More than 65,000 people - including artists, audiences, students and others - have encountered UpStage in the last four years.
“And Now … !” took place in UpStage on Saturday 8 March, celebrating international women’s day as well as the diversity and creativity of UpStage performances. The event began with the evening’s host, Helen Varley Jamieson, welcoming everyone and acknowledging the role of women in […]
"We need culture - like air to breathe" is the English translation of the title of an installation currently in the foyer of the Kunsthaus Graz (Austria).
Once again, UpStage will be presented at the annual Libre Graphics Meeting, this year taking place 28-31 May in Nuremburg, Germany.Â
Helena Martin Franco, who presented Paraiso at the 070707 UpStage Festival, has a residency at Studio XX in Montreal, where she will present her project “Laberinto: The Visit” as a series of cyberformances. It will take place online and in public spaces around Montreal. Read […]
The next open walk-through will be on Wednesday 3 December (or Thursday 4th if you are in the front part of the world), and a Swaray will be held on Thursday 4th December. The walk-through is for those of you who are new to UpStage […]
Just for a change, the next open walk-through will be on a Tuesday rather than the usual Wednesday: it is happening at 8pm New Zealand time on Tuesday November 4th; click here to find your local time. The open walk-through is an opportunity for those […]
The next open walk-through will be held on Wednesday 8 October, at 9pm New Zealand time (that’s 2am in Texas and 11am in Turkey). Click here to find your local time. the walk-through is an opportunity to have a hands-on experience of the UpStage player […]
There will be an UpStage tutorial in Athens, Greece on 10 September at the 3rd International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts (DIMEA 2008). The presentation will be given by Miljana Peric (on site) and Helen Varley Jamieson (remotely), from 11.15am to […]
The open walk-through is an opportunity for people interested to learn about UpStage to have a guided tour through the on-stage player tools, and for those who have some experience of UpStage to get together to improvise, play and jam. The next walk-through will be […]
The 080808 UpStage Festival has been reviewed by Bree Hadley for Australian Stage Online: What was most engaging about the cyberformance experience was the sense of the performances forming in the very moment of the encounter, and the sense that spectators participated in this encounter. […]
After 18 hours of cyberformance and some online partying at the end, the 080808 UpStage Festival has ended. All over the world, exhausted cyberformers and online audience members are collapsing into bed, no matter what time of day or night. Thirteen shows were performed – […]
Helen, Dan and Vicki show just how bright and fresh they can look on 2 hours sleep! Beaming because the festival has gone so well … only a couple of hours left now …
The RL access node in Oslo – love those big UpStage banners! Photographer – Cato Normann
