{"id":18551,"date":"2026-05-22T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/?p=18551"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:57:27","slug":"pazinoti-20-starptautiska-smilsu-skulpturu-festivala-laureati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/2026\/05\/22\/pazinoti-20-starptautiska-smilsu-skulpturu-festivala-laureati\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of the 20th International Sand sculpture festival announced"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Winners of the 20th International Sand sculpture festival announced<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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On May 22, the winners of the 20th International Sand Sculpture Festival \u201cSand Signs 2026\u201d were honored. This year, 15 professional sculptors from 10 countries\u2014Turkey, the U.S., Ukraine, Spain, Bulgaria, Poland, the Netherlands, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia\u2014participated in the competition, bringing stories from the Jurassic period to life in sand. In addition to the competition entries, the sand sculpture park also features this year\u2019s most ambitious work \u2014 the demo sculpture \u201cDinosaur Gathering,\u201d created by sculptor Agnese Rudz\u012bte-Kirillova from Latvia and sculptor Roger Feralla from Spain, as well as the park\u2019s entrance sculpture \u201cVolcano,\u201d created by sculptor Sanita R\u0101vi\u0146a from Latvia.\n\nTranslated with DeepL.com (free version)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Results of the 20th International Sand Sculpture Competition:<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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1st place: \u201cCreating your own Jurassic World\u201d by Oleksiy Poda (Ukraine)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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2nd place: \u201cIt\u2019s my choice\u201d by Tautvilas Povilionis (Lithuania)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Jury's Choice Award<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u201cIn search of each other\u201d by Artem Samoylov (Ukraine) <\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Festival-goers will be able to view the sand sculptures as early as Saturday, May 23, when Pasta Island will become a venue where art, entertainment, and music come together throughout the day. The day\u2019s program includes activities for families with children, puppet shows, foam parties, creative workshops, large-scale games, and improvisational theater performances.<\/p>

In the evening, the \u201cM\u012btava\u201d open-air concert hall will host the season-opening concert, featuring performances by the band \u201cKautkaili\u201d, Samanta T\u012bna, the band \u201cPienved\u0113ja Piedz\u012bvojumi,\u201d and Fi\u0146\u0137is, offering a diverse musical program for all tastes until 2:00 a.m.<\/p>

Tickets are available at \u201cBi\u013ce\u0161u parad\u012bze\u201d ticket offices and online. A one-day festival ticket will allow visitors to freely leave the premises and return, offering the opportunity to combine a visit to the sand sculpture festival with Museum Night events on the same day and conclude the evening with a concert program at the \u201cM\u012btava\u201d open-air concert hall.<\/p>

To make it easier to get to the event, additional parking spaces will be available to visitors; their locations can be found on the Waze app.<\/p>

The event is organized by the City of Jelgava and the \u201cKult\u016bra\u201d institution, with support from AS Ramirent Baltic.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

22. maij\u0101 tika apbalvoti 20. Starptautisk\u0101 smil\u0161u skulpt\u016bru festiv\u0101la \u201cSand Signs 2026\u201d laure\u0101ti. \u0160ogad konkurs\u0101 piedal\u012bj\u0101s 15 profesion\u0101li t\u0113lnieki no 10 valst\u012bm \u2013 Turcijas, ASV, Ukrainas, Sp\u0101nijas, Bulg\u0101rijas, Polijas, N\u012bderlandes, Igaunijas, Lietuvas un Latvijas, kuri smilt\u012bs atdz\u012bvin\u0101ju\u0161i Juras laikmeta st\u0101stus. Papildus konkursa darbiem smil\u0161u skulpt\u016bru park\u0101 tapis ar\u012b \u0161\u012b gada v\u0113rien\u012bg\u0101kais darbs \u2013 demoskulpt\u016bra \u201cDinozauru […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smilsu-skulpturas","category-zinas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18551"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18559,"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18551\/revisions\/18559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}