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Great Sand Sculpture Contest
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Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 20th, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

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Clear your calendar - It's going down! Text Blocks kicks off on May 20th, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

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Sunday
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84th annual

Great Sand Sculpture Contest

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ABOUT THE CONTEST

For the past 83 years, the Great Sand Sculpture Contest has brought

together Long Beach and its surrounding communities to celebrate in our

communities greatest natural asset: the beach.


This year, we're so thrilled to host this traditional communty event, complete with sculpture  masterpieces of world-class professional sand artists, a semi-professional sculpting category, community competition and more.  The contest is the longest standing of it’s kind in the nation and continues to be a staple of our community history and future.


This year's festival will be a family party on the beach - complete with remarkable sand sculptures, a food court, vendor gallery, live music, kid zone and bar on the beach. 


A percentage of proceeds of this year's event will be donatd to Long Beach Ronald McDonald House.

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Schedule

August
 
13th
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August
 
14th

SATURDAY

August 13

Join in on the event fun with our kick-off celebration and more! Come Saturday to watch the professional sand sculptors and semi-pro teams crafting their masterpieces, jive to live music, booth-shop vendors and more!

10am

Event Kick-Off!!

 


 12pm

Blanket Band

1pm

DJ Spins


2pm

Taylor Crawford


3pm

DJ Spins


3:00pm

Semi-Pro Division: Sculpting END


4pm - 6pm

FREE: Sand Sculpting Lessons


4pm

The Cold Shoulders


5pm

DJ Spins

5:30pm

Unset


6:30pm

DJ Spins


7pm

Klepto K & King Relik


SUNDAY

august 14

The second day of the festival will be ideal for seeing the finished masterpieces of the professional, semi-pro and community teams. Today, we will be hosting our community competition as well as continuing the party with live music, tasty food, kids activites and a celebration of art through sand!

9am

Community Team Begins


10am

Day Kick-Off


12pm

Tall Walls


1pm

DJ Spins


2pm

Big Bad Rooster

3pm

DJ Spins


3pm

Community Team Wrap-Up


4pm

Bearwulf


4pm

Community Team Awards


5pm

DJ Spins

6pm

Festival Close


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The ocean stirs the heart, inspires imagination 

and brings eternal joy to the soul.

wyland

How to Get Involved!

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Sign up as a Community Team

As in long standing tradition for the competition, we're excited to bring back the community team portion of the event! Register as a community team for the chance of a fun day in the sun and opportunity to win gifted prizes from local businesses! Sign-up is FREE and fun! 

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Become a Vendor

This year's event will feature food and goods vendors  - why not be one of the lucky ones selected? Vendor spots are limited! Apply to become a food or goods vendor and don't miss out on your opportunity to share your product with hundreds of summer beach-loving families, friends and community members.

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Volunteer

eing a community run and benefiting event - we need all the assistance possible! We'd love your support for an hour or two with coordinating teams, the kid zone, vendors, marketing and more! If you're interested in registering, please email the event organizer for more details!

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Attend

We'd love to welcome you, friends and family down to the beach to partake in this year's annual sand sculpture event. Attendance is FREE - no ticket purchase is required! Please join us for this year's annual Great Sand Sculpture competition and celebrate in the art of the beach.

FAQs

 

Where can We park?

Parking will be first-come, first-serve basis by the beach parking lots.  All beach parking is metered and can be paid for day-of. If you are not able to park in the lot, you will be able to find street parking in a nearby location. We recommend arriving earlier in the day or taking public transit to avoid parking hassles!

Are Dogs allowed?

Due to city regulations, dogs are unfortunately not allowed at the Granada Boat Ramp. You are welcome to bring your dog to play on the nearby city Rosie's Dog Beach (nearly 500 ft from the competition). 

Is the event handicap accessible?

This year, our primary professional and semi-professional sculpture gallery will be immediately off the Granada Beach Road Ramp, which IS handicap accessible.  Elements of the competition, including the kid zone, vendor gallery, bar, live music and the community competition are unfortunately positioned on the sand which may make wheelchair access difficult. 

How much does the event cost?

Our Sand Sculpture event is FREE! That's right, it's no charge to attend and see these wonderful works of art. We are accepting donations to our charity benefactor, Ronald McDonald House, if you would like to contribute.

What day is best to attend?

Both days of the Sand Sculpture competition are a lot of fun to join in for! On Saturday, you'll be able to see one finished master sculpture and the work of completing the others in progress. On Sunday, you'll see our full community competition in swing as well as be able to see the finished works of our professional and semi-professional divisions.

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Team Sign-Up
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Sign-up for this year's contest to try your skills at sculpting the best sand castle possible! We invite teams of 2 - 10 people to join us for a day of fun in the sun. Past prizes have ranged from Jet Blue Tickets, Resort Get Aways, Catalina Cruise Tickets, Restaraunt Meals and more! All proceeds from the Great Sand Sculpture Competition go to directly benefit the Long Beach Ronald McDonald House. The organization provides low-cost or free housing to families whose children are receiving critical medical care at the local Miller's Children's Hospital. If you or your team is unable to do so due to financial hardship, we will be happy to discuss an exception to this donation, please reach out us at katie.rose.gaston@gmail.com

Start: Sun Aug 14th 10:00am

End: Sun Aug 14th 4:00pm

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