TELUS World Ski and
Snowboard Festival
 The
defining celebration of Whistler, the TELUS World
Ski and Snowboard Festival is a 10 day and night
showcase of the latest progressions in the skiing
and snowboarding world, where even the arts events
are packed full of adrenaline. Combining Canada’s
largest free outdoor concert series with career-making
showdowns of action sports and lifestyle fashion,
photography and film, the best spring snow conditions,
and burn-the-candle nightlife, it’s a celebration
of everything that’s core to mountain culture.
In art, in the practice of a
sport, in life, every action generates a reaction.
TWSSF’s newest programming for 2009 responds
to an evolving culture, and invites interaction
– propulsion, revolution, a change in momentum,
a truthful reaction, the surrender to impulse…
Because when we let editing and suppression and
fear of consequences fall away, we are left riding
the fat tongue of the moment into brilliance.
In 14 years, the TELUS Festival
has become North America’s largest annual
snow sports and music celebration, spawning imitators
around the world, and earning the tag, Mother
of All End of Season Parties.
The best things in life are
still free. Zune Concert Series line-up promises
10 days of pilgrim-worthy free outdoor concerts,
featuring Ozomatli, Ten Second Epic, The Stills,
Metric, and DJ Ztrip.
Grenade Games lobs into town.
Snowboarding’s infamous end of season party
is by the riders, for the riders. Giving Canadians
the chance to become Grenadians for the first
time in its history, the Grenade Games’
line-up includes a Poker Run, dual slalom moguls
course, pipe and slopestyle comp, and entices
legends of snowboarding out of retirement to ride
alongside current pros and up-and-comers.
Discover tomorrow’s artistic
superstars. Debuting at this year’s Festival
is the mutant sibling of the Pro Photographer
Showdown, the ThreePointOh Multimedia Challenge.
Plus, State of the Art, the Canada-wide Designer
Search and Expose, and the new Chef Challenge.
Skate comes to the party. The
new Festival opener, Skate & Deploy, followed
by the Skate of the Art Opening party offers the
perfect segue from winter to spring for fans of
flow.
Graphic mastery gains
momentum. Enter year four of the open crowd-sourcing
collaboration that introduces graphic design talent
to snowboards as canvass. Masterpiece in Motion
entries are due March 1.
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