Festivals | Life in the Knife

Snowking XVI Winter Festival (Ice Castle) in Yellowknife

Posted on13. Mar, 2011 by Shane.

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(March 13, 2011) – It was the perfect weekend for visiting the annual 31 day long Snowking XVI Winter Festival in Yellowknife. This is the 16th year that the Ice Castle has been built out on the thick ice of Great Slave Lake and inside and outside of its frozen [...]

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The Last Saturday of the Snowking XV Winter Festival

Posted on03. Apr, 2010 by Shane.

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The Snowking Winter Festival in Yellowknife has come to a close. On the final Saturday of March, the Ice Castle was filled with performance art, poetry readings, a hockey tournament, art & photography displays, children’s theatre and music performances. Some of the notable names included photographer Jennifer Moores, artist [...]

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Caribou Carnival 2010: The Final Day

Posted on21. Mar, 2010 by Shane.

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(March 21, 2010) – Today was the last day of the annual Caribou Carnival in Yellowknife. Therefore, after a big brunch at the Explorer Hotel with the family we headed down to Frame Lake to attend the last Dog Sled race. The dogs were very excited and the crowd [...]

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The Snowking Ice Castle in Yellowknife

Posted on21. Mar, 2010 by Shane.

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(March 21, 2010) – The Snowking Winter Festival in Yellowknife is a month long event that offers music performances, multiple art shows, dances, weddings and a variety of other entertainments within a large Ice Castle built by the Kings crew. As I mentioned in the Snowking XV Winter Festival Opening Fireworks post the [...]

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Caribou Carnival 2010: The Dog Sledding Race

Posted on20. Mar, 2010 by Shane.

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On March 19 – a Dog Sledding race helped kick off the first day of the Caribou Carnival that has been held in Yellowknife every March or April since 1955. According to the Caribou Carnival website the event began as “an annual gathering of trappers” who competed to be crowned [...]

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The Snowking XV Winter Festival Opening Fireworks

Posted on01. Mar, 2010 by Shane.

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Every year there is an event of giant icy proportions that happens in Yellowknife like no other event on the continent (and perhaps the world). That event is the annual Snowking Winter Festival out on Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada. On Fenruary 28, 2010, the Snowking officially [...]