Memorial Union will host University of Wisconsin’s annual Winter Carnival Feb. 5-7, based on the Wisconsin Union. The three-day carnival will host over 30 occasions — each indoor and out of doors — together with ice skating, fireworks and the long-lasting Lady Liberty inflatable statue floating above the frozen lake.
Feb. 5 actions embody studying to skate on Lake Mendota with RecWell, collaborating in Flannel Day $1 Cheese Curds and attending Wisconsin Singers Season 58: Star of the Show.
The subsequent day, guests can gasoline up on the Pancake Breakfast and Red Bull will host Light the Lamp, a mix of mini golf and native Wisconsin hockey tradition, based on The Wisconsin Union.
The closing day of the carnival will characteristic actions the place friends can check their energy and agility via the Whitewater Kayak Ice Pulley Challenge or Ice Climbing with Hoofer Mountaineering. Indoor actions embody the Wisconsin Union Chili Cook-Off and the prospect to create Winter Wonderlands with Wheelhouse Studios.
Hoofer’s Sailing Club will host Snow Fort(nite) the place friends can work along with the Wisconsin Hoofers to assemble an enormous ice fort on frozen Lake Mendota, based on Hoofer’s Sailing Club commodore Max Bublik.
“Any excuse I get to go out in the winter is always enjoyable. I love having a big community of students out in the lake,” Bublik mentioned. “Even though it’s cold, all of us are braving it just to have fun with each other, connect more with the campus and the people within it. Honestly, it’s just really enjoyable for me to be out on the lake, and this is like a great excuse to just get out there.”
The Sailing Club can even host Snow Ball, which invitations friends to bounce the evening away in Memorial Union’s Great Hall Feb. 5, based on Bublik. There shall be Madison Swing instructors educating swing dance at first of the occasion, Bublik mentioned.
The Winter Carnival has been round for near a century, based on the Wisconsin Alumni Association. The occasion, initially known as The Ice Carnival, has been providing Wisconsinites the prospect for merrymaking within the bleak winter since 1916, based on WAA. The Wisconsin Hoofers, UW’s out of doors recreation membership, has hosted Winter Carnival since 1940.
“Check it out,” Bublik mentioned. “There’s gonna be lots of cool stuff happening.”
See the complete schedule of Winter Carnival occasions and programming here.