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Ribfest
Sept. 2-4
After last running in 2019, a popular Sudbury summer festival is making a comeback over the Labour Day weekend (Sept. 2-4), although the location has been changed to Bell Park’s Grace Hartman Amphitheatre. Ribfest 2022 features five rib teams (down from the usual six), including Boss Hog’s, Ribs Royale, Crabby’s, Texas Rangers and a newcomer, Silver Bullet. Ribfest 2022 runs from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sept. 2 and Sept. 3, and 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 4. Admission is free. For more information, visit the Facebook event page or website.
Art Gallery of Sudbury presents Johanna Westby: Natural Contrast
Until Sept. 4
The Art Gallery of Sudbury’s exhibition of Johanna Westby’s work, titled Natural Contrast, runs until Sept. 4. Originally from Elliot Lake and now living in Sudbury, Westby is an artist, an illustrator, and a teacher, whose style has been described as bold and unique and revolves around creating and sharing visual expressions of contrasts, which is easily recognizable in her many large-scale public murals and paintings throughout the region. The work in this show, called Natural Contrast, represents “an exploration of natural subjects expressed through the abstracted stylization of form and colour,” said a release from the gallery. The exhibition will feature 39 new artworks depicting “the contrasts in our world between chaos and calm—peaceful land paired with dynamic skies, tranquil lakes with radiant sunsets or a moment of stillness as an animal pauses, silhouetted against a vibrant, dancing sky,” continues the release. You can find more information about the exhibit at the gallery’s website or their Facebook page.
Sudbury and District Labour Council’s Labour Day event
Sept. 5
Every year on Labour Day, Canada’s unions celebrate workers and their contributions. In Sudbury, workers, unions and community leaders will gather at Morel Park Monday, Sept. 5, at 11 a.m. to celebrate working people and to highlight the issues that matter most to them. (From 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. the event will be inclusive and sensory friendly). Solidarity march, games, entertainment, food vendors and information booths. For more information, visit the Sudbury and District Labour Council website, found here.
Jazz Sudbury Festival
Sept. 8-10
The Jazz Sudbury Festival returns this year Sept. 8-10. The venue for 2022 is the new Place des Arts building in downtown Sudbury. Grammy award-winning artist Alex Cuba to headline the festival Saturday night. Other performers include Teva Sela Quartet, Tio Chorinho, Harvey King and the Grindstone, Ernesto Cervini’s Turboprop, ES:MO, Rich Brown & The New Abeng Quartet and The Heavyweights Brass Band, the Juno-award winning Avataar (fronted by Sudbury’s own Sundar Viswanathan) and Soul Stew. Tickets for each individual performance range from $25 to $35 depending on the night (Saturday is most expensive, Thursday is least) and full evening tickets are $70 for Thursday night and $90 for Friday and Saturday night. You can get a limited weekend pass for $225, but for $300, you can not only attend all 11 concerts, but the after-party concerts as well, which are missing from the limited pass. You can find more information and tickets on the festival website, found here.
STC youth education programs
Fall term begins Sept. 10
Sudbury Theatre Centre has announced its 2022-23 season of educational programming. Registration is now open for the fall term of drama and musical theatre classes, which begins Saturday, Sept. 10. The nine-week term will culminate in a recital for invited family members showcasing the participants’ talents. Academy classes are led by skilled instructors with extensive teaching backgrounds. Students are exposed to a wide range of games, exercises and experiences that are tailored to any skill level. These educational programs contribute to each student’s emotional, intellectual and social development. Participation also helps to develop their self-confidence, problem-solving skills, and fosters creative and critical thinking. Programs for ages six and up available. Registration discounts apply when booking more than one class or registering multiple children in the same family. For more information, including registration forms, visit sudburytheatre.com/youth. You may also email the Box Office at [email protected], or phone the box office at 705-674-8381.
Sudbury Performance Group presents comedian Jon Dore
Sept. 10
Comedian Jon Dore — a Conan O’Brien regular — will be performing in Sudbury Sept. 10. Dore is a talented Canadian writer and actor who has infused his comedic abilities into numerous hit television shows and films. In addition to recently wrapping his stand-up special for Comedy Central, he was the series lead in the CBS pilot, “The Half of It,” played a memorable guest star role on CBS’ Emmy Award-winning hit series, “How I Met Your Mother,” and played a lead role on ABC’s “How to Live With Your Parents.” Dore has had multiple guest appearances on Conan, Baroness von Sketch Show, @Midnight, Inside Amy Schumer, and Hart of Dixie. In addition to acting, Dore has an impressive writing résumé that includes The Comedy Network’s The Jon Dore Show, CBC’s Just for Laughs, and HBO’s popular Funny as Hell. You can also see Jon host eight episodes of The Stand-Up Show on the Comedy Network from July 2019’s Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. Dore’s performance takes place on Saturday, Sept. 10 at the Trevi Bar & Grill. Doors open at 5:30, with the show at 7 p.m. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased at www.sudburyperformance.ca, in person at the Trevi Bar & Grill, or by phoning 705-662-8518.
Valley East Days
Sept. 9-11
Valley East Days returns Sept. 9-11. Free family fun at the Hanmer Valley Shopping Centre, fireworks, live entertainment and more. Country Night on Sept. 9 features Andrew Hyatt, Gil Grand and Roadhouse. Rock Night on Sept. 10 features Glass Tiger, Guns ‘N Roses tribute Appetite for Democracy and Supertramp tribute Dreamer. Tickets for Country Night and Rock Night available online here. Check out the full Valley East Days lineup on the event’s website.
Maison McCulloch Hospice AGM
Sept. 12
Maison McCulloch Hospice is holding its 14th Annual General Meeting virtually on Monday, Sept. 12 at 5 p.m. Interested individuals are asked to confirm their participation before noon Tuesday, Sept. 6 by reaching out to Colette at 705-674-9252 ext. 222.
Young Sudbury Singers registration
Sept. 14
Registration for the Young Sudbury Singers’ 2022-23 season is coming up in September. Participants can expect to sing, laugh, and learn a wide variety of music in a safe and supportive environment that will foster a lifelong love of singing. The Young Sudbury Singers, Greater Sudbury’s premiere choir for children and youth, offers two choirs that families can choose from. Junior Choir (grades 2-4) rehearses Wednesdays from 6 to 7 p.m. Junior Choir director Colette Nadeau conducts the school band and choir at R. L. Beattie PS and serves as executive director for the Northern Ontario Music Festival. The Senior Choir (Grade 5 and up) rehearses Wednesdays from 6 to 7:15 p.m. Senior Choir director Heather Charsley teaches music and the arts at C. R. Judd Public School, and serves as the director of music at St. Alban the Martyr Church. Registration Night for both choirs will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 14 at Sudbury Secondary School, 154 College St. in downtown Sudbury, from 6 to 7 p.m. Weekly Wednesday evening rehearsals will be held at the school until mid-May (excluding school holidays). More information about plans for the 2022-23 season is available at www.youngsudburysingers.ca.
Up Here presents Laura-Jane Grace
Sept. 15
Laura Jane Grace is best known as the founder, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the punk rock band Against Me! Since coming out as transgender in a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, she has become an outspoken advocate for transgender awareness. Catch the musician in concert at Place des Arts Sept. 15 at 8 p.m. Concert is presented by Up Here and Modo Live. Tickets available online here.
Jaune comme joie (children’s theatre) at Place des Arts
Sept. 16
Jaune comme joie is a project that combines poetic words and object theatre. The play, intended for children aged three and up, explores the associations between emotions and colors. Colors and emotions are part of everyday life: colors surround us, emotions animate us. Yet, despite their ubiquity, they represent complex and subjective concepts that can be difficult for young children (and sometimes for older too!) to name and understand. Jaune comme joie has fun transforming these abstract notions into sources of pleasure. Why is yellow associated with joy? How can red represent both anger and love? Can one be “scared to death” of sadness, an emotion also represented by blue? These are the kinds of questions that are at the heart of the explorations made in Jaune comme joie, through objects and words. Play runs at Place des arts starting at 2 p.m. Sept. 16. Event presented by Théâtre Action. Tickets available online here.
STC/YES Theatre presents Into the Woods
Sept. 16-Oct. 9
Re-imagining Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s iconic masterpiece “Into the Woods” as an urgent interrogation of the necessity of storytelling in the face of the Climate Emergency. A world grappling with environmental collapse turns to classic children’s fairy tales as a way to make sense of its own story. Witness a world driven by the unexamined pursuit of self-interest, as individual wish fulfillment stifles any possibility of collective action. Ultimately, that bill comes due – as consequences of Giant proportions tear “Happily Ever After” asunder. Those left standing must rise above the temptation of crying “Your Fault” before the Last Midnight comes, and instead work together to fight for what it is that they want to pass on to the next generation. Production runs at STC Sept. 16 to Oct. 9. Purchase tickets online here.
City of Greater Sudbury tipping fee holiday
Sept. 16-24
In time for pre-winter cleaning, residential tipping fees are being waived at all Greater Sudbury landfill and waste transfer sites from Sept. 19-24. During this time, Greater Sudbury residents can deliver discarded household items to local landfill sites free of charge from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday, and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. During the free week, people are cautioned to expect longer than usual wait times.
Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival
Sept. 17-25
The 34th edition of Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival runs Sept. 17-25. As was the case in 2020 and 2021, Cinéfest will continue to have a hybrid format this year, with some films available for streaming at home (87 films, a mixture of features and shorts), and others available in-theatre (74 feature films). Gala films (followed once again by après-film receptions) include Ashgrove, Call Jane, The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile, Viking, Alice, Darling, Broker, North of Normal, The Swearing Jar and Presque (Beautiful Minds). Cinéfest’s full lineup is available on the film festival’s website. For tickets, visit www.cinefest.com, phone 705-688-1234, or visit the Cinéfest Sudbury Box Office (located at 40 Larch Street, Unit 103).
Terry Fox Run
Sept. 18
More than 40 years have passed, but the annual Terry Fox Run is as much a part of an annual tradition as it ever was, and that is as true in Greater Sudbury as it is anywhere else in Canada. The annual run which was virtual in the past two years in Sudbury because of COVID, is live again this year. Friends and supporters of the 42nd annual Terry Fox Run have already earmarked Sept. 18 as the day to take part in the yearly tribute and fundraiser in honour of the young Canadian who set out in 1980 to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. The run will be staged locally from the Grace Hartman Amphitheatre at Bell Park with one-kilometre, four-kilometre and 10-kilometre routes. Check in is 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 18 with the actual start time at 10:45 a.m. Check out the local Terry Fox page for up-to-date information. You can also support the Terry Fox Foundation by making donations online.
L’Arche Sudbury’s 40th anniversary Pasta Dinner
Sept. 20
L’Arche Sudbury will be holding its annual Pasta Dinner event once again, this year on Tuesday Sept. 20 at the Caruso Club. Not only are they celebrating the community and people they love, but the 40th anniversary of the organization. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. and dinner will begin at 5:30 p.m. with the evening ending at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $80.59 and can be purchased on the event specific website, found here and takeout meals can be purchased for $43.45 on the website and are available for pick up from 3 p.m. onwards.
La Slague presents Stef Paquette Symphonique
Sept. 25
Sure, you’ve probably already seen Stef Paquette on stage… But you’ve never seen him like this! The local francophone musician is taking a symphonic leap off the beaten path he’s been carving for over 30 years. Accompanied by eight musicians from the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra and conductor, Joshua Woods, Paquette will explore new dimensions of his original compositions as seen by three Franco-Ontarian composers and arrangers: Alex Millaire, Luc Martin and Victor Herbiet. Paquette is an artist who likes to push his limits in order to stake out new ground, and this event, produced by La Slague, will enable him to do just that! Concert takes place at Place des Arts at 7 p.m. Sept. 25. Tickets are available online here.
Hike for Hospice
Sept. 25
Friends and supporters of the Sudbury Hospice Foundation are invited to make some time on Sunday, Sept. 25 to take part in the Sudbury Credit Union Hike for Hospice. The annual event will be taking place at the Grace Hartman Amphitheatre at Bell Park in Sudbury. This is to be the first live-in-person hike since 2019 because of pandemic restrictions. Organizers said registration begins at 11 a.m. Sept. 25 and the hike itself will begin at 1 p.m. Pledge forms are available for pick up at any Sudbury Credit Union branch, Maison McCulloch Hospice and/or online at www.maisonsudburyhospice.org.
Kidney Walk
Sept. 25
This year's annual Kidney Walk takes place in Sudbury and all over Canada Sept. 25. As in the past two years, the walk this year will take place in a virtual format. Friends and supporters will be encouraged to get out in their local communities for an actual walk and to collect pledges and donations in support of the Kidney Foundation of Canada. Participants will be encouraged to raise funds via social media, family groups and by holding small group raffles or 50/50 draws or even a yard sale. Supporters are asked to go online to register for the walk and to encourage others to register.
Collège Boréal hosts ‘Madame Bolduc on Tour’ exhibition
Until mid-November
Mary Travers, a depression-era Quebec folk musician, is the subject of a bilingual travelling exhibition called “Madame Bolduc on Tour,” on display at Collège Boréal until late fall. You may remember the story of Travers, also known as Madame Bolduc and La Bolduc, from this Historica Canada Heritage Minute. The exhibition, which is free, can be visited Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Collège Boréal's Alphonse-Desjardins Resource Centre, located at 21 Lasalle Blvd. in Sudbury. It runs until mid-November.
Perogies and Cabbage Rolls
Mondays to Fridays
Fresh perogies and cabbage rolls are available for curb-side pick-up from Monday to Friday at the Ukrainian Seniors’ Centre. Place your order by phoning 705-673-7404.
