Wellsboro is celebrating winter with Ice and Spice Weekend.

According to a news release, next Saturday, Feb. 8, is Ice and Spice Weekend. Love will be in the air in downtown Wellsboro. Seven different ice sculptures symbolizing love and romance carved from 19 blocks of ice weighing 300 pounds apiece or 2.85 tons will be on display on sidewalks in front of Main Street businesses.

Kyle Soltis, Eli Novak and Freddy Grosser will transport the ice from Elegant Ice to Wellsboro and assemble five of the seven ice sculptures.

By 8:30 a.m. Feb. 8, the pre-carved Throne of Hearts created from 7 blocks of ice weighing 2100 pounds will be placed in front of the Ginn and Vickery law offices at 99 Main Street. Children and adults can sit on the ice throne and have their pictures taken.

“Four more ice sculptures each pre-carved from 600 pounds of ice, including Cupid, double hearts, a harp and an interactive heart with its center carved out, will offer more photo opportunities for the public,” the news release said.

The businesses where these four ice sculptures will be placed are: in front of the Arcadia Theater, 50 Main St.; Highland Chocolates, 82 Main St.; the Deane Center for the Performing Arts, 104 Main St.; and Nessmuk’s Sporting Goods, 91 Main Street.

Soltis and Grosser will make the ice fly while using their carving skills to create two ice masterpieces from 1,200 pounds of ice. The public is invited to watch them at work and ask them questions. It’s free.

The first ice carving demonstration will begin at 11:30 a.m. in front of the Café 1905 window at Dunham’s Department Store, 45 Main St. It will be a 3D butterfly on a 3D heart. The second demonstration will start at 12:30 p.m. It will be a carving of Interlocking hearts in front of Timeless Destination, 77 Main St.

“Because ice carving can be done in a relatively short period of time, people can stick around to watch a sculpture being created from start to finish,” said Jeff Meyers, owner of Elegant Ice LLC, Broadview Heights, Ohio, according to a news release.