8 Things you can do at Silver Skate Festival this Month

The Silver Skate festival in Edmonton launches this weekend. It’s your chance to experience the outdoors at the headquarters of Hawrelak Park.

Here’s what you can do at the festival:

See Where Art and Stories Merge on the Folk Trail

Actors will be animating the trail with three new fables for four evenings of the festival, February 12, 13, 19 & 20 between 5pm-8pm. Be sure to stick around to witness the spectacle if the Fire Sculpture Burn (also a great opportunity to warm up).

Walk Through a Snow Sculpture Garden

Each year, teams of 2-3 artists demonstrate how to transform 8-ft high x 8-ft wide x 8-ft deep blocks of snow into magical creations. When they are finished, eight artworks create an ephemeral sculpture garden for the public to enjoy for the duration of the festival. 

The Waiward Snow Sculptures Garden will be up in Hawrelak Park from February 11th until Mother Nature says it's spring. We'd love for you to come take a peek at your leisure. 

Eat, Eat, Eat!

Mini doughnuts (available every day), delicious food from Avila Arepa, maple taffy from the sugar shack and the Smoke and Fire BBQ truck (weekend festival days) make it easy to explore, and then eat, as you enjoy Silver Skate Festival.

Lace up those Skates

Located conveniently at Hawrelak Park, you’re not going to want to miss the chance to lace up those skates and hit the ice, before or after the festival.

Experience Live Music

See the full Silver Skate Festival line-up, here. You can experience the live music throughout the festival, and cozy up to something live on stage! There are more than 24 performances scheduled throughout Silver Skate Festival - and there’s even a singlalong!

See it Burn!

The Live fire sculpture is one of our favourite parts of the Silver Skate Festival. The spellbinding spectacle of light that serves as a finale to the Silver Skate Folk Trail is back for 2022. Throughout each day of each weekend, a team of fire artists will build a sculpture that will be burned that night. This year, there are four design teams.

Winter Film Cinema

There are ten times through the festival that you can experience winter cinema, literally displayed during winter. You can find ten films through the festival - view the full line up here.

Click here to see the full 2022 Silver Skate Festival Line-up of events