Do the dark nights get you down? Is it hard for you to get out of the house on chilly days? Circus Alchemy members are helping organize a lovely community event meant to celebrate winter! Come join us on February 12, 2012!
THE BELLWOODS ICE-IN invites you to get your winter weather birthday suit on for a night of happy participatory winter lovin’! This is a community invitation to get out of your house and join us in celebrating the winter season. Come and make snow lanterns or snowmans or snow castles in the park! Stay for films and performances on our homemade ICE SCREEN Warm up by the fire, or join us for our winter wonderland square dance and fire show finale.
WE WILL HAVE:
- pretty ice installations, films on ice, live performances, a square dance in the snow, a fire spinning jam, tea lights for your snow lanterns, fire pits and warm drinks (limited supply).
YOU SHOULD BRING:
- parkas, snowpants, swathes of wool for your head, hands, neck etc, other warm winter wearables
- sleds, sleeping bags, blankets, camping chairs, thermarests, inflatable pools and other creative things for sitting in/on
- MUGS/CUPS for apple cider and hot coco
- potatoes for the fire – BYOP!!! (we will supply sticks and foil)
- your dancin’ boots!
- your kiddish sense of adventure and experimentation, your expert snowman-making expertise, your penchant for pretty things, your happiest happy-making selves
Trinity Bellwoods Park,in a little nook by the John Gibson House (you can enter the park from the Trinity Bellwoods Community Centre at 155 Crawford St and walk north, the nook will be on your left/west)
SCHEDULE(ISH):
6:30pm – short films on the ice screen
7pm- LIVE performances
7:30pmish- musical intermission – Winter square dance with live caller!
8pm – start of second film, A Town Called Panic (70min)
8:45pmish – second dance?
9:30pmish- fire show