Contest Updates

From Cami, our colossally capable Queen of Contests comes a crucial and cohesive collection of current critical criteria of consuming concern to the curious KC Celtic contest community. Kindly concentrate, you clever competitive culchies.

BREWING CONTEST: ALL HAIL TO ALE!
Attention all home-brewers! Enter your home-brewed Scottish or Irish ale in this year’s Brewing Contest! We’re using the Beer Judging Certification Program (BJCP) guidelines for entries and for judging. That means we’re accepting BJCP category #9 beers only. Check out the all the style details here. Judged by BJCP-certified experts, great prizes can be won, including Snug memberships and gift certificates to Bacchus & Barleycorn. The contest is free to enter, amateur brewers only please. Properly labeled entries will be accepted up until 4 p.m. at Bacchus & Barleycorn, Saturday, August 21.

BAKING CONTEST: BREAD PUDDING!
Dust off your best recipe for bread pudding and test it out on your friends and family (like they’d mind!). Bring your yummiest bread pudding, along with a completed entry form, to the contest tent at the Kansas City Irish Fest by 11:45 a.m. either Saturday, September 4 or Sunday September 5 for judging. There will be great prizes for first, second, and third place winners on both Saturday and Sunday. One Grand Prize Winner will be chosen from the daily first-place winners and awarded four tickets to next year’s Irish Fest, as well as a $100 gift certificate to Raglan Road Irish Pub! Two entries per person, per day, max. The contest is free to enter, and is open to all ages, amateurs only please.


KNITTING CONTEST: ARAN ISLE SWEATERS!
Steeped in Irish history, traditional Aran Isle sweaters are coveted throughout the world. Saturday, we’ll be judging adult jumpers (sweaters), and Sunday, children’s or pet’s jumpers (sweaters). Bring your hand-made creation to the contest tent at the Kansas City Irish Fest by 1:45 p.m. either Saturday, September 4, or Sunday, September 5 for judging. Like last year, there will be great prizes for first, second and third place winners, to be awarded both Saturday and Sunday. One Grand Prize Winner will be chosen from the daily first-place winners and awarded four tickets to next year’s KC Irish Fest, as well as a $100 gift certificate from Yarn Shop and More! There is no restrictions on the date the pieces were created. Two entries per person, per day, max. The contest is free to enter, and is open to all ages, and again, amateurs only, please. We also still accept all quantities of donated 7x9” knitted (or crocheted) rectangles, any pattern, any yarn. These rectangles will be joined together to form quilts, then given to a local charity.



PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST: IRISH ICONS
The theme for this year’s photography contest is “Irish Icons” Portraits, landscapes, still lifes, in Ireland or elsewhere—however you choose to interpret the theme is up to you. Bring your 8x10” (maximum) unframed photo (preferably mounted on foam core or mat board), along with a completed entry form for each entry (two per person maximum), to the contest tent at the Kansas City Irish Fest by 3:45 p.m. either Saturday, September 5 or Sunday, September 6 for judging. First, second and third place winners will be awarded both Saturday and Sunday with great prizes. One Grand Prize Winner will be chosen from the daily first-place winners and awarded four tickets to next year’s Irish Fest, a signed print from Barry Henderickson’s “Ireland in Black and White” series, and a cash prize. There is no restrictions on the date the photograph was taken. Photographs will be judged on adherence to (or interpretation of) the theme, and the quality of photograph. The contest is free to enter, and is open to all ages, amateur photographers only please.

Downloadable entry forms for all contests will be available at www.kcirishfest.com soon.

For questions, contact Cami Travis-Groves, contest coordinator, contests@kcirishfest.com.