Welcome to the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival
MARK YOUR CALENDARS: JULY 26-27, 2008
Join us for the 8th Annual Colorado Dragon Boat Festival
July 26 and 27, 2008!
Once again, we'll be at Sloan's Lake Park, and next year is a big step for us -- we're sponsoring competitive Regional Dragon Boat Races at the Festival.
And the rest of the festival of course will be better than ever!
We'll once again feature new areas from 2007, such as Explore Asia, where you could meet and mingle with representatives from three local Asian communities (this year they were the Hmong, Mongolian and Filipino) and enjoy intimate performance, and Cultural Unity, a big hit with its focus on youth culture through hip-hop music, dance and spoken word.
WE'LL SEE YOU AT THE PARK!
Click Here To See The 2007 Festival Wrap Up
RACE REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
It's that time of the year again -- time to register a team in the 2008 Colorado Dragon Boat Races! You can now submit your team for this year's competition. There are more divisions this year than ever before, including adult and youth races, and competitive and recreational.
We're proud to announce that the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival has been chosen to host the 2008 American Dragon Boat Association Regional Races. So we're inviting national and international dragon boat teams to participate in the competitive division races on a 500-meter course.
CDBF and the Colorado Dragon Boat Race Association (CDBRA) plan to actively recruit local paddlers to form competitive teams. Our goal is to establish dragon boat racing as part of Colorado's thriving recreational sports landscape.
Read how to sign up a team and fill out the registration form.
APPLY FOR EXPLORE ASIA & GATEWAY TO ASIA 2008
The CDBF is seeking proposals from Asian Pacific American (APA) community organizations who want to share their culture in Explore Asia or want to perform in Gateway to Asia during the 2008 festival, July 26-27. In Explore Asia, we feature exhibits, the chance to meet community members, and performances on an intimate stage. In Gateway to Asia, the theme this year is the rich variety of cultural ceremonies in APA traditions -- weddings, courtships, funerals and holidays. Click here for more information
Meet CDBF's First-Ever Executive Director
World-traveler, committed, multilingual, cross cultural, egalitarian, passionate, visionary, conscientious, creative…all are words that describe Alisa Zimmerman, who joined the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival (CDBF) in December as the organization’s first-ever Executive Director. We recently sat down with this seasoned professional to find out more about her personally and professionally as well as her vision for the CDBF. Read the full interview
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The CDBF Newsletters are sent out regularly from February until the festival weekend, and then semi-regularly from fall through winter. We'll keep you posted on all the news about the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival, including a recap of the 2007 festival and previews and announcements about 2008. Next year's festival will be special: we're hosting the first sanctioned international dragon boat races to be held in Denver! So you'll want to keep up with all the latest news!
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