Festivals

Date: March 29, doors open @5:00pm

Location: NAIT Shaw Theatre

2025 World Paddling Film Festival
The United Albertan Paddling Society is excited to host the World Paddling Film Festival in Edmonton on March 29, 2025! Since 2006, the Paddling Film Festival has been a highlight in over 130 cities around the globe, showcasing the finest paddling films. It motivates audiences to cherish their local waterways, venture into rivers, lakes, and oceans, and fully embrace the paddling lifestyle.

KANFEST WEBSITE

 

The Kananaskis Whitewater Festival is back, and 2025 is shaping up to be the best one yet! With the completion of AWA’s Kananaskis River rebuild project, this year’s festival will offer even more excitement for paddlers, surfers, and river enthusiasts of all kinds.

The Largest Spring festival in Western Canada!

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" This is our 25th anniversary. We want to welcome first timers and all of you who have come down in the past. Come join us for 3 days of paddling, fun and games, good food, meeting old friends and making new ones. "

River Reels Rendezvous

By AQ Outdoors

3, 2, 1... Action! Submissions are now open for this year’s "River Reels Film Competition." Since 2009, AQ Outdoors has been hosting and celebrating the best in paddlesports video content—paddleboarding, whitewater kayaking, canoeing, river surfing—you name it! We are excited to see yet another year of their annual film competition, se be sure to get your film/ video submitted before October 1, 2024 for your chance to win some amazing prizes!

  • Government of Alberta
  • Coach Canada
  • La Farge
  • AQ Outdoors Logo
  • Jumpstart Badge Logo
  • DeLauretis Wealth Management
  • InMotion Logo
  • Canoe Kayak Canada