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World Day of the Snowman is celebrated on January 18, the date goes back to the form of the Snowman: “8” symbolizes the snowman and the “1” stands for his stick or broom and January is usually cold enough to build snowmen and is therefore a perfect chance to celebrate the snowman.

World Day of the Snowman was first held in 2011. A snowman is an anthropomorphic snow sculpture. In some cases, participants in winter festivals will build large numbers of snowmen. In North America, typical snowmen consist of three large snowballs with some additional accoutrements for facial and other features. Common accessories include branches for arms and a rudimentary smiley face; a carrot can stand in for a nose; human clothing, such as a hat or scarf, may even be included.

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World Day of the Snowman

Art’s Birthday is an annual exchange-art event, first proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou, celebrated on January 17th by a loose collection of artists and artist organizations around the world.

He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on the 17th of January to be precise, Art was born. According to Filliou, it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Modest beginnings, but look at us now. Filliou proposed a public holiday to celebrate the presence of art in our lives. In recent years, the idea has been taken up by a loose network of artists and friends around the world. Each year the Eternal Network evolves to include new partners – working with the ideas of exchange and telecommunications-art. Artists have celebrated Art’s Birthday with lavish parties and gatherings, correspondence and mailart, and through Telematic networks using SloScan TV, Videophones, music composed for telephone lines, modem-to-modem MIDI connections, early bulletin board and chat systems, and (starting in the mid 1990’s) the Internet.

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Art’s Birthday

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