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Ron Martin walks on his wren sculpture.
Whittling away at Iceculture
Kathryn Forrest
QMI Agency
Some choose to bask in the sun
or retreat to an air conditioned
space on a hot day, but Hensall's
Iceculture is offering another way
to retreat from the summer's swel-
tering heat.
Provided with a 150 Ib block of
ice, five carving tools, a set of gloves
and a piece of paper, 11 people
tried their hand at designing and
rving their own sculpture last
eek in one of Iceculture's first
public ice carving workshops.
"Its something that older people
would enjoy, young people would
enjoy, or you can come out with
your girlfriends and make a night
out of it," said Iceculture event
coordinator Chelsey Klasen, add-
ing that no artistic or previous carv-
ing experience is necessary.
The workshops are part of Ice -
culture's remodelled business
structure, which started to evolve
beyond sculpting when business
slowed down because of the reces-
sion. The new business structure
fuses the company's ice sculpting
background with public
engagement.
Iceculture started engaging peo-
ple first by offering regular tours of
their facility, and are continuing to
expand this part of the business
with the workshops and by hosting
birthday parties on-site.
The new workshops offered this
summer are a spin-off of their pop-
ular corporate team building ice
fusing workshops.
'There's certain steps you take in
making an ice scuplture," Klasen
said. "We do know that anybody
can create something."
Throughout the remainder of
Ai When I first
started the best thing
that I could draw was
a stick man falling
out of the sky."
— Iceculture artist
Gerald Mason
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July and August, Iceculture is offer-
ing three more three to four hour-
long workshops. The first two work-
shops use non -powered carving
tools, and the third uses power
tools.
The workshops are taught by Ice -
culture artist Gerald Mason, who
has been working at lceculture for
six years.
"When I first started the best
thing that I could draw was a stick
man falling out of the sky," he told
the group, joking, "man I could
make it look like it was going fast!"
"Just like anything in life it takes
practice to get better at it," he said.
At last week's workshop, partici-
pants were encouraged to design
and sculpt something with a beach
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their designs home to their own
freezer.
The resulting designs included
among others, a sand castle, ice
cream cone, and fish.
"(We're doing this] to bring in
people and let them experience
something they've never been able
to experience and probably won't
experience again," said Klasen. "Its
not offered very often, and I've
never seen (ice carving) offered as
a workshop like this."
lceculture will also be extending
the scope of its corporate team
building workshops with ice logo,
drawing, carving and fusing activi-
ties starting in September.
For more information on their
new programs, contact Iceculture
at 519-262-2492.
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