Central Park Ice Festival will feature live carvings at Tavern on the Green (photo by Okamato Studio)
Courtyard of Tavern on the Green, Central Park
67th St. off Central Park West
Saturday, February 11, free, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
212-874-7874
www.centralparknyc.org
Central Park celebrates the cold weather, which perhaps has finally arrived, with its annual Ice Festival, being held Saturday afternoon in the Courtyard of Tavern on the Green. Matthew Reiley, the Central Park Conservancy’s associate director of conservation and preservation, will give a talk about the many permanent sculptures that can be found throughout the park, and the Long Island City-based Okamoto Studio will create temporary ice sculptures of Central Park icons. “Purity. Crystalline. Evanescent,” Okamoto explains on its website. “Ice evokes romance…. Forms follow timelines of existence as they gradually change from rigid to organic, eventually disappearing, melting away.” There will also be free hot cocoa on hand to warm your freezing bones.