New warming huts going up on Winnipeg's river trail at The Forks
The Forks is giving a first look at its new warming huts before they hit the river trail, as the artists are put the final touches on their work.
This year’s warming hut competition saw over 100 submissions from 27 different countries, with winners selected from Norway, Brazil, and China. This year’s artists also include local entertainer and inventor Al Simmons, who was selected as the invited architect.
Source: Scott Andersson
“This year, I don’t know if our jury was just interested in colour, but all of them are super colourful and really whimsical and interesting and will be a wonderful addition to the river,” said Sara Stasiuk, president and CEO of The Forks North Portage Partnership, in an interview on Thursday.
Source: Scott Andersson
Stasiuk said Simmons was asked to push the limits, and he ended up creating the Sounds Crazy Caboose - -a resonating chamber where people can tell a story and make their own sound effects. The hut includes hand cranks, levers, tubes and pedals connected with instruments.
“It’s wild. It’s going to be really engaging for all sorts of people,” Stasiuk said.
Source: Scott Andersson
Simmons said he was honoured to be asked to create a warming hut.
“I just had an idea of making sound effects in a building,” he said on Thursday.
Simmons noted he came up with the sound effects, while his son designed the caboose.
The other warming huts for the 2022 season include colourful showers for people to sing in, a structure where people can watch the sunset, and an inflated human hand with a green bird.
Source: Scott Andersson
CTVNews.ca Top Stories
Bodies found by U.S. authorities searching for missing B.C. kayakers
United States authorities who have been searching for a pair of missing kayakers from British Columbia since the weekend have recovered two bodies in the nearby San Juan Islands of Washington state.
Amid concerns over 'collateral damage' Trudeau, Freeland defend capital gains tax change
Facing pushback from physicians and businesspeople over the coming increase to the capital gains inclusion rate, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his deputy Chrystia Freeland are standing by their plan to target Canada's highest earners.
'It's discriminatory': Individuals refused entry to Ontario legislature for wearing keffiyeh
Individuals being barred from entering Ontario’s legislature while wearing a keffiyeh say the garment is part of their cultural identity— and the only ones making it political are the politicians banning it.
BREAKING Mounties will not be charged in shooting death of B.C. Indigenous man
Three Mounties in British Columbia will not face charges in the killing of a 38-year-old Indigenous man on Vancouver Island in 2021.
Canada's favourite sport to watch is hockey, survey shows
The 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs have already delivered a fever level of fan excitement in Canada.
Douglas DC-4 plane with 2 people on board crashes into river outside Fairbanks, Alaska
A Douglas C-54 Skymaster airplane crashed into the Tanana River near Fairbanks on Tuesday, Alaska State Troopers said.
Tom Mulcair: Park littered with trash after 'pilot project' is perfect symbol of Trudeau governance
Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair says that what's happening now in a trash-littered federal park in Quebec is a perfect metaphor for how the Trudeau government runs things.
'It's just so hard to let it go': Umar Zameer still haunted by death of Toronto police officer
“It's just so hard to let it go. I mean, everyone is telling me, ‘you have to move on,’ but I know someone is not here [anymore]. So I don't know how I will move on." That’s what Umar Zameer, the man recently acquitted in the death of a Toronto police officer, told CTV News Toronto in a sit-down interview on Tuesday.
NASA hears from Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after months of quiet
NASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 again in a way that makes sense. The most distant spacecraft from Earth hadn't sent home any understandable data since last November.