Sand in the City

Thank-you to our builders, volunteers, sponsors and everyone who attended the 2010 Bank of the West Sand in the City festival this past weekend. The festival was a huge success and we can't wait to see what our teams come up with at next year's festival!

And the Winners Are:

1st Place: Bank of the West

2nd Place: New Pioneer Co-Op
Sponsored by PIP Printing

3rd Place Tie:

Dance Marathon
Sponsored by Sueppel's Remodeling and Repair

Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Johnson County
Sponsored by Big Ten Rentals

Other Participants:

Best Buy

Goodwill of the Heartland

Riverside Casino

Ronald McDonald House
Sponsored by Hy-Vee

Sandtastic
Sponsored by Friends/Family/Community Supporters

University of Iowa Honors
Sponsored by Z102.9

Sand in the City, presented by Bank of the West, is a wonderful late-summer event to bring out family and friends to downtown Iowa City for a weekend of free entertainment. Giant sandboxes filled with fantastical sand sculptures will line Iowa Avenue (from Clinton Street to Linn Street) as well as our FUN Zone, Kids Sandbox, Artist booths and Culinary Row along parts of Dubuque St. and Iowa Avenue.

Sand sculptures will be architected and constructed by teams representing some of the community's most beloved businesses and local organizations. Incredible sand sculptures will come to life through the collaborative and team building efforts of our teams.

The community has an opportunity to decide their favorites by contributing "sand" dollars in the name of the team building their favorite sculpture. Event goers will also be entertained by live music and an array of adult and kid friendly activities. Our participating businesses contribute not only their time but also financial resources that allows us to raise funds that help to support the Summer of the Arts festivals and events throughout the year.

On August 20th the regularly scheduled Friday Night Concert Series will be pre-empted for Sand in the City's live entertainment from 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. on Iowa Avenue.

Corporate, university, and local organizations have the opportunity to sponsor a sand team. Each sand team works with professional sand sculptors and local architects to build incredible sand sculptures using more than 200 tons of sand!

Support Summer of the Arts programming through the purchase of Sand Dollars. Sand Dollars can be used to:

Vote for your favorite sand sculpture to help a team win the People’s Choice Award
Sand dollars get you into the Kids FUN Zone activity tent
Play games such as the jumping castle
Purchase beverages at the Summer the Arts water & refreshment tent

Read more about the specific activites planned for each day on the Sand in the City Schedule page.

2010 Bank of the West Sand in the City Winners

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