the actual contest is a partnership between the two time festival and the holland arts council as well is lighthouse group we put a call out for artists to  year of just design experts are experts and in the field in the area they take a look at all of the submissions they've got a tough job and they go through them all and then select the top twenty once they've selected the top twenty we we sit down with representatives from the festival from our board of directors and with the arts council and narrow it down to two the winning the winning poster and there's a lot of different things that work into that of course we're looking for uniqueness which we never have a problem finding because everyone has the same topic in subject to paint but the variety of the our that comes in is really just spectacular but you know this is what will be the poster this year it gets it's represented on t shirts and all that you know so it has to transfer to merchandising as well so that's one of the criteria when we're selecting it actually the posters started in one nine hundred eighty two so we've had one every year since then but it wasn't it wasn't  contest this is actually the third year that it's it's run as i can tell us so we really like it because i think it gives a lot of people from all across west michigan and actually regional just a chance to submit our work and we get a wonderful variety that had been commissioned before we would actually commission an artist to do the poster so the contest is really worked out well  i think you know it's just a lot of fun putting together some different things every year and you know brainstorming with you know with the team and working and different elements i i don't get to go to every thing  it depends what what events were responsible for but i think it's the fact that there's just so many different things everything from concerts who are in craft fair to the five k run you know there's a lot of things that that are happening i love the parades i love the dutch dancing i mean you know those are all really you know core bits of of the festival and you know with colorful it's fun and really just see the scene all the people all the spectators enjoying it because i don't think i've gone anywhere where when i say to people when i'm traveling and i say to people that i'm from holland michigan oh the two look time festival you know so festival something is playing every night at the knickerbocker theater and we have a lot of new things that are happening we're going to be having a bike krit actually the weekend before the festival starts on the twenty eighth of april of course we have our two time run we'll have a queens market this year which is a collection of vendors that will be out at window on the waterfront are our tulip city tours will be running this year out of centennial park just a lot of different you know a lot of new things that will be that will be going i just think if you if people in the area if they haven't been to the festival in awhile they should pick up a program and take a look at it because there really is there is that there's a lot of things from a lot of free events for the family come down and spend the day and there's a lot of things that you can do here in town there are shows for kids like i said entertainment at the knickerbocker and our beer tyner and you know just all kinds of a very various events that people can come down to so you know don't be afraid of the traffic come