Tips to follow if you are planning on attending this year's festival

Check out our map layout of all the teams and sculptors competing for this year's $15,000 in prize money
Get your QR code scanner on your phone ready to obtain updates on the festival schedule and more information on all sculptor teams while on site
Get your reserved parking pass and avoid the hassle of parking at Siesta Beach any day during the event. Shuttle service operating on Saturday and Sunday from 10 - 2 PM to get you from reserved parking to the south side of the entrance.
Come hungry and bring money! With plenty of food, beer and drink to enjoy, why eat before you come out to the beach? Check out the festival site map to find food, beer, tickets, gates and party tent depending upon where you park.
Shop til you drop at the Vendor Village featuring over 60 booths, open Friday through Monday from 10 AM til close.
If you come out to the beach after 12 PM, you may want to consider taking SCAT from the Pavilion or Southgate Malls.
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Come on out on Saturday and enjoy the festival followed by a showing of Surf's Up on the beach sponsored by the Sarasota Film Festival at night
Get your pails and shovels and carving tools ready and enter the amateur contest on Saturday. Click here to register. It's free!
Party Hardy at the Kona Brewing Party Tent followed by some moving and grooving to the variety of great music inside the festival perimeter

Sponsors tent open Friday through Sunday, 10 AM til close in front of the event stage

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