Congratulations to Kate Warkentin for winning the
2023 Greater Goleta Santa Barbara Lions Club Peace Poster Contest!

Each year, Lions clubs around the world proudly sponsor the Lions International Peace Poster Contest in local schools and youth groups. This art contest for kids encourages young people worldwide to express their visions of peace. For 25 years, more than eight million children from nearly 100 countries have participated in the contest.

The theme of the 2023 Peace Poster Contest is “Dare To Dream.”

Contest Rules

Contest is open to students who will be 11, 12 or 13 years of age on November 15.
Artwork must be no smaller than 13 inches by 20 inches and no larger than 20 inches by 24 inches.
Only one entry per student per year, and each entry must be the work of only one student.
All artwork must be the individual student’s original creation. Duplications are not accepted.
All media are accepted. Note: Chalk, charcoal and pastel entries should be sealed with a fixative spray to prevent smearing. Do not laminate entries.
Three-dimensional entries will not be accepted. Nothing may be glued, stapled or attached to the artwork in any way.
The use of lettering or numbering on the front of the poster, in any language, is not allowed. Do not write anything on the front of the poster.
Please clearly write Artist Full Name, Phone Number and Email Address on the BACK of the poster.
Artwork should be done on a flexible material, so it can be rolled for shipping in a mailing tube. Do not fold poster.

Contest Deadlines

Each Peace Poster Entry must be turned into the Goleta Lions Club on or before Tuesday October 17 2023 to be entered into the contest.

Peace Poster Contest Judging

Each poster is judged on originality, artistic merit and expression of the theme.

Posters advance through several judging levels: local, district, multiple district and international. At the international level, judges from the art, peace, youth, education and media communities select one grand prize winner and 23 merit award winners.

Peace Poster Contest History

2013 and 2015 were historical years for the Greater Goleta Santa Barbara Lions Club Peace Poster Contest. Santa Barbara local Kieran Meaney, an 8th grader who attended La Colina Junior High school, not only won the local peace poster contest but her artistic masterpiece went all the way to the statewide competition where she won “honorable mention.” Two years later in 2015 Eliana Bohn also had her poster win the local peace poster competition and her poster also went all the way to the statewide competition.