It’s Pride Week in Sudbury and there are so many great events happening throughout the city – see our event roundup here or visit the Fierté Sudbury Pride website to find out more. Between checking out all of the amazing events, these local businesses want to fill your stomach with some delicious rainbow treats! Rainbow Bagels by Salty Dog Bagels @ Guilty Pleasures Bakeshop + Bar (82 Cedar Street) Pride Flatbread @ The Cedar Nest Decor Cafe (11 Cedar Street) Rainbow Grill Cheese @ La Fromagerie (80 Elgin Street) Pride Pasta Salad @ The Cedar Nest Decor Cafe (11......
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Fierté Sudbury Pride is the core LGTBQ2SA+ group for the city of Greater Sudbury. Each year they work with many local businesses and organization to put together Fierté Sudbury Pride week. From Monday July 8 until Sunday, July 14th you can find tons of amazing pride events throughout our city! Find out more about Fierté Sudbury Pride on their website and follow along on Facebook and Instagram. Monday, July 8th Flag Raising Ceremony @ Tom Davies Square 11am-12pm Kick-off Pride Week with the annual priflag-raising ceremony at Tom Davies Square! This year’s theme is “Rooting for our Futures” and......
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Do you hear that sound? It’s the sound of Bell Park coming alive for the summer season! Northern Lights Festival Boréal is ready to hit the city with FOUR jam-packed days of music July 4th-7th! Songcraft is the theme of this year’s festival line up. The roster of artists assembled for 2019 is as vast as ever covering all sorts of genres, and all with an incredible mastery of language and lyric. This year’s festival headliners include Sam Roberts Band, K’Naan, Bedouin Soundclash, and Half Moon Run. And that’s just the headliners, there’s always a ton of great acts......
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We’ve been busy getting ready for NLFB over here at Our Crater! The festival takes over Bell Park July 4th – 7th with four jam-packed days of music, art, and fun in the sun! One of such artist gracing the stage over the course of the weekend is Ansley Simpson, an Anishinaabe singer-songwriter joining us from Alderville First Nation. Her first album Breakwall was released in 2017 and has went on to garner Simpson critical acclaim and awards from imagineNative, Indigenous Music Awards to name a few. Her haunting and thoughtful lyrics are certain to leave an impression on......
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We’ve been busy getting ready for NLFB over here at Our Crater! The festival takes over Bell Park July 4th – 7th with four jam-packed days of music, art and fun in the sun! Brooke Bruce was the winner of the 2019 Meltdown competition which earned her a paid gig at the summer festival. You can catch Bruce performing covers of all your favourite hits all around town but more recently she has been working on a collection of originals. Her first single Smoke was released in early 2019 and she’s hard at work on an EP release to......
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Northern Lights Festival Boréal kicks off Thursday July 4th through 7th at Bell Park signalling the official start of summer in Sudbury! They’ve got a stacked line up ready for you including Sam Roberts Band, K’Naan, Bedouin Soundclash and Half Moon Run. Four jam packed days of music and fun, we hope you’re resting up ahead of time! Aside from the music though one of our favourite parts of the festival is checking out the wares of some of the fabulous local vendors. Each year NLFB strives to give festival goers a variety of food and artisan options to......
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YES Theatre is 10 this year and they have had a killer line up so far! But we are most excited about what they are bringing to a Sudbury stage this month – you don’t want to miss it! From Thursday, July 4 until Sunday, July 21st you will be able to catch the talented actors of YES Theatre at the Sudbury Theatre Centre for a production of Mamma Mia. YES Theatre has been releasing videos on their Facebook page that have us VERY excited! Hear from Resident Director Fiona Sauder here and Resident Choreographer Janie Pinard here. About Mamma Mia: ABBA’s......
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Canada Day is less than a week away! How are you planning to celebrate? Start your day at the Sudbury Community Arena checking out some of the food and craft vendors before grabbing the family and heading to Science North. Catch the fireworks display and then head downtown to end your night with live music at the Townehouse Tavern! Canada Day 2019 @ Sudbury Community Arena Hosted by the Sudbury Multicultural and Folk Arts Association now in partnership with the City of Greater Sudbury, celebrate Canada Day at the Community Arena on Monday, July 1st from 10am-4pm. The celebration......
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Northern Lights Festival Boréal is coming up quick! Make sure you’re set to take in all the action July 4-7 as the NLFB crew take over Bell Park with a celebration of music! The line up this year features artists from all over the world with a focus on the art of songwriting. Who hasn’t listened to a song and connected to the words being sung? The mastery of wordplay is a thread you will see though out the festival including their headlining acts Sam Roberts Band, K’Naan, Bedouin Soundclash and Half Moon Run. Its going to be a......
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People & Profiles, Sudbury Storytellers |
June 18, 2019
Local Author: David M. Kelly – Transformation Protocol
If you were at Graphic-Con you may have seen Sudbury Science Fiction author, David M. Kelly. David is a natural story-teller who has written three books so far – with many projects in the works. We spoke with him to find out more about his latest novel, Transofrmation Protofol. Tell us about your novel Transformation Protocol My latest novel, Transformation Protocol, is set in the near future, approximately 150 years from now. The world has been devastated by climate change, and humans are finally in the position to start exploring the closest stars to us using new JumpShip technology.......
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