DO NOT Miss The Giant Ice Slide on 118 Avenue & Kids’ Ice Slide South Side of 118 Ave on West Side of 92 St – Giant Ice Slide Kids’ Ice Slide in Tom Fools Ice & Snow Kingdom Behind Community Hall Tom Fool’s Ice & Snow Kingdom is still located behind the Alberta Avenue Community League, and there is a great, smaller child-sized ice slide there too – but an amazing Giant Ice Slide is located on 118 Avenue at 92 Street for even more fun and crazy thrills!! A slide experience for everyone!!
World Music
Saturday, 6:30pm – 10:30pm at The Hearth, The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse, Northern Lights Family Beer Garden, and Big Bear Yurt Stage
After a busy festival day enjoying the many delights of Deep Freeze, get ready to enjoy a lively evening focused on Latin and French Canadian flavoured rhythms on the four World Music Stages open until 10:30pm. Some of the exciting acts this year include Jason Kodie & Le Fuzz, Rumba Caliente, Esquina Latina, Mariaichi Loco, Marco Claveria and more.
Pipon Village
Saturday, Noon – 10:00pm; Sunday, Noon – 6:00pm
91 St & 118 Ave
Tansi, Tawow! Welcome to Treaty 6 Territory – enter Pipon Village and enjoy fresh bannock and jam, try snowshoeing, learn a traditional craft, check out the artisans, explore a Métis Trapper’s tent and an Inuit Tupik, and enjoy some amazing musicians , dancers and drummers in the Big Bear Yurt.
Prairie Homestead
Saturday & Sunday, Noon – 6:00pm | West of Igloo on 118 Avenue
All weekend long at Prairie Homestead you can learn from over 10 makers and crafters of yesteryear as they demonstrate some of the old time techniques for spinning, weaving, wood carving.
Deep Freezer Races
Cool Runnins’ Deep Freezer Race
Saturday, Noon – 8:00pm & Sunday, Noon – 6:00pm 118 Ave at Alberta Avenue Community League
Come and join the fun! Bring your friends and family for the ride of a lifetime in a deep freezer with skis!
Kitchen Parties
Saturday & Sunday, 3:00-3:45 | New Moon Paviliion
Join your friends & family for this jiggin’ good time at our Ukrainian Kitchen Party on Saturday afternoon, and on Sunday for the French Canadian Kitchen Party. This has become a ‘festival favourite,’ with festival-goers enjoying vibrant, toe-tapping fiddle music in a session lead by some of Canada’s finest fiddlers and musicians, including host Calvin Vollrath, Jeremy Rusu, Daniel Gervais, Marango Pie, Jay Kuchinsky, Deanna Dolstra, Kobzari, and Melanie Doderai.
Tourtière Baking Challenge
Sunday, January 12 – 5:00-5:30pm The Hearth - Inside the Alberta Ave Community League - 9210 – 118 Avenue
Tourtière is a wonderful French Canadian comfort food, loved by all, and each year on Francophone Cultural Day at Deep Freeze we serve homemade, delicious tourtière. Again this year we have challenged local cooks to come and show-off their best tourtière recipe in our Tourtière Baking Challenge. Results will be announced at 5:30 pm at The Hearth Stage.
La tourtière est un merveilleux plat réconfortant Canadien-Français, apprécié de tous. Chaque année, lors de la Journée culturelle francophone de Deep Freeze, nous servons une délicieuse tourtière faite à la maison. Cette année encore, nous avons mis au défi les cuisiniers locaux de venir présenter leur meilleure recette de tourtière dans le cadre de notre Tourtière Baking Challenge. Les résultats seront annoncés à 17h30 au stade Hearth.
Blacksmith Tim Moreland
Come watch and interact with local Blacksmith Tim Moreland in his mobile forge while he works the hot iron on his anvil, creating the metal tools and the hardware that were vital to the homesteader and pioneer in the early days of our province. Tim has a passion for tradition and history and he will try to answer all of your questions about blacksmithing and local history