frost @ warehouse: feb 4-13
Regina’s newest winter festival, FROST, is coming to the Warehouse District Feb 4 - 13!
FROST @ Warehouse will reimagine the former railyard site, officially launching temporary use of The Yards. Feel the warmth from artisan fire pits throughout the site, hear music and snow crunching beneath your feet, taste local food and drink, and view interactive art installations. Stick around to see the site shimmer, glimmer and glow after dark.
LOCATION & parking
FROST @ Warehouse is on The Yards along 1900 Block Dewdney Ave, Regina, SK (former railyard site).
Vehicle entrance at Dewdney Ave & Cornwall St (across from Bushwakker).
Free parking adjacent to festival site.
Pedestrian entrance at Dewdney & Hamilton St.
FROST is also happening at 4 other locations in the city. Please visit FROSTyqr.ca for information about activities in Regina Downtown, Wascana Centre, and REAL.
ADMISSION
FROST @ Warehouse is FREE!
Proof of vaccination or negative test required for entry.
Masks required for enclosed areas, recommended for semi-enclosed.
Provide proof of age and receive a wristband at the main entrance to purchase alcoholic beverages at The Yards Ice Bar.
festival dates
February 4 - 13, 2022
frost @ Warehouse HOURS
(Weather permitting)
Mon - Wed: CLOSED (Other locations will still be open)
Thu & Fri: 4 - 9 pm
Sat: 12 - 9 pm
Sun: 12 - 7 pm
ACTIVITIES
(Subject to change)
These activities are ONGOING during open hours:
The Yards Ice Bar - serving local beer and spiked hot chocolate over a hand-carved ice bar, buy FROST merch (The Court Yard)
Cycle - an interactive illuminated art installation by Creos (The Front Yard)
Creation: Serge Maheu, A production of MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈREGummy Bear Picnic Exhibition - a playful illuminated art installation by Rawry & Pohly (The Court Yard)
Disc Golf - snow putting green by Regina Disc Golf Association (The Front Yard)
Fire Pits & Hot Chocolate - pull up a bench made by Street Culture Project to enjoy free hot chocolate around artisan fire pits handmade by students at Saskatchewan Polytechnic (throughout site)
Hot food - enjoy BBQ by Prairie Smoke & Spice (The Lodge)
Scheduled activities (please refer to the schedule below):
Ageless - smooth sounds by DJ Ageless (The Lodge)
Tribal Vibes - fire dancing and live music by Tribal Vibes Wildfire Productions (The Front Yard)
Nuit Blanche - snow wall video projection “die Warnung” by Jess Richter (Projection Screen)
Nuit Blanche - live Powwow Performance by Jayda Delorme (The Front Yard)
Disc Golf Clinic - learn how to disc golf with Regina Disc Golf Association (The Front Yard)
Ice Carving Demo - watch a live demonstration by Fire & Ice Creations, the maker of the FROST @ Warehouse Ice Tower and Ice Bar (The Front Yard)
FROST Regina Closing Ceremonies - burning of the Ice Tower and FROST 50/50 winner announced (The Front Yard)
SCHEDULE
(Subject to change)
FRIDAY FEB 4
Open 4 - 9 pm
6 - 9 pm - DJ Ageless CANCELED
6 - 9 pm - “die Warnung” by Jess Richter
7 - 7:20 - Tribal Vibes CANCELED
SATURDAY FEB 5
Open 12 - 9 pm
2:30 - 3:30 pm - Powwow Performance by Jayda Delorme
3:30 - 4:00 pm - Rawry & Pohly Artist Talk
6 - 9 pm - DJ Ageless
6 - 6:20 - Tribal Vibes
6 - 9 pm - “die Warnung” by Jess Richter
8 - 8:20 - Tribal Vibes CANCELED
SUNDAY FEB 6
Open 12 - 7 pm
4 - 7 pm - DJ Ageless
6 - 7 pm - “die Warnung” by Jess Richter
MONDAY FEB 7
CLOSED
TUESDAY FEB 8
CLOSED
WEDNESDAY FEB 9
CLOSED
THURSDAY FEB 10
Open 4 - 9 pm
6 - 9 pm - “die Warnung” by Jess Richter
FRIDAY FEB 11
Open 4 - 9 pm
6 - 9 pm - DJ Ageless
6 - 9 pm - “die Warnung” by Jess Richter
7 - 7:20 - Tribal Vibes
SATURDAY FEB 12
Open 12 - 9 pm
12 - 6 pm - Disc Golf Clinic
2:30 - 3:30 pm - Powwow Performance by Jayda Delorme
4 - 9 pm - DJ Ageless
6 - 6:20 - Tribal Vibes
6 - 9 pm - “die Warnung” by Jess Richter
8 - 8:20 - Tribal Vibes
SUNDAY FEB 13
Open 12 - 7 pm
12 - 6 pm - Disc Golf Clinic
3 - 4 pm - Ice Carving Demo
4 - 7 pm - DJ Patty Blue
5:00 - FROST Regina Closing Ceremonies: Powwow Performance by Jayda Delorme, lighting of Ice Tower
5:30 pm - Tribal Vibes
6 - 7 pm - “die Warnung” by Jess Richter
VOLUNTEERS
Want to get involved? Please register here.
Bios
DJ Ageless
Hailing from Regina via Montreal, DJ Ageless has always believed that music is a never-ending pursuit. It’s an ongoing learning experience—you can never know it all—but he’s having the time of his life trying, and that’s what keeps his devotion to the art. No matter the genre, his focus is always on one thing—the vibe.
DJ Patty Blue
A lover of live music and records, Patty Blue can be found hauling crates around to various settings to create a vibe and fuel dance floors. Often equipped with an abundance of ever so sweet pieces of round black wax, the contents of which span decades and geographies, you're bound to have your ears feeling refreshed and perhaps with a new favourite earworm or two.
Elder Betty McKenna
Elder Betty McKenna touches others profoundly by generously sharing the traditional teachings she has learned from her grandmother and other elders. Anishnabae from the Shoal River Band in Manitoba, she reviews content for the Canadian Virtual Hospice website and provides guidance from an Aboriginal point of view.
Elder Betty is the Elder in Residence, First Nations and Métis Education at the Regina Public School Board, as well as the guiding elder for RESOLVE (Research and Education to End Violence and Abuse) Saskatchewan. She also provides leadership to many research projects concerned with culturally safe care for Aboriginal people and families – from end-of-life care to support for Aboriginal women with neurological conditions to intimate partner violence and Aboriginal grandmothers caring for grandchildren. Elder Betty is co-author of several peer-reviewed publications and sits on two graduate committees at the University of Regina.
Jayda Delorme
JAYDA DELORME is a Nehiyaw (Cree) artist from Cowessess First Nation here in Treaty 4 Territory. Jayda takes great pride in expressing Indigenous identity through art, dance, and community organizing. In addition to being a traditional powwow dancer, her artistic practice includes beading, painting, henna tattooing, body painting, and community-based projects. She has competed internationally at the World Body Painting Festival in Austria, where she placed in the top half of the Amateur division. Jayda is currently a student at the University of Regina in the Faculty of Media, Arts, and Performance.
Jayda Delorme’s art practice often involves bringing people together, melding the roles of artist, performer, and organizer. For Frost Fest, Jayda has coordinated a special dance program that will celebrate the art of powwow dancing. The first performance highlights the women’s jingle dress dance, known to be a healing dance. A second performance will feature all three women’s pow wow dance categories: jingle dress, fancy shawl and traditional. Each dance has a significant meaning and teaching that will be shared before each performance.
Jess Richter
JESS RICHTER is a German-Canadian artist, curator, and arts administrator based in Regina, Saskatchewan (Treaty 4 Territory). Her practice includes installation, site-specific work, printmaking, and drawing. She holds an MFA from the University of Regina. Influenced by British, German, and Eastern-European folk ritual and tradition, she recontextualizes these practices within contemporary Saskatchewan to explore the submerged identities of German-Canadians in post-war, rural Canada.
DIE WARNUNG explores the liminality and shallow divide between interior and exterior and cultural identity utilizing the body and house as structures to contain and reject identity. Drawing upon rich traditions of folk horror and prairie gothic, this project contrasts the interior of the house with exterior, creating tension between the two. Creating a narrative between two figures (a human figure that exists solely within the house and an otherworldly figure that exists solely outside), this film weaves together an uncertain relationship between these two entities and sees both invoking their own magic to both reach out and reject one another.
Rawry & Pohly
University of Regina Alumni Jamie Mason and Kevin Chow founded Rawry & Pohly in Regina, Saskatchewan in 2015. The husband and wife duo excel at creating artwork as a team. The motto for their practice, "celebrate your inner child," is explored through the use of mixed mediums: sculptures, canvas, prints, or drawings, all alluding to the dynamic elements of whimsy, humour, and joy. As artists, they create stylistic interpretations of modern pop art with themes of minimalism through iconic lineweight and bright, vibrant colours. A key element of their approach to visual art is encouraging play.
About the Gummy Bear Picnic Exhibition
Gummy Bears don’t hibernate in the winter, unlike their less gelatinous cousins; with a cause for celebration these four gummy friends decided to have a celebratory picnic! It’s Rainbow’s Colour Day: as every gummy knows, your colours come from what you enjoy the most. Until then, gummy bears have no colour at all.
It took Rainbow forever to find their colour, but one day Rainbow ran to the end of a rainbow and lit up like a disco ball! Now everyone is celebrating! Happy Colour Day Rainbow!
Tribal Vibes Wild Fire Productions Inc.
Tribal Vibes Wild Fire was born in 2005. Their first performance was in a field of hemp on the Saskatchewan prairies. Since that time, Tribal Vibes has had many evolutions before arriving at this place of "Tribal Fire Circus". After all this time, their message and themes have remained the same. They tune-in to world rhythms and contemporary beats to create original and pure creative expression. They offer a message of peace, love, unity, respect, and humanity for all!
Tribal Vibes is accompanied by DJ HappyCat, one of Saskatchewan's legendary house DJs.