Earlier this month, Helen and Vicki participated in the UNESCO TechCul Online Ideathon. The event aimed to “bring together tech and culture leaders with startups and entrepreneurs to develop innovative digital solutions and win-win business models to address challenges faced by the culture and creative […]
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UpStage project to receive EU funding
UpStage is delighted to announce that its new project Mobilise/Demobilise has been selected to receive EU funding in the Creative Europe programme.
How to manually allow Flash in your browser
Recently, changes in some browsers have made it a little bit more difficult to enter UpStage stages. But don’t worry, there’s still a way in, and it’s not difficult! Here’s how to do it.
Letters of Love in a Time of Crisis
Once again UpStage is joining in an international project of live readings of letters, this time letters of love in a time of crisis, on 22nd April.
Making social-distancing live theatre and performance during the COVID-19 lockdown
Christina Papagiannouli asks what are theatres doing online during the Covid19 lockdown, and identifies four types of platforms for online collaboration, citing UpStage as an example of purpose-built platforms.
counting the numbers …
Just how many people have engaged with UpStage since it was launched in January 2004? We add up some of the numbers …
Networked Conversations as Activism
The article Networked Conversations as Activism by Helen Varley Jamieson has been published in INTERACT, a Portuguese online magazine for art, culture and technology.
It does not matter, I will eat it cold!
UpStage is honoured to be included in the pavillion “It does not matter, I will eat it cold!” curated by Maja Kalogera for The Wrong Biennial 2019-20 (from 1 November 2019) and exhibited at Art 836 G Gallery, Zagreb (from 1 December 2019).
Life-cycles & Sustainability of projects like UpStage, @ LGM 2019
Software projects are like gardens: they are ecosystems that require ongoing nurtuting and maintenance so that they can flourish; and they have life cycles – they evolve, and sometimes they die. At the 2019 Libre Graphics Meeting in SaarbrĂĽcken, the UpStage team led a […]
Letters to the Earth
On Friday 12 April 2019, at 9pm CET, UpStage joined theatres and arts organisations around the world in a global day of action coinciding with the international Extinction Rebellion and School Strike For Climate.