Saturday, January 11 and Sunday, January 12
Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts (9225-118 Ave)
Let your imagination take you places wintery! Stop by the Edmonton Public Library zone for winter paper modelling. Try your hand at making a working paper model tram or decorate a paper house for your very own winter village. Come on by the EPL station for paper-making fun for the whole family!
Check out Episode 17 of The Well Endowed Podcast: Winter is Here and We Like It!
Featuring Christy Morin of Arts on the Ave speaking about Deep Freeze and the annual ( and super fun) deep freezer races!
Enjoy!
Who says street hockey is only for the summer? Round up a group of 4-6* of your friends and help us take over 118th Avenue for the Deep Freeze 3 on 3 Street Hockey Tournament. The tournament is played over both days of the festival and teams are guaranteed a minimum of 5 games. Take home a championship or one of the many other prizes available to tournament participants.
Saturday:
> Exciting round-robin action
> Test your shot against the radar gun
Sunday:
> Playoffs and championship game
> 2018 Skills Tournament
Interested in registering for the friendly tournament or have any questions?
Email hockey@deepfreezefest.ca for information.
Registration deadline is Noon on January 10, 2018. Sign up now as space is limited to 16 teams!
*All tournament players must be 18+ years old.
Thank you to our Hockey Sponsors:
The tradition continues with the return of ice skating and jam-jar curling. Don your wool sweater, lace up your skates, and brush off your broom. You can borrow skates (at no cost) from the skate tent, open from Noon until 6:00 pm on Saturday and Sunday.
Keep your eyes open all festival long to see red noses and fun antics in the snow from these fools! Keep your eyes open all festival long to see red noses and fun antics from these fools!
Learn to throw and axe and knife like a viking. Axecitement on the Ave at Deep Freeze: A Byzantine Winter Festival. Ages 7 & up.
Sponsored by Jack Axe
Learn from over 10 makers and crafters of yesteryear, as woodworkers, spinners and weavers create mastepieces.
FEATURED: Old Time Canning & Preserves with Naomi Pahl
Naomi spends much of her spare time during the harvest season preserving fruit and vegetables that she has grown or foraged. Join Naomi on Prairie Homestead where she will share her extensive knowledge and the love of the canning and preserving of fruit and vegetables from the garden.
FEATURED: Blacksmith Tim Moreland
Come watch and interact with local Blacksmith Tim Moreland and friends in his mobile forge while he works the hot iron on his anvil, creating the metal tools and the hardware that were so vital to both homesteader and pioneer in the early days of the founding of this province. Tim has a passion for tradition and history and he will try to answer all your questions about blacksmithing and local history.
The Giant Fridge Magnet Poetry project is an interactive art installation that creates incredibly simple and collaborative art. With nothing more than large word magnets across a canvas of fridges, this installation invites every passer-by to add their piece to an everevolving, never-ending poem. Inspired by Marina Reid Hale.
