In February's Fire and ice event, operating models of sustainable event organization are tested

The Fire and Ice winter event will be held in the Vuoksi fishing park on Saturday, February 26.2.

At the event is a versatile winter program for the whole family. During the day, for example, an ice sculpture show and a float show will be organized, guests will be able to go down the ice slide and try snow sculpting. The program also includes a fire show.

—On the day of the event, public transport in Imatra is free. It is therefore easy to come to Varpasaari from all sides of Imatra, project manager Minna Kähtävä-Marttinen The city of Imatra tells.

In addition to the winter activities, the event also allows you to get to know several ongoing projects of the city of Imatra.

The event will pilot ways of organizing sustainable events

The fire and ice event is organized by Vuoksi fishing park. The fishing park won the competition in which the city of Imatra manages Visit Vuoksi project looking for producers for two winter events.

The purpose of the Visit Vuoksi project is to develop the sustainable use of Vuoksi in both Finland and Russia. Four events will be organized during the project, where different methods and operating models of sustainable event organization will be tested. The operating models and methods have been put together together with the Russian event organizer, and now they are also being tested in Finland.

—At the February event, we offer, among other things, information and support to the organizers. The dishes used in the event are made of renewable materials and the dishes are collected separately as part of other recycling. , Kähtävä-Marttinen says.

Free public transport is also part of the pilot: it remains to be determined whether the operating model could be implemented more widely.

—If people are encouraged to arrive by bus, private driving will decrease. Now we will test how this works in practice and how event organizers feel about it.

The experts of the CBC Visit project gather experience about operating methods at the Fire and Ice event. In 2023, a second winter event will be organized at Imatra, where operating methods will be tested further.

In addition, two events related to the project will be organized on the Russian side, where the principles of sustainable event organization will also be tested.

More information about the project:
Project Manager Minna Kähtävä-Marttinen, City of Imatra, minna. kahtava-marttinenimatra.fi (minna[dot]kahtava-marttinen[at]imatra[dot]fi), TWO TWO WHEN TWO

More information about the event:
Vuoksi fishing park, because.fishing parkco.inet.fi (due[dot]kalustupuisto[at]co[dot]inet[dot]fi), 040 556 0121

Fire and ice on the website of Kalastuspuisto

Principles of sustainable development in organizing events

The Visit Vuoksi project is financed by the Southeast Finland - Russia CBC 2014-2020 program. On the Russian side, the Leningrad Region Tourism Information Center, the Leningrad Region Nature Conservation and Forestry Department, the Russian Society for Nature Conservation (VOOP) and the Losevo Tourism Center are involved in the project. 

Bulletin corrected 4.2. at 14 p.m.: The text said earlier that the dishes are made from recycled material. The dishes are not made from recycled material, but from renewable materials.