Silver Skate Festival
9330 Groat Road Edmonton, AB, Canada

We can all enjoy getting outside, great message from the City of Edmonton and their regional partners

The joy of seeing snow for the first time.

Do you still want to purchase one of our Celebrate Edmonton Surprise Bags? Good news! We have extended our sales through to the new year. Any orders made from today on will be available for pickup or delivery on January 6-8, 2021. SHOP: https://silverskate.square.site/

Thank you Edmonton! We can't get over the response to our Celebrate Edmonton Surprise Bags. We will be cutting off sales at midnight Friday December 18th. #yeg you are incredible, each of our vendors will make around $1000 from this initiative. #shoplocal https://silverskate.square.site

What are we up to now? #yegwinter #wintercity

The Silver Skate Festival is pleased to be a part of this incredible fundraiser for the Cross Cancer Institute. *PLEASE SHARE to help Reach Goal for Cross Cancer! * The Braaksma Family is EXCITED to announce a Christmas Virtual Tour of the Magrath Mansion coming Nov 28, 2020. Thanks to all who made such a huge contribution to make this happen! Nellie Braaksma and family, owners of the Magrath Mansion - built in 1912 and located in Edmonton's historic Highlands neig...hbourhood, will release a pre-recorded virtual tour of the Mansion in support of the Cross Cancer Institute. This exclusive virtual tour is the last time the family will be showcasing and sharing their adventures at this magnificent property. Do not miss the chance to virtually tour a stunning century-old home. Magrath Mansion is currently listed for SALE. #donate #donation #cancersupport #crosscancerinstitute #cancertreatment #northgateindustriesltd #dancingframemedia #silverskate #yeg #yegwinter https://p2p.onecause.com/magrath-mansion-virtual-tour Want to see a Christmas Virtual Tour of the Magrath Mansion?

Due to the wonderful response to our Celebrate Edmonton Surprise Gift Bags, we have had to put a deadline for all orders. Friday, December 18 will be the last day you can place your order for delivery and curbside #yeg #shoplocal #supportlocal https://silverskate.square.site

Stomping forms today for a special project of one our favourite Community builders and philanthropists. #staytuned #yeg #yegwinter #wintercity #abarts

Santa was delighted with the Celebrate Edmonton Surprise Bag he purchased for that hard to buy for person in his life, Mrs Claus. Santa loves supporting local business and us the Silver Skate Festival Society. https://silverskate.square.site Bags will be featuring products from these local Edmonton vendors: ... New Asian Village Celtic Kitchen Chicks and Chaps Fifendeckel Odd Company Brewing Shareck Designs What She Said Creatives Caramunchies Acquired Taste Tea Company Choclination Zyp Chicks Pottery by Birgit Beaver Creek Honey You Need a BBQ Rogue Wave Coffee Roasters Meuwly's #Christmas #yeg #yegwinter #shoplocal #supportlocal #surprise #tallsanta @tall_santa

Call for Submission | Snow Sculpture Symposium | Deadline November 19th https://www.silverskatefestival.org//s/290-snow-sculpture

Well it is trying to snow and it seems to be sticking in certain areas of the Greater Edmonton area. We don't know how long this snowfall will last but Winter is just around the corner. So we are going to leave this right here.

Silver Skate Festival is happy to support "A Paths for People Fundraiser" Paths for People is a non-profit that advocates for making Edmonton a friendlier place to walk, roll and cycle. We hope that you can support Paths for People 's auction as they continue to do great work in our community. https://app.galabid.com/pathsforpeople

CALL TO ARTIST | SNOW SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM Snow sculpture is a perennial favourite at the Silver Skate Festival. Teams of 2-3 artists transform 8-ft high, 8-ft wide and 8-ft deep blocks of snow into magical creations. When they are finished, eight artworks create an ephemeral sculpture garden for audiences to enjoy for the duration of the festival. Artists are invited to submit an application https://bit.ly/35JNMoK... APPLICATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2020

We are so blessed to have incredible Community Partners like @budget who work to support and help us whenever we ask. Please support them as they support us. Community Partnerships are so incredibly important to organizations like ours. Our core Festival programming may be "free" for all to enjoy but unfortunately it is not free to produce. It is partners like @budget who work with us and our budget to ensure success. If you are interested in learning more about our Com...munity Partnerships feel free to contact us via our website. Link in Bio. #yeg #yegarts #abarts #festival #yegfest #partners #community #communitybuilders #alberta

A little cleaning and reorganizing in the office today. Moved some things around and spent some time reminiscing. #TBT 1994 Silver Skate Festival poster.

Our website and emails are back up and running! We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused anyone. silverskatefestival.org

Silver Skate Festival website and email system is down. Currently working with our provider to get us back up and running ASAP.

The Silver Skate Festival is looking for new team members. A P/T office administrator and also a Fund Development Summer Student position. Job descriptions and how to apply can be found on our website homepage. silverskatefestival.org

The Silver Skate family is saddened to hear that Larry Andreoff has passed after a long fight. The snow and ice carving world will miss you. Larry was a big part of our community and a joy to be around. This picture is from the 2015 Festival Snow Sculpture Symposium. The Executive Producer knew of a young artist that was looking to learn how to carve. Larry, being Larry asked her to join his team, they were the youngest and oldest carvers that year and had a blast. Larry was always willing to share his knowledge. Our deepest condolences to his family. Heaven is waiting with some pristine snow blocks and sharp carving tools. You will be missed.

It is National Volunteer week and we want to send a Thank you to all the amazing volunteers that help make our community and festival great. We couldn't do what we do without them. #volunteers #volunteering

Check out a few more photos from our 30th Anniversary Fire Sculpture Installation and Burn!

We’re still so thrilled about our RECORD-BREAKING YEAR Creating Winter Experiences with more than 105,000+ of you and we hope you SAVE THE DATE for the 31st Silver Skate Festival: Feb 12-21, 2021! Be sure to sign up to the newsletter on our website and stay tuned for updates on next year’s event! https://www.silverskatefestival.org/go/ And if you experienced Silver Skate this year, please leave us a Facebook Rating and Google Review!

We had some truly incredible snow sculpture creations for our 30th Anniversary event this February! The sculptures will remain at Hawrelak Park for a little while, so if you didn't get a chance to see them yet, or want to see them without all the crowds, head down! We will keep them up as long as possible but when they become unsafe we knock them down. Thanks again to our participating snow sculpture artists! https://www.silverskatefestival.org//si/290-snow-sculpture

To say we are grateful for our festival volunteers is an understatement! We couldn't put on this festival without them! Thank you to the hundreds of volunteers who made our 30th Anniversary possible (and honestly every year possible). From first-time volunteers to those who have been with us for years and years, we couldn’t have done it without you! Here's just a few of the volunteers who helped out this year. Visit our website to learn how you can volunteer with us next year: https://www.silverskatefestival.org//get-involved/volunteer

11 days. 11 dinners. 11 teams of chefs from Alberta and Saskatchewan. An intimate dinner in a heated tent nestled in the Edmonton river valley! Our inaugural Silver Skate Longtable Dinners were a resounding, sold-out, and absolutely delicious success! Thank you to the 24 guests who joined us each and every night of the dinners. We cannot wait to bring this culinary event series back next year! You can sign up to the Silver Skate email list on our website to be notified o...f tickets and culinary events: https://www.silverskatefestival.org/go/ If you attended one of these dinners, please give us a Google or Facebook Review/Rating and comment! Thank you to our Longtable Dinner partners Northgate Industries Ltd. Thiels Greenhouses and Nadine's Fresh Food Scene Color de Vino and Biera! As well as our culinary events coordinator Monique Macdonald! And of course thank you to the chefs who made our dinners possible! Richard Toll of Under the High Wheel, Christine Sandford of Biera, Roger Letourneau of Meuwly's, Douglas King of Bar Von der Fels Calgary, Blaine Robinson of Cafe Linnea and Riley Aitkins of Smokey Bear YEG, Blair Lebsack and Davina Moraiko of RGE RD, Garret Martin of Bridgette Bar Concord Group Calgary, Blair Clemis of Model Milk, PIGEONHOLE Calgary, Duncan Gommerud of District Café and Bakery, Ellen Mitchell of Baijiu, David Leeder (private consulting chef) & Christie Peters of The Hollows Saskatoon, Will Kottowitz of Meuwly’s, Kelsey Johnson of Cafe Linnea, Laneway Bakery, and Ryan Hotchkiss of Bündok!

IT WAS A RECORD BREAKING YEAR! More than 105,000+ visitors came out to this year’s Silver Skate Festival presented by Northgate Industries Ltd. at Hawrelak Park. It was the biggest turnout ever over the 30-year history of our festivalEdmonton’s largest and longest-running winter festival! THANK YOU for celebrating our 30th Anniversary with us. We have lots more photos from the festival to share so stay tuned! It’s been such a fun-filled 11 days, and such an honour Creating Winter Experiences with you. We could not have put on this event without all of our partners, sponsors, grantors, contributors, volunteers and of course, YOU! Photos by: Marc J Chalifoux Photography and Eric Kozakiewicz Photography

Thanks to all participants of this year's Mammoet Edmonton Winter Triathlon and Ice Duathlon! Whether you were run, skate, skiing or run, skate, running, you were creating some incredible winter experiences with us during the 30th Anniversary of the Silver Skate Festival!! Find all race results at: http://resultscanada2017.com/results/

Scenes From The Folk Trail Procession!

What a turnout for the Final Fire Sculpture Burn of 2020! Team Scorpion!!

It's the final day of our festival and we could not thank you enough for Creating Winter Experiences with us for our 30th Anniversary event! We also could not thank our sponsors, partners, contributors, and volunteers enough for helping make this festival a reality. THANK YOU TO: Edmonton Arts Council, Canadian Heritage, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Alberta Lotteries, Edmonton Heritage Council, YourAlberta (Government of Alberta) ... City of Edmonton, Mammoet, Northgate Industries Ltd., Ice Castles, ONEC, Sunbelt Rentals, YEG Parks, Pembina, Waiward Steel, Imperial, Marc J Chalifoux Photography Alberta Milk, OCTS, Varscona Hotel on Whyte, CSU52, Superior Show Service Inc,. NexGen Graffix, Gibson Energy, Edmonton Speed Skating Association, Kiwi Productions Inc. Bearcom, Snow Valley Ski Club, Northern Lights RV, Fly Synergy Aviation Ltd., Dutch Canadian Club, Melcor, Derrick Disposal Ltd., ATS Traffic, Production Paramedics Inc, Office Marketplace, Arctic Chiller Ltd., Diamond B Ranch, Potato Growers of Alberta, Mr. D Taylor, Linda Hoang Digital, The Promo Addict 102.3 Now! Radio, Global Edmonton/Corus, Pattison Outdoor Advertising Alberta Avenue Community League, Armour Fire Safety, Ben's Meat & Deli, MilkCrate, Fifendekel, Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society, Fast Trax Run & Ski Shop, Edmonton Tourism, Travel Alberta, Sculptors' Association of Alberta, Gateway Skating Club, Auto Rescue, Winter City Edmonton, Preferred Client Services, Urban Poling / Nordic Walking Community, International Festival of Winter Cinema, Spirits on Ice, Front Step Forge, MultiSport Canada, Canadian Maple Shack Check out today's final festival day, our Family Day Monday schedule: http://bit.ly/silverskate2020events