Contests
Festival Weekend
Sign up in the contest area at least 30 minutes in advance of each event. Entry fee is $1. Prizes awarded.
Strawberry Tart Toss
11:00AM and 2:00 PM Daily
Your chance to be on target with a gooey strawberry tart. Participants peer through a berry cutout while contestants take aim. Whether you’re the giver or the receiver, it’s sweet revenge!
Strawberry Pie Eating Contest
1:00PM and 4:00PM Daily
In your face fun with a timed challenge you can really sink your teeth into, devouring strawberry pies for the ultimate mouthful without the use of a fork.
The Star Berry Hunt
A true berry quest... Navigate through the Festival grounds and find clues for all things berry. Any age can play. Pick up your map and color key at the Strawberry Promenade and embark on your path to discovery. When you find all the clues to solve the riddle, turn in the completed info at the Ventura County Star/805 moms booth in Strawberryland For Kids and receive a complimentary gift (while supplies last). All participants are in the running for the grand prize drawing of a free Hawaiian Holiday, courtesy of Shell Vacations Club.(three days accommodations and roundtrip airfare for two from either LA or San Francisco, to Honolulu)**CONGRATULATIONS to M. Dornidon of the San Fernando Valley who won thE 2009 Star Berry Hunt.
Before the Festival
Official Berry Blast Off Recipe Contest 
Think strawberry bliss in a strawberry dish. Festival organizers are searching for the tastiest non-baking strawberry dish for the coveted “Berry Blast Off” Recipe contest, featuring a grand prize vacation getaway, compliments of Shell Vacations Club. Each participant who enters the contest also receive a free ticket to the Festival (limit one per person).CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2009 WINNER: Leslie Hudnut of Los Angeles (Tilapia Fillets with Strawberry Blood Orange Salsa)
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Check out the Award-Winning Recipes of Past Years! >>
California Strawberry Festival
Annual Poster Contest
Deadline has passed
A fruitful enterprise for artists and designers, each year the Festival seeks submissions for the annual Official Poster Contest in what has become a visually stunning Festival tradition of showcasing each season since the event began in 1984.
Printed on collectible T-shirts and promotional items available for purchase on site Festival weekend, the poster is also utilized in marketing and advertising. The winning artist is awarded $2,000 and is guest of honor at a poster unveiling luncheon.The 2009 prize went to Harlan West of Westlake Village whose colorful design features a larger-than-life strawberry topped with an umbrella hat, sunning itself along the strawberry coast, surrounded by rolling hills of berries, arts & crafts booths and a bevy of revelers, dancers and musicians.
West says, "I used vivid colors and intricate detail to capture a cultural connection and the spirit of celebration that brings people together from throughout the Southland." Beginning with an ink sketch, then digital enhancement with computer graphics, West's artistic expression was the perfect fit. At his Westlake Village marketing firm, HWDS & Associates, Inc., he specializes in the development of corporate communications for print, media and the Web.
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