Twin Cities weekend events: Art Shanty Projects, World Snow Sculpting Championship, gamer orchestra
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The Art Shanties are back on ice! After delays and closures due to warm weather last year, the "village" of interactive art projects and experimental performances is scheduled to take over the middle of frozen Lake Harriet every weekend through Feb. 9.
What to expect: Old favorites like flaming dumpster dance party "HOT BOX: Disco Inferno II" will return alongside new shanties like "Opening the Black Box of Winter", a project from University of Minnesota researchers that "invites a peek into what's going on under the frozen lake."
- Performances include a puppet wrestling-style match, frozen yoga, bicycle races, singalongs and much more.
📍 If you go: Lake Harriet, Minneapolis. 10am-4pm Saturdays and Sundays through Feb. 9.
- Free, but $10-$20 donations suggested at the gate.
In other entertainment news ...
❄️ Check out the greatest giant snow sculptures right now at the World Snow Sculpting Championship in Stillwater. Teams from around the globe are constructing enormous creations in the middle of downtown through 4pm Saturday, with winners to be announced later that night. Free
- Can't make it this weekend? The sculptures will be up for public viewing until February 6 — as long as the weather cooperates.
🧊 Explore 300 feet of ice tunnels at the Ice Palace in Delano this weekend, including special tunnels just for kids. The attraction also includes an ice sledding hill and fire performances each night from 6-8pm. $18-$23 ages 12 and up, $11-$15 ages 4-11
- Check out our Instagram for a look inside the tunnels.
🎻 Enjoy the music of Halo, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy and more at the inaugural Twin Cities Gamer Symphony Orchestra concert Friday night.
- The new 62-piece orchestra's "Power: On" show will be performed in St. Paul and is free, though donations are appreciated.
🍸 Try nonalcoholic mixology this Dry January at an NA cocktail-making class in Minneapolis Friday night.
- Tickets include ingredients and recipes for both NA and THC-based cocktails, plus a bottle of nonalcoholic gin or bourbon to take home. $65
😡 Take out your anger on artificial snow at the Vulcan Snow Park Snow Stomp this weekend at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.
- A crew making giant snowblocks needs volunteers to climb atop the contraption and repeatedly stomp down to compact the snow. Seems like a great workout! Free