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
The first block of performances in the 080808 UpStage Festival has finished – everything has gone very well, and the shows are great! Diverse, interesting, rich, fun. The second block of performances begins at 2am NZ time, with Amazigh Storyteller. This show is en francais, […]
The 080808 Foyer is now open – click here to enter. Live links to the show will be accessible from the Foyer and on the programme page. Please turn your sound on; some stages may take a few minutes to load so we recommend you […]
UpStage is vibrating with anticipation!!! The foyer has been cleaned and is ready for guests. The performers are busy doing their dress rehearsals and technical checks; the schedule has been finalised and links to the stages will be live from the programme page when 080808 […]
Something else besides the 080808 UpStage Festival is happening on 080808 (& I’m not talking about the Olympics!). It’s 080808 Digital Color: Something from Something or Nothing and online participants can set a bit to 0 or 1 in order to “produce a conversation online […]
ActiveLayers have received Grand Uncle’s latest broadcast – this time he has been taking calls from Peter Smith in New Zealand and Lizzy in England. He is also showcasing some original music by Brynne. Follow the link to have a listen: https://www.activelayers.net/~activela/callinghome/uncle.html We believe Grand […]
Stories of identity and histories that connect countries, cultures and centuries are among the performances selected for the 080808 UpStage Festival, which takes place on 8 August 2008. The festival features 14 live online performances by artists in 14 time zones, and will be accessible […]
The Norsk Telemuseum in Oslo will be one of the RL (‘real life’) access nodes for the 080808 UpStage Festival. From 10.30 to 6pm on Friday 8 August, people in Oslo will be able to participate in 080808 at the Telemuseum. The festival shows will […]
we invite you to our cyberformance “Calling Home – Part 1” on UpStage (online performance platform) Tuesday July 1, 2008, find your local time here. eg: 5am NY, 10am UK, 7pm Bris., Melb., 9pm NZ, Meet Heather, Esme, Michael J Finch and Grand Uncle. Can […]
Last year, UpStage received special mention in the the Creativity category of the New Zealand Open Source Awards. This category didn’t exist until we asked the organisers why there wasn’t a category for the arts. UpStage met the criteria for both the education category and […]
The 080808 curatorial team are excited to share with you the line up for the 080808 festival. In what is becoming a tradition for UpStage festivals the range of offerings sees shows from those produced by fledgling cyberformers [our youngest performer is 6!] through to […]
