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Weekend Planner: February 25–26, 2012

This weekend, bring your game face to a board game–making competition; see the winter that could have been (though likely a much prettier version) at this year's Icefest; find out what happens when classical music gets taken out of the halls and put into the barns, and so forth.

BOARD GAMES: Think you have what it takes to create the next Monopoly or RISK? Bring all your best ideas to Board Game Jam, which challenges participants to create a board game in 48 hours. At the end of it, you’ll get to test them all out while drinking. Win-win! George Brown College (333 King [...]

An Ice Affair

This weekend, the Village of Yorkville Park hosted the “Circus Extravaganza”-themed IceFest Ice Carving Competition, with eleven sculptors taking part. Wen Xie was named winner by popular vote. The finished sculptures will be up in the park for the next week, or until they start to melt—with today’s weather, of course, that process is already [...]

PhotoTO: Icefest

The highlight of the 2009 Bloor Yorkville Icefest last weekend was Saturday’s Sassafraz Ice Carving Competition. While the carving ended this weekend, according to publicist Steven Carvalho, the pieces “will be up for the next week, or so—weather pending, since ice doesn’t do too well in warm weather.” Photos by Miles Storey/Torontoist.

PhotoTO: Icefest

The Village of Yorkville Park rang to the sound of chisels and chainsaws on Saturday as ice sculptors took part in the Bloor-Yorkville IceFest Festival Ice Carving Competition. More images after the jump. All photos by Miles Storey

Ice-InFested

Snow globes, ice sculptures, and an ice bar…sound like an arctic paradise? Even if you’re sick of slipping on the white (and sometimes yellow) stuff, you’re still invited to Bloor-Yorkville’s IceFest Festival this weekend—and you don’t even have to get your feet wet! IceFest ent-ice-s with enough of the cold stuff to carve out a [...]