We can't do what we do without the amazing volunteers in our Community. Thank you for all that you do to build a better #yeg

Congratulations to @mimibikini, the randomly selected winner of our #SilverSkate social media contest Grand Prize of a @viarailcanada Trip for 2 🚂 to keep her winter experiences going! 🥳🎉 Thanks to everyone who came out to #CreateWinterExperiences with us this year! ❄️ we truly loved seeing all of your amazing photos and videos. ❤️ We are still surprising a few more randomly selected winners for our gift bag, art and swag prizes. ❤️ Winners will receive a DM from us and be asked to contact ou...

We LOVED seeing all of your photos and videos from the 32nd #SilverSkate Festival at Hawrelak Park! including this one 📸 from @eyekaye. 😍 We hope to share a few more festival photos from festival attendees over the next week! And we’re going through all the social media contest entries and will be contacting randomly selected winners over the next week! 🎁 Thanks for your patience. ☺️ 📸: @eyekaye 📍: #SilverSkate 2022 @ Hawrelak Park #silverskate #silverskatefestival #wintercityyeg #explore...

THANK YOU EDMONTON! ❤️ Thank you to everyone who came out to the 32nd #SilverSkate Festival, Edmonton’s longest-running winter festival. 🔥 We were thrilled to be able to offer so many FREE winter activities for all ages over our 11 day #WeekOfWinter down at Hawrelak Park this year. So many of you bundled up and came out to #CreateWinterExperiences with us! 🙏🏻 Thank you. Don’t forget to share your Silver Skate social media posts to enter our contests before end of day Feb 21 to qualify for p...

This is a #SilverSkate volunteer appreciation post. 😭😭😭❤️ As our #WeekOfWinter winds down at Hawrelak Park, we wanted to express just how grateful we are to festival volunteers. We really can’t thank volunteers enough for all they do to ensure Edmonton’s longest-running #yegwinter festival goes off without a hitch, each and every year for the last 32 years! 🙏🏻 ❤️ 📸: photos by Eric Kozakiewicz @arcanitestudios / Marc J Chalifoux @marctivist #silverskate #silverskatefestival #wintercityyeg ...

Spend Family Day at #SilverSkate Festival! Here’s all the FREE winter fun happening at Hawrelak Park this Holiday Monday: 🏒 Ball hockey, frisbee and jam can curling in the @albertamilk Family Fun Zone ❄️ Snow mounds, snow building and snow exploring at the @pembinapipeline Family Fun Zone ⛄️ Snowshoe rentals and shelter building presented by @cityofedmonton River Valley Programming 🎭 Roving street performers presented by @edmontonstreetfest 🧡 Art, blacksmithing demos @frontstepforge, ma...

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the final Fire Sculpture burn of the 32nd #SilverSkate Festival! 🔥🥰 “The fire represents renewal and the release of thoughts that make us sad or any fear or regret that chases love from our hearts.” This installation depicting a fish eating a snowflake was created by Team Loren’s Lumen. 🧡🔥 Thank you to Fire Burn sponsor @northgateindustriesltd! Plan to bundle up and #CreateWinterExperiences with us for the FINAL DAY of Silver Skate Festival on holiday M...

Don't miss the MAGIC along the @ImperialOil Folk Trail at #SilverSkate Festival Hawrelak Park. ✨ Tonight (Sunday) Feb. 20 is the final night of illuminated installations and roving storytellers. You can still walk the trail and see installations on Family Day Monday but no illumination—so try to come down tonight! 🥰 This year’s Folk Trail plays were written by Charlie Peters, directed and dramaturged by Liz Hobbs. ✨ Tap the link in our bio to more and plan your visit to Edmonton's longest-r...

The votes are in! Congratulations to Team Voyager Art, Lead Artist: @BrianMcArthurArt with Michael Decaine, for not only winning #SilverSkate 2022 ARTISTS' CHOICE 🏆 Snow Sculpture but PEOPLE'S CHOICE 🏆 too! 🎉 Check out the @waiward_industrial Snow Sculpture Garden at Hawrelak Park, FREE activities on until Family Day Monday (Feb 21). Tap the link in our bio for the full festival schedule! Come #CreateWinterExperiences with us. 💙 #silverskate #silverskatefestival #wintercityyeg #exploreedmon...

We were thrilled to hold a one-hour Speed Skating Challenge at #SilverSkate this morning, presented by MSI Marathon Skating and Speed Skating Canada! ⛸️💨 Most laps in one hour: 🏆 Mens category: Stefan Waples (31.5 laps) 🏆 Womens category: Keri Morrison (25 laps) 🎉🎉🎉🎉 This event was held in memory of Tony Lambert, a long-time driving force behind organizing marathon speed skating races in Edmonton, who suddenly passed away in April 2020. Don’t forget to try some of the virtual (individual) S...

This is how we stay warm on weekends at #SilverSkate. 🔥🥰 A beautiful Fire Burn presented by @northgateindustriesltd, installation by artist @steventeeuwsen with @bitterrrs and @if_u_liek_pina_coladas. ❤️ Don’t miss the final burn of our 32nd Silver Skate Festival on Sunday Feb 20 at 7:45 p.m. at Hawrelak Park! 🔥 Bundle up to #CreateWinterExperiences with us. Tap the link in our bio for more festival programming to help plan your visit! #silverskate #silverskatefestival #wintercityyeg #exp...

At this weekend's #SilverSkate Festival, we hired Edmonton artist Riyaz Sharan @ryzshrn to turn our beautiful Heritage Village Medicine Wheel Art Installations into beautiful permanent illustrations that will last beyond our #WeekofWinter! Using Medicine Wheel learnings and knowledge shared by cultural advisor Elder Francis Whiskeyjack, Riyaz made beautiful, illustrations representing: The East Eagle 🦅 The South Buffalo 🦬 The West Bear 🐻 The North Wolf 🐺 Which design is your favourite? Swi...