The latest CDBF news at a glance!
Marketplace and Taste of Asia applications now open
We’re now accepting applications for both Marketplace and Taste of Asia vendors.
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Race team registrations now open
We’re now accepting Dragon Boat Race Team regstrations for CDBF 2012.
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Calling all Performers
Applications are now being accepted for the 2012 Main Performing Arts Stage, Gateway To Asia area, Cultural Unity hip-hop stage and Dragonland children’s area.
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We’re now accepting entries for the 2012 Community Design Competition
Submit your design and you might see your artwork on our t-shirts and posters this summer!
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City recognizes CDBF with Mayor’s Diversity Award
January 19, 2012 – We’re honored to receive a Diversity Award from the Denver Asian Pacific American Commission and Mayor Michael Hancock!
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UPDATED: Dates for CDBF 2012 are July 28-29
October 18 – We’ve just announced the dates for the 12th Annual Colorado Dragon Boat Festival: Sat.-Sun. July 28-29, 2012. It’ll be big, because it’s the Year of the Dragon. Stay tuned for more details!
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Check out the photos from our Asian Game Night fundraiser
October 18 – CDBF’s Asian Game Night was a blast, and we have the photos to prove it!
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Congrats again to Michelle Lee, raffle winner
October 12 – We were there when the lucky winner of the 2011 CDBF Raffle, Michelle Lee, picked up her Kymco Like 50cc Scooter from Sportique in Boulder.
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Join us for the 2011 Asian Game Night
September 15 – We’re hosting an evening of fun Asian games including Mahjong, Go, Hanafda and other traditional games from the local Asian communities, as well as exciting arcade games with an Asian twist. Join us Friday Oct. 14 at Kings Land Seafood Restaurant!
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NEW: CDBF announces AAPI Emerging Leaders Program
September 15 – The Colorado Dragon Boat Festival proudly announces the AAPI Emergong Leaders Program, which will train young leaders within Colorado’s Asian American Pacific Islander communities through leadership training, support, mentorship and opportunities.
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And the winners are…
August 2 – Read the full list of medalists in the 2011 Dragon Boat Races.
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CDBF 2011 Culinary Contest winners
August 2 – See which food vendors the celebrity judges chose for the Culinary Contest winners.
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Videos of CDBF 2011
August 2 – Videos of the 11th Annual Colorado Dragon Boat Festival.
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CDBF 2011 media coverage
August 1 – Read the media coverage of the 2011 Colorado Dragon Boat Festival.
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Letter to the Sloan’s Lake neighborhoods
July 28 – This letter was distributed in the Sloan’s Lake neighborhood to alert the festival’s neighbors about traffic and parking changes.
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Get a paddler’s perspective of a Dragon Boat race team
July 28 – The Dungeonless Dragons take us on a ride while they practice for the festival.
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Download a copy of the 2011 CDBF Program Book
July 26 – You can preview the festival by scrolling through a low-resolution copy of the program book that will be available this weekend on-site.
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Enter the dragon: Dragon Boat 101 is an intro to Dragon Boat Racing for novices
July 25 – You don’t have to be on a team to get on the water and paddle in a dragon boat. You can take Dragon Boat 101, and for $20 you can get trained and have at least one race (more if you win) on Sunday at 11:48 am.
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Fill out your Passport to Asia and enter to win an iPad2
July 25 – Print out a passport in advance or pick one up at the festival. Answer trivia questions and get your passport stamped at six stations to enter a drawing for an iPad2 from the University of Northern Colorado.
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Win a Kymco LIKE 50 scooter!
July 25 – Do the green thing: Enter the CDBF Board of Directors Raffle for a chance to win a cool new scooter.
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Download a festival map
July 21 – Preview the layout of this year’s festival at Sloan’s Lake Park.
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Festival Guidelines
July 21 – Tips for having the best experience at the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival.
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2011 Race Schedule
July 20 – See which day your favorite team will be racing.
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Hear the CDBF theme song, “Dragon Boat”
July 20 – Hear Dwight Mark’s “Dragon Boat,” the official theme song of the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival.
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NEW: Feel better — visit our Wellness & Education Village
July 19 – We’re launching a new feature with free health screenings and wellness information.
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Culinary Contest judges announced
July 15 – See last year’s Culinary Contest winners and meet this year’s judges.
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Performance schedules announced
July 17 – The Performance schedules for all the CDBF stages is now available online.
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Meet the 2011 Main Performing Arts Stage emcees
July 15 – Read all about this year’s Main Stage emcees, an all-star lineup of local Asian American media!
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Download and share the 2011 CDBF poster and flyer with your friends
July 15 – Download, print and share our 2011 poster and flyer with your friends!
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Back by popular demand: Parking at INVESCO Field & Free buses to the festival!
July 13 – The #1 request from festival-goers the past two years has been to bring back parkig at INVESCO Field and have buses to and from the festival. Well, your wish is our command!
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See the CDBF 2011 TV commercial
July 12 – Many thanks to our media sponsor, FOX 31 and KWGN, for producing this fun spot featuring FOX 31 weekend anchor Deborah Takahara and reporter Chris Jose, our Opening Ceremonies Emcees!
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Meet Dr. Rudolph Lie, CDBF 2011 Honorary Chair
July 1 – We’re proud to announce our Honorary Chair for 2011, Dr. Rudolph Lie, founder of the Asian Pacific Development Center!
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Volunteer for CDBF 2011
July 4 – Volunteer Manager Jennifer Nguyen personally invites you to join the CDBF family and volunteer for the 2011 festival!
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New for 2011: Japanese Obon Dance
June 27 – Join us in a traditional Japanese Obon Dance on Saturday July 30, 6 pm during the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival. Think of it as Japanese line dancing — but in circles!
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Extra props for 15+ Volunteer Groups
June 25 – We’re still recruiting volunteers for the festival, but we’ve also launched a new program to give extra props to people who bring together 15 or more friends, family and co-workers to join them as a Volunteer Group. We’ll give an extra shout-out to the 15+ Groups in our program book and website!
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NEW: imaginAsian Mural Collaboration brings interactive art to CDBF
June 24 – We’re excited to announce a new feature for the festival this year: A mural art project partnering with four different groups, and the opportunity for the public to give their input for the art before the festival or interact and help make the artwork during the event.
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Judges choose 2011 Community Design Competition winner
June 23 – The annual Community Design Competition winner’s art is featured on commemorative merchandise at the festival, including souvenir posters. This year’s first place winner is Ft. Collins graphic artist Shawn Mingjiang Xiong.
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Gateway to Asia performers announced
June 22 – We’ve announced the performances and demonstrations for the 2011 Gateway to Asia stages!
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We’re looking for a few good Voices
June 14 – Have you always loved listening to sports game announcers, talking througha play-by-play and keeping listeners informed of every development? Here’s your chance to be one, and announce the 2011 dragon boat races!
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Look who’s at the 2011 Cultural Unity Hip Hop showcase
June 13 – We’re thrilled with the lineup this year at the Cultural Unity stage, one of our most popular features every year. It’s a hip-hop showcase that this year adds a touch of martial arts and drumming from both Japan and West Africa to the mix!
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2011 Marketplace vendors announced
June 8 – CDBF’s Asian Marketplace for 2011 features almost 50 vendors and showcases a Well and Education Village for your health.
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Get a Taste of Asia in the CDBF food pavilion!
June 8 – We’ve announced the 2011 Taste of Asia vendors — almost 20 choices for great Asian cuisine and some American favorites. You’ll also find our first Asian food truck vendor, serving Vietnamese Banh Mi sandwiches!
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Main Performing Arts Stage lineup is announced
June 6 – We’re showcasing some fresh new faces alongside your festival favorites this year.
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2011 Race Teams are set
June 6 – We’re making a milestone for 2011 with our first-ever international team from Toronto, Canada!
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We’re looking for a few hundred good volunteers for CDBF 2011
May 1 – Our volunteers — all 300 of them — are the special team that makes every Colorado Dragon Boat Festival hum with efficiency from beginning to end.
From festival Ambassadors and Information Booth staff to backstage hands for our Performing Arts and helpers for our exciting weekend of dragon boat races as well as crews for both setup and breakdown, we need volunteers of all types to lend a hand in every area!
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What’s going on? CDBF has the most complete calendar of Colorado Asian community events
April 20 – If you’re wondering what’s going on in the area’s diverse Asian communities, it’s easy to find out all the great events happening every week. We’ve added a page of event listings that collects every event we come across (or is sent to us at media@cdbf.org), even if it’s months ahead so you can check in with us regularly to see what’s new.
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Special registration fee for Out-of-Town teams!
With only a few slots still open for Dragon Boat Race Teams, we’ve created a special registration rate for out-of-town competitors, of only $500. We challenge teams across the country and the globe to come to Denver and race with us!
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Your Non-Profit can be a CDBF Partner for fundraising
One of the ways the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival gives back to the community is with the Non-Profit Partner program, where non-profit organizations can operate the festival’s beverage booths, the beer garden or snow cone booth and keep a portion of the proceeds.
We’re now accepting applications for the 2011 Non-Profit Partners.
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Gambare, Japan: CDBF sends heartfelt thoughts
The Colorado Dragon Boat Festival’s staff, Board of Directors and Operations Committee extend sincere condolences and a message of hope for anyone who has family and friends impacted by the terrible devastation in Japan from the Tohoku Kanto Earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
We have welcomed the involvement of the Japanese and Japanese American communities at CDBF since our very first year in 2001, and our hearts go out to the people and government of Japan.
There’s still time to enter the 2011 Community Design Competition!
Nearly 40 artists from across the country showcased their creativity and artistic flare by entering in the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival’s Third Annual Commemorative Festival Poster competition in 2010.
Laurie Romberg, a graphic designer from Evergreen, clinched first place with the poster shown here.
CDBF is now accepting submissions for the Fourth Annual Community Design Competition.
We want creative designs that capture the excitement and cultural richness of the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival for 2011. We’re accepting submissions until May 1, so start brainstorming ideas!
Call for Performers on all our stages!
Performing Arts has been one of the main attractions of the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival from the very start. Our Main Performing Arts Stage has been a showcase for the best talent, both traditional and contemporary, from the many Asian communities in Colorado. In Gateway to Asia, we have an increasingly popular stage for more intimate performances and demonstrations, and this year Gateway is adding a stage that will be split between “Find Zen” practices such as yoga and meditation, and traditional and authentic martial arts. Cultural Unity will continue to showcase our local hip-hop culture. This year we’re also adding a new stage in Dragonland, where we’ll spotlight childrens’ performers and storytellers.
Applications now being accepted for Marketplace Exhibitors and Taste of Asia Food Vendors
From the very first year, part of the fun of attending the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival has been the chance to shop in the Asian Marketplace for arts, crafts gifts, toys and clothing, and taste the wonderful variety of cuisines that makes Asian Pacific American culture so special!
In our first year, the Marketplace featured 24 vendors, including only five Food Vendors. The turnout for that first year surprised everyone, including the Festival organizers! The food vendors all had to keep bringing more food from their restaurants and shops, and several simply gave up by mid-afternoon. They ran out of food!
Each year since then, our Asian Marketplace has grown to about 80 exhibitors every year, and over 20 food vendors.
We’re now taking applications for Exhibitors and Food Vendors for 2011!
Final standings from the 2010 Dragon Boat Races
The KhmerKrom Dragons team celebrates winning the Dragon Cup trophy for 2010
HONG KONG COMPETITIVE DIVISION
Gold: Khmer-Krom Dragons (2010 Dragon Cup Champions), sponsored by Khmer Kampuchia Krom Federation-Colorado Chapter
Silver: Flying Dragons
Bronze: Dungeonless Dragons, sponsored by Maestas TaeKwon-Do
HONG KONG CORPORATE DIVISION
Gold: WagenKamp’s Frozen Fishsticks (Silver medal winner in 2009, gold medal winner Novice Division in 2008), sponsored by Wagenlander & Heisterkamp LLC
Silver: Fed Force, sponsored by Denver Federal Center
Bronze: H2Row, sponsored by Denver Water
The races could not find any times or how the race is. Is it 10 minutes of boat race, then done? Is there a race every 30 minutes all day?? Please help? Also the parking at INVESCO starts at 7am-till 8pm But the festival does not start till 10 am so what is there to do from 7 am till 10 am??? or is the bus system that slow??
Hi Julie, the dragon boat races go on all day long. Many of them are very quick, and then another race starts. If yo come later during the day you’re more likely to see the faster teams racing. The divisions will be split up so some race on Saturday, and some Sunday. The final rces determine the champions of each division.
Asfor parking, we start the buses that early to accommodate volunteers and the racers who start early. The festival starts at 10, that’s correct, and the public can come anytime. The buses rn all day both days from the start to the end.
By the way, we’re redoing the race schedules but they’ll be posted soon.
Is there any drumming exhibition on either day? Always love events such as kodo, or similar. Please answer. Thanks!
Hi, Denver Taiko is the finale performance of the festival at 5:30 on Sunday on the Main Stage. They’ve been the headliners ever since the first year, in 2001. They’re as close to Kodo as you’ll find in Colorado, they’re one of the oldest taiko drum groups in America. In addition, Denver Taiko (or members of the group) will be performing more intimate demonstrations in the Gateway to Asia stage and Cultural Unity stage during the weekend. Here are the schedules for each stage:
Main Stage (Sunday): http://www.cdbf.org/performance/main-performing-arts-stage/2011-main-performing-arts-stage-schedule/
Gateway to Asia Stage (Sunday): http://www.cdbf.org/performance/gateway-to-asia/gateway-to-asia-schedule/
Cultural Unity (Saturday): http://www.cdbf.org/performance/cultural-unity/cultural-unity-stage-schedule/
Also on Saturday on the Cultural Unity stage on Saturday, there’s an African drum group performing just before Denver Taiko.
I hope you enjoy the festival — have a great time!