The Snowking Winter Festival is an annual festival held each March in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.
The festival is a major winter tourist draw to Yellowknife. It centres around the snow castle, built from snow with window panes of ice. Each winter the castle is built on Yellowknife Bay, on Great Slave Lake. The castle is designed and the construction is supervised by Snowking, Anthony Foliot. The design evolves every year and the castle has grown to include an auditorium, cafe, courtyard, traditional igloo, slide, parapets and turrets.
Once it is completed, the snow castle becomes the centre of winter arts activity in Yellowknife. The month-long festival includes concerts, art shows, children's theatre, fireworks shows and so much more. Carvers augment the castle with snow and ice sculptures.
The festival director is Elsbeth Fielding.
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