The winter festival

The Snowking Winter Festival is an annual festival held each March in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.
The festival is a major winter tourist draw to Yellowknife It centres around the snow castle, built from snow with window panes of ice. Each winter the castle is built on Yellowknife Bay, on Great Slave Lake. The castle is designed and the construction is supervised by Snowking, Anthony Foliot. The design evolves every year and the castle has grown to include an auditorium, cafe, courtyard, traditional igloo, slide, parapets and turrets.
It has become tradition that the castle's opening night is celebrated with a fireworks display. As many as 2,000 people venture out onto the ice to watch the show. Snowking addresses his subjects, welcoming them to another castle season.
Throughout the month of March, the castle hosts a film night, children's plays on the weekends, and live music most Friday and Saturday nights.