Lithuanian team finished second at the Sapporo Snow Festival
A team of three Lithuanian sculptors from Kaunas city won the second prize at the 60th Sapporo Snow Festival, one of Japan's largest winter events, which took place on February 5-11. Congratulations! Their entry work named 'Glove' was surpassed only by the winning Thai sculpture. The sculptors Alfonsas Vaura, Simonas Šidlauskas ir Mindaugas Jurėnas carved a mouse with a glove, based on a folk tale about a mouse who found a glove and wanted to share it as a shelter with the other animals in the forest.

Their entry work named 'Glove' was surpassed only by the winning Thai sculpture. The sculptors Alfonsas Vaura, Simonas Šidlauskas ir Mindaugas Jurėnas carved a mouse with a glove, based on a folk tale about a mouse who found a glove and wanted to share it as a shelter with the other animals in the forest.