Editing Garden Grove, California (section)

==Arts and culture==
Garden Grove is home to two stage theaters, the Gem Theater and the Festival Amphitheater. The Festival Amphitheater hosts Shakespeare Orange County, which presents an annual Shakespeare Festival each summer. Both venues are owned by the City of Garden Grove, but operated by outside entities.

The [[Garden Grove Playhouse]] used to be an active theatre, now closed down. It was operated by a non-profit group of the same name.

An annual event held over Memorial Day weekend, the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival is one of the largest community festivals in the western United States, attracting an estimated 250,000 visitors.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bharath|first=Deepa|title=Strawberry Festival kicks off today|url=http://www.ocregister.com/news/festival-250817-children-grove.html|access-date= June 1, 2010|newspaper=[[The Orange County Register]]|date=May 27, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=About us|url=http://www.strawberryfestival.org/about.htm|work=Garden Grove Strawberry Festival website|access-date=June 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323082703/http://www.strawberryfestival.org/about.htm|archive-date=March 23, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> It began in 1958 and celebrates the city's agricultural past, which includes cultivating crops such as chili peppers, oranges, walnuts and strawberries. Part of the festivities include the cutting of the world's largest [[Strawberry shortcake (dessert)|strawberry shortcake]], carnival rides, food vendors, live music, and a celebrity-filled parade.<ref>[http://strawberryfestival.org/events.htm Garden Grove Strawberry Festival- EVENTS] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823084317/http://www.strawberryfestival.org/events.htm |date=August 23, 2011 }} Retrieved April 20, 2011</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=History - Strawberry Festival|url=https://strawberryfestival.org/history/|access-date=November 9, 2021}}</ref> Numerous Garden Grove organizations, including the Miss Garden Grove Scholarship Program, are part of the Memorial Day weekend festivities every year. In commemoration of Garden Grove's 50th anniversary, the city painted some of its [[fire hydrant]]s with a design that featured a strawberry, recognizing the festival as a big part of Garden Grove's history.<ref>{{cite web|title=Turning Golden|url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/city-32496-garden-grove.htm|access-date=September 30, 2013}}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Showing off fire hydrants painted to note the city's 50th anniversary|url=http://www.ocregister.com/sections/printer/photo/?id=32496&pic=4|access-date= September 30, 2013|date=March 6, 2009|last1=Luna|first1=Nancy|website=The Orange County Register}}</ref>   
[[File:Historic Main Street.jpg|center|thumb|407x407px|Historic Main Street Archway in Garden Grove, CA. ]]