Boston Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival

2024 Boston Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival will be Sunday, June 9, 2024.  We have new food vendors and performers for 2024!

With dragon heads and tails, Hong Kong dragonboats are sleek and beautiful -39 feet long and fiberglass. Teams from the Boston area and the US race over a 500-meter course. Winners compete in the national championships in NYC in August. National winners compete in Hong Kong the following year.

Schedule

8AM-5PM DRAGON BOAT RACES 

NOON - 5PM CULTURAL PROGRAM

FREE ADMISSION RAIN OR SHINE In Cambridge along the Charles River at the Weeks Footbridge on Memorial Drive between the JFK and Western Avenue Bridges

DRAGON BOAT RACES

ARTS & CRAFTS

DANCE

MUSIC

FOODS

MARTIAL ARTS

DEMONSTRATIONS

PERFORMANCES & DEMONSTRATIONS

12:00 pm -  Eye-dotting Ceremony

Chinese Waist Drum Dance - Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association (GBCCA)

12:30 pm - DragonDance Parade-WahlumKungfu Academy Opening Ceremony

1:00pm - Chinese Traditional Music & YoYo - GBCCA

1:30 pm - Cambodian Dance-Angkor Dance Troupe

2:00pm - Chinese Martial Arts Demonstration-Wahlum Kungfu Academy

2:30 pm - KoreanDance-Boston Korean Dance Academy

2:50pm - Rhythmic Gymnastics - BostonRhythmic

3:10pm - Change Face-Yang Shuwang, Noah Yang

3:20pm - Cambodian Singing Band - GeNeSis

3:30 pm - Chinese Dance & Ballet-Asian American Ballet Project, N&D Ballet

4:00 pm - Chinese Martial Arts Demonstration-New England Wushu Academy

4:30pm - Japanese Taiko Drumming-Odaiko New England

5:00 pm - Award Ceremony

10:30 am/ 1:30pm - DragonDance Demonstration-Northeastern University  Dragon and Lion Dance Troupe

11:30 am/ 2:30pm - Lion Dance Demonstration-WuAnMartial Arts

12:30pm/ 3:30pm - TaichiDemonstration-Tai Chi Academy of Greater Boston