More creative snow festivals than Sapporo snow festival
The Sapporo snow festival was pretty good. There was lots of delicious food stalls, information booths, and I even signed a petition calling for the return of Japan's "northern territories" (the Kurril islands) and got a pack of toilet paper in return.
The only thing that was a slight disappointment was the snow sculptures themselves. They were very big, such as the Taj Mahal, and some of them had an impressive amount of detail, such as the Hirosaki castle, but although there was one section for original works from around the world, and also a castle sculpture inspired by a drawing by Fukushima schoolchildren IIRC, 90% of the works were depictions of Japanese or western popular culture figures. It wasn't very original. The ice sculptures nearby weren't too bad, but also were much of a muchness.
Unless I'm the only person disappointed by the festival, are there any suggestions for festivals that'd look more like what a bunch of schoolkids would create?
Best Answer
Fortunately the wonderful world of Wikipedia can help out here.
- Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival
- Sapporo Snow Festival (which you went to)
- World Ice Art Championships
- International Snow and Ice Sculpture Festival
International Ice Sculpture Contest "Polar Rhapsody", Salekhard, Russia
- Italian Ice Carving Championship
- International Snow and Ice Sculpture Championships "Europe - Asia", Ekaterinburg, Russia
- Concours International de Sculpture sur Glace, Valloire, France
- International Ice Sculpture Contest "Ice Fantasy", Khabarovsk, Russia
- International Ice Sculpture Contest, Korkeasaari, Helsinki, Finland
- International Ice Sculpture Festival, Jelgava, Latvia
- Karuizawa Winter Festival - Ice Sculpting International Exhibition, Karuizawa, Japan
- Crystal Garden International Ice Carving Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- 2004 World Ice Sculpture Competition, Asahikawa, Japan
- International Ice Sculpture Contest, St.Petersburg, Russia
- Blue Ice Art Cup 2004, Pello, Lapland, Finland
- International Ice Sculpture Competition, Vaasa, Finland
- International Ice Sculpture Competition, ICE ART 2004, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
- Michigan Technological University's Winter Carnival, Houghton, Michigan, USA
- Ice on Whyte, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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