- Sand festival
Sand festivals or festivals of sand sculpture are exhibitions of
sculpture s made ofsand carried out in various places around the world. These events usually include a competition.Traditional sand sculptures are sandcastles. However, at sand festivals one may see virtually any kinds of sculptures you would expect to see in stone, bronze or wood.
Canada
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Clam Bay
*Lac Beauchamp Park
*Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia holds World Championships of sand sculpture,Germany
Germany conducts regular sand festivals in:
*Berlin (SANDSATION ). The one in July 2005 was called SANDSATION 2005.
*Travemünde (Sand World)India
Indian sand artist
Sudarshan Patnaik created a sculpture in memory of the victims of the tsunami disaster in Puri, south of the capital of the Indian state ofOrissa ,Bhubaneshwar . The determination of this man, support, and a consorted effort from his friends in Puri, culminated in the formation of theGolden Sand Art Institute 1995. The institute is an open-air institute with no boundaries and limitations. It is located on the seashore that spans between Hotel May Fair Beach Resort and the Panthanivas inPuri .Japan
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Ashiya, Fukuoka Netherlands
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Scheveningen Portugal
Annual festival of sand sculpture, Fiesa grows each year and in 2008 they used 35,000 tonnes of sand. The sculptures were always pretty traidtional (pyramids, the last supper etc.) but this year sees Hollywood arrive to the sand exhibition with Shrek, Spiderman, The Simpsons and others alongside the more traditional exhibits.
* [http://www.algarveguidebook.com/index.php?page=fiesa Fiesa page on Algarve Guidebook]Russia
International festivals of sand sculptures (фестиваль песчаной скульптуры) are organized in
Russia .Since 2001 an event has been held in
St. Petersburg in thePeter and Paul Fortress . Fourteen teams from ten countries participated at the first one.In 2002 an international festival was held in
Anapa .On
September 1 ,2005 the event was held in theMoscow Zoo with the participation of artists from Russia,Sweden ,Latvia ,Finland andUkraine . The motto was "Animal World".United States
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Savannah College of Art and Design See also
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Snow sculpture
*Ice sculpture
*Sand art and play External links
* [http://www.harrisand.org/2005_winners/index.html 2005 Harrison sand competition winners]
* [http://www.sandindia.com/phtFrameset-1.htm Sand India]
* [http://www.sandsation.de/event.php SANDSTATION 2005, in Berlin, Germany]
* [http://www.inaxi.com/en/index.html Sand sculpture festivals, The Netherlands]
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