Slides, tunnels and frozen thrones, its a true Winnipeg winter wonderland.
Ice Castles are going up at The Forks in the new year and the Utah-based company has been busy crafting icicle archways, fountains and spiralling towers embedded with colourful lights that twinkle to the music of the production.
“It’s kind of like a mixture between walking through a frozen waterfall and a glacier,” Owner Ryan Davis said. “Ice is put together in a combination between man’s idea of how to build something and mother nature just taking over the process and creating the beauty.”
The staff have spent the last four weeks dripping, shaping and selecting icicles to create the display. It takes five to 10 thousand ice rods fused together to form the icy walls.
Seeing the progress is exciting for Winnipegger Takisha Abraham who was hired to help build the display.
“It is amazing. I have never done anything like this before. I never even knew something like this before,” Abraham said. “From the outside you see how tall it is and you see the lights on at night. But when you get in here, it’s incredible it feels almost alien.”
The ice castles in Winnipeg is one of six locations across North America this season. The only other Canadian city where people can see the castles is Edmonton.
This isn’t the same organization from China that came last year bringing more than 100 ice sculptures to The Forks. That group decided not to bring the show back this year.
Opening date for Ice Castles in Winnipeg is Friday, Jan. 5, 2018.
Tickets go on sale Friday, Dec. 29, 2017 on the company’s website.
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