Enjoy the Edmonton House Brigade, a Living History re-enactment group whose members bring back to life the days of the great fur brigades in western Canada at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Fur brigades were convoys of canoes and boats used to transport supplies, trading goods and furs in the North American fur trade industry.
Edmonton Short Film Festival
Film Shorts Around Festival Site
Edmonton Short Film Festival @ St. Faith’s Church Saturday and Sunday from 3:00pm to 6:00pm.
Deep Freeze Byzantine Winter Festival is excited to bring this unique partnership to Alberta Avenue. The Edmonton Short Film Festival is bringing a specially curated selection of short films made by Alberta independent filmmakers to St. Faith’s Church. Short films are a great way to experience a variety of stories that will make you laugh, cry, feel joy and remind us of our uniqueness and diversity while celebrating our humanity.
• T-Minus by Director Adrian Gonzalez
• The Crying Fields by Director Hayley Morin
• I Love You Too by Director Madeline Setzer
• Black & Blue by Director Justin Kueber
• Becoming Cognizant by Director Greg Waggoner
• Tether by Andreas Eichmuller
• The School in the Clouds by Director Steven Brese
• Lonely People Exercising to Sad Music by Director Kaytlyn Turner
• I am Rare by Director Dianne Mahoney
Edmonton Short Film Festival @ 3 Store Front Locations on 118 Avenue Saturday night from 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Watch a few short films made by Alberta independent filmmakers while you stroll down the Avenue – something you probably haven’t done before!!
• Tether by Director Andreas Eichmuller
• Becoming Cognizant
• I love You Too by Director Madeline Setzer
• T-Minus by Director Adrian Gonzalez
• Lonely People Exercising to Sad Music by Director Kaytlyn Turner
New Theme for Deep Freeze 2020
We are excited to announce that the theme for Deep Freeze 2020 will be Under the Frozen Sea. Installations coordinator, Gabrielle deGouw, has been hard at work in the studio bringing her artistic vision to life. Expect for one the largest sea creatures to surface at Deep Freeze!
Deep Freeze Posters for Download:
English Version
French Version
Deep Freeze Featured on VIA Rail's The Blog
Our humble festival has been featured on VIA Rails’s recent blog article, “CURE FOR THE COLD: PRAIRIE WINTER FESTIVALS”!
Both Christy Morin and Allison Argy-Burgess of Arts on the Ave share some words for this piece on Western Canada’s winter festivals.
A message from His WorshipMayor, Don Iveson
On behalf of City Council and the people of Edmonton, I welcome everyone to the 12th annual Deep Freeze Festival.
For two wintery days each year, 118th Avenue becomes a magical and lively wonderland for children and adults alike, encouraging each of us to embrace both Edmonton’s weather and its cultural diversity. Honouring Ukrainian, Francophone and Indigenous culture, this event creates a stunning and swirling kaleidoscope of colour and energy; with performers twirling fire and carving snow into fantastical shapes in a true winter spectacle.
I thank festival organizers and the many volunteers, sponsors and contributors who make this festival possible each year. Your passion and enthusiasm help to make this city a brighter, livelier and more connected place to live.
Yours truly,
Don Iveson
Mayor
A Message from Brian Mason, M.L.A.
Welcome to Deep Freeze, 2019!
It gives me great pleasure to bring greetings to you today on behalf of Premier Rachel Notley and the Government of Alberta, and to welcome you to the 12th Annual Deep Freeze/Byzantine Festival.
This is a special Deep Freeze Festival for me.
As your MLA for the past 19 years, I’ve had the honor of attending this Festival pretty well every year. Sadly, this will also be the last time I’ll be able to bring greetings to it as your MLA, as I will soon be retiring.
I’ve watched this Festival grow over the years, from an event that was scratched out around Christy Morin’s kitchen table to the amazing Festival it has become now.
From those humble beginnings, this Festival has grown into one of Edmonton’s biggest and best FREE Family events. Tens of thousands of people enjoy this festival every year. Hundreds of artists bring an amazing variety of music, dance, visual arts, story-telling, face-painting, food, and other cultural elements to it.
Most importantly, the Deep Freeze Festival has also become an opportunity for us to get out and meet each other around the stages and galleries, at Pipon Village or the Ice Kingdom or any of the other venues hosting activities this weekend.
It has fostered not only the arts, but also the community and the people that supports and welcomes the arts.
It has become a powerful vehicle for positive social change.
We see that happening when we look around this area. We hear about it when we listen to the stories of our neighbours. And we add to that when we take part in a wonderful event like this.
Thank you, Deep Freeze Festival, for bringing us all together, a little closer to one another.
And thank you for making us all a little better because of that.
I wish the very best for this Festival now and in years to come. I wish the very best to all of you too --- the organizers, the hundreds of volunteers, the artists and performers, and everyone coming out to enjoy “The Ave” this weekend.
HAPPY DEEP FREEZE!!!
Brian Mason, M.L.A.
Edmonton Highlands-Norwood
Le Franco
Le seul journal francophone en Alberta
Alberta’s only french language newspaper
Deep Freeze Poster 2019
English and French posters for for download.