2020 Contests
Thanks to our wonderful donors, sponsors, program partners and volunteers, the Coldwater Steampunk Festival is proud to offer you many ways to get your steampunk on!
NEW - Creative Writing Contest: Fountain Pens Optional!
Grab your fountain pen, quill, stylus, or speech-to-text generator, and let your imagination run wild!
- Share a memory, story, poem, or song about the Coldwater Steampunk Festival; or
- Tell a tale about Coldwater's past; or
- Spin a new yarn set in our fabulous community; and
- You could win a cool prize!
Details:
- No Entry Fee
- 500 word maximum
- Open to people of all ages
- All submissions must be original work of participant
- Click HERE to enter contest
- DEADLINE: 5:00 pm on Saturday, August 8, 2020
- Winners to be announced on Facebook: Friday, August 28, 2020
- Enter as often as you like!
Questions? Concerns? Please email:csteampunk033@gmail.com
NEW - Video Wishes
It's our 10th Anniversary this year - and we miss you!
We want to see your awesome faces, and would love to hear your best wishes for our 10 years of creativity!
Now, here is your chance to win a Limited Edition 2020 Festival T-Shirt.
- Put on your Steampunk Headgear
- Video your message: "Happy 10th Anniversary Coldwater Steampunk Festival!"
- Post it on YOUR social media: #ColdSteam 2020
- Send the video to US at: https://cutt.ly/YiGCmK
FREE Scavenger Hunt!
Pick up your list at the Ice Cream Shop
Take a Selfie with the
~ Tardis,
~ Stingray,
~ Barnstormer,
~ Squirrel Mural; and
~ Canada 150 Tree Sculpture.
Visit 18 Coldwater Road between 12noon - 4 pm on Saturday August 22 & August 29, 2020
Show us your Selfies & get a FREE limited edition 2020 Coldwater Steampunk Charms Collection!
Art & Fabrication Competition
Total Prize Purse $250
No Entry Fees!
Theme: Steampunk and/or the Magical World of Fairies and Dragons
Categories:
- Children's Art
- Sculptures
- Accessories & Jewelry
- 2-D Art
Drop off entries to the Coldwater Mill*:
10 am – 4 pm on Saturday, August 8, 2020
Judging: Monday, August 10, 2020
Winners will be called and/or emailed and Announced on Facebook.
Children's Art
2-D Art
Sculpture
Steampunk Accessories
& Jewelry &
MASKS
Online Costume Contest
COVID 19 demands we get creative in how we have fun AND stay safe. This year, as the Coldwater Steampunk Festival celebrates 10 years, we are moving our Costume Contest online.
Make your "Gaslamp Fantasy" costume.
Smile. Take some Selfies. Show us your headgear.
Take a full body photo (front, back and side).
Check the categories (to the right.)
Click HERE to ENTER CONTEST
Deadline: 5:00 pm on Thurs., Aug. 20, 2020 *
NO Registration Fee Required!
Children 12 & Under
- Best Handmade Prop by a Child
- Best Handmade Costume by a Child
- Best Themed Costume
Youth 13-17
- Best Handmade Prop by a Youth
- Best Handmade Costume by a Youth
- Best Themed Costume
Adult 18 & Up
- Best Headpiece / Mask
- Best Handmade Prop
- Best Handmade Costume
- Best Themed Costume
BEST IN SHOW - Open to all ages!
2020
Photo Contest
Photo Contest
ONLINE,
No Entry Fee *
$100 Prize Purse ($50 First Place, $25 for each of Two Honourable Mentions)
Strap on your headgear, step outside, explore your community and architecture. Take a selfie or photo of a person, place or thing that SCREAMS Steampunk to you.
Maximum TWO (2) Photos per person
Must be originals digital files submitted by contestant
No larger 8x10 (200-360 dpi in gif, jpg, or png file format)
Photos MUST be taken between Aug. 6 – Sept. 2, 2020
Email: Your name, mailing address, phone number, email address and files to: csteampunk033@gmail.com
Subject Line: Photo Contest
Deadline: Monday, Oct. 12 @ 5 pm
Winners to be announced October 31st
By entering this contest, you agree to the above rules/guidelines that the Coldwater Steampunk Festival and its partners retain the right to use submitted images for promotional and commercial use for all time.
2019 First Place
Hot Rod Belle & Dragon
by Robert Alsop
2018
2019 Third Place
Bronze Soldier
by Ashley Dervaric
2018
* Please not that entering a contest and/or attending the Coldwater Steampunk Festival gives automatic consent to be photographed, filmed and/or otherwise recorded. Entry onto the grounds constitutes consent to such photography, filming and/or recording and to any use, in any and all media throughout the universe in perpetuity, of your appearance, voice, name and creations for any purpose whatsoever in connection with the Coldwater Steampunk Festival.
Please understand that all photography, filming and/or recording will be done in reliance on this consent given by you by participating in Festival activities and/or entering the area. If you do not agree to the foregoing, please do not enter the grounds.