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Canadiana Fest 2024 Public Media Network wrapup video!
Check out the interviews in this wrapup video from Kalamazoo’s own Public Media Network!
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See you next year!
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Come see us **tomorrow** at Arcadia Creek Festival Site!
We are so ready for you! Come spend a day with us eating, dancing, making friends, and making memories. We have been working for months to make this event all it can be. We’re excited to share Canada’s culture of kindness with you through music, food, art, beer and wine and plenty of Clearly Canadian.
There is ample parking near the festival site. While there are several paid parking garages and lots, including two ramps (marked with hearts) that are three blocks or less from the gate. On street metered parking is free all day Saturday as well, so park downtown and stroll over! While there is construction in the area, you are able to walk up Eleanor to the gate with no trouble.
9/13/24 Rick Green on WRKR Morning Show
Listen in on the chat with Meatball and Mark and Canadian comedy legend Rick Green! They cover a wide variety of topics including Rick Green’s advocacy work with ADHD. He’s appearing at the Canadiana Fest Saturday 9/21 on the main stage and then in the Red Green Show Possum Lodge! Come join us!
https://wrkr.com/show/rocker-morning-show/
Enter the Buttertart Bakeoff, sponsored by Bos Kitchens!
Are you a home baker? A professional baker? You are BOTH welcome to enter the Buttertart Bakeoff, sponsored by Bos Kitchens! We welcome all bakers to give us their best buttertarts! Complete the entry form here and then bring a dozen of your buttertarts to the info booth at the Fest on 9/21/24. A panel of judges will taste-test your creation and you could win gift cards from Bos Kitchens!
The buttertart is a hallmark of Canadian pastries. Its origin dates back to the pre-1900s and can be found in several recipe books as a filling for pastries. Ask any Canadian what they think and they’ll tell you that a buttertart can be defined as the following:
Buttertart -noun- one word to describe a delightful taste sensation.
Definition: take unconditional love and liquid gold, blend well, pour into a warm, loving pastry shell, bake with care and serve.
The traditional buttertart is comprised of butter, brown sugar, vinegar, and eggs that is baked in many different styles of pastries, but always as a tart. There are many nontraditional versions, and the biggest controversy is always RAISIN or no RAISIN. This results in folks taking sides at family gatherings, and creating #teamraisin or #teamnoraisin hashtags.
Biddy Buttertart is the artistic embodiment of the feeling our graphic artist Tony Steele (SteeleWorks in Lansing, MI) had after he experienced his first buttertart last spring. Our iddy-biddy friend is an avid hockey player who uses a sled to play. They are fun-loving and active, and as the smile on their face shows, happy to be a part of the team. We think they are a great addition to Tony’s other Canadiana Fest creations, Kalam A. Moose, Polli Poutine, and Bobby Beerver!
We hope you’ll come enjoy some buttertarts with us at the Fest!
Meet Rick and Ava Green of the Red Green Show at Canadiana Fest!
It is with GREAT JOY that we announce that the Red Green Show’s Rick Green (co-creator, writer, comedian and actor) and Ava Green (editor) are coming to Canadiana Fest on 9/21/24 at the Arcadia Creek Festival Site!
Click here to find out what Rick has been up to since leaving The Red Green Show.
Rick will be on the main stage at 2:00 PM. He will later host a public Q&A and a booksigning at the Possum Lodge Tent in our Lumberjack Village.
Get your tickets now to meet this icon of Canadian comedy!
Rick Green (Bill Smith of the Red Green Show) on WILS Morning Wake Up 9/12/24
Rick Green played inventor Bill Smith on the Red Green Show and he’s coming to Canadiana Fest on 9/21/24! He’ll be in the Possum Lodge at the Fest!
9/12/24 – Detroit Free Press article
We are BEYOND grateful to Kiley Martin at the Detroit Free Press for this exhaustively detailed article about our beloved Fest coming up next weekend! Please share this to your socials and help us get the word out!
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/09/12/canadiana-fest-to-bring-canadian-culture-to-kalamazoo/75172232007/
The Great Canadian Cospl-EH! Contest, sponsored by Fresh Coast Sailing!
Get your costume together and try for great prizes at Canadiana Fest! The Canadian Cosplay Contest is sponsored by Fresh Coast Sailing of South Haven, MI.
There are three categories:
Famous Canadian
There are so many, as you see in the graphic above! From William Shatner to Eugene and Dan Levy to Michael J. Fox to Jim Carrey, to John Candy, to Shania Twain, to the Ryans (Reynolds & Gosling), to Dan Akroyd, to Sandra Oh, to Celine Dion, the list goes on and on and is only limited by your imagination.
Canadian TV / Movie Character
Might we suggest any of the cast of the Red Green Show, Letterkenny, Shoresy, or Schitt’s Creek? Or any of the other iconic characters brought to life by Canadian actors, like Wolverine, Ace Ventura, James T. Kirk or Montgomery “Scotty” Scott of the Starship Enterprise, Neo, Bob & Doug Mackenzie, Lois Lane, Uncle Buck, again – many options!
Captain Canada!
Here’s where you get to go nuts and do your best portrayal of a superhero named Captain Canada! What’s he like? You show us! Is he polite, brave, and kind? What are his super powers? Does his super suit have a cape? A mask? What kind of superhero gadgets does he have? Make us believe and you can win!
The winner of each round will face off for the grand prize, a morning sailboat cruise for 6 people on beautiful Lake Michigan courtesy of Fresh Coast Sailing! Second prize is a one year membership to the Possum Lodge and a swag basket, complements of The Red Green Show! Third prize is a pair of tickets to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Saturday 10/12/24, thanks to the beautiful Kalamazoo State Theatre!
Enter here: https://forms.gle/FineyruZt5xMCUR19