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Mexican sculptor Abel Ramírez Águilar working on an entry for an ice sculpture competition. Ice Festival, Ice and Snow Festival, or Snow and Ice Festival may refer to one of the following events. Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, China; Sapporo Snow Festival, Japan; World Ice Art Championships, Alaska, United States
Ice sculpture of the Sphinx erected for the 2010 festival. Swing saws are used to carve ice into blocks, taken from the frozen surface of the Songhua River. [13] Chisels, ice picks and various types of saws are then used by ice sculptors to carve out large scaled ice sculptures, [14] many of them intricately designed [13] and worked on all day and night prior to the commencement of the festival.
ICIUM was built by Chinese ice sculptors from Harbin city, where the annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival has been held since 1963. [ 3 ] More than 10,000 cubic metres (350,000 cu ft) of snow was used in the construction of the first ICIUM in 2010.
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The 2017 Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival kicks off on Thursday and runs to the end of February. (Reporting by Xihao Jiang, writing by Doris Liu, editing by Darren Schuettler ...
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Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival originated in Harbin's traditional ice lantern show and garden party that takes place in winter, which began in 1963 in Heilongjiang, China. It was interrupted for a number of years during the Cultural Revolution , but has been resumed and was announced as an annual event at Zhaolin Park on ...
Harbin Concert Hall; Harbin Ferris Wheel; Harbin Institute of Technology Museum; Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival; Harbin Museum of Jewish History and Culture; Harbin Old Synagogue Concert Hall; Harbin Zoo