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Collingwood Downtown ICE SCULPTURE FESTIVAL |
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| Our first blast of winter weather arrived just in time for the creation of beautiful ice sculptures throughout the downtown Collingwood streets |
Celebration of Winter Sports Frozen In Time |
| The first ever Collingwood Downtown Ice Sculpture Festival celebrated more than twenty winter sports. What better way for a town known as one of Canada's leading winter playgrounds to embrace the Holiday Season than with incredible works of art, frozen in time, lining the downtown district. The event seemed to trigger our first blast of winter weather, as much colder temperatures and snow arrived as the sculptures were being created. The festival brought more than 22,000 pounds of ice to our downtown streets. The company that created the beautiful works of art is called "Iceculture," and is one of the larger players in the hospitality ice business, worldwide, recognized as a leader when it comes to developing unique and exciting designs in ice, such as the beaded ice curtain and the ice portrait. The company currently holds the Guinness World Record for the largest ice sculpture; created for GM at the Canadian Auto Show in Toronto using 2000 blocks of ice and completed by a team of fourteen ice carvers. Iceculture has also designed and installed more than twenty permanent and semi-permanent ice lounges and restaurants around the world – in Dubai, Thailand, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal, India, Greece and throughout theUnited States. The Collingwood Downtown Ice Sculpture Festival also included free horse and wagon tours around the downtown district, daily ice carving demonstrations and free ice skating at the Eddie Bush Memorial Arena. |
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