Canadiana Fest Kalamazoo

Canadiana Fest is hosting a little get-together at the Millenium Park ice rink on Sunday, January 26 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. The rink is located at 280 Romence Rd, Portage, MI 49024. Your faithful webmaster doesn’t skate, so don’t let that deter you from joining us! I’ll be enjoying cocoa and getting to meet new folks.

The Fest is sponsoring free admission passes for the first 20 guests! Bring your own skates, or rent them there for $3. The rink features a large outdoor refrigerated rink, skate rentals, skate sharpening, snack concessions, restrooms and a warming house with lockers. If the temperature is above 40 degrees, we’ll meet and enjoy refreshments and skip the skating this time. 🙂

You must pre-register and are responsible for your own skate rental, if needed. Email Channon Mondoux at [email protected] with the names and ages in your party (max 5 passes per family).

Platinum sponsor Kzoom created this wrapup video for us, enjoy!

Check out the interviews in this wrapup video from Kalamazoo’s own Public Media Network!

OPEN VIDEO HERE

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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.

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/

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!

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 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!

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/