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Now Hiring a Technical Coordinator for Ice Follies 2025

NewsJob Title: Ice Follies Tech CoordinatorCompensation: 125 hours @ $40/hrDuration: January 27 – February 28, 2025Application Deadline: December 17, 2024, by 11:59 PM ESTAbout the Event Ice Follies is a biennial festival of contemporary and community-engaged art,...

Landlines, Various Artists, 2022

  THEME: NBAAGZI MKWAM (THIN ICE) Under the Surface was chosen because it represents the efforts behind the scenes to make Ice Follies 2012 more community-oriented and engaging. With artists travelling from across the country to work alongside of local artists,...

Isabelle Michaud, Albert, 2023

  THEME: NBAAGZI MKWAM (THIN ICE) Under the Surface was chosen because it represents the efforts behind the scenes to make Ice Follies 2012 more community-oriented and engaging. With artists travelling from across the country to work alongside of local artists,...

Dermot Wilson, The Ice Follies Experiment, 2023

The Ice Follies Experience is unique on the planet; i.e., an interaction with nature AND with community in an unusual environment/site. These experiences have been happening in North Bay for almost twenty years now. Some of the children who visited in 2004 are now parents who still hold onto their own Ice Follies memories and stories…

Emilio Portal, 2023

  Theme: Thin IceThe 2023 theme “Thin Ice” looks at our shifting landscapes and communities, including our changing relationships with our environment and each other.Emilio Portal, Untitled, 2023 Presented by Between Pheasants Contemporary More info coming...

Lee Horner, Dead of Winter, 2023

  Theme: Thin IceThe 2023 theme “Thin Ice” looks at our shifting landscapes and communities, including our changing relationships with our environment and each other.Lee Horner, Dead of Winter, 2023 Presented by Nipissing Region Curatorial Collective More info...

Imogen Clendenning, Archive on Ice, 2023

Archive on Ice involves creating a digital mini archive of documentation from past Ice Follies events and a live microsite that is powered by a solar panel and hosted with a raspberry pie server. The server is housed in a protective art installation on the frozen ice of Lake Nipissing. Imogen hopes to create a reciprocal relationship with the lake and present the technology as a collaboration with the earth rather than an extraction of resources…