Winter is over, and we’re done shaking like a Polaroid picture after what felt like a particularly brutal chilly season … but here are some photos of us shaking it up at Up Here 10!

We Live Up Here and Barrydowne Paint received national recognition when they received the Community Impact Award at the prestigious Business/Arts Gala at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Whether you’re Sudburian who loves everything local or someone hitting the road for Up Here 10, you’re in for a treat: The RBC Northern Series is back, bringing you an array of free, local concerts that help you start your evenings on the right note.

Big news! Our second wave of artists is here, and individual tickets to Up Here 10 shows are officially available as of today—Wednesday, July 3, at noon! Head on over to our tickets page to snag them, or grab a passport if you don’t want to miss a thing.

Buckle up and grab some snacks: Up Here has just announced the first wave of artists that will be in Sudbury for their 10th edition, running August 15 to 18, 2024—yep, it starts on the Thursday. 

It’s been five short months since Up Here 9, and it feels like it was just yesterday and also a million years ago. As we suffer through the seven long months until next year (Up Here 10!), we found ourselves looking at one of the special projects from last year: Polaroid portraits of the festival by our intrepid junior photographers—Tommy and Liz.

Katie Green’s eerie but whimsical watercolour personas somehow blend daintiness and grit, pleasure and pain, grief and joy in colourful smears that put any bouquet to shame.

Yung Yemi made his way north (from Toronto) to give us one of his Afro-futuristic portraits that marry intersectional concepts and ideologies from pre-colonial times to present day, across regions, religions, and political lines for this year’s festival.

Festivals are for fun, and it’s not always fun thinking about things that could go wrong, but by keeping safety in mind, we actually maximize funness for all! Truly!

West Coast Métis artist Jean Paul Langlois’ cinematic, Western-meets-Sci Fi-meets-Sunday morning cartoon-ness with both Indigenous and settler undertones.

Sudburian-turned-Torontonian, Franco-Ontarian-Métis multidisciplinary artist Maxine Lemieux is bringing her fantastical world-building aesthetic home for Up Here 9.

JUURI transforms bare walls into powerful, Japanese-themed artspaces. This week, she took a few minutes to talk to us about what inspires her and what she thinks about while she’s painting!

We’re not really sure how Ra’anaa Ekundayo finds time to help us with Up Here, but we’re not going to question it. We’re just beyond stoked.

Over the past couple weeks, we faced unexpected challenges, but through your unwavering community support and the steadfast commitment of our partners, we are thrilled to share a remarkable turn of events. 

If you’re always looking for new music and you live in Sudbury, you’re in luck. You never have to look far for true talent up here. Our pals over at RBC know this better than anyone, which is why they’re back presenting the RBC Northern Series this year.

We teamed up with photographer Braeden Martel and curated a photography installation centred around those historic, faded ghost murals scattered throughout Sudbury.

We have some heartbreaking news to share. Four days ago, we learned one of our major funding sources—one we’ve successfully received from the Province of Ontario, year after year—was cut, outright.

When we agreed to transform the old St. Joseph’s Hospital into Canada’s largest mural in 2019, we were under the impression the building would be demolished the following year.