Virtual BeaverTails Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival

Event Details

Event Date: Feb 5, 2021 - Feb 21, 2021
Location: Virtual

05/02/2021 11:04:30 21/02/2021 12:59:59 15 Virtual BeaverTails Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival The Nation’s Capital plays host to the World’s Largest ice dragon boat festival. The Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival was the first ever ice dragon boat race in North America and imm... Virtual true MM/DD/YYYY

The Nation’s Capital plays host to the World’s Largest ice dragon boat festival. The Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival was the first ever ice dragon boat race in North America and immediately also laid claim to the title of the World’s Largest ice dragon festival.

This year the Ice Dragon Boat Festival is virtual with a variety of online programming to be accessed through the Ice Dragon Boat website.

Highlights

The festival presents an eclectic array of performances from great Canadian acts: Moonfruits, the Chinese Canadian Children’s Choir of Canada, Melo Griffith, Silent Winters, Taming Sari, Amanda Rheaume, and DJ Shub.

Visual Arts presentations by Bill Geno, of Pilot Projects Woodworking and a multi-artist series dubbed, “We’re All in the Same Boat” which will deliver a piece from each of the four very different artistic stylings of Corinne Blouin, Emilie Darlington, Jimmy Baptiste, and Nick Glynn.

Shiver ‘N Giver Challenge which challenges registered participants to skate, ski, snowshoe, walk or run from any location in the world for a cumulative distance of 21k to be completed over the duration of Winterlude ‘21.