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| - Night It Up is a festival that occurs once a year at the Markham Civic Centre (in July). The draw is that it's an Asian festival with several attractions ranging from food stands, games, entertainment and even some outdoor volleyball and activities.
If you live even remotely close to the Markham Civic Centre, walk. There's a ton of lighting around the area so no fears there. Parking is atrocious though. They don't let you park in the nearby business parking lots and the No Frills across the street doesn't let you go there either. This means you're stuck finding one of the random parking lots in the (non-direct) area or on the road. If this weren't enough to get you started, the volunteers are absolutely useless. The first time I went, I honestly had no idea where I was suppose to park and... they didn't seem to know either. Volunteers outside of the Civic Centre don't do anything but stand there and look pretty... so they're likely only there just to get free volunteer hours (doesn't get much easier than that, does it?).
If you are planning to go to Night It Up, go as early as possible. It gets extremely crowded a few hours into opening, at least on the Friday night. Lines are stupidly long and you REALLY have to struggle to find a way to get through people. In addition, lines stem outward from the stands, so lines tend to hit other lines or block people off who are trying to walk through. People at these stands simply don't have a way to keep people organized, though some clearly try. They really need to either get more space for the event or have less attractions. Due to the massive amount of cramming, there's no real place to sit and eat whatever you get to eat. At one end, there's a large stage set up with live entertainment, usually dancing or singing with a combination of loud music. It's not really all that impressive and if you need to pass by there, it's way too loud. Finally, even though the food selection is pretty good, the prices tend to be pretty overpriced for what they are. A lot of them are really small and you're stuck paying something for a full priced snack / meal.
There are enough garbage cans to keep the grounds relatively clean and the lighting's good enough (at night) that you can see where you're going. So there's a few pluses.
Another major drawback is the smell. There's commonly at least one stand that sells "stinky tofu". As the name suggest, it smells. A lot. My second year, they put that particular stand near the middle of all the area and the smell really carries.
Night It Up has a lot of draw to it because of the food they sell and some of the attractions they have but outside of maybe a bunch of teenagers wanting to get together for a fun night out, I can't find a reason to want to actually be there. If the food is what you want, you can always whatever you're looking for, somewhere else and at a better price.
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