The annual “Carnaval de Quebec” is one of the bigger winter celebrations in the world. One of the big attractions has long been the national and international snow and Ice sculpture competitions.
This winter’s version of Carnaval however will see a greatly altered and reduced version of that particular event.
Carnaval president, Denis Simard says that fewer participants had expressed interest from other provinces, thus compromising the national competition, and it was simply getting too costly to bring in international artists.
Costs for the two events were about $80,000.
Instead he said, the competition will be much smaller and on a local scale, and it will be called “Defi Chateau de Neige” loosely translated as “Snow Castle Challenge”.
This year’s version, city residents will be invited to create sculptures or snow castles in front of their houses.
Simard says, organizers are taking the year to re-examine and redefine the event for future years.
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