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Festival of Ice and Winter Games
Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // Submitted
The organizers of Carmel’s Festival of Ice and Winter Games are thrilled to announce that these events will return to the Arts & Design District and Carter Green this January and February!
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hile the ice carving component of the Festival of Ice was held last year during the pandemic, the other exciting events that complement the ice carving contests were canceled as were the Carmel Winter Games that take place on the ice rink. I spoke with Meg Gates Osborne, founder of MEG & Associates and Carmel event manager, about what attendees
and participants can look forward to after the new year.
THE 2022 FESTIVAL OF ICE Carmel’s Festival of Ice features carving demonstrations by professional ice carvers on Saturday, Jan. 8 in the Arts & Design District. “We have eight professional [ice] carvers coming in from all over the Midwest for the weekend,” Osborne said. “We’ll
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have eight locations—top to bottom—on Main Street from Woody’s to Bub’s, and they will carve these gorgeous carvings. Hopefully, it will be cold enough so that they don’t melt immediately!” This event offers the ice carvers two chances to win prize money: public and judge voting! The following day, Sunday, Jan. 9, the ice carvers will be demonstrating their remarkable talent at Carter Green. “There will be a carving competition at Carter Green, and people can vote for ‘People’s Choice,’” Osborne stated. “We’ll have tickets for people to put in their favorite carver’s box. It’s really amazing to watch and a really fun event. We put these colored gel lights under the pedestals that the Carmel Street Department made, and they light up the ice and make the sculptures really sparkle.” Returning to heat things up a bit, Carmel Fire Department’s firehouses will compete in a chili cook-off on Sunday. At the time of publishing, the schedule had not been firmly set. See
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