Jerusalem will host First International Ice Festival
Jerusalem
February 17, 2012
Jerusalem will host First International Ice Festival
The festival will take place between March 6 and April 30, 2012 at the Jerusalem Train Site, and will include a spectacular exhibition and an attractive course for visitors as Fairytale world, an ice bar, skating rinks, childhood stories, Jerusalem made of ice.
In Jerusalem an “Ice City” will be created where its famous sites would be sculpted with ice and presented in a giant complex, in a temperature of -10 degrees (Visitors will receive coats on entrance) hundreds of tons of Israel-made ice blocks, 35 expert Chinese artists, sculptors and builders will fly to Israel to sculpt the exhibits, an ice skating rink, an ice bar and performance space, tens of artistic sculptures presented with magnificent lighting.
This festival, like its equivalents in Harbin, China and Bruges, Belgium and like many international ice festivals that take place around the world, is expected to draw people to Jerusalem from Israel and abroad.
This February, a group of 35 artists, sculptors, lighting technicians, designers and builders will arrive in Israel from China. During one month, they will install and design the Ice exhibition. The intense work will be accompanied by Israeli professionals and translators (The process of preparation and ice sculpting may be observed with special permits).
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