BANGOR – Downtown businesses, the city and several local organizations are teaming up to present their second annual Winter Weekend, which this time will span four days.

Residents and visitors are invited to alleviate cabin fever by taking part in some of the roughly 30 events, most of them outdoors and most of them free, that will be held Feb. 10-14 in venues downtown, on the Bangor Waterfront and in nearby city parks.

The schedule for the event still was being firmed up this week, according to Terry Delargy of J Group and Steve Ribble of AMES A/E, co-chairmen of the Winter Weekend planning committee.

The tentative schedule that has evolved so far shows that the event will feature some of the events debuted during the event’s first year, including the Paul Bunyan look-alike contest, the Banff Film Festival, a Soup and Cinema event, snow sculptures in downtown parks, a pancake breakfast, horse-drawn wagon rides, a roving photographer, snowshoe racing and lots of events for kids.

Events and activities new to the Winter Weekend lineup include a volunteer kickoff party, formal dance, a bonfire on the waterfront, events for snowmobilers, Big Wheel races and a remote-control vehicle technical course.

Other first-time offerings will include Taste of Bangor, sidewalk sales, picture framing and safe Web surfing programs conducted by downtown merchants.

Sponsors and partners in the first Winter Weekend event were Downtown Center Corp., the Greater Bangor Convention and Visitors Bureau, Epic Sports, J Group Advertising, Sea Dog Brewing Co., Bangor Daily News, Ames A/E, the city of Bangor’s parks and recreation and public works departments, the Greater Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce and Maine People’s Alliance.

New partners for the coming edition of Winter Weekend include Fusion Bangor, which is sponsoring a formal dance at the Union Street Brick Church on Feb. 10, the Paul Bunyan Snowmobile Club, which is organizing a ride-in, “show-shine” and safety program on Feb. 12 in the vacant field next to Railroad Street.

Ribble encourages those who want to try their hand at the snow sculpture competition to contact him by e-mail at sribble@amesae.com so that organizers can make sure enough space and snow are available to all who want to take part.

For the latest information on Winter Weekend events and activities, watch the Downtown Center Corp.’s Web site at www.downtownbangor.com and click on the “What’s going on” icon.