Culture of Yellowknife - Snowking Winter Festival, the Times Behind the Signs, N.W.T. Mining Heritage Society, Folk on the Rocks (Paperback)

Chapters: Snowking Winter Festival, the Times Behind the Signs, N.w.t. Mining Heritage Society, Folk on the Rocks. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 17. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Snowking Winter Festival is an annual festival held each March in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. The festival is a major winter tourist draw to Yellowknife. It centres around the snow castle, built from snow with window panes of ice. Each winter the castle is built on Yellowknife Bay, on Great Slave Lake. The castle is designed and the construction is supervised by Snowking, Anthony Foliot. The design evolves every year and the castle has grown to include an auditorium, cafe, courtyard, traditional igloo, slide, parapets and turrets. Once it is completed, the snow castle becomes the centre of winter arts activity in Yellowknife. The month-long festival includes concerts, art shows, children's theatre, fireworks shows and so much more. Carvers augment the castle with snow and ice sculptures. The festival director is Elsbeth Fielding. The first Snowking castle was built in 1996. From humble beginnings in Yellowknife's Woodyard neighbourhood, where the castle was little more than tunnels in snowbanks augmented by blocks of snow cut from wind-formed snow drifts, the Snowking's Winter Festival has grown into a month-long event based around a large castle built of snow. In the early years, Snowking and Sir Shiverin' Sam built forts of snow with their children near their homes on the shore of Yellowknife Bay. Over the years, the "castle" grew, and at some point moved out onto the ice of the bay. Each year the structure became larger and more elaborate. Crew members came and went over the years, but the Snowking remained dedicated to his kingdom. Funding was secured so that the castle could...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=284550