdo punk with New York's no-wave legend Chandra and the post-punk of Montréal's Bleu Nuit. Presented by Stack Brewing. CHANDRA A child of the NYC underground art scene, Chandra Oppenheim showed musical promise at 7, and recorded music from 1980’s cult no-wave Transportation EP that same year when she was just 12. Completely in step with the Dadaist/minimalist impulses of the New York no wave scene of the day, this album launched the post-punk pre-teen’s career which continues today. Transportation was reissued in 2014 and Chandra now revisits the music she wrote as a child, reworking it for her growing audience, with the help of a who’s who of Toronto musicians. Commanding vocals lead bouncy bass lines, resonant organs, and deep echoes that all lead the listener to new territories. BLEU NUIT Bleu Nuit crafts french post-punk that blends spectral sounds with tension-packed lyrics for a truly haunting experience. Strong, fuzzy melodies back chant-like vocals that hearken back to the ‘80s. TV FREAKS TV Freaks are a four-piece from the post-industrial rust bed of Hamilton, ON. What began rather modestly as a group writing spastic, guitar-heavy, garage-punk songs has evolved into something with a significantly more wide-ranging sonic palette, disregarding any notion of genre purism. Traces of the Seeds, Velvets, Rick White, and Nick Cave can be heard, all while sounding like a coherent band, that is still inevitably punk (even if it’s a label they scoff at). TICKETS $15 advance / $20 at the door UP HERE Up Here is an urban art & emerging music festival in weird and wonderful downtown Sudbury that takes place from August 17-19. Follow Up Here festival, RSVP Up Here 4 🔺🔺🔺 BILLETS 15$ avance, 20$ à la porte UP HERE Up Here est un festival d'art public et de...

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$15

UP HERE 4: Versa

Art Gallery of Sudbury 251 John Street, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

When the bars close, we will chill the f- out with Versa. Find a comfy spot and get mesmerized by the audio-visual performance of Versa. VERSA Surreal and shimmering, VERSA’s psychedelic performance employs the physics of music, rendering low-frequency sound visible as it passes through a subwoofer into a colourful liquid basin. VERSA is an audio/visual collaboration between artist Monika Hauck and musician Alex Ricci. Sonically, VERSA is influenced by contemporary soundscape, instrumental post-rock, and ‘60s psychedelic, combining live-looping effected bass guitar layers with atmospheric synth and bombastic drums. ACCESSIBILITY The venue and bathrooms are accessible. TICKETS $10 advance / $12 at the door UP HERE Up Here is an urban art & emerging music festival in weird and wonderful downtown Sudbury that takes place from August 17-19. Follow Up Here festival, RSVP Up Here 4. 🔺🔺🔺 VERSA Surréelle et scintillante, la performance psychédélique de VERSA utilise la physique de la musique. Le son de basse fréquence devient visible en passant à travers un subwoofer, dans un bassin de liquide coloré. VERSA est une collaboration audio/visuelle entre l’artiste Monika Hauck et le musicien Alex Ricci. Sur le plan sonore, VERSA est influencée par des paysages sonores contemporains, du post-rock instrumental et de la musique psychédélique des années 60s, combinant des couches de basse en boucle avec du synthé atmosphérique et des batteries empiriques. ACCESSIBILITÉ La salle et les salles de toilettes sont accessibles. BILLETS 10$ avance, 12$ à la porte UP HERE Up Here est un festival d'art public et de musique émergente dans l'étrange ville de Sudbury, Ontario qui a lieu du 17-19 août. Suivez: Up Here festival et RSVP: Up Here 4.

$10

UP HERE 4: Panel Discussion: Public Art as an Agent of Change

McEwen School of Architecture 85 Elm Street, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

We've invited some of our artists to talk about the transformative power of urban art. Join artists Trever Ferever and Cosmo Dean, Isaac Odinamaad, and Johanna Westby to talk about legal graffiti walls, how artists get inspired by the communities in which they work, and the impacts that public art has on transforming a community. Moderated by Aliya Pabani from CANADALAND's The Imposter. Presented in collaboration with the McEwen School of Architecture.

UP HERE 4: Martine Fortin

Kuppajo Espresso Bar 109 Larch Street, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

The RBC Northern Series presents some of the best acts from Northern Ontario in intimate settings between 5 and 7 pm. MARTINE FORTIN Martine Fortin’s soulful, jazzy sound is refreshingly mature for such a young artist. The Sudbury-based, francophone songwriter is quickly making a name for herself thanks to her clear, rich vocals and smooth piano playing. Expect to be enchanted. FREE! Thanks RBC! UP HERE Up Here is an urban art & emerging music festival in weird and wonderful downtown Sudbury that takes place from August 17-19. Follow Up Here festival, RSVP Up Here 4. 🔺🔺🔺 MARTINE FORTIN Le son jazz éloquent de Martine Fortin est remarquablement mature pour une si jeune artiste. L'auteure-compositrice francophone de Sudbury est rapidement en train de se tailler une place avec son timbre riche et clair et son doigté au piano. Attendez-vous à être enchantés. GRATUIT! Merci RBC! UP HERE Up Here est un festival d'art public et de musique émergente dans l'étrange ville de Sudbury, Ontario qui a lieu du 17-19 août. Suivez: Up Here festival et RSVP: Up Here 4.